👋 Happy Tuesday! A new week brings a fresh round of ecommerce, DTC, retail, and AI news — plus a few changes worth knowing if you sell online.
Inside this issue:
📰 The Ecommerce Stories That Matter This Week
🎧 On The Pod: The Social-First Strategy Behind $100K in 90 Days
☕ Claus's Take: Is Your Shopify Store Ready for Amazon?
Grab your coffee. 3 minutes now. Better decisions all week
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📰 THE STORIES WORTH YOUR TIME
📈 General Ecommerce News
🛒 Platforms & Marketplaces
📱Social Media, Search & Advertising
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The Social-First Strategy Behind $100K in 90 Days
Can your social audience become a $100K revenue channel?
Likes and comments are nice. Sales are better.
In this episode, Tessa May Marr, Founder & CEO of Marr Media Group, shares how DTC brands can turn organic social into a growth engine by connecting content, paid media, and email.
We talk about how to find content worth putting ad spend behind, use customer comments to uncover what buyers want, and turn social engagement into revenue.
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☕ CLAUS'S TAKE
(One opinion. One lesson. One action.)
Is Your Shopify Store Ready for Amazon?
Don’t wait until your Shopify store hits $1M. Start testing Amazon when you have 3 things: a proven product, healthy margins, and repeat demand.
Why it matters: Amazon gives you access to millions of shoppers already looking to buy. But it also takes a cut. A Professional seller plan is currently $39.99/month, plus referral fees and possible fulfillment costs.
So don’t move your entire catalog.
Test first:
Pick your top 1–3 products.
Check Amazon demand and competition.
Run the numbers after all fees and fulfillment costs.
Start small before adding more SKUs.
The goal isn’t to replace Shopify. It’s to add another profitable sales channel.
Shopify also supports selling across marketplaces such as Amazon while managing products, orders and inventory from Shopify.
Your move: Pick one proven product and calculate its Amazon profit today. If the numbers work, run a small test.
Here is my question to you: Would you consider selling your best-selling Shopify product on Amazon?
Hit reply with YES or NO. I read every response.
Don’t forget to grab our free online seller resources.
That's your coffee break for today. I'll see you Thursday with more ecommerce news worth your time.
~ Claus
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