Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily news rundown I put together for the people I build with: small ecommerce founders running Shopify, Amazon, and high-ticket dropshipping stores, and the location-independent crowd trying to do it all from Chiang Mai, Bali, Lisbon, or wherever the WiFi is good. Some of you are already […]
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Constant Contact and Kit (formerly ConvertKit) are both legitimate email marketing platforms, but they were built for fundamentally different audiences. Constant Contact has spent 30 years building a small business marketing platform: events, SMS, surveys, social tools, nonprofit pricing, and deep automation calibrated to local businesses, service firms, and traditional small operations. Kit has spent
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If you are choosing between ScalaHosting and Hostinger, you are looking at two of the few hosting providers in 2026 that have managed to stay independent of Newfold Digital and the other private-equity hosting roll-ups. Both run LiteSpeed web servers. Both built proprietary control panels (SPanel for ScalaHosting, hPanel for Hostinger) to eliminate cPanel licensing
ClearSale and Sift both show up on every list of top fraud prevention tools, but comparing them is not really comparing two versions of the same thing. ClearSale is a managed fraud protection service: it makes the decisions, backs them with human review, and can take chargeback liability off your books entirely. Sift is a
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Etsy turned on a new Children and Baby Products policy on June 2, and sellers are already watching listings vanish. The policy expands what counts as a banned children’s item, and Etsy enforces it with bots. That combination means listings get pulled with no warning, no human review, and in plenty of cases no clear
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ClearSale and Riskified sit at the top of the ecommerce fraud protection market, and if you are serious about protecting a store that takes large orders, you have probably seen both names come up again and again. They share a core promise, approve more good orders and take the chargeback liability off your books, but
ClearSale vs Riskified: Which Fraud Protection Is Right for Your Store in 2026? Read More »
Life throws curveballs. A job disappears, a partnership falls apart, the market shifts, or something completely outside your control forces you to start from zero. I have been there more than once in 15 years of building online businesses at Ecommerce Paradise, and I can tell you the path forward is clearer than it feels
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Google confirmed it will start automatically linking Google Ads accounts to Merchant Center on June 6, 2026. If you run a high-ticket store and you are not already running Shopping campaigns, Google plans to create that account connection for you, with a “Connect Now” button in your account if you want to do it first.
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Reddit just opened its Shopify ad integration to every merchant on the platform. As of the May 27 announcement, the native Dynamic Product Ads integration is out of alpha and live globally through the Shopify App Store, and it is free. One-click account linking, a codeless pixel, and automatic catalog sync. For Shopify store owners
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Amazon just turned the AI shopping agent it spent years building into a product it will sell to the same retailers it competes with. On June 2, Amazon Web Services launched the Agentic Shopping Assistant, a packaged version of the conversational agent tech that powers Alexa for Shopping. Any retailer can now stand up its
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