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The e hustle 34: Hiring staff rarely results in growth hiring net profit profit Mar 16, 2024

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The e hustle 33: A hack to working our your target gross profit margin gross profit net profit Mar 09, 2024

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The e hustle 32: You might need to change - now. Here's why profit strategy Mar 05, 2024

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We all start our business dreaming about how they’re going to change our lives.

A bigger house. A nicer car. Better school for the kids. Dream holidays. Working...

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The e hustle 31: 10 Tips to improve your cash flow right now cashflow profit Feb 26, 2024

The number one reason that ecommerce business owners run out of money is that they overspend on stock, and it’s the depth of ordering that is the repeat offender.

Stock is the biggest...

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The e hustle 30: My 4 pillars of profitability coaching finance Feb 19, 2024

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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to diagnose what online businesses need to do to rapidly grow their profits.

 

If you know me, or have followed me long enough,...

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The e hustle 29: This one rule is all you need to know about customer experience customer experience Feb 11, 2024

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Customer’s experiences with a brand are defined by two moments; The most intense moment, known as the peak, and the final moment - the end.

 Regardless of how the...

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The e hustle 28: The difference between sales, profit and cash finance Feb 05, 2024

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Remember the time you had a record sales month and had to borrow money to run your business even though you thought you wouldn’t need to?

I do.

It’s part of the...

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The e hustle 27: The 4 Stages of Ecommerce Growth growth Jan 29, 2024

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I’ve had exposure to a lot of different ecommerce businesses, and I’ve loosely put them into four buckets, with four sets of challenges.

Start

As the name suggests,...

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The e hustle 26: Amazon are now charging for returns - Should you? amazon returns Jan 29, 2024

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In 2023 Amazon in the US announced they would be charging $1 for returns. This follows the likes of Zara and H&M who already added such fees.

You might think $1, big deal -...

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The e hustle 25: How to make social media work for your business social media Jan 08, 2024

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You’re unlikely to succeed in ecommerce without being pretty good when it comes to social media.

The good news is that you can start today and make steady...

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The e hustle 24: How to design a product from scratch product Dec 31, 2023

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When you don’t want to buy or white label a product, but you want to design a product that isn’t on the market, what do you do?

I had this question from...

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The e hustle 23: 5 Things to learn from this billion dollar business success stories zimmerman Dec 18, 2023

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An Australian women’s fashion brand just sold a stake, valuing them at over $US1 billion. Yep, a billion.

Zimmerman, founded by sisters Nicky and...

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