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A round-up of the latest news, tips and opinions of our team.
Your Store Is Getting Traffic. So Why Isn't It Converting
More traffic won't fix a store that isn't converting. Here's what to actually look at - from mobile experience and product pages to checkout friction and trust signals.
Shopify is forcing better data hygiene. Are your metafields ready?
Shopify is reducing metafield value sizes from 2MB to 16KB. Here's what that means for your store, what's at risk, and how to get ahead of it before something breaks.
A Better Way to Plan: AI, Automation and Clear KPIs
Most annual plans don’t fail because the ideas are bad. They fail because day-to-day chaos wins. Here are a few practical ways to plan better, deliver smoother, and protect profitability.
Customer Service That Doesn't Scale Linearly
Customer inquiries scale with revenue. That's just how it works. The traditional answer is hiring more support staff. More tickets means more people. Linear scaling. It's expensive and it creates its own management overhead. Little Lies solved this differently.
What No One Tells You About Scaling Fast
After Taylor Swift wore one of their dresses, Little Lies went through exponential growth almost overnight. From the outside, it looked like every founder's dream. From the inside? Little Lies founder, Jade Robertson, was drowning.
Differentiation isn’t competitor research. It’s looking outside your category.
If you do a quick competitor sweep in your category, you’ll probably see the same patterns repeating. Same layouts. Same offers. Same “trust” blocks stacked on top of each other.
Optimisation Starts With Better Questions
When conversion rates dip, it’s very tempting to go straight into fixing mode - change the product page, run an A/B test, make a plan. But CRO without diagnosis is just guesswork and it happens a lot. Brands start optimising too late, in the wrong place, or for the wrong reason.
The Illusion of “Finished”
The site you launch today is a snapshot of your business right now: your range, your pricing, your tech stack, your priorities. Six months later, any of those might have shifted. That’s just the nature of ecommerce. The challenge is when the store gets treated like a static brochure. It can end up a bit fragile.
From Brand Alignment to Basket Logic: The Real CRO Hierarchy
Conversion rate optimisation has become a bit of a catch-all label. Anything even slightly “website-y” tends to get thrown in: copy changes, colour tweaks, UX fixes, exit pop ups, even which apps you install. But CRO isn’t a single tactic. It’s the result you see when everything else is aligned.
Stop Blaming Your Button Colour: What CRO Is Really About
Somewhere along the line, Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) has become shorthand for fiddling around on the surface.
A red button might outperform a blue one. But if your pricing is confusing, your delivery offer is buried, or your brand doesn’t feel credible, you’ll still lose the sale.