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Jon Billingsley
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4 June 2026

Agentic commerce is coming for your funnel, and your board should be asking about it now

Agents are starting to research, compare and buy on customers' behalf. That quietly breaks the funnel most brands optimise, and few boards have noticed.
Jon Billingsley
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2 June 2026

Last-click is a story your finance director should stop believing

Last-click attribution rewards the channels that close and starves the ones that create demand. Your budget is being set on a comforting fiction.
Jon Billingsley
8
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2 June 2026

Replatforming is a financial decision, not a technical one

Replatforming gets sold as a technical upgrade. It is really a capital decision, and most brands judge it on the wrong axis. Here is a better test.
Jon Billingsley
6
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19 May 2026

Why your tier-one personas are costing you growth

The senior buyer on your persona deck is not the one finding you. The Legal Operations Lead, the Finance Operations Manager, the Senior People Partner is. They are building shortlists in Slack communities and ChatGPT prompts the standard B2B playbook does not reach. Here is why established brands at £50m+ are bleeding growth, and how to cast a wider, sharper net.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On
19 May 2026

eCommerce marketing in 2026: the shifts that actually matter

Most agencies will spend 2026 telling brands AI changes everything. The honest version is more useful. Discovery is moving to answer engines, agentic commerce is closer than most leadership teams think, and first-party data has become the only durable foundation. Here is what is actually shifting in eCommerce marketing this year, and what premium brands should do about it.
Jon Billingsley
7
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12 June 2025

Most webshop optimisation is busywork. Optimise for the decision, not the metric

Endless small tweaks feel like progress and rarely move revenue. Real optimisation starts from the customer's decision, not the dashboard's metric.
Jon Billingsley
8
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12 June 2025

The ecommerce shifts that actually matter, and the ones that are just noise

Every year brings a fresh list of ecommerce trends, most of which will not change your business. A few quietly will. Here is how to tell them apart.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Your Shopify dashboard answers the wrong question for a growing brand

Shopify's built-in analytics tell you what happened. As you grow, the questions that matter are why and what next, which the dashboard cannot answer.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

WooCommerce SEO is won on commercial intent, not on checklists

Most WooCommerce SEO advice is a technical checklist. Checklists get you found for terms that never sell. Commercial intent is what actually drives revenue.
Jon Billingsley
8
 Minute Read
Written On  
4 June 2026

Agentic commerce is coming for your funnel, and your board should be asking about it now

Agents are starting to research, compare and buy on customers' behalf. That quietly breaks the funnel most brands optimise, and few boards have noticed.
Jon Billingsley
8
 Minute Read
Written On  
12 June 2025

WooCommerce integrations are where your team stops patching with spreadsheets

If your team reconciles orders, stock and finance by hand, the problem is not effort. It is that your WooCommerce store does not talk to your systems.
Jon Billingsley
8
 Minute Read
Written On  
2 June 2026

Replatforming is a financial decision, not a technical one

Replatforming gets sold as a technical upgrade. It is really a capital decision, and most brands judge it on the wrong axis. Here is a better test.
Jon Billingsley
20
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Written On  
8 October 2025

Mastering Data Annotation: Techniques, Tools & Future Trends for ML

Data annotation is fundamental to the success of machine learning, enabling algorithms to derive meaning from large volumes of unstructured data through precise labelling and categorisation.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Treat every Magento extension as a liability until it earns its place

Each Magento extension looks like a free feature and behaves like a standing cost. Performance, security and upgrades all quietly pay the bill.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Where Webflow ecommerce fits, and where it quietly stops scaling

Webflow is the right ecommerce platform for a specific kind of brand. Choosing it for the wrong reasons is a slow and expensive mistake to unwind.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Magento security is a board risk, not an IT checkbox

For most boards, Magento security is something IT handles. That framing is exactly why breaches keep happening to brands that thought they were fine.
Jon Billingsley
8
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12 June 2025

The Magento capability you are paying for and never using

Most brands run a fraction of what Magento can do, then bolt on extensions to recreate features the platform already had. That is paying twice.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Setting up Shopify for a brand that intends to scale, not just to launch

Most Shopify stores are set up to launch, not to scale. The decisions that feel minor at setup are the ones that constrain the brand two years later.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

When customising Magento pays for itself, and when it quietly traps you

Magento will let you customise almost anything, which is the problem. The freedom that differentiates one brand quietly traps another for years.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Magento performance is a revenue number, not a technical metric

A slow Magento store is usually filed under engineering. It belongs on the revenue line, because every second of load time is conversion you are losing.
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