BEYOND JUST ADS
Growth shackled to ad spend?
I'm helping 6/7 figure brands action 5 key strategies
that grow bank balances, not just your revenues
Partnerships - Organic - Wholesale - Expansion - Retention
Rivki Stoll :: Private White VC"Working with Ian is probably the best thing
that has happened to us in the last 6 years."
Why do founders hire me
rather than an agency?
Because I'm a generalist focused on the big picture. Real growth. I'm not trying to sell you a site redesign, Meta playbook, Klaviyo flow or inventory management system (or promising some rocket ship-aligned growth trajectory). I'm hired to help you achieve sustainable, scalable growth. Making sure the right people are doing the right work across your business. People first. Building your brand for the long haul.
25 years senior-level expertise creating ecommerce growth frameworks, knowing how to build audiences, connect with customers and convert more visitors into confident buyers. Doing the work that builds, grows and scales ecommerce brands teaches you a lot about why people buy (and why they don't).
I'm hired, either as a coach or consultant, to help answer the big picture question 'what should we be doing better to consistently grow our ecommerce sales AND our bank balance?'
I'm not going to drown you in a playbook of marketing best-practices that sound great, but do very little for your business or your bank account. More importantly, I'm not going to outsource or give you a great sales pitch and then hand over the 'work' to a marketing junior.
The Components of Real Ecommerce Growth
Sometimes optimisation tweaks and adjustments aren't enough to fix ecommerce growth problems.
Do fundamental changes need to be made to grow your ecommerce business? Is a mindset shift needed to allow you to take full advantage of data and technology now available to you?
It's my job to figure out what those changes are and to lead the change-making process. You're building a machine. At each stage of the customer journey, through ads, social posts, product pages your job is to make sure the components are synced and costs are lean. I'm here to show you exactly how.
I don't like to complicate ecommerce. So let's keep this simple. The fundamentals are straightforward. You either sell based on price (good luck with that one) or based on trust and belief. Before people buy from you, first of all they need to buy into you.
- How do you make it easy for people to find you and buy what you sell?
- How do you persuade fence-sitters they need your product?
- How do you find more people that need/want what you sell?
- How do you focus on doing the work that creates impact?
BRING 25 YEARS OF ECOMMERCE GROWTH
EXPERTISE TO YOUR BUSINESS
This is what I've been doing for over 25 years, building ecommerce brands. The past 15 years running my ecommerce consultancy (and before that when I ran my own ecommerce business) helping brands focus on the work that helps scale sales profitably and sustainably across all channels (not just ads)
- How do you make use of all the data available to you?
- What way can you learn what's stopping people buying from you?
- Who are your ideal customers? How do you target them and how?
- Are you positioning your products correctly for your target market?
- Is your Google/Meta ads strategy working effectively to drive new customer acquisition?
- What works? How impactful are the changes you make to your store in order to drive sales?
- What to do when margins are stripped? How do you compete against cheaper competitors?
- Spending too much on tech? Are we making best selection and use of AI & today's marketing technology?
With limited time or resource are their smarter ways to grow than pushing more money into ads? Let's find out.
ADS GROW YOUR SALES
MY ECOMMERCE GROWTH POWER PLAN WILL GROW YOUR BANK BALANCE
Through a structured and continual process of optimisation, growth, the cost to grow and understanding how to scale, becomes a lot, lot easier.
- You learn to target better.
- You learn to sell better.
- You learn to serve better.
- You grow your business, you guessed it, better.
No playbooks or best-practices, this is a customer-centric growth strategy designed specifically for your brand.
I'm here to partner with you gather key customer data, trim overspend from your ad strategy and implement my Ecommerce Growth Power Plan to deliver profitable, scalable ecommerce growth:
- PARTNERSHIPS : Building, launching and scaling your affiliate and partner program
- ORGANIC: Working across Search and Social to help drive organic growth
- WHOLESALE: Positioning and building the commercial relationships that help you fuel sales through retail partnerships
- EXPANSION: Exploring, structuring and building upon the opportunities to drive international sales
- RETENTION: Helping you drive profitable repeat business
Ian Rhodes
Ecommerce Growth
Consultancy & Coaching
TEGEN WILLS :: FOUNDER OF TEGEN ACCESsORIES"I recommend working with Ian if you want to grow your ecommerce brand long-term, focusing on profit and building a loyal customer base."
ECOMMERCE growth strategy
ARTICLES TO HELP YOU DRIVE REAL BUSINESS GROWTH
Product Framing: How to Sell Your Products Across Multiple Niches
Customer Insight Led SEO: How to Use Insights To Boost Your Store’s Google Ranking
In Ecommerce SEO can small changes really make big differences?
What to consider when starting your affiliate programme for your Shopify store?
What Are the Core Klaviyo Flows? A Guide to Understanding Klaviyo’s Essential Automated Campaigns
How to use Google’s People Also Ask feature to take your Ecommerce SEO to the next level
“He will help you understand your online customers better than you ever thought possible.”OWEN WHITEHEAD :: SUNBELT RENTALS
Growth Lessons
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Latest Articles
Customer Insight Led SEO: How to Use Insights To Boost Your Store’s Google Ranking
In Ecommerce SEO can small changes really make big differences?
What to consider when starting your affiliate programme for your Shopify store?
What Are the Core Klaviyo Flows? A Guide to Understanding Klaviyo’s Essential Automated Campaigns
WAYNE ROBINSON :: SOWSEEDS"Taking a test-and-learn approach meant that we started to see positive results very quickly. Within the first year, we were consistently delivering sales results in significant double-digit growth, whilst at the same time seeing an improvement in the investment ROI."
customer centricity
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December 6, 2021Shopify and the value behind creating product context pages
May 20, 2021Just saying.
Sat Sindhar - MD at People®"His understanding of the customers
thought process is exceptional"