CONTENT FIRST STRATEGY.
REAL ECOMMERCE GROWTH.
Clients hire me to create, lead and scale the strategy that
ensures their ecommerce business reaches its true potential
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. 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.
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? A mindset shift allowing 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.
I don't like to complicate ecommerce. The fundamentals are straightforward.
- 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?
- What works? How impactful are the changes you make to your store in order to drive sales?
- Spending too much on tech? Are we making best selection and use of AI & today's marketing technology?
- What to do when margins are stripped? How do you compete against cheaper competitors?
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
OPTIMISATION GROWS 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 to:
- grow your understanding of your customers (gaining and making use of new insights)
- run your optimisation process through a/b testing, bringing clarity to your messaging and gaining new customer insights that help deliver a better shopping experience
- turn unprofitable META or Google Ads campaigns around by converting more clicks into sales
- profit as you grow revenue and lower acquisition costs building trust quicker and giving customers the confidence they need to buy
- ultimately, unlock a new level of growth for your ecommerce business (what we're all working towards)
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?
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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"