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Start Up Loans are the most accessible government backed money for a UK ecommerce brand: up to £25,000 per person at 7.5% fixed, with the trading limit raised to five years in April 2026.
An ordinary retail or wholesale trade does qualify for SEIS and EIS, which many funding guid...
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We read the homepage, a main collection and a best selling product of 10 UK online stores on 29 October 2026: Gymshark, Grind, Snag, Finisterre, Simba, Wild, Wild Nutrition, Patch Plants, NEOM and Grenade. Seven run on Shopify themes and three on custom front ends with Shopify behi...
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Composable commerce means building a store from separate, swappable services joined by APIs, such as checkout from one vendor, search from another and your own front end, instead of one platform doing everything; the idea comes from a 2020 Gartner research note.
It is not the s...
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We read the TikTok profiles of 13 clothing brands on 29 October 2026: Gymshark leads on followers (6,691,586), Oh Polly on lifetime likes (217.4 million), and 10 of the 12 brands whose sites we could read run on Shopify, the exceptions being PrettyLittleThing and boohoo.
Most bra...
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Online sales were 28.8% of retail sales in Great Britain in September 2026, against 27.9% a year earlier, and online spending was 6.8% higher than in September 2025, according to the ONS retail sales bulletin of 23 October 2026; online spending averaged £2,822.5m a week.
The on...
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Only Amazon Multi Channel Fulfilment publishes a full UK rate card, from £3.26 a unit for pick, pack and delivery; Gonini publishes an entry price of £499 a month plus usage with indicative pick fees of £0.60 to £6 an order, Huboo an entry point of £1,500 a month, and James and Jam...
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Clothing, textile and footwear stores in Great Britain sold £57.5bn in 2025, up 4.3% on 2024, and 27.0% of their sales were online in September 2026 (27.4% a year earlier); November is the peak, at 33.0% in 2025. Source: the ONS internet sales dataset, 23 October 2026.
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We checked 28 ecommerce and marketing podcasts and 16 newsletters on 24 October 2026 by reading each show's RSS feed and each publisher's own site, so every entry here was publishing that week unless we say otherwise; four shows that looked current in other lists had stopped in 202...
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The 20 sites are Burberry, Mulberry, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Sunspel, Vivienne Westwood, Jimmy Choo, Anya Hindmarch, Represent, Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Celine, Loewe, Prada, Ganni, Toteme, Khaite and The Row; we read every homepage on 24 Octobe...
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Film and export Reels at 9:16, 1080 by 1920 pixels; Instagram accepts ratios from 1.91:1 to 9:16, a minimum of 720 pixels and 30 frames per second.
Reels can run up to 20 minutes, but Instagram says reels over 3 minutes will not be recommended to new audiences, so keep product Re...