Andy Reid got fired.

He's now won 3 Super Bowls.

Sometimes it's just a shitty employer.

Every week that goes by we get closer to this. This is where we're is going. AI and AR coming together, not to block out the world, but to light it up 🌟

Our latest concept takes the Shop/@openai search integration one step further… 👇

#futureofshopping

Today has been a great year in AI

Interesting that revenue per employee rose consistently till 2010 and then flattened out. What stopped in 2010?

AI is 90% ML modeling and the other half is data engineering.

Got feedback from a founder doing $20m+

'Dude honestly lmao if I was a newb in ecomm and I found your tweet and joined this group. It would 100x my growth'

Creating a new DTC brand founder/operator slack group for 0 - 6 figure founders

Anyone want to join? Comment and DM me

I'm so happy to announce Bambi 0.10.0 was released.

This release comes with an exciting new feature: Bambi now supports GLMMs for location, shape, and scale.

See the example: bambinos.github.io/bambi/notebook…

If you want to know more, keep reading!

Today, Shopify shared a ton of updates for merchants and developers.

If you run or work on an eCommerce brand, here's what you need to know:

I’m so excited that our Shopify Editions Winter '23 is here! We’re releasing 100+ products & updates to help merchants and developers build for the long-term. Together, we’re shaping the future of commerce
shopify.com/editions/

Shopify Editions is back. 100+ improvements to help our merchants, developers, and partners build for the long-term. shopify.com/editions

🔥🔥 Shopify just announced one page checkout by default!

This is the way.

DTC help. How do I pull a Shopify report to see what product skus are frequently bought together?

I put together a 'selected history of quantitative causal inference' for a keynote at a conference on natural experiments two months ago. Then I presented at eBay and a few times for workshops. Decided to write it up for a substack in 3 parts. It has video clips! 1/

Me: literally offer to pay someone’s car payment. on a beautiful sunday. for free

Twitter replybois: hEs tRyIng to gEt yOur DatA

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

So in order to silence the haters:

YOU CAN ALSO ENTER BY JUST LIKING, RTING, COMMENTING and following me Car Dealership Guy!

There are 6 types of successful products

Can maps foster inequality?

The map in green below is the Mercator Map. It has been used in schools for centuries. On it, Greenland is bigger than Africa, but in reality, Africa is 14X larger.

In 2017, Massachusetts switched to the Peters Projection (the pink map).

Francisco Oliveira Gold Tetsola | The Cyborg Marketer 🤖 I'm speaking from your supplier/manufacturer to you/your 3PL.

If you can pull off 75% margin landed at the customers door you're playing a different world (I know a handful of brands that can do this and they're all crushing)

Consumer 1 year inflation expectations falling to lowest since April 2021.

Fed's gonna keep running out of excuses.

2023 goal starting now: buy a profitable business live in 60 days with close to $0 down.

I've been building out forecasts for a few eCom brands this month.

If your product margin is >70%, your biggest profitability lever is probably reducing CAC.

If product margin is <70% COGS reduction is meaningful...but you should still reduce CAC.