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The dream for many entrepreneurs is to create a business they can step away from and watch it run itself. Better still is when that business is born out of one of your favorite hobbies. 

Shazim Mohammad is the founder of Glorious PC Gaming Race, a store that sells top of the line PC gaming modification hardware and accessories.

On this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear how he built one of the chillest 7 figure businesses where he doesn't have to work every day.

Megan Cox went to bed and woke up in the morning to find that she had made $10,000 in sales overnight. At the time, she was an MIT student with a newly launched store, Amalie Beauty—her first foray into manufacturing and ecommerce.

Amalie now has six-figure sales, a history of glowing press, and products that sell out as soon as they launch.

She’s learned a lot about business and manufacturing by trial and error—more than all of her MIT education put together. What can budding entrepreneurs learn from her story?

In this post, we'll share nine hard-learned lessons from the founder of a successful beauty brand.

Customer disputes are a reality of accepting payments. But that doesn’t make them any less frustrating. Chargebacks are the result of a customer questioning or disputing a transaction with their issuing bank. The issuing bank collects evidence from the customer and categorizes the chargeback using the appropriate, card network-specific, reason code.

By understanding the reason code associated with the chargeback, you’ll be able to submit a response that includes the appropriate compelling evidence. In this post, we’ll review the categories of reason codes merchants will see most often, the specific reason codes associated with the category, and what compelling evidence to include to submit a response.

Bootstrapping a business can be scary. You're playing with your own money after all. But many successful businesses are born this way without any help from external capital.

Take Hunter Molzen for example, the founder of Barbell Apparel, a store that sells premium denim, chinos, and shorts engineered for performance with a tailored athletic fit.

On this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn how he completely bootstrapped a business that has now sold 40,000 pairs of pants. 

They say the key to success is to simply show up every day and do what needs to be done.

But showing up is actually the easy part. Staying focused and on-task is the real challenge.

When you achieve that, however, you enter a state where you forget the world and are able to get lost in your work. 

We call it being “in the zone”: a magical productive place you probably wish you could visit whenever you wanted to.

But wait—can you?

According to TechRadar, Black Friday 2016 is poised to be the biggest shopping day ever recorded. To help business owners capitalize on the trend, Shopify is holding a free webinar series geared towards preparing your store, maximizing your marketing efforts, and optimizing your social media. Head over to the blog post to register before seats fill up!

In a digital world, offline touchpoints are still invaluable for growing a business—even when you're building an email list.

Look no further than Nate Checketts—the founder of Rhone, a premium activewear brand designed and built specifically for men.

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear how he built a pre-launch email list manually through one-on-one conversations, and how it helped him launch his store to $80,000 in sales.

Many entrepreneurs get started by trying to solve a personal problem they have in a market that doesn't offer a good solution.

But some, after becoming business owners, realize a whole new set of problems (read: opportunities) that require solutions.

Chad Rubin is the founder of Think Crucial, a store that sells crucial products you need for your everyday life.

In the process of growing it into an 8-figure business, he discovered a need for better software for handling multi-channel inventory management. So he built Skubana to help businesses of a similar scale streamline their operation.

I forgot to buy toothpaste again. While I’m using baking soda in an all-too-frequent pinch, essentials like razors and protein powder and, yes, toothpaste appear as if by magic, on other people’s doorsteps everywhere.

They’re not running out—they’re shelling out their yearly budget in one transaction, paying for the convenience of an uninterrupted supply of commodities. This is the $5 billion dollar subscription box industry.

In this post, we'll follow a successful entrepreneur's journey as she builds her Korean beauty box business, and explore the ins and outs of running your own subscription business on Shopify.

Knowing your customer is important before you can sell anything to them. And it's hard to do that from behind a screen, even if you're basing your assumptions on data.

Claire and John Easley are the founders of Carbon6 Rings, forged carbon fiber jewelry hand-crafted In America.

According to them, going out of their way to talk to their customers one-on-one was what helped them win Shopify's Build a Business VI, and grow a $1.7 million company.

Hear their story on this episode of Shopify Masters. 

The freedom to travel—to be a digital nomad—is one of the many reasons people pursue entrepreneurship.

Chris Cage is the founder of Greenbelly Meals, ready-to-eat super-meals that provide 1/3 of your daily nutrition for a healthier and more productive day.

In this episode, you’ll find out how he started his business as a digital nomad in Chiang Mai, Thailand and grew it while travelling the world from Austin to Medellin.

We’ve already made it easy for you to chat with your customers in real-time using Facebook Messenger. Now, we’re making it easy to turn those conversations into sales.

Starting today, your customers will be able to browse and buy products in Messenger—all while chatting with you in real-time. To shop in Messenger, your customers will simply start a conversation with you, and then tap Shop Now to view your product catalog. When they discover something they love, they can buy it with just a few taps using Shopify’s checkout.

After an order is placed, it will appear in Shopify just like orders from other sales channels like your online store.