Hi Shopifreaks Before we begin, I'd like to welcome ReFiBuy to the Shopifreaks family as our newest official News Partner! 🎉 ReFiBuy optimizes your product catalog so that AI shopping agents like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Amazon's Alexa can accurately...
Hi Shopifreaks Thanks for reading my weekly e-mails. This newsletter has come a long way since it first launched in January 2021, now covering social and agentic commerce as the industry landscape has evolved. I've got one question for you: Is Shopifreaks doing a good...
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Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches — a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel...
Hi Shopifreaks Last year I launched a new project called 90 Second Pitches with the goal of introducing merchants to innovative e-commerce solutions that can help grow their businesses. You can subscribe to the channel on YouTube and LinkedIn. Since then I've had the...
Hi Shopifreaks This is one of my biggest editions of the year, covering everything from Shopify's Spring '26 Edition to Faire's pivot to serve business-use customers. Let's keep this intro incredibly short today and dive right in... In this week's edition I cover:...
Hi Shopifreaks Before we begin, I'd like to welcome Lebesgue to the Shopifreaks family as our newest official News Partner! 🎉 Lebesgue (pronounced "luh-beg," after the French mathematician Henri Lebesgue) pulls all of your marketing and store data from Shopify, Meta,...
Hi Shopifreaks I had an influx of new readers this week, so welcome everyone! Thanks for taking the time to reply to my welcome e-mail and introduce yourself. I read all your replies and greatly appreciate knowing who's on the other side of these e-mails, although...
Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches — a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel...
Hi Shopifreaks Ready to see what you missed last week at Google I/O? I've got you covered in this week's jam-packed edition -- one of my favorite editions so far this year. Plus, learn what OpenAI has on its roadmap for ChatGPT ads and why Delta's CEO went with Amazon...
Hi Shopifreaks Holy crap I've got a big issue for you today! There was so much e-commerce news this week that half of my feature stories are curations of multiple updates and announcements about a particular company or event. This is truly a jam-packed edition!...
Hi Shopifreaks I've got a BIG edition for you today with feature stories about Amazon's new Supply Chain Services, WTO deadlocks, ChatGPT ads managers, and more, so I'll keep this intro short. However, I did want to ask you a quick favor... Are you enjoying...
Hi Shopifreaks Last week I had the pleasure of attending Commerce Live in Chicago and meeting several Commerce team members, including CEO Travis Hess, who was kind enough to do an AMA with me and answer reader-submitted questions. Watch the first video here and...
Hi Shopifreaks As you're reading this, I'm currently on a plane en route from Cuenca, Ecuador to Chicago, Illinois to attend Commerce Live, the annual BigCommerce event formerly known as BigSummit, to talk about the future of the industry with my fellow e-commerce...
Hi Shopifreaks Help me out! Next week I'm interviewing Commerce CEO Travis Hess. What should I ask him? Hit reply and let me know what questions I should bring to the table about the future of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift. I'll curate the best questions and...
Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches -- a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel on YouTube &...
Hi Shopifreaks The biggest news this week -- my daughter turned 3 years old on Sunday! Happy Birthday to Mia! How quickly time flies. It simultaneously feels like Mia just arrived, but also that she's been in our lives forever. She's growing into an amazing little...
