Insights, guides, and strategies for Shopify store owners and brands looking to grow online.
Every few weeks a merchant asks us about going headless. Usually the question arrives second-hand: an agency pitched them a Hydrogen rebuild, or a competitor relaunched on a custom frontend and their site suddenly feels old. Almost never does the question start from a problem their theme can’t solve.
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The ecommerce consulting world is full of people who will take your money and hand you a deck of best practices you could have found for free. A good consultant is worth far more than they cost. A bad one is worth less than nothing, because you act on advice that was never grounded in your reality. Here is how to tell them apart before you sign.
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Once a founder accepts they need senior technical leadership, the next question is whether to hire it or rent it. I have held the fractional role for ecommerce brands, so here is the honest version of the tradeoff and the signal that tells you when to switch.
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Ask three people on the same team what the store’s retention rate is and you will usually get three numbers. Nobody is wrong. Nobody agreed on what was being counted either. So the definition has to be settled before any benchmark is worth quoting.
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