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🤖 Teach Claude Once. Let That AI Homie Cook Forever.

Hey … Your agency gets paid whether your inventory sells or collects dust!

Retainer? Paid.

Fees? Paid.

Risk? On you peeps!

My homies at Eleviam said: Nah. Let’s put some skin in the game.

Their 3P Capital Partnership flips the traditional agency model.

For brands that qualify, Eleviam can:

• Invest directly into your inventory
• Become the Amazon seller of record
• Secure exclusive distribution rights
• Make dough when YOUR products sell

Translation?

We win together — or we don’t win at all.

And they ain’t playing with Monopoly paper either.

5M+ already deployed into brand inventory!

But you can’t just roll up with a bag of dough and join!

3P Partnerships are invite-only, with limited slots each quarter.

Most brands start with Eleviam’s Amazon Growth or Combined Growth services. They prove they can grow the brand. You prove the economics work.

Then the conversation changes from: “You pay us to grow.”

to: “We’ll put OUR money behind your growth.”

 THAT’S one hell of a partnership, peeps!

My homie Jo Lambadjieva dropped a slick way to turn those repetitive ecommerce workflows living in your head into reusable Claude Skills.

Instead of writing monster prompts or explaining the same SOP 47 times, you simply record yourself doing the task and talk Claude through your thinking.

Claude watches the clicks, listens to the logic, catches the exceptions, then turns the whole thing into a reusable Skill. 

Think Amazon reports, Shopify dashboards, payout reconciliation, product launches, weekly reports—anything.

The secret sauce? Narrate WHY you’re doing things, not just what you do.

Show it once. Test it. Feed it a few weird edge cases.

Then next time?

Claude already knows the drill peeps!

Basically: train your AI employee once instead of managing it forever.

Grab the guide AI junkies!

Say thank you to my homie and AI Wiz Jo!

Amazon said, “Why rent the delivery game when we can own the damn highway?” Internal forecasts show Amazon could deliver nearly 90 % of its own US packages by 2029, handling around 15.8B packages. Meanwhile, USPS and UPS receive a smaller slice of the pie. The big push? Faster Sub Same-Day delivery, rural expansion, and more control over the whole logistics machine. For sellers, Amazon ain’t just the marketplace anymore—it’s increasingly becoming the warehouse, highway, and delivery dude too.­

­ Google AI Mode might have expensive taste peeps. A Productrise study tracked 2M+ listings and found the same products appearing in both AI Mode and traditional Google Search were 21.6 % more expensive on average in AI Mode. Across all listings, AI Mode products had a 149 median price vs. 100 in regular search. Even crazier: just1.28 % of products overlapped between the two. Translation for brands? Cheapest ain’t automatically king anymore—better product data, feeds, reviews, and AI visibility could help premium products be discovered.­

­ TikTok Shop just told UK sellers: Europe’s open for business. Eligible UK sellers can expand into 12 EU markets, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium and Greece, while managing UK and EU shops through one interface. But don’t just pack the products and start dancing—EU compliance still matters: GPSR, EPR, product certifications, shipping SLAs and local returns all come along for the ride. Translation? TikTok is making European expansion easier, but sellers still gotta handle the compliance homework.­

­ Mastercard just pulled up to the AI shopping party. Its Agent Connect lets merchants plug catalogs, AI shopping agents, carts, and secure checkout into one US integration. Merchants still control pricing, fulfillment, customer relationships, and their brand while AI agents help shoppers discover and scoop. Global Payments, Samsung, and Trip are already eyeing it. Translation? Mastercard ain’t just trying to process the payment anymore—it wants to become the highway connecting AI product discovery all the way to checkout.

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