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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
7
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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
 Minute Read
Written On  
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
15
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Written On  
13 August 2025

Shopify Dropshipping: What You Need to Know Before You Start for Success in 2025

Dropshipping on Shopify lets you sell products without holding any stock yourself. You only buy items from suppliers after your customers place orders, which keeps your startup costs low and lowers your risk. This makes it a popular choice if you want to start an online store with less upfront investment.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Your email list is the only audience you own, and most brands waste it

Every other channel rents you attention. Email is the one audience you own outright, and most ecommerce brands still run it like a clearance megaphone.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Your mobile store passes the tests and still loses the sale

Passing mobile-friendly tests is not the same as converting on mobile. The revenue gap sits in everyday friction, not in a green performance score.
Jon Billingsley
7
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12 June 2025

Product photography is conversion infrastructure, not decoration

Online, your photography effectively is the product. Treat it as a creative nicety and you quietly cap conversion on every page that matters most to revenue.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Retention is the growth lever most ecommerce brands keep underfunding

Most brands pour budget into acquisition while repeat revenue leaks out the back. Retention is the cheaper growth lever, and it is underfunded.
Jon Billingsley
7
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Social media is a commercial channel. Stop running it like a content treadmill

Most ecommerce social media is a content treadmill measured in likes. Run it as a commercial channel and most of what fills the calendar falls away.
Jon Billingsley
7
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12 June 2025

Customer experience is your margin, not your nice-to-have

As acquisition costs rise and products converge, experience is the durable advantage. Treating it as a cost to trim gets the economics backwards.
Jon Billingsley
8
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12 June 2025

Shopify marketing that compounds, instead of campaigns that don't

Most Shopify marketing is a series of campaigns. The brands that pull ahead build systems that compound, where each effort makes the next one cheaper.
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
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12 June 2025

Your WooCommerce payment setup is a conversion decision, not a plumbing one

Payment gateways get treated as back-end plumbing. At checkout they are one of the biggest levers on whether a ready-to-buy customer actually completes.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Setting up Magento for the brand you are becoming, not the one you are today

Magento rewards brands that set it up for where they are heading. Set it up only for today and you inherit the constraints just as you start to grow.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Where WooCommerce fits for an established brand, and where it doesn't

WooCommerce is dismissed by some and over-trusted by others. For an established brand the honest answer is: it depends entirely on how you sell.
Jon Billingsley
8
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Written On  
12 June 2025

Webflow for brand-led teams: where it wins, and where it holds you back

Webflow gives brand and marketing teams real control over the site. That is its strength and, used for the wrong job, the source of its limits.
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