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E-commerce news, books and tools for online sellers.
News, books and free tools for every part of selling online: Etsy, eBay and reselling, print on demand, dropshipping, digital products, TikTok Shop and AI for small business. Every fee and rule carries the date we checked it and a link to the source.
The news, tools and fee pages are free. No email or sign-up needed.
At a glance
Eight subjects, three levels
Start at the level where your actual problem is. Each book assumes the earlier material, never that you bought it.
Free tools beside every book
Worksheets, spreadsheets and calculators, free to use before you buy anything.
Every fee dated and linked
Checked at the platform’s own page, with the date beside it, so you can check it too.
Take this whether you buy anything or not
Three questions that work on any business advice
Including ours. They appear in every book in the series because the facts in any guide expire and this does not. Keep it, and use it on the next video you watch.
- Who gets paid if I follow this and it does not work? Not who is right — who is paid. It is a faster question and it has a checkable answer.
- What is the date on this specific claim? Not the date on the video. The date on the claim inside it. A 2026 upload repeating a 2022 fee is a 2022 claim.
- Can I reach the platform’s own page in two clicks? If nobody will show you where the number came from, that is the answer.
Failing all three doesn’t make a claim wrong. It makes it unverified, which isn’t the same thing — treat it as a rumor until you’ve checked it yourself.
The series · What’s actually true
Read only the part you need.
Most business books make you work through three hundred pages to reach the forty that apply to you. These don’t. Each one covers a single subject at a single level, so you start where your actual problem is — and you never have to buy one to start another.
The One-Person AI Business
Run a business alone, with AI as your team.
Digital Products
Make one thing, list it, and sell again to the same buyer.
Dropshipping
The honest version: a compliant store, and numbers that pay before you spend.
Etsy
Etsy, mastered as a platform: its fees, its search, and keeping your shop safe.
Print on Demand
Real margins before you design, and a niche the same buyer comes back to.
Reselling
Flips priced to a net you can name, before you spend.
TikTok Shop Affiliate
Commissions that actually settle, counted honestly.
Every subject has Basics, Intermediate and Advanced, sold on their own or as a 3-book set for less than buying the three separately. Each book is $4.99–$19.99, and the price is on its subject’s page before you’re asked for anything. There’s no countdown.
Not sure which subject is yours? Start here
Before You Sell Anything Online
The five ways to make money in e-commerce and what everyone gets wrong about each one. Written to help you rule four of them out, which is the cheapest thing we can do for you.
Its four companion tools are free and live now: an interactive map of the five models, the list of what changed, a claim tester, and three lines to keep.
Fee and rule check · October 2026
Good news first: Etsy’s fees haven’t changed this year
In October we went back to Etsy’s own pages to check the numbers our books are built on. What you pay Etsy on each sale is the same as when the books were written, and Etsy has a few more buyers than it did. Plenty did change for sellers in 2026, though, from new photo rules to shipping costs, so we’ve put it all in one plain-English story.
Read the full story: what changed for online sellers in 2026, and what it means for you →
See the exact figures, with sources and dates
- No changeEtsy transaction fee: 6.5% of item, shipping and gift wrap.Etsy Fees & Payments Policy (updated 5 Oct 2026), re-checked 12 Oct 2026
- No changeEtsy payment processing (US): 3% + $0.25Etsy Payments Policy (updated 31 Jul 2026), re-checked 12 Oct 2026
- UpdatedEtsy active buyers: about 87.0M at 30 Jun 2026 → about 88M at 30 Sep 2026 (trailing 12 months)Etsy Q2 2026 quarterly report and Q3 2026 shareholder letter (28 Oct 2026), re-checked 29 Oct 2026
Why this exists
Fees moved. Rules changed. Nobody updated the advice.
Most advice about selling online was true when somebody wrote it. Then the fees move and the rules change: platforms rewrite their policies every few months, and the advice built on the old ones doesn’t follow.
Older advice stays online after the rules change. A video from 2022 still earns in 2026, whoever made it has long since moved on to something else, and there’s nobody whose job it is to go back and add a line saying the fee went up. So the advice with the most confidence behind it is often the oldest advice on the internet — and the person carrying the risk of acting on it is you, not them.
That’s the whole reason this exists.
How they’re made
Don’t take our word for it.
This bit sits near the bottom on purpose. Credentials are the weakest reason to believe anything, and ours are worth roughly as much as the checks you can run yourself — which is rather the point.
- Everything carries a date
- Every number has a date beside it. Checked last week and you’ll see that. Checked eight months ago and you’ll see that too, which means you can weigh it properly instead of assuming it still holds.
- Sources are reachable
- Claims link to the platform’s own page — the Etsy fees policy, the Amazon Associates agreement, the TikTok Shop Seller Center. Not to somebody’s summary of it, and not to us.
- Corrections get published
- When something changes we don’t quietly swap the number and hope nobody noticed. The row says what changed and when, on the resources page — because a printed book can’t update itself and pretending otherwise would be the same trick everyone else pulls.
- Checked at the source, by a person
- Every fee and rule is checked against the platform’s or regulator’s own page and dated, and a person approves it before it’s published. ⚠️ Being careful isn’t the same as being right, which is exactly why the dates and the links matter more than our say-so.
Optional
The advice keeps changing. The books should too.
Coming later: one message when a fee, rule or policy on the resources page actually moves, and one when a book is genuinely ready. Nothing in between, because there isn’t anything else worth sending you.
Email updates aren’t switched on yet. Until they are, every change is dated on the resources page — check back whenever you like.