Heading to Prosper in Las Vegas next week?

The conference itself is packed, but the REAL networking happens after hours. Here's the Ecom Triage guide to every party, meetup, and dinner happening during Prosper week, plus how to get a FREE Expo Only Pass and a shot at FREE tickets to my Ecom Mastery AI event in Nashville.

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Tuesday, March 10 | 9:00 PM – Midnight PST Atomic Golf – 4th Floor (Cosmic Lounge) | 1850 S Main St, Las Vegas —> Use Coupon Code: ECOMMASTERY

This is THE kickoff networking event of Prosper 2026 and Ecom Mastery AI is a proud sponsor. Seller Systems is taking over the entire 4th floor of Atomic Golf, including the Cosmic Lounge, bar, patio, overlook, and 26 private golf bays.

Expect 500+ six-, seven-, and eight-figure Amazon sellers, brand operators, agency owners, and educators. Golf bays, light bites, drink tickets, and real conversations all in a high-energy setting designed to help you build meaningful connections before Prosper officially begins.

Sponsors: Seller Systems Academy, DataDive, Ecom Mastery AI

While you're at Prosper, make sure you visit the Ecom Mastery AI / Dragonfish booth on the expo floor and play MURDERBOT . It’s our insanely addictive game that's become the most popular attraction at every BDSS Market Masters event.

Beat your fellow attendees and you could win FREE tickets to the Ecom Mastery AI featuring BDSS event in Nashville (April 8–12 at the Grand Hyatt).

We're bringing Murderbot to Prosper so even more sellers can experience what all the hype is about. And if you love it, you'll get to play it again at BDSS Market Masters IV in Austin (August 20–24).

Haven't registered for Prosper yet? Grab a FREE Expo Only Pass using promo code:
EO-ATT-620 at prospershow.com

📅 Full Party Schedule

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Prosper Welcome Drink at Tacos & Beer LV 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Don't forget the Prosper Booth Crawl — grab a shirt, collect signatures from booths across the expo floor, and enter to win $5K+ in prizes.

See you in Vegas —> and don't forget to stop by the Ecom Mastery AI / Dragonfish booth to play Murderbot! 🎮🏆

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Sam Woods of Bionic Business recently spoke to Brian Kurtz's Xcelerator mastermind about where things are headed with AI agents and autonomous business operations. The short version: what he expected to see in 2027 is already happening now.

His company runs with four humans doing the work of 50. One of their Shopify stores and one newsletter business operate with zero human involvement day-to-day. Someone checks the logs twice a week just to make sure nothing went sideways. It hasn't.

What's actually working right now:

Agents connected to your email, marketing platform, e-commerce store, and ad accounts can do real work, not just answer questions. One person's agent pulled their top-performing email campaigns from six months ago, figured out why they converted, rewrote them with fresh angles, and loaded the whole sequence into their ESP.

What used to take a small team and a full week took under 30 minutes.

Another person's agent runs their Shopify store autonomously. Coding agents are working seven-hour stretches overnight while their operators sleep.

The connector making this possible is something called MCP (Model Context Protocol). Think of it like USB-C for AI. It lets AI plug into your software tools and actually take action inside them, not just talk about what you should do.

The economics have completely shifted. Building this kind of setup used to cost $200K-$500K and months of engineering time. Now the frameworks are free on GitHub, or you can use platforms like Lindy.ai for a monthly fee. Someone can set up a working version for around $10K.

The number of competing stores is about to explode because the barrier to launching one has dropped to nearly zero. Most will be ghost towns nobody visits. The sellers who win will be the ones who figured out how to get in front of buyers (and their AI shopping agents) at a cost that makes the math work.

An agent-to-agent economy is forming where your customer's personal shopping assistant browses, fills carts, and asks for approval. The transaction mechanics change, but the underlying direct response math of acquiring a customer for less than they're worth stays exactly the same.

Woods says the next 12-18 months are when the people who figure out agent-driven operations pull ahead of everyone else. You don't have to go all-in tomorrow, but you should be testing.

Pick one function in your business like email, customer service, competitor monitoring, and get an AI agent running on it, and build from there.

The window is open. It won't stay open forever.

According to Steve Larsen, the real problem in selling is the hook, positioning, and message.

In this episode of Marketing Misfits, Norm Farrar and Kevin King talk with Steve Larsen (former ClickFunnels CMO and Russell Brunson’s funnel builder) to break down what actually drives leads, conversions, and sales online.

Steve explains why there’s no such thing as internet marketing, only marketing and distribution, and why studying classic marketers like P.T. Barnum and Claude Hopkins can make you a better modern marketer.

They dive deep into the psychology behind hooks, how to position yourself in a “red ocean with a blue offer,” and the exact framework Steve uses to create marketing messages that generate hand-raisers and qualified leads.

If you build funnels, run ads, sell online, or create marketing campaigns, this episode gives you a clear blueprint for writing hooks that make people say “tell me more.”

Meta started notifying advertisers last week that credit cards will no longer be accepted for ad payments. Affected accounts have until March 31 to switch to monthly invoicing, where Meta extends a credit line and you pay within 30 days of receiving your invoice.

Meta pitched it as "predictable billing" and "fewer payment interruptions," but the real story is what they didn't say: you're losing your credit card rewards.

For sellers spending $50K/month on Meta ads, a 2-3% cash back card was putting $12,000-$18,000/year back in their pocket. Some advertisers had stacked rewards strategies hitting 4-4.5% effective cash back. Cards like the AMEX Business Gold, even give 4X points on ad spend. That money will now be gone.

And it's not just the rewards. Credit cards give you a 21-30 day float before the bill comes due, essentially a free short-term loan on your ad spend. Monthly invoicing sounds similar, but the timing depends on when Meta issues the invoice, and for brands running heavy Q4 spend against inventory bought months earlier, losing that cash flow buffer hurts.

Google already made the same move for high-spend advertisers, requiring them to shift off credit cards and onto invoicing or direct debit. The DTC community pushed back hard. Google didn't budge.

The big question: Is Amazon next?

Amazon Ads is now one of the biggest digital ad platforms in the world, with sellers running serious monthly budgets through Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and DSP.

Amazon still accepts credit cards for ad payments, but if both Google and Meta have decided high-spend advertisers belong on invoicing, Amazon has every structural reason to follow suit.

The interchange fees platforms pay on processing millions in credit card transactions are a real cost, and eliminating them is pure margin improvement.

There's been no announcement from Amazon, but the industry trend is moving in one direction. If credit card rewards are baked into your unit economics on ad spend, it might be time to stress-test what happens when that line item disappears.

A federal trade court judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government must begin refunding the $130 billion it collected in tariffs that the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

Judge Richard Eaton ordered Customs and Border Protection to start recalculating duties owed to importers, stating that "every single cent" of the IEEPA-based tariffs must be repaid.

Over 300,000 importers paid these tariffs, and more than 2,000 lawsuits have already been filed seeking refunds.

The Trump administration is expected to appeal, but the government has acknowledged it will pay interest on any refunds it's required to make.

If you import products and paid tariffs under the IEEPA orders, you may be entitled to a refund. The court signaled refunds can be handled "pretty smoothly," but the appeal could delay things. Keep your import records and duty payments organized, you'll need them.

Watch this closely over the coming weeks.

✌🏼 Have a great weekend.

See you again on Monday.

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