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[EPFN] AI Won’t Quit. Will You?
From startups failing in 120 days to fraud eating $48B, ecommerce in 2025 is a knife fight. Here’s how to stop whining, start living, and use AI to actually win.
Welcome to Issue #73 of the EcomProductFinders Newsletter! 🎉
Stop Whining, Start Living

I get nauseous around people who can’t take responsibility and whine nonstop.
Sure, we can preach all day about “taking action” and “mindset”—yada yada—but here’s the sad truth: you don’t get to live the same day twice.
You’re not getting younger. And the only thing you’ll regret is what you didn’t do.
Time is short, and you owe it to yourself to take the swing.
Give yourself permission to fail—because failure isn’t the end, it’s the adventure that eventually writes your success story.
AI: Your Perfect Partner (If You Don’t Marry It)
I had a chat today about AI and how it’s basically running the world right now.
If you’re not sneaking AI into your business every single day, you’re already behind.
This thing is out there replacing people and doing their jobs better, faster, smarter—and guess what?
It doesn’t whine, doesn’t need coffee breaks, and won’t storm out after you hurt its feelings.
You can scream at it, call it stupid, and instead of quitting, it just improves.
The dream employee, right?
(Just don’t marry it.)
😉 Next week my friends are dropping a stack of AI hacks you can plug in immediately to your Amazon Business.
🚨Ecommerce in 2025: More Risk, Less Reward
Let’s talk about the brutal reality of ecommerce in 2025.
Nearly 90% of startups won’t even survive their first 120 days—most collapse under weak marketing, no visibility, or just flat-out running out of cash.
And for the “lucky” ones that make it past launch? Four out of five will still eventually shut down.
On top of that, growth is slowing like never before—US ecommerce sales are expected to crawl at just 5% this year, the slowest in over a decade, while categories like sporting goods, electronics, and furniture are already shrinking for the first time in ten years.
Meanwhile, fraud is eating profits alive—$48 billion in losses projected for 2025, and every $100 of fake orders costs a business over $200 when you factor in chargebacks, support, and restocking.
Oh, and thanks to AI-powered scams, 91% of merchants are losing sleep over bots and synthetic identities slipping past their defenses.
Consumers aren’t making it easier either—Gen Z and Millennials are abandoning carts over prices, delaying purchases from tariff anxiety, or rushing to buy before hikes hit.
Fraud prevention alone is now a $57 billion industry.
Translation: ecommerce is no longer the gold rush—it’s a knife fight where the margin of error is smaller than ever.
🤖 AI Hack to Outdo Your Competitor (Without Lifting a Finger)
Stop guessing what to fix.
Pull your competitor’s reviews into ChatGPT or Claude, prompt it:
“Summarize the top 20 customer complaints and give me 5 product improvements that cost less than $3 per improvement”
Now you’ve got a hit list of exactly what the market hates—and a dirt-cheap way to make your product better.
That’s not “innovation.”
That’s pressing copy + paste.
The laziest way to win.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
AI Army for Sellers: Who Does What
(So You Don’t Waste Time)
ChatGPT / Claude / Deepseek – Turn competitor reviews into product blueprints, crank out listings that actually convert, and build customer avatars without hiring an agency.
Perplexity / Poe – Your research ninjas. They dig up market data, trending keywords, and fresh insights so you can spot gaps before competitors even wake up.
Abacus AI – The profit predictor. Smarter PPC bids, demand forecasting, and pricing strategy—without the endless spreadsheets and guesswork.
👉No matter if you’re private label, wholesale, or building a DTC brand—this AI stack is your unfair advantage.
Was this one also simple enough?
If yes, reply yes in the email, and if it was understandable and not complicated enough, just give me some feedback. It would be greatly appreciated.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Izabella