Jack Gilbey

@im_systematlas Try it for yourself

@jackgecom Why moving to Thailand especially and not elsewhere? Never been there

Best 2 decisions I’ve ever made Start ecom Move to thailand

@toriyohji Yes

@jackgecom When you got a winner do you make a lot of ads based on awareness level / angles / sub avatars etc?

@ceojvc @urko_garmendia Yes exactly

@jackgecom @urko_garmendia does this get you a maid, personal chef and some house helpers? curious as to how far that amount would get you in thailand.

@zacbray_ @carlwickund1 No. Same pixel, split across a few ad accounts

@jackgecom @carlwickund1 do you run them all through their own individual ad account + pixel?

@elvis_crypt0 What place

@jackgecom try Vietnam

@andrass77 Samui

@jackgecom Which island?

@jormcx Yeah

@jackgecom Is this still taking USA winners to EU?

@urko_garmendia $6-8k a month

@jackgecom Monthly costs of living in thailand?

@niakjaw Samui now

@jackgecom whereabouts in Thailand?

@carlwickund1 Same as normal. It’s basically the same as using Shopify markets in 1 store. Just it happens to be I use unique stores

@jackgecom How do you even manage 20 stores? Curious how your team looks like

@carlwickund1 20

@jackgecom How many stores is that revenue from?

@jayvraavi Name of coworking?

9:45pm in bkk locked in man i love coworking that’s open late

@PhantomStays Where would he bank personally? US personal bank?

Just got off a call with an ecom fashion founder based in Thailand 🇹🇭 running $3M/year in revenue. Guess what? He's originally from 🇳🇱💀 Smart operator. Already spending well over 183 days/yr in Southeast Asia, sitting on a UAE tax residency that's causing him unnecessary heaches, and a bloated corporate structure that was quietly bleeding money in all the wrong places. The biggest leak? A Merchant of Record eating 1% off every dollar of revenue. On $3M/year, that's $30,000 walking out the door annually, for literally nothing. Add in a Mercury banking setup (notorious for random account shutdowns), a UAE entity pointlessly wrapping a US LLC, and zero credit card points on a massive ad spend.. yeah, we have a lot to fix. Here's the full game plan: First, we're cutting the Merchant of Record entirely and moving directly onto Shopify Payments or a private payment processor. That $30k/year cost disappears overnight. Payouts get routed to a Slash US business account instead of Mercury, which removes the very real risk of waking up one morning to a frozen account with no explanation. On the structure side, the UAE entity gets stripped out. The US LLC stays as a clean pass-through. And since he's already clocking 180+ days in Thailand, we're transitioning tax residency there officially, which keeps his personal tax rate at 0% on foreign income under Thailand's current rules, without a single extra visa run ever again. Now the real unlock: the ad spend. Right now every dollar going into ads is completely unrewarded. To fix that, we're moving in two phases: Week 1 ✅ Get a compliant US commercial address immediately (not a registered agent, a real address that passes KYC and Shopify compliance checks) ✅ Start the ITIN application via IRS Form W-7, certified docs, and a Certifying Acceptance Agent. Processing runs 6–14 weeks, so we start this on day one Weeks 2–8 🔐 Remotely open a Chase business bank account, deposit $100k, and let it season for 60–90 days to get Chase biz cards that otherwise would be outta reach (due to no credit score yet) 🔐 Once ITIN clears, the credit profile starts building fast. Traditional US credit building takes 8–12 months. We're compressing it to 2–6 months 🔥 The result: millions of points per year on ad spend that was previously earning absolutely zero. Fully funding a global travel lifestyle that a fashion founder living between Thailand and the world actually wants to live. The thing that gets me about this one is how clean the win is. $30k saved on processing. 0% personal tax, legally, in a country he already lives in. A simpler structure. A safer bank. And a credit card stack that turns his ad budget into lie-flat seats and five-star hotels. He's not changing how he runs his business. He's just finally getting paid for it. If ur running serious volume through a Merchant of Record, banking on Mercury, and watching your ad spend earn nothing, we should talk. There's a version of your setup where the infrastructure works for you instead of quietly against you.

Extreme shooting range in Cambodia

@thecomdude Yes change payment descriptor normally fixes it

@jackgecom @jackgecom Hi Jack, you don't have any problems with card payments in Denmark? After 3-4 weeks, all payments are rejected on my end, and I see the same thing on the Shopify forums. Because of Danish banks Thanks!

Sell to non English countries. Take winners from US market. Translate your website and ads and buy local domains. If 1 market works, expand to more. Always sell in the native language. 30.6k (Norway) = $3.2k 21.6k (Denmark) = $3.4k €6.2k (German)= $7.4k €5.6 (French)= $6.7k

@nicael234 ChatGPT, deepl, translate and adapt app on Shopify if using same store for multiple languages. Always get it checked by a proofreader in the country

@jackgecom Which app do you use to translate store

@nicael234 I don’t share. This model works for all niches.

@jackgecom Clothing or and other niche

@Mahad_Ecom Native

@jackgecom Do you run ads in their native language or English?

@zuckpayer Yes. But nowadays I would keep all on same store. Shopifys markets and translate app are good enough now to use 1 store for all markets

@jackgecom You dublicate the stores?