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Results from Friday

Do you care to know who writes No Time For Dat?

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 Nope. Stay anonymous, I'm just here for the content (20)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Why on earth do you think I'd care who you are? (9)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes, it'd be nice to know who this next Shakespeare is (21)

By the barest of margins, I must abide!

tl;dr my name is Chez, I’m the lone hand here at NTFD (though I sometimes use the royal ‘we’ moniker) here’s my LinkedIn and my Twitter - fell free to reach out to me there or by replying here, regarding any topic.

Today’s Poll:

Ecommerce News, Tips and Trends

News & Numbers

Shopify made a bunch of serious tech updates/changes, stay up to date on them here

Flexport, whose logistics expertise and technology simplifies end-to-end supply chain management, launched a Shopify App

Stats on what online shoppers want (hint, it rhymes with ‘free’ and ‘shipping’)

Google won’t penalise AI content when it comes to SEO (which means you should definitely probaly for sure consider the services of our partners, Content at Scale)

Speaking of Content at Scale, turns out Yandex, the Russian search engine which is no. 4 in the world for search, had their search algorithm leaked, and CoS dived into the nuts and bolts of what search engines do to rank your stuff

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman to Retire at the End of the Year

Please don’t do this, NTFD people: Seller Gets 20 Months in Prison for Bribing Amazon Employees

Pipecandy’s deep dive into Amazon’s new streamlined FBA Capacity Management System and what sellers should watch out for.

Deflation? Online prices fall for fifth consecutive month, dropping 1% In January, Adobe says

Big retailers still reporting excess inventory

Tips

Alibaba.com Releases Digital Trends Report for E-Commerce in 2023

More delicious analytical Amazon FBA company example deep-dives from Import Dojo

Shopify: YouTube Ads for Beginners: How To Successfully Advertise on YouTube

Etsy Buying Habits – 2022: eRank report that was created to give sellers actionable advice that will help grow their Etsy businesses.

Trends

Whitepaper: B2B distributors increasing their ecommerce operations

Brands are promoting affordability in their marketing amid inflation

9 DTC brands to watch - some innovative ideas and angles

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Tool of the day

NTFD recommended reads:

NTFD recommended tools and services:

The best freelance digital marketers are at MarketerHire

Amazing fully automated AI written blog posts that boost your SEO - from Content at Scale

It’s incredibly easy to build (no code!) apps, websites and tools with Softr

The Tesla of productivity apps - the ultimate way to organise your day for entrepreneurs is with Sunsama

If you write a newsletter (or plan to), use beehiiv - you’re reading a beehiiv newsletter right now!

Subflow helps creators and business owners capture more leads, building connections, and monetize their audience using SMS.

Incfile make incorporating a company super easy with free LLC filing and a full suite of startup services (like banking and bookkeeping)

Over 20 million people around the world use Notion, the all-in-one workspace that combines notes, docs, project management, and wikis — and makes them all customizable.

Have a great rest of your day!