The Obvious Answer: Sears Needed Amazon‑style E‑commerce
Reminds me of early 2000’s questions like “Why can’t Sears just build a website like Amazon?” It’s the right question and the correct answer is a lot easier in hindsight.
USPS Keeps 80% of Amazon Parcels, Amazon Eyes Own Network
USPS will retain around 80% of its Amazon parcels, however the ecommerce giant wants to use its own growing network. https://t.co/X2Jt1r4ZoL
Three-Step Cart Flow Boosts Recovery From 2% to 16.5%
Beardbrand automated 10% of their monthly revenue with a 3-step abandoned cart flow that recovered 16.5% of all carts. Meanwhile you're sending one generic abandoned cart email and wondering why your recovery rate is stuck at 2%.
Amazon's USPS Deal Still Drives $6B, 1B Packages
"The new deal [~20% volume cut] would still have the USPS deliver more than 1 billion packages for Amazon a year... Amazon shipped nearly 15% of all packages that the USPS delivered in the country last year, translating to about...
Meta's Live Shopping Push Signals Brands Must Act Now
the live shopping 🛒 📱 revolution continued today with the big announcement from Meta .. This consumer trend has already happened and has been going on for years not months and everyone should take this post seriously and start to...
Amazon Taps USPS for 80% of E‑commerce Deliveries
Post Office reaches deal with Amazon. Maybe 80% of $AMZN’s e-commerce last mile deliveries. Parcels have been the USPS target for growth. Can they handle the volume and meet Amazon’s order delivery standards?
Focus on One Visible Product; Timing and Margins Win
How to launch an 8 figure ecom product the right way in 2026: 1. If nobody can see your product being used in public (or in a day in the life reel), it won't spread. 2. One product, one obsession. Don’t diversify...
Talk to Customers, Not Just Social Media Echo Chambers
I've coached 200+ store owners. Here's the pattern: The ones who spent all day on Twitter and in Discord groups failed. The ones who spent all day talking to their customers won. Your echo chamber isn't your market. Trust nothing.
Instagram Launches TikTok‑style Shop, Reshaping Influencer Marketing
Instagram just copied a big TikTok feature. Meta now has their own TikTok Shop. It’s either gonna ruin Instagram… Or revolutionize Influencer Marketing… https://t.co/wnlWi5RDr7
Quarterly Ops Networking: Connect Fulfillment & Supply Chain Professionals
I run a networking thread on LinkedIn every quarter. Bringing it here. Drop what you do and where you're based. Connect with the people who reply. If you work in fulfillment, ecommerce, or supply chain, this is your thread. No pitch. Just operators...
AI Cuts Product Sourcing Time, Boosts Accessibility
Business owners and e-commerce experts told MIT Technology Review that AI tools are making sourcing more accessible and significantly shortening the time it takes to go from product idea to launch.
MercadoLibre’s Integrated Logistics‑Fintech Flywheel Fuels Growth
4 Stocks Dominating E-commerce + Fintech Outside the U.S. 👇 $MELI MercadoLibre is compounding via a tightly integrated ecosystem. Reinvested 5–6 pts of margin into logistics + credit while handling 500M additional deliveries YoY. Brazil unit shipping costs dropped 11% in local...
Check Platform Restrictions Early; Docs Save Headaches
I was scoping requirements for a client project recently when I hit a constraint I hadn't anticipated. The client had assumed a major ecommerce platform was the obvious choice. It's popular, well-supported, and most developers know it. Then I checked their...
Maturity: Shopping without the SSENSE UI Hassle
maturing is realizing you can buy clothes without ever having to subject yourself to the UI of SSENSE dot com
Don’t Skip Research: Live Shopping Demands Deep Dive
Please don’t get to slide 4 because if you do .. you might have to put in a lot of work to research what’s going on with live shopping 🛒 📱 .. what’s going on on TikTok and whatnot and...
Agentic Commerce Fails; Invisible, Agent‑native Payments Win
Agentic commerce is dead. Despite ALL the hype from payments companies, agentic commerce isn't happening. Walmart saw a 66% drop in conversion when adding agentic commerce. We shouldn't embed checkouts in chatbots. We should make payments invisible and agent-native.
Overnight Shopify Sales Hit $5,281—Still Thrilling
That feeling when you wake up to a Shopify notification that says 'You've made $5,281 overnight.' Never gets old.
Target 4‑6 Bedroom Rentals, Beat Saturated Market
The Airbnb platform is not going anywhere. 70% of listings on Airbnb and VRBO are 1, 2, and 3-bedroom homes. That is exactly where 99% of the competition lives. The moment you go to a 4, 5, or 6-bedroom home, you are competing...
Agentic Commerce Flops as ChatGPT Checkout Underperforms
Walmart's checkout inside ChatGPT converted 66% worse than their website. OpenAI just removed its Instant Checkout. Agentic commerce is failing. But maybe we've been thinking about it all wrong. 🧵 https://t.co/RXEaiA9wGK
Email Every Customer: The Secret to $100M Growth
Native Deodorant's founder emailed every single customer for 2 years. That feedback loop scaled them to a $100M acquisition. Meanwhile you're afraid to email your first 10 customers because you think you're "bothering" them.
Do Whatever for $200: Developers' True Shopping Cart Test
I support this, both the angle and the change. "Do whatever for $200" is the ultimate shopping cart test for developers. If you've been burning tokens on performative agentic nonsense, you've actively contributed to this change.
US Warehouse Launch: Faster Shipping, No Tariffs
🇺🇸 We are now in the USA 🇺🇸 We’ve finally (after filling out and signing a billion forms) opened a warehouse in the US. No more tariffs, no more import duties, no more nasty surprises - just quick shipping 🙌🏻 Check...
Cash‑pay GLP‑1 Clinics: Easy to Copy, Unsafe, Unregulated
By now we have all read the piece in @nytimes about MEDVi's $1B+ business selling GLP-1s online with a ton of marketing, and very little ownership of infrastructure. I asked two friends @josh_tauber and @keatonbedell: - Is there any moat? (no) -...
Success Comes From Solving Problems, Not Trend Chasing
I lost $8k on a 'guaranteed winner' from a product research tool. The data was right, the timing was wrong. I made $50k on a 'boring' product nobody was talking about. The market doesn't care about trends. It cares about...
Launch Licensed Products Fast with Niche Partnerships and UGC
How to launch a licensed product that does millions in its first month: (We’ve followed this exact process to get household name brands to license The Oodie) Find a license that matches your audience. Don't shoot for the biggest name on...
AI Shopping Generates Unattributed Conversions, Skewing Metrics
AI shopping is sending buyers to your store but NONE of them show up in your attribution. 39% of consumers already use AI for product discovery, and 23% of Americans bought something via AI in the past month. These are the...
TikTok Rebrands as Full‑Funnel Shopping Destination
TikTok launched a new brand campaign, "Watch it. Love it. Want it.," positioning the app as a full-funnel commerce platform where discovery and purchase happen in the same moment. It is a more ambitious swing than its previous "Don't Make Ads,...
AI Builds UGC Video Ads in 15 Minutes
🤯 I made a UGC video ad in 15 minutes. 🔥 AI wrote the script from a winning ad. 🛠️ AI cloned my voice for the VO. 🤵 AI edited clips and added captions. 📦 Ready to test. This is crushing $1,500 video editors. Want the...
Amazon Launched Just After the Web, Started with Cash Orders
Amazon was founded in 1994, one year after the birth of worldwide web from @CERN. In 1995, Jeff Bezos spoke about customers mailing cash to @Amazon for book purchases. https://t.co/sk7gsFBNNr
Walmart Ordered to Pay $100M over Driver Pay Deception
Walmart $WMT has to pay $100 million to Spark delivery drivers. For misleading them on pay and tips. A hit to their e-commerce last mile program.
Google AI Stitch Simplifies Shopify Product Page Creation
The New AI Stitch Just Made Shopify Product Pages 100x Easier WACTH HERE 👉 https://t.co/vUAAaBwz9R Google’s new AI Stitch is making Shopify page design faster, easier, and far more beginner-friendly. In this video, I show you how to use it to build...
Story-Driven Welcome Emails Beat Discount Offers
I've audited 50+ ecom email flows. Here's the pattern: Welcome series with a 30% discount got low engagement. Welcome series that told the founder's story and solved a problem got 3x the open rate and 2x the clicks. Your discount...
Agents on NEAR Deliver Faster, Cheaper Work Than Fiverr
I recently spoke at @NVIDIAGTC about how the agentic economy will transform market primitives. Not in a few years, but imminently. I highlighted NEAR Agent Market, where agents can exchange information, hire each other for jobs, or work on your behalf...
Custom MCPs Add Unnecessary Complexity Over Simple APIs
I keep hearing "Claude built me a custom Shopify MCP" Building a custom MCP to do what a direct API call already does is complexity theater. If you cant explain the difference between an MCP and an API, maybe don't give either...
Dynamic Discounts Demand Complex Purchase‑history Integration
I was working through requirements for a client project this week and hit a pricing structure that sounds completely reasonable until you try to implement it. The client sells an introductory course, an advanced course, and a set of individual topic...
Chrome Builds Shopping Profiles via Structured Content Extraction
Super interesting from Dan -> Chrome’s New Shopping Classifier "The classifier doesn’t look at raw HTML. It doesn’t look at the DOM directly either. Chrome uses a structured content extraction system called AnnotatedPageContent, accessible via the Chrome DevTools Protocol method...
Email Frequency Drives Revenue—Don’t Fear Over‑Mailing
Skims emails their list 5 times a week with new drops and restocks, driving a multi-billion dollar valuation. Meanwhile you're afraid of "annoying" your list and only send one newsletter a month, leaving thousands of dollars on the table.
AI Unlocks Fast Growth in Slow Industries
Massive market that very few people know how to apply AI. The guy basically built an affiliate network / distribution channel to sell weight loss drug and he was able to do it extremely quickly and efficiently with AI. I believe the...
Set up AI Agent for Dropshipping in 15 Minutes
How I Setup My AI Agent In 15 minutes For Dropshipping (anyone can do this) WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/zYMhNuKcDI This is the exact AI system I use to run my dropshipping store 24/7 without manual work. AI is changing how dropshipping works,...
Rising Amazon Fees? Just Buy More AMZN
Every time Amazon raises your fees, just buy some more $AMZN stock You should have realized by now how good their business model is - they just keep raking fees from sellers but you have nowhere else to go Just buy the...
Gap Introduces AI-Powered Checkout via Google Gemini
Gap says it will launch checkout within Google's Gemini, in an AI first from a major fashion company https://t.co/7Yr8fgyRp9
AI Must Cut Costs or Boost Lifetime Value
ecom folks… what is something you’ve built with ai that had a meaningful impact on: - lowering cac - increasing customer LTV - lowering opex if it doesn’t make a *meaningful* difference to any of these…you’re just playing dress up as a washed out...
Scaling Fast Can Cost More Than Funding
New @ThePeelPod with @sophiaamoruso We talk bootstrapping her vintage Ebay store Nasty Gal to $28m revenue, raising $50m, turning down a $400m acquisition offer, and declaring bankruptcy a few years later. We talk about what it was like failing so publicly, what...
Fix Functionality First, Then Redesign to Measure Impact
A client asked me this week whether they should tackle their website's usability problems and their visual design problems at the same time. My answer was to do it in stages, even though that approach might cost slightly more overall. They had...
Freedom Beats Revenue when You’re Miserable
My first 'successful' store did $10k/month. I was miserable, working 18 hours a day. My second store did $5k/month. I worked 4 hours a day and felt free. Stop chasing revenue. Start chasing freedom.
Tiny Teams Disrupt Industries, AI Fuels Next Wave
reminder it only took 50 people at Craigslist to disrupt an entire industry’s economics But also it takes less than that to build platforms like uber, eBay, doordash, etc that can provide new income to millions More of both will come as...
Meta’s March Bug Skews Click‑only Attribution, Hurting Optimization
I think this is a good visualization for the impact of TWO major Meta items in March. 1. An overspend bug that occurred on Sunday 3/16. Spend spiked against 0 reported value. (lots of refund coming) 2. The changes to click based...
Meta's New Click Attribution Shifts Performance Metrics
Meta completely changed how it counts click attribution. How did it effect performance? What should you do about it? I pulled data on 50 accounts and $30M in spend over the last few weeks to break it down... https://t.co/kspXVNgkoO
Creative Fatigue Signals Product Peak Before Sales Drop
These are the 6 signals that tell me a product could have peaked before the numbers show it: 1/ You create banger ads, launch them, and only the old ads keep working. 2/ Sales flatline, but your increased effort masks the...
Microsoft Ads Merchant Center Adds Store & Domain Rename Feature
ICYMI: Microsoft Advertising Merchant Center enables update your store name and domain name https://t.co/ylKcY3apFY https://t.co/jyKLfsH0HJ