7 Essential Shopify Tools I Use To Operate A Six Figure Business As A Stay At Home Mom

Updated Dec 2022: This is another piece that is liking a time capsule for me.  I now am the founder of a much bigger company with a very different vision and mission but I still feel an affinity to sharing this content that I wrote much earlier in my journey when what I do now felt impossible.  I often consider deleting this content and just starting with my current company’s story…but I also remember the magic of these times the personal connection to creating something that was my Ikagai and I held on to this business for decades of ups and downs and so I leave it here to those much earlier in their journey as a way of saying just keep taking the next right step.

—It’s truly amazing if you stop and think about the power of eCommerce. In the comfort of your own home you can shop for products around the world. Or, as the owner of an eCommerce store you are no longer bound by store hours or physical location to sell. I’ve owned and operated a beauty eCommerce store for ten years, and to this day I’m still amazed by the freedom, flexibility and opportunity it creates.

My eCommerce journey

In the early days of eCommerce, I began with a Yahoo Store, which was clunky and time consuming. In 2007, it was all I knew and I couldn’t even imagine the crazy journey that owning this online store would take me on.  Read More