Brian Jackson

ACH payments for B2B just launched on Shopify!! Denis Dyli is celebrating this as a breakthrough moment. (And yes you should!) But still .... I wonder and ponder and think. Magento had this in 2008. Nearly 17 years ago. Purchase orders? Check authorization workflows? Net payment terms? These weren't innovative features back then. They were baseline requirements for B2B commerce. So the question keeps nagging at me: Is Shopify always playing catch-up on fundamentals? They've built an incredible SMB platform. Nobody questions that dominance. But B2B isn't just adding a wholesale price and calling it a day. B2B buyers expect: → Credit terms management → Multi-level approval workflows → Account-based payment methods → Complex pricing structures → Quote-to-order processes These requirements existed before smartphones. Yet we're celebrating their arrival on a platform in 2025 like they're revolutionary. How many other "fundamental B2B requirements" are still missing? Maybe I'm being too harsh. Shopify moves fast and ships constantly. Their B2B evolution is happening in public, and at least they're transparent about the roadmap. But when established platforms solved these problems 15+ years ago, should we really be celebrating basic feature parity as innovation? What am I missing? Are ACH payments and purchase orders actually harder to implement than I think? Or is this just proof that B2B requirements never get the respect they deserve until merchants revolt? Would love to hear from folks running B2B on Shopify right now. What other "fundamental features" are you still waiting for?

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Funding Growth: Why Most Agencies Underspend on What Matters Most Agencies love to talk about growth. But very few are willing to fund it properly. Here’s the benchmark we use at RW2: - Commit 5–8% of your target revenue to sales and acquisition marketing. Not current revenue. Target revenue. Because if you’re aiming for $5MM, but allocating like you’re at $2.5MM — you’ll never close the gap. Here’s where most firms fall down: - They try to grow using only existing (billable) resources. - No one owns marketing. - Sales is split across leadership. - Budgets get cut when revenue dips. - Everything becomes reactive. But growth isn’t a byproduct of good intentions, it’s a function of dedicated, unbillable resourcing. That means: - Hiring a new business lead + marketing coordinator - Outsourcing execution to maintain consistency - Treating your sales and marketing budget as an investment aka not a switch you turn off when things get tight You’d never pause payroll or delivery. So why pause the one system that brings in new revenue? Growth is a system. It requires ownership, consistency, and capital. If you’re serious about scaling, fund it like you mean it.

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