Mercury just did something that changes the business banking math for every ecommerce operator I work with. On May 20, the fintech that already holds deposits for a third of US early-stage startups closed a $200 million Series D at a $5.2 billion valuation, a 49 percent jump in 14 months. That alone would be […]
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Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. Today we have a real breaking story out of Thailand that hits anyone in this community already living in Bangkok, Chiang Mai or Phuket, plus anyone who was quietly counting on a 60-day visa-free trip to scout the country later this year. Thailand’s Cabinet just halved that runway. We also
The Paradise Report — Thu, May 21, 2026: Thailand Halves Tourist Visas Read More »
Walmart’s Q1 FY27 earnings hit the tape this morning before the bell. The conference call kicks off at 7:00 a.m. Central, and by the time you finish your second coffee, every retail analyst on the planet will have a take on what the world’s largest retailer is signaling about the American consumer. That part is
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Most email platforms will quietly shut down your account if they catch you sending affiliate links. Mailchimp will. Constant Contact will. Even some of the “everyone uses it” platforms have terms that ban affiliate marketing outright, and the first time you find out is when you log in to a suspended account with your entire
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If you are picking an email marketing platform and weighing AWeber against Constant Contact, you have two of the longest-running names in the category, both founded in the late 1990s, both targeting small to mid-size businesses, both with strong reputations in deliverability. But once you look at how each one actually works, they serve noticeably
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TikTok Shop just retired Customer Complaint Rate. That metric was the one almost every seller I work with treated as the canary in the coal mine, the rate you watched climb when a listing went bad before the platform throttled your impressions. As of May 2026, it is gone. The replacement is a 60-day After-sales
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Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. This is the daily news beat for small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs, where I pull together what actually moved on Shopify, Amazon, Meta, the AI stack, and the visa side of the lifestyle so you can run your business and your travel calendar from a position of information instead
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What I Actually Recommend in 2026 for Ecommerce Business Insurance, Based on Twelve Years Building and Selling Online Stores I get this question all the time from people inside my Ecommerce Paradise community, and from clients I help build stores: do I really need business insurance for my online store, and if so, which one
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If you are picking an email marketing platform and weighing AWeber against GetResponse, you have two genuinely good products that serve very different operators. AWeber is a focused, mature email platform built around list growth, automation, and deliverability, with one of the longest track records in the industry. GetResponse is a broader all-in-one marketing suite
If you are picking an email marketing platform for your store or content business, AWeber and MailerLite both come up constantly, and people conflate them because they look similar on the surface, both have generous free plans, both target small to mid-size senders, and both are positioned as beginner-friendly. But once you look at how
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