Shopifreaks E-commerce News Podcast

#42 - Q3 Results, Google Deals, & Singles Day


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Holiday shopping is already kicking off around the world this year. Consumers are getting an early start to avoid the digital crowds and purchase their gifts before supply chain issues deplete shelves and fulfillment centers. This year the early birds will truly get the worm, and the rest of us — well… we’ll be celebrating Christmas in early 2022.

My travel community and I just launched a hardcover coffee table book a few days ago called Capital Cities: A Journey Around The World Through 118 Capital Cities. The book is a collaboration between myself and 68 professional travel bloggers and photographers around the world that showcases 118 capital cities from every continent, including Antarctica!

The book is truly a work of art, and we’re excited to bring it to print. However, as much as we would have loved to have this book available for sale and in Amazon’s warehouses for the holiday season, we also ran into some of the same supply chain issues that small business owners around the country are facing this year. We decided that rather than over promise and under deliver in regards to a delivery date, that we’d offer a discounted pre-sale for the holiday season and ship the books in April 2022. Like many small businesses and independent publishers this year, we’re making due with what’s available to us right now.

If you love to travel, please check out our book below, and use promo code SHOPIFREAKS for 10% off if you’d like to pick up a copy.

Check it out: https://travelislife.org/shop/capital-cities-book/

In this week's edition of the Shopifreaks podcast I cover:

  • Google is promoting Deals in a new Shopping tab
  • Q3 results are in for most of the big e-commerce platforms
  • Singles Day in China is already popping off, and it hasn’t even started yet!
  • The great online-offline department store split experiment
  • TikTok and BigCommerce partner on advertising coupon program
  • Indians are burning effigies of Jeff Bezos
  • Is e-commerce going Web3 in the next 5 years?
  • Plus: 12 seed rounds and acquisitions of interest
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    Shopifreaks E-commerce News PodcastBy Paul Drecksler