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      <title>What ecommerce development actually costs in 2026</title>
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      <description>Real price bands for Shopify and BigCommerce work — theme customisation through to headless replatforms — and what changes the number.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to write an ecommerce project brief agencies can quote from</title>
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      <description>The eight things every agency needs before they can give you a real number — and the three things you should leave out.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Shopify or BigCommerce: which one should you actually be on?</title>
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      <description>An honest comparison for store owners choosing a platform — where each genuinely wins, and the switching costs nobody mentions.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nine red flags when hiring an ecommerce agency</title>
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      <description>The warning signs that reliably predict a bad project, drawn from the briefs and post-mortems we see.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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