She packed 87 orders in a living room (and almost cried)

Ecommerce chaos and the system that saved her

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Team THRIVE
November 13, 2025

It started with a sale.

Then an Instagram account.

Then a DM.

Then 3.

Then 87 orders in 24 hours.

Her tiny living room started to look more like a warehouse than a place to relax.

It's Monday in this small business owner's world. Cellotape stuck to her elbow, and a full-blown panic at 5 am as she tries to prepare to send out her latest batch of orders before the Monday morning rush. She didn’t have shipping software —just handwritten labels and prayers. She is late on deliveries, customers in the DMs are complaining, "It’s been one month I haven’t gotten my package", "it has been 2 days you haven’t asked for my address".”

No email automation, either. Every "Your order has shipped!" note was typed out one by one, fueled by hot coffee and sheer willpower.

It was just her. Her Coffee, her eye bags, her cellotape, staplers, sticky notes, bubble wraps, and the pure adrenaline of chasing a dream from the floor of a one-bedroom apartment. She’s struggling to keep up with DM, deliveries, and more

But here’s the thing: it doesn’t have to stay that way.

What can she do differently?

  1. Create a structure

  2. Automate her emails and order updates

  3. Set up seamless checkout and shipping flows

  4. Build a high-converting website that sells while she sleeps

Ultimately, freeing her up to focus on what she does best: growing her business.

She wasn’t doing it wrong.

She was just doing it alone.

Team Thrive

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