Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
WHERE PREMIUM BRANDS COME TO GROW
If you’ve been building a premium eCommerce brand for a year or two — or three, or four — and you’re doing all the things you’re supposed to be doing, and growth is still stubbornly, frustratingly flat, I want to offer you a reframe. The problem is almost certainly not your content quality. It’s not […]
Open ChatGPT right now and type: ‘What are the best [your product category] brands in Australia?’ Read the answer carefully. Not just whether your brand appears — but which brands do appear, what reasons are given, and what the language of the recommendation tells you about what AI systems value. If your brand is in […]
There’s a step in the premium buyer’s purchase journey that almost no marketing advice acknowledges — and it happens right in the middle of your sales funnel, in the five minutes between clicking your ad and deciding whether to buy. It’s called the validation search. And once you understand it, you’ll see your entire marketing […]
ChatGPT Just Became a Shop. Is Your Brand Actually in It? Shopify just put your products in front of 880 million ChatGPT users. Here’s why most of them still won’t find you. Three weeks ago, every eligible Shopify store became discoverable inside ChatGPT by default. No app, no setup, no ad budget required. Your products […]
Why Temu’s Growth Is Good News for Premium eCommerce Brands Something interesting happened at the REED Gift Fair in Sydney back in February. An Australian representative of Temu — yes, that Temu — was doing the rounds of exhibitor stalls, pitching premium brand founders on the idea of listing their products on the platform. […]
If you’re running paid ads for a premium eCommerce brand and your ROAS isn’t scaling the way it should — or you’ve been posting consistently for years and growth is still flat — there’s a very good chance the problem isn’t where you’re looking for it. In this episode of The Brand Marketing Show, I’m […]
If your eCommerce marketing used to work brilliantly and lately it’s feeling like you’re pushing harder for smaller returns — you’re not imagining it. The landscape has genuinely changed. And the instinctive responses most brand owners reach for when results decline are almost always the ones that make things worse. In this episode, Catherine Langman […]
A premium eCommerce brand. $4,000 a month in Meta ads. Conversion rate: 0.9%. They’d tried everything on the ads side. New creative. New audiences. New campaign structure. A new agency. Then another one. Each change produced modest improvement and fresh disappointment in roughly equal measure. Their Meta Marketing Pro had recommended increasing spend and enabling […]
Here’s a scenario that will either make you nod vigorously or feel slightly called out. Possibly both. Ad results are disappointing. So you change the creative. Still disappointing. Change the audience. Then the offer. Then the campaign structure. At some point someone very confidently tells you the problem is your creative hook, your targeting parameters, […]
There’s a pattern that plays out in premium eCommerce businesses with depressing regularity. A founder runs ads. At $50 a day, the ROAS looks decent. Profitable, even. She scales to $200 a day, confident. By the end of the first week, the cost per acquisition has blown out, the ROAS has tanked, and she’s back […]
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