The Rewind Blog

A blog about backups, automation, ecommerce and how to protect your online data with less work.

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6 Reasons Why You Need to Backup Your Ecommerce Store

We compiled the six most common situations in which you’ll be glad you had a backup.

Hiring a Web Developer For Your Online Store? Read This First

Ecommerce entrepreneur Michelle Goyette gives advice on what to do before you hire a contracter – a lesson she learned the hard way.

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Meet the Team: Mike Potter, Co-founder and CEO of Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Aug 14, 2018

If the concept for Rewind was the lightbulb going off, then Mike Potter’s was the head that lightbulb first flashed over. As the CEO and co-owner of this fast flourishing start-up company, his insight into the importance of backups within the ecommerce industry, and...

5 Trust Signals to Boost Conversions for Your eCommerce Business

by Anthony Capetola | Aug 8, 2018

People don't put their trust to just anyone. If you want to earn someone's trust, you need to deem yourself worthy. You need to prove that you're reliable and dependable as a person during their time of need, while also being unafraid to tell them the truth—no matter...

Rewind & ShipStation: Helping Ecommerce Brands Automate and Scale

by Rally Stanoeva | May 16, 2018

We’re really happy to announce that Rewind is now a partner with ShipStation, the leading web-based shipping software for online retailers. If you’re like most ecommerce entrepreneurs, shipping and order fulfillment is not your favourite part of running an...

Why We Started Rewind: Cloud Backups for SaaS Apps

by Mike Potter | Apr 30, 2018

I’m a data backup fanatic, with backups to my backups - and backups to those backups. But this wasn’t always the case. While working at Adobe as a Technical Evangelist a few years ago, I was giving a presentation at a PHP conference to a few hundred developers and my...

Two Mistakes That Are Losing Your eCommerce Store Thousands (and How to Fix Them)

by Pete Boyle | Apr 24, 2018

What’s the most important action you can take to improve the revenue of your ecommerce store? Difficult question to answer, right? I mean, there’s no definitive answer to this question. Spend even five minutes searching online and you’ll find all sorts of...

Is Your Canadian E-Commerce Business Ready for the EU’s GDPR?

by John Wires | Apr 18, 2018

By John Wires, Wires Law (@JohnWires) Summary The European Union’s (“EU”) new privacy regulations impact companies in Canada that collect or use personal information from people in the EU. If your Canadian e-commerce business collects or uses EU personal...

GDPR and Your Rewind Backups

by Rally Stanoeva | Apr 10, 2018

As of May 25th 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take into effect and require anyone who handles EU citizen personal data to be compliant. As a business owner, this applies to you even if you're based outside of the EU as long as you...

Serial Ecommerce Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Advice on Running Multiple Brands

by Rally Stanoeva | Apr 6, 2018

Ecommerce entrepreneurs tend to share one thing in common: they love the excitement of coming up with and launching new brands. But launching is easy - the real test is being able to make each brand profitable, without exponentially growing your workload....

Hiring a Web Developer For Your Online Store? Read Michelle’s Story First

by Rally Stanoeva | Mar 21, 2018

For Michelle Goyette, Founder of Unique World Inspirations, fair trade is not just her passion - it’s the driving force behind her business, and the impact she hopes to leave on the world. Having partnered with over 40 fair trade artisan groups located all...