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I started A Better Lemonade Stand in 2013. The pattern in ecommerce content was always the same:
Either pay for a course promising overnight success, read another blog recycling the same marketing tips, or get pitched a Shopify theme by someone who’d never shipped a store.
Ecommerce guidance should be honest. The industry wasn’t. So we built what we wished existed.
I started A Better Lemonade Stand in 2013. The pattern in ecommerce content was always the same:
Either pay for a course promising overnight success, read another blog recycling the same marketing tips, or get pitched a Shopify theme by someone who’d never shipped a store.
Ecommerce guidance should be honest. The industry wasn’t. So we built what we wished existed.
Founder, A Better Lemonade Stand
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