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Platforms & Apps
Shopify Integrates AI Product Discovery
December 22, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Shopify's new Agentic Storefronts means even the smallest merchants can sell via ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and more.
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Content Marketing
Ecommerce Marketing amid AI ‘Slop’
December 18, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Generative AI did not introduce subpar content so much as streamline its speed and quantity.
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Marketing & Advertising
AI Favors Ecommerce Giants — for Now
December 14, 2025 • Armando Roggio
AI models rely on "trusted" enterprise sources, yet providers are emerging for SMBs.
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Inventory
How to Scale a Recommerce Business
December 11, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Profitable selling of used, refurbished, or overstock items requires repeatable systems.
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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for January 2026
December 8, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Topics for January 2026 include the U.S.'s 250th year, Wikipedia's anniversary, product quality, and simple pleasures such as puzzles and cocktails.
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Email & Text Marketing
Best Text Message Strategy for 2026
November 30, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Roughly eight in 10 U.S. consumers have agreed to receive commercial text messages, according to a recent survey.
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Finance
Where Investors See Ecommerce Heading
November 25, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Investors are concentrating on areas they believe will define the next phase of ecommerce.
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Platforms & Apps
‘Automate First’ for AI Commerce Success
November 23, 2025 • Armando Roggio
An automation-first mindset helps ecommerce businesses keep up with AI shopping.
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Customer Retention
Will AI Solve Ecommerce Personalization?
November 20, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Albatross AI claims to have the first infrastructure for training personalization models on live events.
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Platforms & Apps
3 Years In, GenAI Upends Ecommerce
November 16, 2025 • Armando Roggio
In just three years, generative AI has changed how ecommerce businesses attract shoppers and close sales.
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Cross-border Selling
Canada Still Works for U.S. Sellers
November 13, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Despite tariffs, taxes, and strikes, Canada remains a growth market for U.S. ecommerce retailers.
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Cross-border Selling
Digital Goods Stay Duty-Free
November 11, 2025 • Armando Roggio
The World Trade Organization's tariff moratorium on electronic transmissions is at the heart of modern digital trade.
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Customer Retention
AI Makes Loyalty Programs Smarter
November 9, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Artificial intelligence is not replacing loyalty programs. It is refining them.
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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2025
November 2, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Try these December content ideas: AI gift planning, year-in-review articles, Small Business Saturday, offbeat observances, and the anniversary of Texas's statehood.
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Conversion
5 Shopify Mistakes That Kill Holiday Profits
October 30, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Minor configuration mistakes during the busy Christmas selling season can seriously harm ecommerce profits.
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Local Business
How AI Shopping Impacts Main Street Retail
October 26, 2025 • Armando Roggio
AI agents cannot replicate the personal recognition and service of local merchants.
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Platforms & Apps
ChatGPT Atlas Pushes Agentic Browsing
October 23, 2025 • Armando Roggio
AI browsers such as Atlas summarize pages, compare options, and complete tasks without leaving a tab.
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Inventory
Reshoring Is Supply Chain Flexibility
October 19, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Domestic manufacturing is a practical investment in speed, quality, and demand.
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Inventory
Recommerce for the Holidays
October 16, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Testing recommerce during the 2025 holiday allows retailers to gauge performance without a full-scale effort.
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Social Media
Meta Ads Pixel Tracking, Explained
October 12, 2025 • Armando Roggio
The Meta Pixel drives better advertising performance and the need for heightened privacy awareness.
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Design & Dev Tools
OpenAI’s AgentKit Is a Milestone
October 9, 2025 • Armando Roggio
The new toolbox unlocks the practical challenges of developing and implementing autonomous AI assistants.
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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for November 2025
October 6, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday are the key retail dates in November, but not necessarily the best options for content marketing.
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Platforms & Apps
Agentic Commerce Has Arrived
October 2, 2025 • Armando Roggio
New protocols from Google and Stripe help establish transaction standards for agent-based commerce. Once a novelty, AI shopping agents are becoming a reality for consumers.
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Email & Text Marketing
New Google Postmaster Tools Focus on Compliance
September 28, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Email marketers lose simple reputation charts as Postmaster Tools version two emphasizes compliance status.
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Marketing & Advertising
Prime Time for Merchant-Publisher Deals?
September 24, 2025 • Armando Roggio
AI-generated search results are crushing some digital news publishers. It's an opportune time for publishers and merchants to explore direct collaborations.
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Fraud Prevention
Facial Recognition Bans Spread Globally
September 21, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Biometric technology is among the most promising trends in retail, but Australia's Kmart decision exemplifies growing regulatory opposition.
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Fraud Prevention
Visa’s VAMP Could Cost Banks and Merchants
September 18, 2025 • Armando Roggio
The new framework could detect four times more fraud, Visa claims, saving $2.5 billion annually.
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Google Ads
Google-Criteo Deal Unlocks Retail Media
September 14, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Retail media advertisers can now run placements on enterprise ecommerce sites via Google's Search Ads 360 platform, upending the digital retail media market.
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Email & Text Marketing
Can AI Send the Perfect Ecommerce Promo?
September 8, 2025 • Armando Roggio
Combining first-party behavioral data and artificial intelligence can transform outbound marketing.
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Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for October 2025
September 5, 2025 • Armando Roggio
In October 2025, ecommerce content marketers could address Halloween, cultural observances, industry occasions, and seasonal transitions.