You know how once a year Wikipedia asks you to donate $2.75 to keep their foundation alive, and a few times a year PBS does a pledge drive to support its programming? Well, I'm not going to ask you for money (BigCommerce pays for my content for you), however, a few...
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#113 – Shopify + Buy with Prime, BNPL Demographics & Apple Specialists
Would you change web browsers so that your favorite e-commerce marketplace can keep tabs on you for advertising purposes? Who's actually using BNPL as a payment method? Are customers ready to live video chat with Apple specialists when buying their next iPhone? Can...
#112 – Silicon Valley Bank recap, Salesforce AI, and Meta’s Twitter alternative
Today's edition of Shopifreaks is brought to you a little late in the evening thanks to Daylight Savings Time! LOL - I'm in Ecuador where DST is not practiced. At some point this morning, my phone (set to Ecuador time) read 11:30am and my laptop (which updates...
#111 – Drive up returns, ChatGPT everywhere, & Top 50 in E-commerce
Companies are getting more creative with their return policies. First they started sending you labels you could print at home. Then came in-store drop-off -- even if you didn't buy from that store. Well now, Target has introduced a new return service that let's you...
#110 – Twitter Coin, Chinese Price Wars, & Meta’s ChatGPT rival
Before we get started this week, I'd like to introduce you to Sean Goh, co-founder of Bot Assembly - our newest Shopifreaks Rewards Partner. Sean and his partner Tyler help 6-8 figure e-commerce brands drive more sales and create lifetime customers via chat bots...
#109 – Meta Verified, death of IG live shopping, & Amazon’s 50% cut
Introducing new Shopifreaks Verified Badges! For just $11.99/month ($14.99/mo on iOS), I'll send you a PNG image of a purple checkmark that you can display on your website to prove that you are who you say you are. Okay, not really. But if everyone else is...
#108 – Winter ’23 Edition, botched Bard, & BNPL Collapse
Welcome to our 400+ new subscribers this week! I hope that you enjoy the newsletter and that it brings tremendous value to your e-commerce business or job. And a big thank you to all our existing readers for sharing Shopifreaks with your colleagues and helping us...
#107 – Amazon vs FTC, EU tax laws, & Verification Badges
I'd like to welcome Maverick, a powerful way to create AI generated personalized videos at scale, as our newest Shopifreaks Rewards Partner. By sharing your referral link found at the bottom of this e-mail, you'll earn $10 per subscriber you refer to Shopifreaks,...
#106 – Shopify Price Hikes, Walmart Business, & $5 Amazon Prescriptions
Before we get started, I'd like to welcome our newest Rewards Partner, StoreYa, a marketing platform that offers a fully autonomous, performance-based advertising AI solution for e-commerce stores on any platform. By sharing your referral link found at the...
#105 – Amazon kills smile, banks target Apple Pay & Google Soundbox
Every year Wikipedia asks you for a donation. And every 5 minutes, I ask you for a referral! LOL I try not to bug you too much about it, but your referrals are what have primarily driven the growth of this newsletter for the past two years, and I greatly appreciate...
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