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The U.S. government has recently made some major changes to its trade policy. Most of this has been in the context of tariffs, which are taxes charged on imported goods.

If you’re planning a crowdfunding campaign this year, you’ll want to start with the right strategy. At GAMA Expo 2025, a board game convention for industry folks in the know, I sat in on a panel called Crowdfunding Best Practices. The panel was absolutely stacked with experts, including: Nicole Amato...

Few things are as exciting as shipping your first eCommerce order. Turning your ideas into a physical product and sending it out to customers all over the world feels incredible!

But, shipping eCommerce orders can be tough. Many businesses hire fulfillment centers to help with this. Choosing the right fulfillment center can be overwhelming because costs vary dramatically.

In this article, we’ll demystify the costs of using a fulfillment center for eCommerce. We’ll explain how fulfillment centers price their services, break down the various costs, and show you how to estimate the total cost of order fulfillment using quotes and a simple spreadsheet.

 Running a business can be tough because it’s hard to know how much you’re going to sell. But running a Kickstarter can be even tougher, because not only do you not know how much you’re going to sell, but you don’t know how much you’re going to need to...

The Company Level 99 is a board game publishing company owned and operated by Brad Talton. Some of their more popular games include BattleCON, Pixel Tactics, Millennium Blades, Argent: the Consortium, and Empyreal: Spells & Steam. Once launched on Kickstarter, the games are also available to buy online as well as at select retail outlets. The Challenge...

THE COMPANY Creative Beast is a small business that sells realistic, built-to-scale dinosaur action figures made by owner-operator, David Silva. Creative Beast uses the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and the pledge management system BackerKit to launch each new line of action figures. Once launched, the dinosaurs are also available to buy online as...

THE COMPANY Calamityware is a graphic-designer owned e-commerce company that sells products with (often humorous) designs drawn from the owner’s personal sketchbook. Calamityware uses the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter as the basis of every product they sell, using the platform to test the demand for each product idea before initiating a...

Selling on Amazon in 2025 isn’t just about listing a product and hoping for the best. The competition is intense, and success depends on making strategic choices from day one. What products should you sell? How do you price them? What’s the best way to get reviews and keep inventory...

Scaling an eCommerce store sounds amazing—more orders, more revenue, and a larger business overall. There’s a lot to like! If you want to scale your store, you need to be able to fulfill orders. At first, you can ship your own orders. Then you might choose to hire one third-party...

Client retention in eCommerce isn’t just about keeping customers. You need to give buyers a reason to become lifetime customers—and that’s not easy! The stakes are high. If you can retain customers, your eCommerce store is going to take off. But if you can’t, you’ll probably close up shop in...

Scaling your eCommerce store is no small feat—and who better to guide the way than those who’ve done it themselves? We reached out to a variety of experienced eCommerce experts to find the strategies that work in the real world. In this article, we share their insights, drawn from real-world...

One of the most common bits of advice in eCommerce is to make landing pages. But what do you put on those landing pages? And how do landing pages impact other marketing tasks you take on, such as running ads? These are complex questions, but important ones to answer. That's...