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D2C Founder Challenges: Founder vs Operator Gaps in D2C Scaling

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Scaling a D2C brand looks exciting from the outside, but in India, the stress starts showing fast once you move from 1 crore to 10 crore in annual revenue and your daily orders jump past 1,000. The reason is not marketing alone. It is the gap between D2C founder challenges and ops leadership D2C. Founders push growth, but operators protect margins, cash, and delivery promises. For Indian sellers...

How to Sell on Walmart Marketplace: Getting Started and Growing as a Seller

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Walmart Marketplace has crossed 200,000 active sellers and attracts over 500 million monthly visitors. For US ecommerce brands, it’s no longer a secondary channel worth considering. It’s one of the most significant growth opportunities available right now. The timing is particularly good. Walmart’s 2026 New-Seller Savings program offers up to $75,000 in total value for new...

What Is a Good E-Commerce Efficiency Score for Home & Garden Retailers?

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Home and garden e-commerce is one of the hardest categories to scale efficiently. A retailer selling phone cases, cosmetics, or books may deal with fairly standard picking, packing, and shipping processes. But home and garden businesses rarely have that luxury. One order might contain a small decorative vase. The next might be a garden furniture set, bags of soil, a fragile mirror, live plants...

Tackling TikTok Shop: Strategies for Viral Success with Unsociable

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TikTok is no longer just a Gen-Z dancing app; it has rapidly evolved into a serious commerce powerhouse. But as the worlds of social media and e-commerce collide, many brands struggle to find their footing and bridge the gap between content and commercial operations. To help our sellers navigate this new frontier, we recently hosted a BASE Spotlight Session with Ben Muir, CEO of Unsociable, one...

Why Base.com is the best InkFrog alternative for eBay sellers

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InkFrog users have just been given a deadline. The eBay listing and inventory management platform has confirmed it will shut down on 1 June 2026. Sellers can continue using InkFrog until that date, but listing data will only be available to export in CSV format until 31 May 2026. For eBay sellers who rely on InkFrog to manage listings, stock, templates and daily workflows, this is more than a...

Performance vs Brand Spend at Scale

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When a brand moves beyond early traction, the real pressure is not sales volume. It is margin stability. At a small scale, performance ads look efficient because you are targeting high-intent users. CAC may sit at ₹400 to ₹500, conversion rates hover around 3%, and frequency stays under 2. But once monthly spends cross ₹30 to ₹40 lakhs, audience saturation begins. CPMs rise 25% to 40%, conversion...

Amazon Isn’t Enough Anymore. Here’s What to Do About It. [Podcast]

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Maciej Stanski and Scott Needham on the Smartest Amazon Seller Podcast discussing multichannel ecommerce operations

Our US CEO Maciej Stanski recently sat down with Scott Needham on the Smartest Amazon Seller podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about multichannel ecommerce operations, where ecommerce is heading, and what operators need to do about it. Watch the full conversation below, or read on for the key takeaways. Amazon is still king, but it’s getting harder to win on Amazon remains the anchor...

Base Analytics Updates – Inventory Insights & AI Agent

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Orders are growing, your warehouse is running at full speed, and your campaigns are live. But do you actually know which products are driving profit — and which ones are quietly eating into it? Most store owners realise this too late. That’s why we’ve just introduced two new features to Base Analytics: Inventory Insights and an AI Analytics Agent. Both are available at no extra cost within your...

The Real Reason Your Multichannel Listings Keep Breaking

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If you’re selling across four or more channels, you already know the problem. Listings fall out of sync. Inventory gets stale. Suppressions go unnoticed. And the more channels you add, the worse it gets. Most sellers assume it’s a tool problem. It’s not — it’s a structural one. Each marketplace has its own title limits, category taxonomy, image specs, and suppression logic...

Why Marketplace Growth Breaks Operations and How to Fix It

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For ecommerce brands, growth has shifted. It’s no longer about choosing the right channel. It’s about managing all of them. Marketplaces like SHEIN are opening up massive new demand. Fulfillment solutions like Amazon Multi Channel Fulfillment (MCF) are making delivery faster and more scalable than ever. So why do so many brands still struggle to expand? Because adding channels often adds...

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