Mailchimp Pulls Shopify Integration App, Instagram Launches Shopping Checkout, Charging Sellers a Fee, PayPal Now Lets U.S. Users Instantly Transfer Funds to Bank Accounts, Apple Rolls Out TV Plus and Other Subscription Services, and more.

You can see the full show notes for this episode at https://www.ecommercefuel.com/march-27-2019/

The News Cart features industry news, community discussions, compelling job opportunities and interesting content around the web from the previous two weeks.

Today's episode is going to be a bit different from the usual format. I recently headed over to the Growers House warehouse with the company's co-founder Nate Lipton to get a behind-the-scenes look at how they run things on the backend, and you'll get to hear us live on the mic as I get the tour. Listen in to hear Nate break down how things are running in his business and what he's doing to keep it all going smoothly.

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Today I'd thought we'd talk about something that's been in the news recently: Amazon's growing PPC business. Their PPC division has nearly doubled over the last year, and I've got Marshall Hayes of Amplio Digital here to talk about what's been going on. Marshall knows the Amazon PPC world really well, and he explains what's changing, what this means for sellers, and what we can expect in the future.

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Amazon Cracks Down on Counterfeit Products and sues the operators of five businesses allegedly selling fake reviews, Criticized as Anti-Competitive as they lift restrictions on sellers, Target's curated third-party marketplace, Negotiating rules on global e-Commerce, and more.

You can see the full show notes for this episode at https://www.ecommercefuel.com/march-13-2019/

The News Cart features industry news, community discussions, compelling job opportunities and interesting content around the web from the previous two weeks.

For the last year, Kevin Williams of Brush Hero has been dealing with the nightmarish implications of having his product ripped off. Not only have the knockoffs cost him more than half a million dollars in lost sales and out-of-pocket fees, but the whole ordeal has also halted his company's growth as they try to fight back. In this episode, Kevin gives us a candid look at what happened, what he's doing to fight for his company, and what business owners should be doing to protect themselves from counterfeiters.

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When it comes to finances, a lot of eCommerce store owners tend to struggle. So today, I've got Cyndi Thomason of Bookskeep.com on the show to shed light on how to make your business profitable using the Profit First methodology. Cyndi is an eCommerce accountant and bookkeeper specifically focused on this methodology, and she shares how to set it up in your own business, advice for allocating funds, and lots more.

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In this episode, my good friend Bill D'Alessandro and I are diving in to talk about last month's event, eCommerceFuel Live 2019. It was the most ambitious event we've put on yet, and we both learned a bunch and had a ton of fun. Listen in to hear how it all went, our big takeaways, and thoughts on how we'll do things next year.

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It's easy to forget that people in positions of influence and thought leadership face challenges just like the rest of us—especially because it's rare for them to open up about hardships they face. But today, Ezra Firestone of SmartMarketer.com joins the show to give us all a look at the struggles he has had while getting his software business, Zipify Apps, off the ground. Listen in to hear him paint a more accurate picture of the problems entrepreneurs face and what it really takes to get a business up and running.

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Today I've got my good friend Bill D'Alessandro on the show to share how his business has been going over the last year. He has been working on his vision of buying up a lot of different brands in the consumer goods space to bring them under one roof and build a bunch of small consumer brands, so I wanted to talk with him to see how that's going. He shares a lot of great stuff about challenges he's faced, what's gone well, the technology tools he's using to keep everything straight, and more.

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This year Hurricane Florence hit Dana Jaunzemis' business headquartered in North Carolina. She lost power for more than a week and wasn't able to ship for close to two weeks. Business came to a screeching halt. In this episode, I chat with her about the experience, what they learned and how to minimize the impact of a natural disaster if/when something similar happens to your business.

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