What if you could order products from your TV with the click of a button? Would you? (Should you?) Is there space on the market for a Google Shopping competitor? And if so, is Microsoft the one to do it? What's the deal with everyone cancelling their streaming music...
I think that this is the most I've laughed while putting together a Shopifreaks newsletter. This week in the 73rd Edition of Shopifreaks, I've got news for you about inflation, BNPL, marketplaces, and... buttholes? LOL, yeah for real... I've actually got a...
If 2010s are remembered as the decade of social media, then 2020s will be known as the age of financial connectivity. The era when it became incredibly easy to buy things anywhere, anytime, in practically any currency (crypto and fiat alike). From BNPL taking...
Where do you start your search for products when shopping online? On Amazon or Google? Or on Craigslist like a psychopath? Do you know what the top "wants" of online shoppers are? Are they different from yours? Is the recession we've all been waiting for finally...
With a recession ahead of us, how much are companies willing to spend to keep you coming back? Do customers actually spend their crypto when given the payment option? Or is everyone a HODLER? If BNPL was available everywhere (including in-stores), would you stop...
What if I told you that you had 60 days to rebuild your store on a different e-commerce platform? Could you pull it off? Would you allow your competitors to build a look-alike audience based on your customers if you could do the same to theirs? If Alexa made it easier...
Have you ever virtually tried on an article of clothing or a pair of sunglasses? What if you could mix and match accessories and apparel from multiple brands to see how they looked together before you made a purchase? Has BNPL gone too far when consumers start using...
What's more valuable to an online seller in 2022 -- their e-commerce platform or their ad network? Can a government sponsored e-commerce network outperform and out-innovate big tech companies like Walmart and Amazon? Can Meta win by default at their own...
What if every e-commerce website was just a tiny Amazon marketplace? With fast Prime shipping, free returns, and one click checkout... What if I could checkout with Amazon Pay from any physical grocery store, shopping mall, restaurant, or entertainment venue? If...
Has the invasion of Ukraine negatively impacted Russia's e-commerce market? What's the deal with Shopify acquiring an influencer marketing platform? Are we at record high e-commerce sales, or are we back to pre-pandemic levels? Can Meta get away with charging a higher...
I've got a crazy amount of Shopify news for you this week. Looks like I'm going back to my roots. Most of you don't know this because you subscribed after the pivot, but Shopifreaks started out as an exclusively Shopify-focused newsletter. I changed course in...
Thank you to those of who left me some love on my new Product Hunt listing. If you haven't yet, I'd appreciate if you did now. I've never launched anything on Product Hunt before, but when I saw that there were other newsletters on the platform, I figured it was worth...
This week I have so much e-commerce news to share, I won't even write a long intro so that we can get right to it! Get ready for one of the most jam-packed editions I've ever published. In this week's 62nd edition of the Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter, I report on...
Last Wednesday I opened my Inbox to find an e-mail from Patrick Quinn at BigCommerce that read, "Please please please tell me that you're the Paul Drecksler who went to the wrong Airbnb that I read about." LOL - yes that was me. The story made international news and...
I've got a LOT of e-commerce news for you this week, jampacked into the 60th Edition of the Shopifreaks newsletter. Wow! 60 weekly editions already? Time flies... If you get value from this newsletter each week, please leave me a Google Review. Thanks! In this week's...
The fun / exciting / empowering / dangerous part of social media is that everyone has a voice -- including CEOs of large tech companies. In this week's 59th Edition of the Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter, Bolt founder and CEO Ryan Brewslow puts Shopify...
This has been an interesting week to say the least. I know that we've all been thoroughly consumed with news about the Ukraine vs Russian conflict, and with good reason. In this week's 58th Edition of the Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter, I report about...
Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to own land in the middle of the Amazon jungle? Well, if you haven't before, you might be curious now. As I mentioned last week, I'm now officially a Temporary Resident in Ecuador, where I spend half my year, but I've also got...
