Deep in the Amazon, it can get pretty dire. When you’re in the trenches and on the hunt, you can easily get turned around and find yourself in a mild panic, retracing your steps as sweat pours from your temples. And at every turn, you could end up...
Ugmonk.com is a design-focused brand that was started seven years ago by founder and designer Jeff Sheldon. They started with four t-shirt designs and have since grown into a multi- product brand that that hasn’t strayed from its original...
The eCommerce pricing strategy I’m about to share has been a massive game-changer for my store. In my second year in business, it produced enough extra income to hire my first full-time employee so I could work on higher-level tasks and freely...
Last December I announced we were migrating our eCommerce store, Right Channel Radios, from the Magento shopping cart to Shopify. Not only were we migrating platforms, but we were also pouring $50,000 into a complete overhaul of the brand and the...
Jimmy Hayes, co-founder of Minaal, has the travel bug bad. It started innocently enough when, while on university exchange in Vancouver, he and his friend Doug Barber bought a Plymouth Grand Voyager van and drove 18,000 miles around North America...
In my last post, I talked about why I’m investing heavily in a new website and how to prepare for a complete redesign of your store. In this post, I want to take you inside our website migration process for going from theoretical concept to a...
You can spend the better part of a decade painstakingly growing a business from scratch. Or you can buy eCommer business and – with a few tweaks – quadruple profitability in just a couple years. Which options sounds better to you? It’s a...
I never shy away from a good bet, especially when I have a hand in determining the outcome. But when I realized the cost for our store redesign would be $50,000, it gave me serious pause. Was I making a smart long-term investment? Or just the...
(Looking for a remote job? Or hiring for a remote role? Check out the remote jobs section of our eCommerce-specific job board.) It’s 7 a.m. in Montana and I’ve just rolled out of bed. After pouring some coffee, I check-in on my team...
“Are you still interested in buying the business?” The potential buyer had been grappling over the weekend with a few troubling issues he’d discovered in due diligence for TrollingMotors.net. It was now Monday morning, and we were...