Ecommerce

How to Find the Best Ecommerce Platform for Your Business

Admit it. You know what they say about ecommerce. That it’s a completely automated business framework that essentially eliminates the hassles we’ve experienced with brick-and-mortar stores. Well, we’ll come clean about one thing- and acknowledge that part of that might indeed be true. But that’s as far as the good news goes. The bad news is that it’s not entirely true. Building and running an ecommerce site can be just as challenging as any other type of venture. As a matter of fact, some digital merchants confess that they have encountered much bigger hurdles than their brick-and-mortar counterparts.

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Best Ecommerce Newsletters to Subscribe to (and Read) in 2026

Whether you’re an inbox-zero person like me, or one of those people who can stand having 37,208 unread emails (*shudder*), there’s a truth universally acknowledged: we subscribe to educational newsletters with the best of intentions, but when we subscribe to too many, none get read.  The key isn’t to try to make reading newsletters your ... Read more

How to Value a Content Website

If you own a content website and have started thinking about selling, one of the first questions you will probably ask is, “What is my site actually worth?” The answer is not based on traffic alone. A website getting 500,000 monthly visitors is not automatically worth more than one getting 100,000 visitors. Buyers are looking ... Read more
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How to Plan BFCM Offers Without Killing Your Margins

The easiest BFCM offer to create is 25% off everything. It is also one of the easiest ways for a small DTC brand to discover that a record sales weekend does not necessarily mean a profitable one. Not everything you sell has the same margins baked in. Some you overpaid for and some you got ... Read more

Can You Return a Final-Sale Item With Checkout Protection?

If you’re the type of shopper who likes to take a risk in pursuit of a good deal, you’re probably well-versed in the language of final sale. You get a reduction (often a significant one), but you don’t have the chance to return the item in question if it doesn’t fit or just doesn’t suit ... Read more

How to Improve Cash Flow for an E-commerce Business: What Merchants Need to Know

Your business might be profitable on paper, but if you don’t have enough cash on hand to pay your suppliers, you’re going to wind up in a tight spot. There are healthy cash management practices that every business can follow to keep a strong cash flow, like strategically utilizing credit or speeding up payment collection. ... Read more
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How to Sell an Established Dropshipping Business

For years, digital commerce communities treated dropshipping as a low-overhead experiment. It was a low-risk way to test products before committing to bulk inventory orders. But over the last decade, the model has matured significantly. Today, a distinct tier of sophisticated, revenue-significant dropshipping operations generates multi-million-dollar revenues with lean overhead, global supplier networks, and highly ... Read more
Merchant Services Contract Red Flags

The Merchant Services Contract Red Flags to Watch For: A CPA’s Guide

A merchant services agreement is a business-to-business contract that doesn’t have the same consumer protections as your personal credit card or cell phone plan. Both parties are assumed to have read the document and understood it, and no regulator is going to unwind a clause you skimmed past.  This should reframe how you treat the ... Read more
What to Look for in a DTC Financial Model Template (And Why Generic Models Fail)

What to Look for in a DTC Financial Model Template (And Why Generic Models Fail)

Searching for a financial model template is a rite of passage for consumer brand founders. Whether preparing for a fundraising round, evaluating a new product line, or trying to understand why a top-line growth surge is not translating into cash in the bank, the instinct is almost always the same: open a search engine and ... Read more
KPIs for Measuring Partner Success

The Affiliate Manager’s Guide to KPIs for Measuring Partner Success

As an affiliate manager, understanding the most important key performance indicators (KPIs)  tied to your brand’s affiliate program success can be a constant challenge. Between the inevitable ups and downs of partner churn to market shifts, to tracking…if you don’t have a solid understanding and system in place to manage the information, your bottom line ... Read more
How to Sell a Business Without a Broker

How to Sell a Business Without a Broker

Selling your own business sounds like the ultimate financial victory. On a $2 million transaction, bypassing a professional intermediary means keeping an extra $120,000 to $200,000 in your pocket. For a founder who has spent years building an asset from scratch, the math is hard to argue with. Why hand over a massive chunk of ... Read more
How to Forecast Cash Flow for Ecommerce (For Non-Finance Founders)

How to Forecast Cash Flow for Ecommerce (For Non-Finance Founders)

Your business is profitable on paper; so why do you keep running into a cash crunch when a PO or invoice drops unexpectedly and you’re left scrambling to pay a bill you can’t skip? The problem isn’t profits, it’s cash flow, and that’s why it’s so important — especially for ecommerce businesses — to build ... Read more
How to Sell a Mobile App Business

How to Sell a Mobile App Business

You built your mobile app from scratch. You lived through the late-night debugging sessions, navigated the unpredictable app store review guidelines, and personally responded to early user reviews. Now, you have a profitable mobile app business, and you are starting to think about an exit. But while you know your codebase and monetization funnels like ... Read more
Seel vs. Redo

Seel vs. Redo for Post-Purchase Protection

While Seel and Redo offer similar features as post-purchase protection add-ons, there are important distinctions between them.  Both tools reduce support volume and make post‑purchase experiences more predictable. However, there’s significant overlap around shipping protection, returns, and the way claims are handled for shoppers. They take notably different approaches to risk and product scope, and ... Read more
Best Merchant One Alternatives for E-commerce

The Best Merchant One Alternatives for E-commerce

Many e-commerce sellers use Merchant One for credit card processing without any issue. However, others find that the company’s fee transparency is lacking, and the costs often run higher than intended.  Even though the site lists out qualifying rates and monthly fees, the fine print states that your merchant processing agreement overrides the published rates, ... Read more

How to Sell a Digital Product Business

If you’ve built a business around digital products, templates, courses, stock assets, printables, plugins, whatever the catalog looks like, you already know the difference between selling a product and selling the business. Selling a product is a transaction. Selling the business is a transfer of an entire going concern: the storefront, the catalog, the brand, ... Read more

Where to Buy Bulk Custom Shirts for Events: A Decision-Stage Buyer’s Guide

Whether you are outfitting 50 corporate volunteers, 300 festival attendees, or a full conference team, the shirt decision follows the same basic logic. You have the date, the headcount, and the budget and now you need a printer that can deliver on all three without leaving you scrambling the week before your event. This guide ... Read more

Best Ecommerce Newsletters to Subscribe to (and Read) in 2026

How to Value a Content Website

How to Plan BFCM Offers Without Killing Your Margins

Can You Return a Final-Sale Item With Checkout Protection?

How to Improve Cash Flow for an E-commerce Business: What Merchants Need to Know

How to Sell an Established Dropshipping Business

The Merchant Services Contract Red Flags to Watch For: A CPA’s Guide

What to Look for in a DTC Financial Model Template (And Why Generic Models Fail)

The Affiliate Manager’s Guide to KPIs for Measuring Partner Success

How to Sell a Business Without a Broker

How to Forecast Cash Flow for Ecommerce (For Non-Finance Founders)

How to Sell a Mobile App Business

Seel vs. Redo for Post-Purchase Protection

The Best Merchant One Alternatives for E-commerce

How to Sell a Digital Product Business

Where to Buy Bulk Custom Shirts for Events: A Decision-Stage Buyer’s Guide

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How to Value a Content Website

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By Christopher Quick

If you own a content website and have started thinking about selling, one of the first questions you will probably ask is, “What is my ...

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How to Sell an Established Dropshipping Business

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For years, digital commerce communities treated dropshipping as a low-overhead experiment. It was a low-risk way to test products before committing to bulk inventory orders. ...

How to Sell a Business Without a Broker

How to Sell a Business Without a Broker

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By Christopher Quick

Selling your own business sounds like the ultimate financial victory. On a $2 million transaction, bypassing a professional intermediary means keeping an extra $120,000 to ...

How to Sell a Mobile App Business

How to Sell a Mobile App Business

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By Christopher Quick

You built your mobile app from scratch. You lived through the late-night debugging sessions, navigated the unpredictable app store review guidelines, and personally responded to ...

Seel vs. Redo

Seel vs. Redo for Post-Purchase Protection

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By Francis Walshe

While Seel and Redo offer similar features as post-purchase protection add-ons, there are important distinctions between them.  Both tools reduce support volume and make post‑purchase ...

Best Merchant One Alternatives for E-commerce

The Best Merchant One Alternatives for E-commerce

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How to Sell a Digital Product Business

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