Run & Advise
Ongoing Growth Partnership
A retained team, one direction.
(opens in a new tab) One senior team across your store, your ads, your testing and your email, month after month, with nobody between you and the people doing the work. We run the same model on the brands we own, so we pay for it as well as sell it.
The brands we grow, month after month.
Certified, not badge-only We are the Shopify growth partner for brands across the UK and the US.
Read the case studiesOne team across build, ads, CRO and advice. No hand-offs, no account managers, front of the queue.
Our servicesHow we run a growth partnership
How a growth partnership runs month to month
Most agency relationships end at launch, which is the point the real work starts. A growth partnership keeps one team across your build, ads, CRO and strategy, so nobody has to be briefed twice and no thread gets dropped between suppliers. It is the work an ecommerce growth agency is hired for, run by one team rather than split between several, each measuring its own slice.
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Scoping
We start by understanding your brand, your goals, and what you need most. From there we scope a partnership that covers the right services at the right level of support.
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Onboarding
Once scoped and agreed, we onboard fully into your brand so we can hit the ground running from day one with no lengthy briefing process every time work is needed.
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Continuous Delivery
Work flows continuously throughout the month across whichever services are in scope. No big bang releases, no long wait times - your brand is always moving forward.
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Review and Evolve
We review performance regularly and evolve the partnership scope as your needs change, so the support you receive always reflects where your brand is heading.
One team
The store, the ads, the email and the testing, run by the same people every month.
Shopify growth partner
The partnership we run on our own brand first
Powerlete is our own sportswear brand. We run the storefront, the merchandising, the paid media and the retention ourselves, with no hand-offs, because there is nobody to hand off to.
Every playbook we bring to a client has been tested there first. When a checkout change or a paid-social angle costs money, it costs ours before it costs yours.
Knack Snacks
Build, paid, email and advice
Ecommerce growth partner
The store and the traffic, run as one conversation
Knack Snacks sells high-protein chocolate snacks to customers in the UK and the US, built subscription-first with the frequency choice inside the product page rather than bolted on after it.
We built it, then took on the paid ads, the email and the day-to-day work on the store, and we consult on where it goes next. The store and the campaigns pointing at it are one team’s problem, not two agencies blaming each other.
Poppy Elder
Build, paid and email, retained
Ongoing growth partnership
Follow-up that is still there when they come back
Poppy Elder makes bespoke engagement rings. Nobody buys one on impulse: they spend months on it, talk to a person and change their mind twice, so a store built for a fast checkout is built for the wrong customer.
We built the store to treat the enquiry as the conversion, then run the paid ads, the email and the store itself on a retainer. The ads start where the search does, early and quiet, and the email carries the length of the decision.
Ongoing growth partnership
What an ongoing growth partnership includes
An agreed scope across the disciplines below, set with you at the start and reviewed as priorities move. You are not buying a fixed block of hours, and most months split between planned work and whatever the data surfaced.
On the store
Shopify Design and Development
Ongoing design updates, new builds, theme enhancements, and feature development for your Shopify store, handled by the same team who knows your brand best.
CRO and Optimisation
Ongoing testing, UX improvements, and conversion optimisation so your brand is always improving at turning visitors into customers.
Bringing people to it
Marketing and Paid Ads
Continuous paid social, Google Ads, and email marketing management, optimised and scaled as part of your wider growth strategy.
Lead Generation
Platform-agnostic lead generation support, managed and optimised on an ongoing basis as part of your partnership scope.
Direction
Strategy and Consultancy
Regular strategy sessions, growth planning, and expert consultancy to ensure every part of your brand is aligned and moving in the right direction.
Priority Access
Partnership clients are always front of the queue. Fast turnaround, direct communication, and no waiting for a slot to open up.
Grow
Conversion, paid media and lead generation on stores that are already trading.
Nour Hammour
Build, CRO and a retainer
Conversion rate optimisation
Testing on top of the build, not instead of it
Nour Hammour makes leather and tailored outerwear in Paris. At that price the question is rarely the colour of a button; it is whether the page has answered the thing the customer is actually worried about.
We built the store, test it, and stay on it as a retained relationship rather than a project that ended at handover, so the people running the tests are the people who know how it was made.
Paid media and merchandising
Growth work on a store we moved without losing its rankings
Bessette sells new, curated designer fashion at a discount. Two founders run it, and we work closely with both: conversion and merchandising on the site, paid media on Meta and Google, scaled up as the tracking underneath it improved.
The same team moved the store, the domain, the email and the tracking onto a new footing without losing the search rankings already earned, and stays on as their consultancy partner.
Lead generation
A trade store we have kept developing since 2022
Black Sand came to us in 2022 with no storefront at all, closing container deals in a WhatsApp thread. We built the first store from the ground up, with each approved buyer seeing their own catalogue and their own prices.
It has been developed continuously since, and we still run its search, lead generation and paid ads. The qualifying funnel in front of the store and the store itself belong to one team, so a lead and a catalogue are one decision rather than two.
One partner or several specialists
Why brands retain us as their Shopify growth partner
Most brands past launch already have the disciplines, spread across three or four suppliers who never speak. The cost is not the fees; it is everything that falls between them.
| What happens | Separate specialists | One growth partner |
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| Who holds the whole picture | Nobody, or you | One team, every month |
| Briefing | Every supplier, every time | Once, at onboarding |
| A landing page and its campaign | Two agencies, two conversations | Designed in the same conversation |
| Who you talk to | An account manager at each | The people doing the work |
| When you need something | Wait for a slot to open | Front of the queue |
| What you pay for | Separate scopes that overlap | One agreed scope, reviewed as priorities move |
| If you leave | Several contracts to unpick | Code, accounts and documentation handed over |
Advise
Direction as well as delivery: where the store goes next, and what to leave alone.
Strategy and consultancy
A partner for the shops as well as the site
Cream Cornwall sells luxury coastal homewares online and across three shops, in Falmouth, St Ives and Bath. We rebuilt the store, ran the migration and set up Shopify POS in all three shops.
International expansion was our advice, and they took it up; it is running now, not sitting in a deck. Rather than handing over and leaving, we stay on as their consultancy partner.
Ginny Litscher
Seven-day build, then growth
After launch
Live in seven days, then the growth work started
Ginny Litscher hand-paints silk scarves, kimonos and wallpaper in Switzerland and sells them in eight markets. We rebuilt her store in seven days, in time for her SS27 show at London Fashion Week.
Launch was the start rather than the handover. We moved straight on to search, paid media, conversion testing and ongoing consultancy for the store, with the people who built it doing the work.
Reviews on the Shopify Partner Directory
Merchants, in their own words.
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From start to finish, they were incredibly easy to work with. They understood the brief perfectly and delivered to a very high standard. Communication was excellent throughout, with quick and clear responses to any questions I had.
Tacky And Upsetting Store build or redesign · April 2026
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The things [the team] have put in place and recommended for us have paid immediate dividend. We wish we had come in contact with [them] sooner.
ARTMARTIAL Store build or redesign · April 2026
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I can’t recommend [the team] enough, [they] helped us with everything from product design, supplier communication to website building and SEO. We were able to build a brand off the back of all [their] information and help.
Reveliér Studios Business strategy guidance · April 2026
How we work with you
The whole funnel
Store development, paid media, email and conversion work under one monthly scope, run by the team that built the store. What Knack Snacks, Poppy Elder and Nour Hammour run with us.
MonthlyLaunch, then stay
A build with a launch date, and the partnership starting the day it goes live rather than a handover. What Ginny Litscher did: seven days to launch, then search, paid and testing.
Project, then monthlyConsultancy partner
Direction on the platform, the channels and the next market, with the team stepping in where it helps. What Cream Cornwall and Bessette run with us.
AdvisoryIs a partnership the right thing to buy?
Worth a conversation
- You are past launch and the list is longer than one person can hold
- The store and the ads are run by people who never speak
- Every new supplier needs the whole brief again
- You want senior people on it, not an account manager
Probably not this, yet
- You have one defined project and nothing planned after it
- The store is not live yet
- What you need is a safety net, not a roadmap
- A single in-house hire would serve you better
Keep reading
Everything a growth partnership touches
What a partnership can cover
Other ways to work with us
The brands behind the stores we build and run.
Partners
Tools we have already run on our own stores
The apps around a Shopify store decide as much as the theme does, and choosing between thousands of them is most of the work. We are a Shopify Plus Partner and we integrate the tools that sit around the platform. Every one of them runs on our own two stores before it reaches a client, so the recommendation you get comes from having paid for the thing and lived with it. When a brand already runs a stack that works, we integrate with it rather than rebuilding it to suit us.
How we use them
Straight answers
What is included in a growth partnership each month?
An agreed scope across build, ads, CRO and strategy, set with you at the start and reviewed as priorities move. You are not buying a fixed block of hours.
Do we get the same team every month?
Yes. The people on your account stay on your account. Nothing gets passed to a junior once the pitch is over.
Can we stop the partnership?
Yes, and everything hands over cleanly: code, accounts and documentation. We would rather you left well than stayed badly.
How does this compare to hiring in-house?
You get several disciplines at once without several salaries. Where a single in-house hire would serve you better, we will tell you that instead.
Can a partnership cover the store and the marketing together?
Yes, and that is the argument for it. One team across the build and the ads means a landing page and the campaign pointing at it get designed in the same conversation.
Do you retain US brands?
Yes. The five-hour offset means much of the work happens overnight your time, so you tend to arrive to progress rather than wait through your day for it.
How do you decide what to work on each month?
We agree the priorities with you and revisit them as the numbers move. Most months split between planned work and whatever the data surfaced, and we would rather drop a planned task than ship it while something more valuable waits.
Tell us what is on the list
Send the store URL and what the next six months need to deliver. We reply personally, and if one project would serve you better than a partnership, that is the reply you get.
Stores we build and grow
Start a conversation
Talk to the people who would do the work.
Book a call or send a note. We will come back with what we would work on first, what it would take each month, and whether a partnership is the right shape for you.
Get in touch