Chris Malta's EBiz Insider Podcast

Humans have been following each other’s eyes longer than we’ve been making fire. If somebody in the tribe suddenly snapped their gaze toward the bushes, you didn’t stop to think, you looked too. Tha…

Selling internationally sounds exciting until you realize customers in other countries get hit with extra costs you never thought about. They’re called VAT and GST. And if you don’t understand them,…

Selling outside the U.S. sounds glamorous. Bigger audience, more sales, more money. Then you ship across a border and smack into the world of customs. Think of customs as the DMV wearing uniforms: sl…

Every ecommerce business hits bumps in the road. Orders get messed up. Paperwork gets misplaced. Shipments arrive late. Mistakes happen, and wholesalers know it. What matters isn’t whether mistakes h…

Every ecommerce seller has nightmares about returns. But if you really want to lose sleep, let’s talk about chargebacks. Returns sting. Chargebacks cut deep.

There’s a certain kind of hope that shows up when you install a new productivity app. For five glorious minutes, you believe this is the one. This is the app that will organize your chaos, fix your s…

You think you’re tired because you didn’t sleep enough. Or because business has been a little slow. Or maybe Mercury is in retrograde again. But what if the real villain is hiding under your butt? Th…

Working from home sounds like freedom, right? Pajamas, coffee refills on demand, and zero commute. But somewhere between "I’m my own boss" and "Sure, I can take that call at 9 PM," your entire work-l…

If you’re dragging yourself to your laptop every morning, clutching your coffee like it’s the only thing tethering you to this dimension, you might think you’re burned out. But there’s a good chance…

Working from home sounds like the dream, right? Pajamas all day, no commute, snacks within reach, and the ability to pretend you're being productive while watching a YouTube video about the history o…

Once upon a time, your inbox was exciting. New messages meant new sales, new leads, maybe even someone who finally appreciated your business name pun. You checked it with the eagerness of someone ope…

Working from home sounds like a dream until you realize the dream involves forgetting what day it is and arguing with yourself about whether socks count as “dressed.” Somewhere between “I’m technica…

Let’s start with a confession: your hard drive is not a library. It’s not an archive. It’s a digital landfill with good intentions and terrible organization. Somewhere in that mess, you probably hav…

Here we are again. Somewhere between the 10th and the 25th, where ambition goes to take a nap and your to-do list starts to look more like a personal insult than a plan. The beginning of the month? Y…

There’s a weird myth floating around that silence equals productivity. As if the absence of noise somehow guarantees the presence of focus. So you clear the house, turn off your phone, kick the dog o…

Let’s talk about the silent sabotage happening right under your nose. No, not the algorithm. Not your “low engagement.” Not some cosmic punishment for missing an Instagram post. I’m talking about th…

You think you’re being efficient. Bouncing between supplier sites, customer emails, research tools, and some half-loaded blog you forgot to finish yesterday. You’ve got fifteen tabs open, maybe twen…