Practical notes for foreign-trade and cross-border sellers
Hands-on notes on independent stores, marketplace operations, sourcing and content for foreign-trade and cross-border e-commerce sellers. One problem per post, with actions you can apply today.
Topics
Operations
Specific moves for inquiries, independent stores, marketplaces, quoting and sourcing. One change you can make today, with its cost.
Content Factory
Building a content factory from scratch: architecture, automation, cost, rework and failures. A numbered series.
Reviews
Weekly and monthly numbers, decisions and post-mortems. Sources stated, reasoning shown, failures included.
Toolkit
Templates, spreadsheets, checklists and scripts you can use today. Downloads only, no long essays.
Notes
Observations and judgements: what platform rules are really about, trends, and ideas that may be wrong.
Series
- Operations LogOngoing1 篇 · 最新：Why Your Factory Says 45 Days When the Buyer Wants 20
- Dev LogOngoing2 篇 · 最新："Dev Log #002: Treating the Directory as the Architecture"
- Building in PublicPlanned0 篇 · 最新：—
Latest
- Why Your Factory Says 45 Days When the Buyer Wants 20
Only about 15 of those 45 days are production. The other 30 are waiting—for approvals, materials, scheduling and vessels. Here are the four waits worth cutting.
- "Dev Log #002: Treating the Directory as the Architecture"
Architecture is not a diagram: it is directories, guards, ports and contracts. How a 1+6+1 skeleton was frozen, and what a behaviour-neutral refactor tests.
- "Dev Log #001: Why I Built a Content Factory (and What the First 35 Days Actually Cost)"
35 days, 620 commits, 18 active days, about USD 25/month in model calls. In-house is not about saving money — it is about control. Three incidents included.