Month: August 2021
Online Business Laws and Regulations: an Ecommerce Guide
What does a hair drier left unplugged, a burning hoverboard and children’s audio voice recordings have in common? These are three reasons why Amazon was sued over the last year. The Amazon team navigated these crises with some grace and...
Sourcing Products For Ecommerce 101: How to Get Unique and Marketable Stock
Many moons ago, merchants embarked on long journeys to far away lands. Traveling in caravans, sailing on schooners or riding atop of a horse, fearless traders wandered many miles from home to source products the local folk had never seen...
Ecommerce Analytics: How You Can Leverage the Power of Data to Grow Sales
How can you expect to achieve results if you don’t know how you are performing at present? How can you make sales if you’re simply having a stab in the dark whenever you try a new ecommerce marketing technique? Good...
Lessons about order fulfillment from the Shopify Fulfillment Network
The Shopify Fulfillment Network, our own third-party logistics and warehousing network designed for scaling Shopify merchants, has shipped millions of orders to thousands of ZIP codes. Although SFN is a technology-forward shipping solution (have you met Chuck?), we have amazing...
Predicting Profitability: How to Do Break-Even Analysis [+Free Template]
Starting a business often carries risk. As the saying goes, “You have to spend money to make money.” While that’s not always true, there is one very effective way to lower your risk: do a break-even analysis. A break-even analysis...
Essential Magento Security Tips to Protect your eCommerce Website
Do you remember the infamous Magecart attacks which made headlines back in 2018? That was the point when people started talking about Magento security tips. However, it was probably neglected because Magento is not as popular as other CMS like...
12 Woodworking Projects and How to Sell Them Online
Many successful ecommerce success stories started with a hobby. You can make some money from your creative pursuits, and you just might even have a serious business idea. One hobby you can turn into an online business idea is woodworking....
The History of the Shopping Cart
We’ve all pushed a shopping cart down the store aisle, and most of us have clicked a website’s “checkout” button starring the cart symbol—but have you ever paused to think about how that cart came to be? There’s a fascinating...
10 Strategies for Your eCommerce Social Media Holiday Ads
Estelle Lampela Estelle is a Senior Paid Social Strategist at Inflow, where she thrives on creating paid social ads that don’t feel invasive in your feed. She has been involved in the launch of two consumer electronic tech products, where...
7 Tips on How to Make Your eCommerce Business Thrive in 2021
Most people nowadays have access to mobile devices, and smartphones, for example, are deeply integrated into our everyday lives. In fact, there are more mobile users than desktop or personal computer users in the US. As such, it is necessary...