Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
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,
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
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
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
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.
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