☁️ Hi Business Bestie. Here’s what you need to know today. ☁️

• Resource roundup

• We’re coming to New York!

• Skim the headlines

• How to become a bestseller on Amazon and Costco with Elavi cofounder Michelle Razavi (new podcast and a live community Q&A for Business Bestie members)

• Last chance to apply for the $15,000 Female Founder World Grant presented by VistaPrint. Businesses making $40,000+ annually can apply. 🔗Tell me more

• Big news for the chronically online: Instagram is changing their grid photo size, you’ll want to note this. 🔗Tell me more

• On September 24 the Postscript team for a live product launch event that will get you prepped and ready to make SMS your top revenue channel over BFCM. 🔗Tell me more (sponsored placement*)

• Canadian SAAS founders can win $10,000. 🔗Tell me more

• StitchCrew is giving away a $10,000 grant. 🔗Tell me more

• This pitch competition is giving founders $30,000. 🔗Tell me more

🗽Meet your Business Besties in New York

A while ago we looked around and thought, “OK, so who’s throwing the end-of-year party for small biz owners, solopreneurs, and founders?” No one, apparently. So we scratched the rest of Female Founder World’s Q4 plans to host the best, biggest, most inspiring, helpful, fun day for our Business Besties in New York. And here we are, back for the second year of Female Founder World Summit.

This is the ultimate holiday party for entrepreneurial women who don’t usually get a holiday party. It’s part conference, part party.

Thanks to our partners at VistaPrint, you’ll hear talks from Rea Ann Silva (the founder of Beautyblender!), Lo Bosworth (Love Wellness), Melanie Masarin (Ghia), Katie Sturino (Megababe), Desiree Verdejo (Hyper Skin), Karen Danudjaja (Blume), Laura Henshaw (KIC), Cyndi Ramirez (Chillhouse), and more wildly inspiring speakers.

We’re building a dedicated ‘Retail Room’ to meet other founders interested in expanding their wholesale footprint, plus buyers and experts in the space. And you’ll get access to the ‘Money Lounge’, a space to learn and connect on funding and fundraising—and maybe even connect with a potential investor.

We’ll have a DJ. A tequila bar. Relaxation stations, brand activations, packed gift bags and ✨vibes✨.

This is our biggest and best event of the year. You know what to do. ⬇️

You’re Invited: Best BCFM Ever With Postscript

Presented by Postscript

Flash sales. BOGO. 25% off sitewide. It’s hard to stand out among the Black Friday frenzy and Cyber Monday mania—especially if you’re an ecom store owner or brand marketer.

It’s exactly why Postscript, the preferred SMS marketing platform for Shopify store owners, has been hard at work to make this your best BFCM ever.

On September 24 join the Postscript team for a live product launch event that will get you prepped and ready to make SMS your top revenue channel this cyber week.

Signup to see:

• A sneak peek of game-changing new Postscript AI features.

• New analytics dashboard that allows merchants to view SMS campaigns, automations, list growth and more in individual dashboards with the option to sort by KPIs.

• The customer-crowdsourced popup editor to help brands see a massive spike in list growth before BFCM and beyond

• …and so much more.

Plus, even if you can’t make the live event, register and receive exclusive access to our world-class SMS strategy sessions in conversational campaigns, automations, segmentation strategies, list growth optimization and tactics to get a huge spike in revenue growth in December too.

This is one you’re not going to want to miss.

BEAUTY SLOWDOWN: Ulta Beauty has lowered sales forecasts for the rest of the year as consumers cut back on makeup and cosmetics spending.

INVESTORS: Rethink Impact just raised $250 million to back women-led startups, cementing its status as the largest VC firm dedicated to funding female CEOs.

TRIANGL’S ERIN DEERING IS BACK: Triangl Swimwear co-founder Erin Deering is starting a new fashion label.

FOUNDER SALARIES: Forbes reported most women business owners are making less than $50,000 per year, citing a lack of access to capital, undervaluing their services, balancing family life, limited mentorship, and gender bias as the causes.

Learn how to become a bestseller on Amazon and Costco with Elavi’s Michelle Razavi

Michelle Razavi is the co-founder and CEO of Elavi, a high protein dessert and snack brand that's doing cool things in the food space. She got started on the business in 2020 and after a few big changes, now they’re a bestseller at Costco and a #1 bestseller on Amazon! She’s also one of those super helpful founders who wants to pass on what she’s learned. Here’s how to learn everything Michelle knows and apply it to your own business:

➡️ Listen to Michelle teach her Amazon and Costco strategy on the Female Founder World podcast this week!

➡️ Ask Michelle your questions about hitting #1 on Amazon and scaling up with Costco in a live Q&A exclusively for our paid Business Bestie members. (Not a member yet? Sign up here for $9/month.)

P.S. HERE’S $30 OFF YOUR NEXT OUTFIT: We partnered with female-founded peer-to-peer fashion rental company, Pickle, to gift Female Founder World members cash off your first rental. Rent outfits directly from other women across the US from brands like Zimmermann, Retrofête, Réalization Par, Staud and more. Download the app here. New users can use the code FFW30.