Why Chinese Amazon Sellers Are Now Hiding as US Companies
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·4d ago
Chinese sellers dropped from 60% to about 36% of Amazon sellers, and they did not leave. They registered US LLCs by the tens of thousands to dodge new Chinese tax reporting, which traded their...
11 US Alibaba Alternatives to Source Products Tariff-Free
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·5d ago
If you still source only from China through Alibaba, you are taking a real financial risk. Tariffs on Chinese goods keep swinging, and the sellers who survive each announcement are the ones who...
6 Amazon Sourcing Secrets Top Sellers Use to Pay Less
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·5d ago
The biggest Amazon sellers are not smarter or luckier than you. They just source differently. While most sellers fight over overpriced products on Alibaba, seven-figure sellers buy the same goods...
10 Weird Online Businesses That Make Millions
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·5d ago
Weird online businesses can absolutely make millions, and these 10 are all real: $17 million renting backyard chickens, $39 million reselling luggage airlines lost, and a full brand built on paper...
8 Counterintuitive Rules Behind Every Successful Business
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·5d ago
Success in business comes down to a handful of rules that most entrepreneurs ignore: show up, talk to customers, sell what they ask for, test everything, and then do less of the wrong work.
Why Amazon Basics Is Shadier Than You Think
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·5d ago
Most Amazon Basics products have razor-thin margins, and some lose money. So why does the world’s smartest company keep pumping out hundreds of thousands of them?
650: How To Build An AI Content System That Sounds Like You (Not A Robot)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·14d ago
Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:35 — 44.4MB) In this episode, my co-host Toni and I sit down to rework our Profitable Audience course and unpack the exact system I use to make AI write in my voice...
648: Most Sellers Launch Their Products Wrong (Here's the Better Way)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·28d ago
Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:57 — 48.3MB) The fastest way to launch an ecommerce product today is to build the audience first and the product second.
647: How To Launch A Niche Product On Kickstarter (The $1M Playbook From Story Engine)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·16 Jul 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:09 — 53.1MB) The way to launch a niche product on Kickstarter is to build a pre-launch email list, hire a crowdfunding marketing agency to scale Meta ads to 4-5x...
645: State Of Ecommerce 2026 — What 300 Seven-Figure Sellers Said About What's Actually Working
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·3 Jul 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 45:11 — 52.0MB) The state of ecommerce in 2026, based on Andrew Youderian’s annual survey of 300 seven, eight, and nine-figure store owners in his eCommerceFuel...
644: How To Launch On TikTok Shop With A $5K Affiliate Budget (The Real Math)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·24 Jun 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 47:05 — 54.2MB) The way to launch on TikTok Shop with a $5,000 budget is to send out roughly 500 samples in month one, layer in a small retainer program (roughly $200...
What the De Minimis End Means for Etsy and eBay Sellers
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·23 Jun 2026
The end of the $800 de minimis rule just upended Etsy and eBay. For almost a century, any package worth under $800 entered the US duty-free, which is how $2 gadgets and $5 knockoffs flooded both...
643: WordPress vs Shopify Blog For Ecommerce In 2026 (Why We're Switching After 12 Years)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·18 Jun 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:40 — 48.0MB) For a brand-new ecommerce blog in 2026, put it on Shopify’s native blog, not WordPress.
9 Business Machines You Can Buy to Start Making Money
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·8 Jun 2026
Plenty of regular people are making real money with a single machine they bought for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. You don’t need a degree or special training.
Top 8 Shopify Alternatives That Are Cheaper And Better (2026 Update)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·8 Jun 2026
If you are tired of getting nickel and dimed by Shopify’s high transaction and recurring app fees, this post will show you the 8 best Shopify alternatives that are as good or better than Shopify.
642: How Agentic AI Shopping Will Break Ecommerce Ads (And What To Do Now)
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·8 Jun 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:13 — 48.6MB) Agentic shopping is the emerging model where AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and platform-native agents like Google’s Universal Commerce...
641: The Reddit Marketing Strategy That Gets AI To Recommend Your Ecommerce Brand
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·4 Jun 2026
Podcast: Download (Duration: 53:45 — 61.8MB) Reddit is the single largest source of AI-search citations (around 20% on average, having dropped from a peak of 80% last September), which is why...
De Minimis Is Gone: What It Means for Ecommerce Sellers
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·4 Jun 2026
The biggest money loophole in ecommerce history is gone. For years, the $800 de minimis rule (Section 321) let overseas sellers ship products into the US completely duty-free, which fueled Temu...
How to Use AI to Grow Your Online Store Sales: 4 Tools
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·4 Jun 2026
Most AI advice has nothing to do with making money. Everything here does, with a direct, measurable link to revenue, not productivity hacks you will never use.
Ecommerce Business Models Ranked: What Actually Makes Money
MyWifeQuitHerJob.comby Steve Chou·3 Jun 2026
Most “best ecommerce business model” guides are outdated, and in today’s climate some models are far riskier than they used to be.
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