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• 11 Everyday Hobbies That Make Money – and How to Get Started Today - Are there really hobbies that make money? Yep. Cathy Yeulet made more than $13,000 from one photo. Sarah Peterson earned $5,000 in four months selling custom popcorn bags. Ray Bridges made $4,558.03 in just 9 weeks selling phone cases. We’re not talking about side hustles or part-time jobs here. Those […]
  Topics: started, love, need, everyday, website, photography, hobbies, start, sell, money, products, earn, today, business.
• 12 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Dropshipping - Oh, what I wish I knew when I started dropshipping. It’s amazing how much you learn from experience. It takes a while for it to happen, but one day you’ll look back at mistakes and realize how you got to where you are today. Those tiny little lessons you learn […]
  Topics: products, need, focus, dropshipping, wish, store, audience, niche, product, marketing, ad, dont, things, knew, started.
• 13 Influencer Marketing Campaigns to Inspire and Get You Started With Your Own - You can't go anywhere these days without hearing about the elusive, purportedly mystical powers of influencer marketing. But is this buzzword-laden tactic actually worth your time and energy?
  Topics: instagram, media, influencer, influencers, social, inspire, brand, started, campaigns, snapchat, marketing, campaign, brands.
• 18 Dropshipping F***ups: Successful Owners Share Their Most Memorable Mistakes - Sure, success is cool, inspiring, and all that, but what about failures? Sometimes it’s nice to know you’re not alone in fumbling through the process of starting a business.  And it’s not just newbies who make mistakes. Dig deep enough and you’ll find that behind the fast cars, fancy watches, […]
  Topics: fups, customer, product, memorable, successful, share, dropshipping, store, started, biggest, owners, products, order, ads, fup, mistakes, day.
• 5 Tips for Getting Started With Cross-Border Commerce Today - Expanding into new countries is a proven way to grow your business. By 2022, consumers shopping online with merchants outside their home country will account for 17.3% of all online spending, according to 451 Research.[1] And consumers everywhere are increasingly willing to choose a cross-border brand when they shop online.
  Topics: platform, commerce, today, youre, online, crossborder, tips, started, store, ecommerce, getting, start, merchants, country.
• 6 Social Media Platforms You Should Be Selling On & How to Get Started - Check out the best social media platforms for brands to sell and advertise on online and how to actually get set up to sell on them!
  Topics: media, instagram, facebook, shop, pinterest, users, pins, product, selling, platforms, social, business, ads, started.
• 7 Pillar Page Examples to Get You Started With Your Own - Earlier this year, a handful of my extremely bright and capable colleagues compiled a report on topic clusters. Now first, what the heck is a topic cluster? A topic cluster is a method that uses a single "pillar page" as the main hub of content for a given topic. All of your content assets related to that topic link back to the pillar page -- and the pillar links out to each asset. Here's why it's critical to your content strategy.
  Topics: linking, content, examples, started, links, cluster, blog, topic, pillar, page, pages, related.
• A new eyewear brand is taking on Luxottica with a single wire, some seed funding and a sustainability story - A U.K.-based startup has come up with a new design for high-end, direct-to-consumer sunglasses that are original, modular and virtually indestructible. But to get their eyewear in the hands of consumers, they’ll have to compete with some industry giants, including Luxottica Group of Italy, whose brands include Ray-Ban and Oakley, among others. Their company, Wires […]
  Topics: brand, production, seed, sustainability, started, glasses, youre, pair, luxottica, eyewear, wire, wires, single, lot, taking, pop, lenses, funding.
• Alpha Male Succeeds with Haircare, Skincare, Sunglasses - Aaron Marino says he hates to read. He's bad at grammar and writing, he claims. But he's really good at making videos. "I had a fitness center that didn't work out," he told me. "I started making YouTube videos in 2008 with no idea that I could ever make a buck on that platform."
  Topics: alpha, pete, started, work, skincare, im, tiege, sunglasses, male, products, hanley, pedro, business, haircare, succeeds, good.
• Amazon.nl open for external vendors - Amazon has officially announced it will launch an online store in the Netherlands. That’s why it is now opening its doors to external vendors. Both Dutch and foreign sellers can now register if they want to sell their products on Amazon.nl. In October of last year, word got out that… Continue reading
  Topics: started, external, vendors, dutch, amazon, sold, euros, amazonnl, open, netherlands, sell, sellers.
• Boxed: How Chieh Huang built a pureplay online warehouse giant - In six years, US online startup Boxed has emerged from a suburban garage to become a serious competitor to offline warehouse retailers.
  Topics: start, warehouse, giant, huang, actually, chieh, garage, jersey, say, selling, wholesale, built, online, boxed, started, pureplay.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 15: Content Essentials - Content marketing for ecommerce businesses is much more than a sales pitch.  Done well, it connects with prospective customers and tells the story of a brand. In this episode 15 of my series on building an ecommerce business from the ground up, I spoke with Andrew Snavely, the founder of Primer, an online magazine, and Ryan Hunter Masters, the founder of Show Her Off, and a dance instruction site. 
  Topics: youre, theyre, started, business, content, buy, building, essentials, theres, lot, email, ecommerce, thats.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 16: Custom Manufacturing - Selling manufactured goods directly to consumers, with no retail middlemen, has exploded on the internet. For this episode 16, I spoke with Jimmy Hayes, the co-founder of Minaal, a manufacturer of "bags and gear for life on the move."
  Topics: ecommerce, purchase, thats, weve, started, building, manufacturer, custom, manufacturers, kickstarter, need, bag, business, product, manufacturing.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 17: Growing a Community - An engaged, passionate community around an ecommerce business can drive referrals, loyalty, and repeat sales. But developing that community is not always easy. This is episode 17 in my series on building an ecommerce business from the ground up. For this installment, I spoke with Andrew Youderian, the founder of EcommerceFuel, a popular community of ecommerce merchants.
  Topics: value, merchants, ecommercefuel, building, members, growing, private, community, ecommerce, started, business.
• Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 18: Selling the Company - Launching and then growing an ecommerce business can be both exciting and stressful. The reward for many entrepreneurs is to sell their companies someday. For this installment in my series on building an ecommerce business, I spoke with Michael Jackness, the owner of a multi-brand ecommerce company. We discussed the process of selling an ecommerce business, which he has done multiple times.
  Topics: colorit, sell, businesses, building, sold, started, amazon, business, company, selling, ecommerce, inventory.
• Bye-Bye, Mansion. Hello, Tiny House - After Gabriella and Andrew Morrison sold their massive house and 90 percent of their belongings, they found happiness in a 150-square-foot pop-up trailer—in Baja, Mexico. Since then, the couple has dedicated their lives to the tiny house movement, empowering people to build their own sustainable homes and live happily with less. In this Q&A, Gabriella explains how the couple started their businesses with one cheap Costco video camera and zero experience in ecommerce, propelled by their vision for a future where tiny houses solve the world’s big housing problems.More
  Topics: went, movement, andrew, really, started, experience, inspiration, build, tiny, house, byebye, hello, gabriella, mansion.
• Canada-based Entrepreneur Scales to 15 Websites, 30 Remote Employees - Ronnie Teja immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 2008.  He was 22. Fast-forward to 2020, and he owns and operates a thriving ecommerce company that sells watches and related accessories. I recently spoke with him about launching his company, acquiring sites, and the challenges of managing it remotely.
  Topics: remote, different, watches, vancouver, canadabased, watch, team, scales, work, employees, entrepreneur, thats, websites, ive, started.
• Cartoons and Coding: Inside the Mind of an 11-Year-Old Founder - Only two months into middle school, Brianna J. is already a seasoned entrepreneur. This 11-year-old started her online kids’ apparel store, Brianna’s Closet, in 2017. When she’s not do-gooding or building her store, she’s working hard on her math homework and taking coding classes. But don’t worry: she still has lots of time for kid stuff, like binging her favorite cartoons.More
  Topics: 11yearold, kids, school, im, store, founder, shes, young, really, started, cartoons, inside, mind, business, sister, coding.
• City of Lüneburg launches online marketplace - Another city in Europe has decided to launch its own online marketplace. This time it’s the city of Lüneberg, a town in the German state of Lower Saxony, that started the ecommerce initiative. Customers can browse through the offer of local retailers and get the goods delivered to their homes Continue reading
  Topics: shop, lüneburg, website, started, project, local, stores, online, city, launches, service, marketplace, retailers.
• Coolblue’s revenue grows to 1.35 billion euros - Dutch omnichannel retailer has generated revenues worth 1.35 billion euros last year. That’s an increase of 160 million compared to the situation in 2017. According to Coolblue, this growth is partly due to the introduction of an English and French website and app. Last year, Coolblue achieved a turnover of… Continue reading
  Topics: company, euros, coolblue, profitability, started, billion, grows, revenue, app, guide, million, coolblues.
• Creating The Perfect Product For Social Media Virality - After getting the Instagram handle @Sauce, Nick Guillen and Nick Ajluni began to build a feed that attracted the likes of Sam Smith and Complex. Behind the scenes, the duo developed truffle-infused hot sauces and launched Truff to their community. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Nick Guillen shares how to craft products designed for social media, network with influencers, and redesign websites for a better shopping experience.More
  Topics: things, virality, kind, lot, social, thats, really, perfect, sauce, started, creating, product, going, hot, media.
• D2C underwear brand TomboyX raises $18 million from the Craftory - TomboyX, a direct to consumer, gender-neutral underwear brand, has today announced the close of an $18 million Series B funding round led by the Craftory. With this deal, Craftory becomes TomboyX’s majority shareholder. TomboyX develops gender-neutral, size-inclusive underwear at a relatively affordable price point. The company started when co-founder Fran Dunaway struggled to find herself […]
  Topics: series, techcrunch, funding, brand, round, craftory, raises, started, underwear, million, tomboyxs, tomboyx, genderneutral, d2c.
• Disrupting a Stagnant Market through Self Funding - Josh Elizetxe was intrigued by the dental industry and invested his own savings to research an at-home teeth whitening system to launch Snow. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Josh Elizetxe of Snow on market disruption and why it's important to pace yourself in the entrepreneurship journey.More
  Topics: look, lot, started, really, product, market, kind, im, going, self, funding, thats, think, stagnant, disrupting.
• Focusing on a Single Product May Be the Key to Dropshipping - How the trending e-commerce practice can work for you.
  Topics: product, key, single, ecommerce, customer, hilse, model, experience, started, focusing, dropshipping, facebook.
• From 7 Figures to 8 Figures: How Your Problems Change as You Scale - When you first launch, you're faced with one set of problems—polishing your site, making sales, and becoming profitable. As you scale, those problems change with every new level of growth you achieve. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from two entrepreneurs who recently grew their business from 7 figures to 8 figures about the new problems they encountered, from hiring the right people to fixing a potentially toxic company culture.More
  Topics: problems, change, guys, figures, think, youre, really, know, started, things, scale, good, yeah, podcasts, kind.
• Gametime lets you buy tickets for games and concerts that have already started - Ticketing app Gametime is taking its last-minute approach about as far as it can go, with the launch of a new feature called LastCall. This allows users to purchase tickets through Gametime until 90 minutes after an event has started. Why would you want to do that? Well, prices usually drop precipitously after the event […]
  Topics: event, games, youre, game, research, concerts, tickets, buy, gametime, lastcall, started, griffith, minutes, lets, lastminute.
• Getting Started With Adobe Creative Cloud - In college, I took a semester-long video editing course which required me to work in Adobe Premiere Pro. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s a video editing software for TV, film, and web. By the end of the semester, I realized my classmates and I had only mastered a small portion of the software. That’s because Adobe Premiere Pro has hundreds of features and capabilities to create virtually any type of video you could imagine.  And Premiere Pro isn’t the only software like this. In fact, Adobe sells over 20 more applications that cover a variety of skills, such as photography, design, and website development, each of which also has hundreds of features and capabilities. You can gain access to all of these applications— along with other creative tools — by becoming an Adobe Creative Cloud user.
  Topics: mobile, getting, photoshop, apps, software, started, web, adobe, design, app, cloud, creative.
• Getting Started with A/B Tests (to Drive Sales) - A/B tests can improve conversions on an ecommerce site. There are many testing platforms — search Google for “A/B tests.” To run a test, identify a key conversion element, such as ...
  Topics: group, b, getting, conversion, results, sales, test, traffic, drive, testing, tests, ab, product, started, page.
• Getting Started with Continuity Ecommerce, Part 1: Approaches, Expectations - Continuity ecommerce combines recurring revenue, connected devices, and auto-ship functionality. It's subscriptions on steroids, and it's becoming big business. In this article, I'll explore how merchants can implement continuity programs...
  Topics: typically, customers, expectations, consumers, programs, products, ecommerce, customer, continuity, pet, commerce, product, approaches, getting, started.
• Getting Started with Continuity Ecommerce, Part 2: Steps to Success - Continuity ecommerce generates recurring revenue via a combination of connected devices and auto-ship functionality. It's subscriptions on steroids. In "Part 1: Approaches, Expectations," I explained how continuity ecommerce can build high-margin revenue streams. In this article, I’ll focus on how to make continuity programs a success.
  Topics: continuity, revenue, steps, started, success, customers, sales, product, ecommerce, inventory, programs, products, churn, increase, getting.
• Getting Started with Google Tag Manager, for Ecommerce - Many websites lose reporting from one of their marketing or analytics platforms. The culprit is usually the removal of tags during updates to the sites. Tags are critical for ecommerce merchants. But they add clutter to websites. That's the purpose of Google Tag Manager — to manage tags and contain them in a single JavaScript snippet on all pages.
  Topics: ecommerce, getting, view, manager, analytics, tags, gtm, page, pages, started, tracking, google, tag.
• Getting Started with Influencer Marketing in 2020: Everything You Need to Know - Celebrities were the brand ambassadors of the past but now social media influencers are who consumers are listening to. Have you tried influencer marketing?
  Topics: social, started, influencers, influencer, product, audience, youre, marketing, brand, media, content.
• Getting Started with Marketing Automation (for Ecommerce) - Marketing automation is the process of using software to manage repetitive marketing tasks. Examples include automated emails based on a user’s action and automated social media posts. Offering relevant cross-sells ...
  Topics: ecommerce, based, marketing, tools, getting, email, tool, data, users, automation, started, offer, integrate.
• Getting Started with eCommerce Product Photography - Have you ever found yourself browsing an online store because a beautiful image showed up in your Twitter feed? Welcome to the power of eCommerce product photography! If you’re launching a WooCommerce store, photos are one of your most impactful sales tools. Good eCommerce photography attracts the right customers, tells a story, and lifts the […]
  Topics: started, photography, youre, photos, white, ecommerce, shot, great, product, camera, shoot, getting, style.
• Here’s to the Crazy Ones: How These Two Friends Built a Business No One Expected - “When we started doing $1,000 days, I’m sitting around with all these guys at work and I’m just thinking, ‘My life is about to change, and I can’t even tell anybody.’” When Rodney Zachariuk and Kory Szostak started their ecommerce business, nobody knew. Even as the months ticked by and […]
  Topics: money, store, rodney, expected, work, business, friends, built, kory, started, began, product, instagram.
• Hobby to Retail: How Planning Parties Turned into a Business - More
  Topics: bonjour, business, turned, parties, store, products, started, retail, think, hobby, really, party, lot, planning, youre.
• Hornbach let store employees deliver online orders - German DIY-store Hornbach saw its online turnover increase significantly during the Covid-19 outbreak in Europe. The company quickly changed its click-and-collect model and also tested a home delivery model where its own store employees took care of the deliveries. Just like many do-it-yourself businesses, Hornbach was quite late to the… Continue reading
  Topics: europe, hornbach, let, employees, online, shop, deliver, physical, ecommerce, started, orders, stores, store.
• How 5 Online Businesses Increased Revenue By Selling on eBay - eBay may not be the largest marketplace by gross merchandise value (GMV) — but it’s still pretty close.  With a $96…
  Topics: ebay, bigcommerce, increase, selling, sales, success, integration, started, store, revenue, awesome, sell.
• How Being Purpose Driven Kept This Business Going - Eryn Eddy personally spray painted shirts for fans who supported her music as a way to spread positivity and connect with those who connected with her work. Evolving from a personal passion project, Eryn launched So Worth Loving, an apparel and lifestyle brand to facilitate a supportive community that embraces the past and empowers for the future. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Eryn shares how she found her drive, runs a purpose-focused business, and builds a supportive community. More
  Topics: started, kept, worth, driven, im, purpose, music, business, going, community, think, didnt, loving, youre.
• How Four Food Businesses Started Selling Online During COVID-19 - From no store to 800 orders per day — see how 4 stores successfully moved their business online during COVID-19 to stay open and save jobs.
  Topics: started, food, support, selling, customers, choice, shoppers, online, woocommerce, delivery, theyre, products, businesses, covid19.
• How Much Does it Cost to Launch a Dropshipping Store? - Technically speaking, you can start dropshipping for $0.00. With the right combination of free trials and starter plans – and a willingness to look the other way and hope for the best when it comes to the quality of your products – 45 minutes of spare time is all that […]
  Topics: lets, cost, costs, shopify, order, dropshipping, money, products, startup, store, business, does, started.
• How a 23-Year-Old Earned Over $20 Million in Ecommerce in Less Than One Year - Three ways to replicate Kevin Zhang's success.
  Topics: 23yearold, entrepreneurs, business, million, sales, sharp, importance, started, zhang, digital, earned, ecommerce, success.
• How this Kazakhstan internet giant built success on ideas from Russia and China - The advantage of entering an emerging market is that the market still has a lot of empty space to fill, and as a startup you can be the first player. Kazakhstan might not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of overseas expansion. However, it is the world's largest landlocked country, and shares borders with Russia and China, which are important consumer markets as well as technology hubs.
  Topics: market, million, ideas, internet, russia, built, success, app, chocofamily, rakmet, china, service, users, giant, kazakhstan, started.
• How to Build Growing Brands with Staying Power: Lessons from GoPro, Sonicare & The George Foreman Grill - When I graduated college with a biology degree, I had no idea that in a few short years I’d be…
  Topics: marketing, company, lessons, gopro, relevance, way, product, selling, build, customers, sonicare, brand, longevity, branding, started.
• How to Create and Sell Digital Products: A Roadmap With 6 Ideas to Get You Started - Digital products can be created and sold repeatedly to different customers without having to replenish your inventory, making them ideal for creatives, artists, educators, and freelancers looking for new income streams that require less effort to maintain. Here’s how you can start selling your own digital products, along with some ideas for businesses you can build around these intangible goods.More
  Topics: started, youre, sell, customers, product, idea, free, digital, content, create, products, ideas, roadmap.
• How to Do Affiliate Marketing: 5 Proven Ways to Get Started - When affiliate marketing was first introduced to digital audiences, it was easy to become a successful affiliate. Any individual/company could create a website, post some affiliate links on the homepage and generate an income. Today, it’s a whole different ballgame as everyone else seems to know the same methods, techniques, […]
  Topics: create, need, product, content, ways, started, instagram, youll, audience, affiliate, marketing, good, proven.
• How to Dropship More Sustainably (and 9 Products to Help You Get Started) - When creating an online store, you hear a lot about building something sustainable, which makes sense – after all, you want to make a business that you can maintain. But having a sustainable business in this day and age isn’t just about managing money and time. Sustainability can also mean […]
  Topics: sustainably, reusable, products, way, customers, items, sustainable, started, dropshipping, help, great, item, product.
• How to Scale Beyond Stagnant Sales - Cars fascinated Chris Carey, so much so that he left his full-time job to start Modern Automotive Performance, a business focused on manufacturing and selling automotive performance products. In today’s episode of Shopify Masters, Chris Kerry shares how to move past stagnant sales and why he focused on ecommerce. More
  Topics: point, automotive, think, organization, things, going, really, started, thats, scale, stagnant, sales, business.
• Ikea launches online store in Luxembourg - Swedish furniture store chain Ikea has launched its offical online store for the Luxembourgian market. The launch in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg follows one year after Ikea opened an online store in Belgium. Since yesterday, Luxembourg has its own online Ikea store. Previously, they had to order their Billy closets and… Continue reading
  Topics: launches, ikea, luxembourg, furniture, online, items, store, belgium, guide, choose, started.
• Instagram Helped This Serial Entrepreneur Launch a Life-Changing Business - For Burak Doğan, trying and failing is no new concept. At just 23, he’s already a serial entrepreneur, having experimented with a ton of different ventures since he started at 18 years old. Despite all his failures, Burak was always determined to succeed. He treated each failed business as a […]
  Topics: didnt, sixfigures, facebook, serial, money, dropshipping, started, burak, entrepreneur, instagram, products, store, helped, business.
• Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce - Get ready to shop the ‘Gram. Instagram just stealthily added a native payments feature to its app for some users. It lets you register a debit or credit card as part of a profile, set up a security pin, then start buying things without ever leaving Instagram. Not having to leave for a separate website […]
  Topics: commerce, feature, quietly, native, shopping, launches, instagram, payment, started, app, brands, payments, checkout.
• Jen Rubio to tell us the secrets behind Away’s success at Disrupt Berlin - If you’ve been to an airport recently, you’ve probably spotted a ton of iconic Away suitcases. The company has built one of the most successful consumer brands in recent years, and it’s just getting started. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Away co-founder and Chief Brand Officer Jen Rubio will join us at TechCrunch […]
  Topics: away, youve, tell, million, ton, startup, aways, started, rubio, disrupt, secrets, recently, jen, techcrunch, success, berlin.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Alessandro Ronchi - Get to know Magento Master Alessandro Ronchi, COO at Bitbull
  Topics: masters, alessandro, magetitans, events, magento, italy, spotlight, ronchi, know, things, event, started, im, community.
• Magento Masters Spotlight: Vijay Golani - Get to know Magento Master Vijay Golani, VP of Development and Magento U Trainer at Wagento
  Topics: spotlight, magento, golani, masters, different, community, vijay, event, started, wagento, im, plus, attend.
• Magento Q&A: Heather Kaminetsky - A former VP at Net-a-Porter.com, Heather is now the President of Riley, the premium bedding and bath Webstore. 
  Topics: working, heather, future, kaminetsky, riley, work, think, magento, qa, wanted, day, youll, started.
• Magento Q&A: Jamie Maria Schouren - Jamie is the Director of the Dutch eCommerce developer DEITY.io, a Magento enthusiast, and a PWA evangelist    
  Topics: app, think, play, download, magento, pwa, maria, love, apps, jamie, started, schouren, need, qa.
• Magento Q&A: Jeffrey Grannis, Juice Beauty - An eCommerce veteran from the salad days of online shopping, Jeffrey is Director of Digital at Juice Beauty, the organic skincare retailer.
  Topics: theyre, segment, juice, personal, grannis, ecommerce, qa, organic, japanese, jeffrey, lot, beauty, digital, started, magento.
• Marley Spoon offers Dinnerly in Germany - Marley Spoon has started offering Dinnerly, its affordable food delivery service, in Germany. The spin-off sells meal kits that starts at 2.99 euros per serving. Dinnerly was first launched in July 2017 and presented as the first affordable meal kit offering. Marley Spoon, which started in Berlin but has since… Continue reading
  Topics: customers, meal, offering, ingredients, marley, stressful, spoon, started, offers, germany, recipes, dinnerly, service.
• New U.K. ecommerce businesses need guidance - It has been two months since we started the lockdown in the U.K. It seems longer. One thing has occurred during the lockdown that I did not predict but is obvious in hindsight: There has been an explosion of small internet businesses.
  Topics: ecommerce, service, uk, likely, guidance, started, money, way, lockdown, entrepreneurs, internet, work, need, businesses.
• Obuv Rossii stores are now pick-up points for Wildberries orders - Wildberries, the biggest online retailer in Russia, has started a partnership with Russian footwear retailer Obuv Rossii. The physical stores of Obuv Rossii will operate as pick-up points for online orders from Wildberries. Customers of Wildberries can not only pick up their online orders at an Obuv Rossii outlet, they… Continue reading
  Topics: pickup, obuv, wildberries, thousand, online, rossii, orders, started, stores, points.
• Ollies and Ocean Life: Inside the Mind of a 14-Year-Old Founder - Carson started his business, Locker Board, to make money to pay for surf lessons—and to avoid doing chores. The now 14-year-old has a busy schedule between sports, running his business, and tuning out the haters. Here, he shares his thoughts on keeping oceans clean and seizing every moment.More
  Topics: 14yearold, school, ocean, mind, ollies, tank, im, locker, doing, shark, life, founder, business, started, pretty, surf, inside.
• Online Store Set Up: 12 Things You Must Do to Get Your New Store Up & Running - We know how overwhelmed entrepreneurs can feel during the setup process—this post gives you 12 things you need to do to get your online store set up right.
  Topics: website, started, store, online, set, email, things, social, business, youll, google, emails.
• Overdraft: How This Army Vet Fought His Way out of a Financial Ambush - When the 2008 financial recession hit, U.S. Army vet Carl Churchill and his family lived on dwindling emergency savings, selling their possessions to stay afloat. Then, he and his wife, Lori, cashed out their 401(k) to launch Alpha Coffee. Their family slowly grew the business out of their basement and into a physical storefront. Today, Alpha Coffee is a thriving business that gives back to the troops—and Carl and Lori hustle seven days a week to keep it that way.More
  Topics: overdraft, kids, financial, fought, really, youve, mortgage, army, coffee, ambush, started, months, vet, business, way, company, recession.
• Overdraft: How this Eyewear Mogul Started a Business from a Backpack - Chase Fisher struggled through school, envying those to whom academics came easy. Starting his own business, Blenders Eyewear, gave him an introduction to a different type of education. Through ups (getting featured on the Today show) and downs (losing everything at a trade show), Chase thrived in the school of life. Now it’s his success that’s the subject of envy.More
  Topics: going, starting, school, backpack, wasnt, mogul, eyewear, started, youre, really, way, walked, business, overdraft.
• Patience Helped This Husband and Wife Dropshipping Duo Build an $800k Store - Talk to most entrepreneurs about why they put in the long hours on their endeavors, and they’ll tell you it’s all in aid of building a better life. They’re busy putting in the hard yards now so that in the weeks, months, and years to come, they’ll be able to […]
  Topics: products, namrata, winning, customer, store, making, mistakes, started, months, product, learn, helped, 800k, shishir, lot, dropshippers.
• Portobel turns food producers into direct-to-consumer businesses - A startup called Portobel is working to help food producers shift their businesses so they can support direct-to-consumer deliveries. Portobel is backed by Heroic Ventures and led by Ranjith Kumaran, founder or co-founder of file-sharing company Hightail (acquired by OpenText) and loyalty startup PunchTab (acquired by Walmart Labs). Kumaran told me that he and his co-founders […]
  Topics: portobel, food, turns, things, businesses, producers, started, moo, techcrunch, pandemic, grocery, company, delivery, kumaran, drivers, directtoconsumer.
• Purpose with Profit: Meet 9 Socially Responsible Founders Creating Change Through Business - Beyond meeting customer needs or filling a market gap, socially responsible founders are creating movements through their businesses. Learn how nine socially responsible businesses and social enterprises are striving to create employment opportunities, reduce carbon emissions, share knowledge, and more. More
  Topics: products, founders, meet, responsible, business, lauren, profit, communities, way, socially, creating, change, community, social, purpose, coffee, started, patrice.
• Quality Control Drives Ugmonk.com to In-house Fulfillment - By 2017, nine years after launching his t-shirt company, Ugmonk, Jeff Sheldon had expanded into posters and workspace products. Gather, Ugmonk's modular desk organizer, had just completed a successful Kickstarter campaign with two shipping containers of custom manufactured organizers en route, to send to customers.
  Topics: used, drives, things, ugmonk, quality, ugmonkcom, design, products, control, started, way, fulfillment, inhouse, warehouse, work.
• Quality, low-volume goods are a growth market - There is a growing concern for the environment. Conserving resources is becoming more popular. Have you considered how your business can help the environment and make money whilst doing it?
  Topics: products, quality, market, packaging, longer, lowvolume, growth, box, items, recycled, boxes, customers, goods, suppliers, started.
• Skubana raises $5.4M for its e-commerce operations software - Skubana, a startup promising to help e-commerce business manage what can be a dizzying array of logistical challenges, is announcing that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Defy Partners, with participation from Advancit Capital and FJ Labs. Early Skubana backer Brian Lee — who co-founded The Honest […]
  Topics: techcrunch, shoedazzle, raises, operations, ecommerce, skubana, 54m, kunovac, store, business, solves, started, rubin, company, software.
• Stripe expands to 5 new markets in Europe - Stripe has expanded its payment services in Europe. The American tech company is now generally available in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta. The payments company can now support businesses in 29 countries across Europe. Europe is a very interesting market for Stripe, as 75 percent of all… Continue reading
  Topics: europe, markets, startup, started, software, company, european, businesses, payments, stripe, processed, expands.
• Success Despite Multiple Failures: Why This Entrepreneur Never Gave Up - Being an entrepreneur is not always a comfortable lifestyle. Often it means giving up comfort to pursue a passion or dream fully. Vlad Gasan is someone who is no stranger to giving up the familiar to take a risk. After immigrating to the United States from Ukraine, he spent time […]
  Topics: product, work, despite, ads, lot, vlad, app, gave, started, wasnt, entrepreneur, failures, knew, store, mulitple.
• Success with Google Shopping Ads, Part 1: Getting Started - Google Shopping ads appear in search results as pictures above or alongside the text-based ads and organic listings. But unlike text-based ads, Shopping ads always carry an image, price, and ...
  Topics: success, shopping, products, product, sales, ad, google, getting, campaigns, text, ads, started, searches.
• The 7-Minute Guide to Getting Started With Google Tasks - If you’re anything like me, you love to-do lists. Heck, sometimes you love to-do lists so much, you even put completed tasks on your list just for the satisfaction of crossing them off (No? Just me?).
  Topics: guide, google, started, calendar, youre, getting, task, add, click, email, todo, tasks, 7minute, list.
• The Beginner’s Guide to SMS Marketing - Get started with SMS marketing best practices here! With impressive engagement rates & ROI, it's becoming a hugely popular marketing method.
  Topics: brand, guide, beginners, email, subscribers, send, message, started, youre, marketing, sms, number, different.
• The Complete Guide to Getting Started With Influencer Marketing - Influencer marketing is hands down one of the best marketing strategies you can use today. In fact, many experts will tell you that it’s the single-best method of marketing. Over the last few years, influencer marketing has become an immense and essential part of the marketing landscape. Anymore, it’s difficult […]
  Topics: followers, brands, complete, guide, influencer, instagram, social, media, content, brand, influencers, started, marketing.
• The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Ads: How to Get Started With Your First Campaign - Getting new leads can be tough. Getting new leads consistently, at an acceptable cost-per-lead (CPL) can sometimes feel impossible… But, it must be done. What’s more, the competition is fierce. The internet has leveled the playing field, and the rewards go to those who adapt fastest. So how can you […]
  Topics: company, ad, content, page, campaign, linkedin, started, ads, create, sponsored, users.
• The risk of vanity metrics (and copying others) - I see a lot of startup entrepreneurs copying successful businesses.  The entrepreneurs observe what those businesses do and assume it would work for them. Or they attribute the success of ...
  Topics: vanity, ranger, risk, followers, shorts, short, fringesport, lot, personal, started, metrics, instagram, following, copying.
• These Siblings Followed in Dad's Footsteps—Then Took Their Own Path - Brandon and Kaleena Morrison’s father struck out on his own, building an ice cream business from the ground up. The siblings never wanted to take the reins of their father’s business. Yet, years later, as they discussed plans for their skin- and hair-care brand, United & Free, they would draw on what they learned from him to do it their own way.More
  Topics: products, siblings, united, kaleena, family, skin, dads, brand, took, started, followed, inspiration, path, theres, footstepsthen, business, brandon.
• TomboyX picks up $4.3 million Series A - For the past ten to fifteen years, a crop of newer brands have found themselves gobbling up marketshare via direct to consumer channels. Some offer a better value proposition on an existing product category, like Warby Parker and Casper, while others offer a reinvention of the category itself, like Outdoor Voices and Glossier. TomboyX, which […]
  Topics: shirts, series, picks, offer, underwear, million, started, website, realized, dunaway, company, funding, tomboyx.
• UK supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Asda want to merge - UK supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Asda have agreed to merge. The competition regulators still have to agree to the acquisition, but if it gets the green light, the merged identity will become the biggest grocer in the United Kingdom. Currently, Sainsbury’s and Asda are respectively the second and third largest Continue reading
  Topics: uk, online, merge, sainsburys, asda, market, watchdog, united, started, supermarket, supermarkets, share.
• Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: NoGood - NoGood CEO Mostafa Elbermawy describes how they evaluate a client’s growth challenges by quoting Zen teacher Hunryu Suzuki: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are only a few.” Rather than deferring to in-house playbooks, NoGood adopts an open mind combined with a methodical, data-driven approach to find untapped […]
  Topics: car, started, verified, job, agency, growth, clients, expert, users, techcrunch, nogood, work, mind, marketing, survey.
• Why Voice Shopping Is Just Getting Started [New Data] - When it comes to product and feature diversification, Amazon isn't exactly a novice.
  Topics: report, growth, getting, speaker, started, using, speakers, amazon, shopping, smart, voice, echo, data.
• Zalando sells textile masks - Today, Zalando has started the online sales of textile masks in Europe. The disposable masks are sold at an affordable price in all 17 markets and the profit will go to international efforts against the coronavirus.Zalando isn’t the only fashion player that has started selling textile masks online. Earlier this… Continue reading
  Topics: sells, price, today, protect, sales, textile, sold, zalando, started, designs, masks.
• eBay expands managed payments in Europe - Ebay will bring its managed payments service to sellers in three new markets in Europe next year. In the first quarter of 2021, eBay will manage payments in France, Italy and Spain. Germany was in April last year the first European market where eBay started offering this service. In February… Continue reading
  Topics: sellers, managed, process, ebay, expands, payments, service, italy, started, spain, europe, france.
• “It’s Never Been a Fear of Mine to Try Things” - Samantha Renée always knew she wouldn’t take the safe route. She left a lucrative corporate sales career to start Weave Got It, an online hair extension business, with her partner in 2016. When we spoke to her, Samantha was expecting a baby, about to add parenthood to her growing list of roles. Because not only was she at the helm of a successful business in a risky industry—she had a day job too.More
  Topics: things, business, extensions, whats, doing, shopify, really, try, fear, started, im, hair.