If you’ve ever had a pipe unexpectedly burst or accidentally given yourself an uneven haircut, you know the importance of a service business. Service businesses primarily trade on valuable skill sets and accumulated experience, rather than products. Successful services businesses marry business skills with service quality to provide customers solutions to any number of issues.
Black Friday may have started as a purely discount-driven add-on to Thanksgiving, but it’s become something much bigger: both literally, as a multiday sales event (Black Friday Cyber Monday, or BFCM), and also culturally, as the time of year when consumer urgency, desire, and value converge. Pent-up demand is released, and consumers are finally ready
Publishing a book takes a lot of work: there’s research, planning, writing, revising, and then—after all of that—you have to market it. For creatives, it can be tough to keep up the momentum to market an ebook after writing it, but your book’s ending is just the beginning of finding an audience. One simple task
We are thrilled to announce a landmark update to the Shopify platform: The product variant limit has officially been raised from 100 to 2,048 variants per product. This isn’t just an incremental increase; it’s a fundamental expansion of what’s possible on Shopify. For years, going above 100 variants has been one of the most requested
In the 70 years since its humble beginnings as a post-Thanksgiving, Main Street sales event, Black Friday has evolved into a multi-week, global retail blitz. Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) has become a season in its own right, starting around early November, peaking on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and gradually tapering off right up until
The coffee industry is enormous, with more than $473 billion in revenue expected across grocery stores and cafés in 2025. Demand is growing for everything from coffee beans and coffee-making equipment to coffee-related products like cups, scoops, and merchandise. Americans collectively drink 400 million cups of coffee a day—and coffee dropshipping is an accessible way
When you are responsible for inventory management, you’re constantly balancing service level and speed with cash, space, and risk. In 2025, inventory distortion—the cost to a retailer of being either understocked or overstocked— totaled $1.7 trillion globally. You need enough stock to meet customer demand, but excess inventory that doesn’t sell cuts directly into profits.
Paper-based invoicing is a pain—and it poses a risk as well. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the median loss for financial statement fraud is $766,000, with 78% of the crimes worldwide involving the creation or manipulation of physical documents. Beyond the fraud risk, important financial documents can get lost in transit, delaying your
In the “carrot and stick” approach to promoting good behavior, a “carrot” is a reward for doing things the right way, and a “stick” is a punishment for doing things the wrong way. When it comes to collecting payments, it sometimes seems like businesses solely wield the stick—mainly by levying late fees when a customer
Ryan Trahan has masterminded plenty of epic stunts online: traveling the US on the profits made from a single penny, racing across every state in America, all while rallying millions for charity. But in March 2025, Ryan undertook his biggest challenge to date—one that took place offline. This time, Ryan transformed a busy New York
