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#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...
#104 – Buy with Prime, Ad Networks, & Apple Maps
Hello to everyone at NRF 2023! From your LinkedIn posts, it looks like you're having a great time. I'm looking forward to reading the news that comes out of that show. I'll try to join you next year. Doc is going on seven months pregnant, so we're sticking close to...
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