Black Friday is the one weekend a year when your customers are actively hunting for a reason to buy. If you walk in with a plan, it can carry your whole fourth quarter. If you wing it, you end up slashing prices at midnight and wondering where your margin went. I have been selling online […]
Black Friday Marketing Strategy for Ecommerce Stores: My 2026 Game Plan Read More »
Quick answer: To start dropshipping, pick which version you are doing (cheap products or higher-priced ones), choose a niche you can learn, set up a legal business, find and test a supplier, price products with real math, build a small store with honest policies, place a test order, send a little traffic, and then decide […]
How to Start Dropshipping: 9 Steps for Beginners in 2026 Read More »
Google now lets Demand Gen advertisers opt out of AI-suggested Lookalike audiences and keep them as a hard targeting limit, Search Engine Land reported on October 12. If you run Demand Gen for a high-ticket store, this decides whether your ads reach people who resemble your buyers or people Google predicts might convert. It touches […]
Google Lets Demand Gen Keep Strict Lookalike Targeting Read More »
Shopify’s Global Catalog REST API stops serving traffic on Nov. 2, according to a developer changelog posted Oct. 9, so anything still calling it will break. Most store owners have never touched this endpoint, and that is exactly the problem. The people who call it are the apps and agent tools sitting between your products […]
Shopify Kills Its Global Catalog REST API on Nov. 2 Read More »
Google rewrote a Merchant Center help page to say products with blurry, pixelated or low-resolution images will continue to show in ads and free listings. If you run a high-ticket store on Shopify, this changes what you fix first in your Google Shopping feed, but it does not change the January deadline that can pull […]
Google Lets Blurry Product Images Keep Showing in Ads Read More »
Google Ads is testing a campaign setup screen where you type your goal in plain words and its AI suggests the goals and assets. If you run Google Shopping or Performance Max for a high-ticket store, that text box sits one click from a setting you cannot undo later. Google’s help pages say a Performance […]
Google Ads Tests Typing Your Goal to Build Campaigns Read More »
Malaysia will let digital nomad pass holders who reach the two-year cap stay and work remotely for two more years, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced October 9. For the Ecommerce Paradise reader running a Shopify store from Kuala Lumpur or Penang on a DE Rantau Nomad Pass, the hard stop at month 24 just moved […]
Malaysia Will Extend Its Nomad Pass by Two Years Read More »
Foreign-owned single-member LLCs that extended their taxes must file Form 5472 by Thursday, Oct. 15, or risk a $25,000 IRS penalty. This lands on a specific store owner: someone who lives outside the US, owns a US LLC alone, and runs a Shopify store or a high-ticket dropshipping business through it. If that is you, […]
Form 5472 Extension Ends Oct. 15 for Foreign-Owned LLCs Read More »
Seven ecommerce stories from Oct. 12, ranked by how much they change a store owner’s plan, from Amazon’s $1M insurance rule to UPS and FedEx surcharges.
Paradise Report Oct 12: 7 Ecommerce Stories to Know Read More »
UPS and FedEx start charging holiday residential surcharges on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, then raise most of their peak fees again on Nov. 22 and Nov. 23. The size-based fees are already live, since UPS began charging them Sept. 27 and FedEx followed Sept. 28. OnTrac’s peak schedule opened Sept. 26, and USPS scheduled […]
UPS and FedEx Holiday Surcharges Start Oct. 25 Read More »