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Issue 218: The easiest way to find your free shipping threshold
+ The photography problem most brands are ignoring
| THE INTRO
Time to honor all the minutes we’ve flushed away this week, doom-refreshing the test results on the toilet just to see if the C/R budged.

| TWEET OF THE WEEK
The easiest way to discover your natural free shipping threshold is to look at where your orders naturally group together...
- Graph your recent order history and spot the natural peaks instead of forcing round numbers like $50 or $75
- Track which cart values have the highest
— Víctor Paytuvi 💎 (@victorpaycro)
1:50 AM • Sep 20, 2025
| YOUTUBE UNIVERSITY
Do These TikTok Shop Daily Actions to Boost Sales Fast
The photography problem most brands are ignoring
You’ve been pouring budget into ads like you’re draining the ocean—but what if the real hole is in your photos? Most brands treat product imagery like wallpaper. That’s the quiet killer of conversions.
Why “floating-on-white” slideshows feel safe but secretly sabotage trust.
How lifestyle + “in-use” video content flips the emotional switch for buyers.
What graphics/photo-carousels need to actually do vs what most leave out.
Where repurposing visual content can secretly boost every channel (email, socials, ads)
You’re not gonna want to miss the full piece—if you’re serious about swapping guesswork for visual power. Read The Photography Problem Most Brands Are Ignoring here.
| TOGETHER WITH CLICK ANALYTIC
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| QUICK SHOTS
DTC Prophet (ft. Andrew Faris) Great point from Faris, we made this mistake not too long ago.
Sam Mendelsohn Every SaaS (and probably service) that sells into ecommerce should be forced to run a small DTC brand using their own product
Alexandra Greifeld Here is what retention marketers miss when they obsess over email and SMS capture popups:
Preston 🩳 Rutherford CFO: I can’t approve “brand marketing” spend if I can’t measure the return, even is it’s needed to get out of stage 3
Cody Plofker Expenses should be divided into strategic and non-strategic.
| HERE FOR THE MEMES

| AND IN OTHER NEWS…

Skims’ product detail section made me question everything I know 🤯
For years, their details lived in horizontal tabs.
Which would make sense if they were like the 80% of Shopify Plus brands that don’t A/B test.
But they do.
The thing is… horizontal < vertical almost every time:
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| STAT ATTACK
| THE OUTRO
I’m believing for a miracle this weekend on that test! Let’s go!