“When people have the intent to shop without physically being able to touch and see a product, the more options you can give them to create that confidence is helpful.”

"We needed to get the right tech stack, the right tools and the right experience for customers – and do it at a sustainable cost for the business. We could see there was an opportunity with Shopify to have both online and our in-store sales on the same platform."

"Shopify made it really easy for us to start with just a single product, £500 and still build a very professional site. Shopify Plus’s integration into third-party apps is amazing – we don’t think we’d have had the same opportunity with other platforms."

“There's a lot of things that you can buy, but it's always neat when you have something other people don't have. Whether it's the same price or more, it's just cool to be unique.”

“I believe that packaging is an essential part of a brand and I put time and love to my packaging. On my Shopify store, I offer a flat shipping rate to cover shipping in branded packaging materials. Now I get people writing emails to me or tagging me on Instagram, …

“We just went for it cold turkey. We certainly weren't getting rich doing it, but it was fun to do as a family. It was moving in the direction of our dreams. We started developing some brand ideas. We called it Old World Market. Initially we were planning on getting …

"We are a manufacturer first, and a brand second, and that structure will always inform our marketing efforts.”

“We’ve gathered a lot of learnings from our first couple months using Facebook ads. Those insights have informed really tangible next steps for refining our messaging and content strategy, for example. Facebook is the best closed feedback loop out there today. People often look at it as just a marketing …

"It wasn't until I married into a family of entrepreneurs that I thought, ‘Why not."

"This experience with Shopify and the Unity Buy SDK has shown us that there's demand out there [for merch] that far outweighs what you could ever expect."

"We were losing orders that were thousands of dollars because the manufacturer started saying they couldn't fulfill them."

“We're in a pretty small town here, so there are a lot of people that need some good quality work. It continues to be really one of our main focuses—continuing to grow and continuing to provide more jobs here.”

"People come to One Tree Planted and they can pick the region that's most interesting to them. Let's just say they pick North America and then they can read about these different great projects that are happening. What we do is we pool these donations and then quarterly give it …

"A lot of the soap bars that are made in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe are typically olive oil based. So, different from a lot of the bars you find in North America that contain palm and other ingredients that aren’t necessarily as good for your skin. Fouad went …

“My background is Taiwanese, I'm not Japanese, but I did spend a year teaching English in Japan and I feel like I have a pretty strong connection to it. My grandmother also speaks Japanese so I learned it when I was growing up.”