Fighting & Earning Growth in a Retail Recession

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Overview

Home Essentials, a trusted homeware store on Auckland’s North Shore since the early 2000s, underwent new ownership in 2021, ushering in a wave of innovation across the business. With retail experiencing a slump, our client did not want to drop prices - we had to find opportunities.


objective 1:

Not just new customers, but long-term customers.

We needed to find new customers and entice them without dropping prices. We wanted to find long-term customers who would be brand loyal. 

Our Approach

Better content, better user experience. Our customers are nuanced, so we needed to be as well - offering them content which appealed to them as opposed to creating generic Ai related nonsense. 

  • Create content that was wide ranging trying to find the real cooking enthusiasts 
  • Craeta a user experience that was intuitive

Results

The content was niche, showing customers that we knew what they wanted and we understood their needs. This gave us credibility and memorable. 

Organic traffic was up 27%

Organic revenue up 18.5% 

Engaged sessions up 61% for all channels.



objective 2:

Paid Search structure to find

Using paid search in both Bing & Google to find customers who we knew would be long-term customers. 

Our Approach

We made product-level changes within Shopify to optimize the product feed for Google Shopping. This included:

  • Aligning the products with category content for lower cost and better rankings
  • Using automation to find ‘new’ customers
  • Focusing on titles & content that entices users consistently
  • Using specific bidding strategies focused on location & interest 
  • Segmenting products that align with customer needs

Results

This allowed us both control of the campaigns but also allowed them to be broad enough for the algorithms to do their magic. 

52% increase in revenue YoY

42.5% increase in transactions YoY


conclusion

Understanding customer requirements for both products and content created credibility with the brand and allowed for repeat purchase.

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