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💰 Deal of the Week: Most operators dread retail media. DaVinci Commerce makes it painless.
🛸 Signal Boost: If your site crashes or your packaging flops, no discount can save you, here’s how operators stay ahead.
📞 Missed Calls: The DTC landscape is shifting fast.. founders reclaiming brands, platforms collapsing the path to purchase, and Amazon pushing deeper into Shopify’s turf.
🔥 The D2C Deep Dive: What happens when you package toothpaste like a lifestyle brand? Bite.
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1-800-D2C’s Top Community Events of the Week:
Fractures in the Funnel: Tactics for Optimizing Your Store Before BFCM
BFCM is almost here. Traffic will spike, orders will soar, and returns will too. Most brands still treat CRO like a checklist instead of stress-testing the full journey and designing a great experience end-to-end.
📅 Date/Time: Tues, Sept 23 @ 1 pm ET
What You’ll Learn?
👉 The biggest challenges and friction points to fix before the rush
👉 The quickest changes and easy wins that lift conversion now
👉 How to pressure-test every step (landing → checkout) ahead of BFCM
👉 The long-term CRO plays that separate good brands from great ones
BFCM: Planning CX for High Volume Without Burnout
Black Friday/Cyber Monday means record orders, endless questions, and sky-high expectations. For CX teams, it’s the busiest, and most stressful, time of the year. The challenge: keeping customers happy without burning out your team.
📅 Date/Time: Wed, Sept 24 @ 1 pm ET
What You’ll Learn?
👉 How leading brands forecast support volume and prep for the holiday rush
👉 Where CX leaders focus their efforts to maximize impact during peak season
👉 Practical tactics for handling high ticket volume without overwhelming your team
👉 Ways to use automation and fulfillment handoffs to lighten the load
Amazon adds Walmart, Shopify, Shein to Multi-Channel Fulfillment coverage
💡DTC Takeaway: Amazon is entrenching itself as the backbone of e-commerce logistics, even powering its competitors’ ecosystems.
💡Operator POV: For Shopify operators, MCF can mean faster shipping and higher trust signals, but at the cost of margin and brand control. Evaluate whether the trade-off works for your category.
Love Your Melon to relaunch after founder reacquires brand
💡DTC Takeaway: Founder-led brands continue to resonate with consumers and investors, proving that authenticity and mission can be long-term differentiators in crowded categories.
💡Operator POV: Don’t lose sight of your founding story. Even as you scale, weaving mission and purpose into your narrative can drive loyalty that no discounting strategy can replicate.
Pinterest brings ‘where-to-buy’ links to image ads
💡DTC Takeaway: The discovery-to-purchase journey is collapsing, with platforms like Pinterest positioning themselves as full-funnel commerce engines.
💡Operator POV: Treat Pinterest less as “just awareness” and more as a potential conversion channel. Test these new tools early to capture high-intent shoppers while CPMs are still efficient.
Quick hits and resources from around the industry we think are worth your time this week.
Keeping Customer Experience On E-Commerce Websites Strong During Holidays
Your e-commerce website is going to need to stand the test of seasonality. Not just for traffic, but for maintaining the customer experience while your pages bear the weight of high volume surges in shoppers during peak season.
Turn Packaging Into a Retention Engine: Tactics for D2C Brands
D2C packaging, when done right, turns a the simple practice of unboxing into a customer retention powerhouse. Our guide can teach you to do it right in e-commerce.
Bite is flipping the script on oral care with clean, sustainable products that ditch the plastic and chemicals found in traditional toothpaste and mouthwash. Known for their toothpaste bits and refillable glass jars, Bite has made eco-friendly oral care both practical and stylish, proving that sustainability doesn’t have to mean compromise.
Why we love Bite: They’ve built a cult following by making sustainable swaps easy; turning something as routine as brushing your teeth into a conscious lifestyle choice.
Sustainability at the core: Every product is packaged in refillable glass jars or compostable materials, helping consumers cut down on single-use plastic without giving up performance.
Brand that resonates: With sleek design, a strong mission, and viral marketing moments (think TikTok buzz), Bite has turned eco-friendly oral care into a lifestyle movement.
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