Marketing, websites and systems built for product brands.
A product brand grows on three fronts at once: its own store, Amazon, and the retail shelf. Each has its own rules, and a weak link on any one of them drags the others down. Ad spend leaks when the cart cannot tell Google which clicks turned into orders. Amazon revenue stalls when the Buy Box drifts to an unauthorized reseller. Email sits idle when the flows were never built. We have built and run this for DTC, tool and hardware, apparel and beverage brands sold direct, in retail and on Amazon: headless Shopify storefronts, Brand Registry and listings, Klaviyo, Merchant Center feeds, and paid media that reports on real orders instead of clicks. We treat the brand as one system and wire every channel back to the same numbers.
Questions this page answers
- Who is the best agency to run marketing for my product brand
- Shopify website design for a dtc brand
- How do I get amazon brand registry when someone else registered my brand
- Agency that manages amazon listings and a shopify store together
- How do you track google ads to actual orders in shopify
- Who sets up klaviyo flows for a small brand
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Where growth is won or lost in product brands.
A product brand rarely sells through one door. The same SKU sits on the brand's own store, on Amazon, in a distributor's catalog and on a retailer's shelf, and the price on every door is visible to any shopper with a phone. The journey usually starts on Amazon or a search result, detours through reviews and a creator video, and ends wherever the price is lowest. That is why channel pricing is the real growth lever. When a distributor dumps inventory at a discount, the Buy Box, the margin and the customer relationship leave with it, and the brand's own ads end up paying for someone else's sale.
Seasonality is set by the category and by Amazon's calendar, so the year is planned backward from Prime Day, the Q4 window and whichever trade show fills the wholesale order book. Inventory is the constraint nobody budgets for: a stockout in October costs search rank that takes months to earn back, and an ad vendor who keeps spending into a stockout is burning cash. Prior vendors usually failed in one of two ways. The Amazon agency and the store agency never spoke, so the brand paid twice for the same customer, or nobody owned the reseller policy, so pricing decayed until wholesale accounts stopped reordering.
We run the brand as one commercial system with one price architecture. That means a written map of every channel, the price and margin on each, who is authorized to sell where, and the enforcement path when someone breaks it. We build the storefront and the Amazon presence from the same facts and photography, plan paid media around inventory and launch dates rather than a flat monthly budget, and tie every order back to the click that produced it. When wholesale is part of the mix, we build the dealer side of the site so a retail buyer can find a line sheet and a rep without a phone call.
The problems we see in product brands.
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Ads that cannot see the sale.
Google and Meta optimize toward whatever they can measure. If the click ID dies at the cart, the platforms learn from add-to-carts and page views instead of orders, and the budget drifts toward cheap traffic that never buys.
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Losing the Buy Box on your own listing.
Unauthorized resellers, a third-party seller who registered your brand first, or a distributor dumping inventory below MAP will take the Buy Box and the reviews with it. Without Brand Registry you have no tools to push back.
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A storefront copied from a template.
Theme stores ship the same layout to every brand. Slow pages, generic product copy, no cart permalinks for ads, and a redirect map nobody maintained after the last replatform, so old links from press and retailers land on 404s.
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Retention left to chance.
Most brands run one welcome email and a monthly blast. No abandoned cart, browse abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment or winback flows, so every order has to be bought again with ads instead of earned from the list.
What a great product brands website contains.
The pages that do the selling for this kind of company, and what each one has to do to turn a visit into a call.
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Product pages from the facts file.
Every spec, dimension, material and claim pulled from one locked source, with comparison tables, sizing and use-case photography, so the page answers the question that would otherwise become a return.
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Collections by use case.
Products grouped by the job the buyer is trying to do rather than by internal category, each with its own search intent and a short guide to choosing.
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Compare and choose page.
Side by side comparisons across your own line and against the category's common alternatives, which captures the research search that Amazon otherwise wins.
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Where to buy and authorized retailers.
A store locator and a named list of authorized online sellers, so buyers who prefer a retailer land on one that honors your pricing and warranty.
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Wholesale and dealer application.
Line sheets, minimums, terms and a dealer application that feeds the CRM, so a buyer at a trade show can finish the conversation on their phone.
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Reseller and pricing policy page.
The public MAP and authorized reseller policy, published so distributors, retailers and marketplaces can see the rules before they list your product.
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Support, manuals and registration.
Manuals, setup videos, warranty terms and product registration in one hub, which cuts support tickets and captures the buyer who purchased through a retailer.
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Reviews and customer photos.
Verified reviews and customer photography collected through post-purchase flows and shown on product pages, with the same content syndicated to listings where allowed.
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Bundles, subscriptions and gift guides.
Bundles that lift order value, replenishment subscriptions for consumables, and seasonal gift guides built ahead of Q4 so the pages have age when the searches arrive.
Web, marketing, creative and systems for product brands.
Web
Websites and digital product.
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Headless Shopify storefront.
A fast custom front end on Shopify's checkout, with Shop Pay, cart permalinks that drop ad traffic straight into a prefilled cart, and product pages built from your spec sheets rather than a theme.
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Facts-locked product copy.
Every claim, spec, dimension and material comes from your documents and is locked in a source file, so page copy, ads and Amazon listings never contradict each other or invent a feature.
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Zero-404 redirect map.
Before any relaunch we crawl the old site, press coverage and retailer links, then build and test a redirect map so no inbound link dies on cutover and search rankings carry over.
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Wholesale and retailer pages.
Store locator, dealer application forms, line sheets and a wholesale login for retail buyers, so the site sells to the shelf as well as to the consumer who found you on Amazon.
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Speed and structured data.
Product, Offer, Review and FAQ structured data on every product, images sized and served correctly, and Core Web Vitals held green so listings qualify for rich results and Shopping surfaces.
Marketing
Demand, search and reputation.
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Google Ads with offline conversions.
Click IDs travel through the cart into the order record, and a nightly job uploads actual orders and revenue back to Google Ads, so Smart Bidding learns from purchases and margin rather than clicks.
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Amazon listings, A+ and Brand Store.
Keyword-mapped titles and bullets, A+ content built from your product photography, a Brand Store organized by use case, and Sponsored Products and Brands campaigns managed against actual ACoS targets.
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Klaviyo flows.
Welcome, abandoned cart, browse abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment, winback and review-request flows, segmented by product and purchase history, built and tested before a single campaign is sent.
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Merchant Center and Shopping.
A clean product feed with GTINs, correct categories and supplemental attributes, free listings switched on, and Performance Max fed with real order values instead of platform defaults.
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Meta and creator programs.
Catalog ads that retarget viewed products, prospecting built on real customer lists, and a modest creator or affiliate program tracked with unique codes and links so you know which partners sell.
Creative
Brand, photography and collateral.
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Brand system that survives Amazon.
Logo, type and color rules that hold up at thumbnail size on a search results page, on a hang tag, and on a retailer end cap, with packaging guidance included.
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Product photography direction.
Shot lists for white-background hero images, lifestyle sets, scale references and detail shots, planned so one shoot covers the site, Amazon, Merchant Center and paid social.
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Video for listings and ads.
Short product demonstrations cut for Amazon listing video, Shopping ads and Reels, scripted from the facts file so every claim on screen matches the spec sheet.
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Packaging and print.
Inserts that drive reviews and product registration, hang tags, sell sheets for retail buyers, and trade show collateral that match the online brand piece for piece.
Development and systems
Integration, automation and data.
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Click ID capture and offline upload.
GCLID and other click identifiers stored on the cart and order, matched to Shopify orders nightly, and uploaded to Google Ads as offline conversions with order value and refunds subtracted.
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Amazon Brand Registry and enforcement.
We have carried a brand through an ownership dispute to a won registry, then used it for listing control, Transparency codes, counterfeit takedowns and unauthorized seller reporting.
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Buy Box, MAP and reseller policy.
A written MAP and authorized reseller policy, price monitoring across Amazon and retail, and a documented process for warning, suspending and reporting violators.
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Order and support stack.
Shopify wired to ShipStation for fulfillment, Gorgias for support tickets tied to orders, and Klaviyo for events, so a customer question shows the full order history in one place.
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Print-on-demand and Vine.
Print-on-demand lines connected to the storefront for merch and variants without inventory, and Vine enrollment managed to seed early reviews on new ASINs within Amazon's rules.
Where the demand comes from, and when.
The tools product brands already run on.
We build to your system of record rather than around it. Leads, calls, jobs and revenue land where your team already works, with the attribution attached.
Shopify.
Headless storefront on Shopify checkout, cart permalinks, Shop Pay, and webhooks into reporting.
Amazon Seller Central and Brand Registry.
Registry, listings, A+ content, Brand Store, Vine, Sponsored ads and reporting exports.
Klaviyo.
Event tracking from the storefront, segmented flows, list growth forms and campaign calendar.
Gorgias.
Support tickets tied to Shopify orders, macros for common questions, review requests after resolution.
ShipStation.
Order sync, carrier rules, tracking pushed back to Shopify and into Klaviyo shipping emails.
Google Merchant Center.
Product feed with full attributes, free listings, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns.
Meta Commerce.
Catalog sync for dynamic product ads and shopping tags on the brand's Instagram posts.
Google Ads.
Conversion tracking with click IDs through the cart and nightly offline conversion uploads.
The numbers that matter in product brands.
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Contribution margin after advertising, by channel.
Revenue minus product cost, fees, shipping and ad spend for each channel, so growth on Amazon does not hide a loss on the store.
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Buy Box share on owned listings.
The share of the time the brand or an authorized seller holds the Buy Box, which decides whether your ads sell your inventory.
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New customer cost, blended and by channel.
What a first order costs after platform reporting is reconciled against actual orders, so budgets follow real acquisition rather than claimed conversions.
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Repeat order rate from email and SMS.
The share of orders that come from the list rather than paid media, which is where margin lives once the flows work.
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MAP compliance and inventory cover.
Violations found and resolved each week, and weeks of stock on hand per SKU, so pricing and availability are managed before they cost rank.
Compliance and credentials.
MAP and resale pricing law.
A minimum advertised price policy must be unilateral and enforced consistently; agreeing resale prices with resellers is a different legal matter. We draft with counsel and document every action.
FTC endorsement and review rules.
Creators and affiliates must disclose the relationship, and buying, suppressing or faking reviews is prohibited. Post-purchase review requests must be neutral and unconditional.
Amazon program terms.
Brand Registry, Vine, review solicitation and Transparency each have rules that can suspend a listing if broken. Enforcement against resellers stays inside Amazon's own processes.
Product claims and labeling.
Every performance, origin, safety and environmental claim in ads and listings must be substantiated, and country of origin claims follow federal standards.
The product brands playbook.
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Audit every channel against the same numbers.
We pull Shopify, Amazon, ad platforms, email and retail data into one view, check what each platform thinks a conversion is, and find where revenue, attribution and inventory disagree.
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Fix tracking, listings and registry first.
Click IDs through the cart, offline conversion uploads, feed errors, listing suppressions and Brand Registry status get fixed before we put a dollar more into media.
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Build the storefront and the flows.
Headless storefront with facts-locked copy and a tested redirect map, Klaviyo flows live, A+ content and Brand Store published, all launched on a cutover checklist.
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Run media against orders and margin.
Google, Amazon and Meta budgets managed weekly against contribution margin, a monthly review of Buy Box share and MAP violations, and new SKUs launched with a repeatable listing playbook.
Why product brands choose us.
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We sell products ourselves.
We operate our own product brands on Shopify and Amazon, so the listing playbooks, Registry process and conversion plumbing on this page are things we run with our own money before we run them with yours.
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Engineers and marketers on the same team.
The person who writes the ad copy sits with the person who built the offline conversion upload, so tracking, storefront and media get built as one system instead of three vendors' handoffs.
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Amazon and DTC handled together.
Most agencies do one or the other. We manage Brand Registry, listings and Sponsored ads alongside the storefront and Klaviyo, so channels are priced and promoted in step rather than competing.
Reading for product brands.
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Hiring an Ecommerce Marketing Agency: One Revenue System, Not Four Vendors.
Agency Guide · 9 min readStorefront, feed, paid media, retention, and marketplace are one machine. Hiring four vendors to run it separately is how growth stalls.
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Amazon Marketing Agency: What to Expect From a Real Engagement.
E-commerce · 10 min readAds are the smallest part of the job. A real Amazon engagement covers Brand Registry, catalog, listings, Buy Box, inventory, and honest reporting.
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How to Sell on Amazon: What It Really Takes to Succeed.
E-commerce · 20 min readThe other side of Amazon: being the merchant. Real upside, real capital at risk, real business. Here is what it actually takes, fulfillment, fees, the Buy Box, product selection, and how sellers really win.
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Building an Online Marketing Engine for a $10M-$100M Brand.
Marketing · 18 min readYou grew on one or two channels. The next stage of growth comes from building an engine, a balanced portfolio of channels that compound, not from chasing the next tactic.
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How to Launch an Affiliate Program for an Established Brand.
Affiliate Programs · 18 min readYou already have a paid-media machine and rising acquisition costs to match. An affiliate program is the rare channel where you set the price of a customer before you pay for one, here is how to stand it up so it actually moves the P&L.
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Hiring an agency for a product brands business.
- who is the best agency to run marketing for my product brand
- The right agency for a product brand can show you a storefront it built, an Amazon listing it manages, and a conversion pipeline that reports orders rather than clicks. We do all three under one roof and run them on our own brands. Ask any agency how click IDs reach the order and how Amazon and DTC pricing stay in step. If they cannot answer both, keep looking.
- Can you help us get Amazon Brand Registry if someone else already registered our brand?
- Yes. We have carried a brand through an ownership dispute with Amazon: assembling trademark records, product history, packaging and website evidence, filing the dispute, and following it through to a transferred registry. Once the registry is yours, we set up listing control, Transparency or Project Zero where they fit, and a process for reporting unauthorized sellers.
- Do we need a headless Shopify store or is a theme enough?
- A well-built theme is enough for many brands. Headless earns its cost when you need page speed a theme cannot reach, custom product configurators, content and commerce on one domain, or cart permalinks and landing pages that a theme fights against. We will tell you which one fits after looking at your catalog, traffic and roadmap, and we build both.
- How do you track Google Ads to actual orders in Shopify?
- We capture the click ID on landing, carry it through the cart to the order record, then run a nightly job that matches orders to clicks and uploads them to Google Ads as offline conversions with order value and refunds netted out. Smart Bidding then optimizes toward real revenue, and the reports you see match your Shopify dashboard.
- What does an engagement cost and how long before we see results?
- Builds are scoped as fixed projects; media, Amazon and email management run monthly with a minimum term. Tracking and listing fixes show up in reports within weeks. Storefront relaunches take a few months including the redirect map and content. We agree on the numbers we will report against before signing, and those numbers are orders and margin, not impressions.
Let’s grow your product brands business.
A short note on where the business is and where it needs to go. A senior partner replies within one business day.
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