I/00 · Ecommerce

Industry Program

Ecommerce growth — SEO, web, digital and social tuned to how your buyers actually decide.

A performance program for DTC and online retail brands — category SEO, Shopify storefronts, paid media and Klaviyo lifecycle wired together to grow revenue, AOV and repeat rate.

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Revenue Transactions AOV Assisted conversions

I/01 · Overview

Why ecommerce growth needs its own playbook.

Ecommerce buyers move across category browsing, product research, review reading, paid retargeting and email before they buy — and then again before they buy a second time. The brands that compound revenue treat SEO, paid, email and the storefront as one system, not four disconnected channels. Every dollar in has to be answerable for revenue, contribution margin and customer LTV.

Most DTC brands hit the same walls: a Shopify theme that ranks for nothing, category pages with thin copy, paid spend that scales until iROAS collapses, email flows stuck on default templates, returning-customer revenue treated as an accident, and a checkout that quietly leaks 30% of intent. Growth stalls because the storefront, the channels and the data were never built to work together.

Zaventra builds the full commerce stack — category, product and editorial SEO, a fast Shopify or headless storefront, Meta and Google paid programs measured against contribution margin, Klaviyo flows for browse, cart, post-purchase and winback, and warehouse-level analytics that connects it all. Reporting is Revenue, Transactions, AOV and Assisted Conversions, not surface-level ROAS.

Illustrative metric panel — every engagement reports against your real instance of these.

I/02 · KPIs We Report On

The metrics your leadership team will recognize.

Every engagement reports against the operating metrics that matter for ecommerce — not vanity dashboards. We instrument GA4, your CRM and source systems so each one is attributable to channel, campaign and content.

Revenue
Transactions
AOV
Assisted conversions

I/03 · How We Help

Four connected tracks, one growth model.

SEO, web, digital marketing and social run as one program against the same revenue model — not four separate vendors.

Search visibility

SEO

Category and product SEO with proper IA, faceted navigation control, Product and Review schema, editorial content for high-intent and informational queries, and internal linking that pushes equity to revenue pages. We track non-brand organic revenue, category rankings and PDP click-through — reporting SEO contribution net of brand and paid overlap.

SEO services

Site & conversion

Web Design & Dev

Shopify, Shopify Hydrogen or headless builds tuned for speed and conversion — sub-2-second LCP, optimized PDPs with bundles and upsells, fast collection filtering, sticky add-to-cart, frictionless checkout, subscription logic where it fits, and a design system that ships seasonal campaigns without dev tickets every time.

Web design & dev

Paid, lifecycle & CRO

Digital Marketing

Meta and TikTok prospecting against modeled audiences, Google Shopping and Performance Max with proper feed segmentation, retargeting tiered by intent, and CRO on PDP, cart and checkout. GA4 with server-side tracking, Northbeam or Triple Whale for blended attribution, and weekly reporting against contribution margin and new-customer CAC.

Digital marketing

Brand & community

Social Media

Creator and UGC programs that feed both organic and paid creative pipelines, TikTok and Reels content tied to product drops, community building on Instagram and email, and influencer partnerships measured against incremental new customers — not just impressions or follower counts.

Social media

I/04 · Common Challenges

Where ecommerce growth usually breaks — and how we fix it.

Challenge 01

Rising paid CAC

iOS changes and platform saturation made prospecting expensive. We rebuild creative testing, lean into organic and SEO for cheaper revenue, and use lifecycle to lift LTV so CAC math works again.

Challenge 02

Thin category SEO

Most Shopify themes ship collection pages with no copy and no schema. We rebuild category IA, add editorial above the fold, and structure internal linking so collections finally rank for non-brand terms.

Challenge 03

Checkout abandonment

Most carts leak at shipping costs, account creation and slow load. We audit the funnel, ship guest checkout, transparent shipping logic, faster checkout pages and recovery flows that win meaningful revenue back.

Challenge 04

Repeat purchase rate

Most DTC brands obsess over first purchase and ignore the second. We build post-purchase flows, replenishment logic, subscription paths and winback campaigns to lift 90-day repeat and LTV.

I/05 · Engagement Playbook

A 90-day cadence built around your operating reality.

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Phase 01

Discovery

We audit the storefront, GA4, paid accounts, Klaviyo, product margins and category landscape — identifying the biggest revenue leaks and the categories with the most untapped organic and paid headroom.
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Phase 02

Roadmap

A 90-day plan that usually leads with PDP and checkout CRO, category SEO rebuilds, paid creative refresh and the top three Klaviyo flows — sequenced so each phase funds the next from incremental revenue.
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Phase 03

Build

We ship storefront changes, deploy schema, launch new ad creative and campaign structures, rebuild Klaviyo flows, and stand up server-side tracking — all in two-week sprints with weekly revenue check-ins.
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Phase 04

Compound

Ongoing creative testing, category content expansion, lifecycle iteration, feed optimization and CRO experiments — reporting against Revenue, contribution margin, new-customer CAC and 90-day repeat rate.

I/06 · FAQ

Questions buyers in ecommerce actually ask.

FAQ 01

Do you work on Shopify, or also headless and BigCommerce?

We default to Shopify and Shopify Hydrogen because of speed of iteration and ecosystem. We build headless when performance or content complexity justifies it. We also work on BigCommerce for brands already invested there. Platform follows strategy — we recommend after discovery, not before.

FAQ 02

How do you handle attribution post-iOS?

We run server-side tracking via Shopify or a CDP, GA4 with enhanced ecommerce, and a blended attribution tool like Northbeam or Triple Whale. We report platform ROAS, blended ROAS and new-customer CAC side by side so you see what each channel actually contributes incrementally.

FAQ 03

Can you scale paid past our current ceiling?

Usually yes, but not by adding budget to broken accounts. We rebuild creative testing cadence, restructure campaigns, fix the feed, lift PDP and checkout conversion, and improve LTV through lifecycle. New ceiling comes from better unit economics, not more spend on the same creative.

FAQ 04

How does SEO actually move revenue for a DTC brand?

Non-brand organic on category, comparison and editorial queries brings in customers who would otherwise cost paid CPMs. We rebuild collection pages, add editorial content and schema, and structure internal linking. Most clients see meaningful non-brand revenue lift within two to four months.

FAQ 05

Do you write the Klaviyo emails or just strategy?

Both. We build the strategy, the flows, the segmentation and the templates, and our team writes and designs the campaigns. You can keep your in-house team on brand and campaign sends while we own automated flows and lifecycle infrastructure — whichever split fits your team.