Why Your Agency Website Isn't Generating Leads
Traffic looks fine. The site just isn't turning it into calls. The reason is the same reason a weak product page doesn't sell.
Strategies, breakdowns, and lessons from inside scaling ecommerce brands.
Traffic looks fine. The site just isn't turning it into calls. The reason is the same reason a weak product page doesn't sell.
"Results-driven." "Full-service." Open ten agency homepages and count how many say the same three phrases.
The exact sequence I run against an agency website before I'd ever recommend touching a redesign.
A full rebuild is the right call for some agency sites and the wrong first move for most. Here's the difference.
Templates, freelancers, and hand-coded builds all produce an "agency website." The price gap between them isn't random.
Not a checklist of trendy sections. The specific pieces that answer a founder's actual questions, in the order they ask them.
"Full-service" and "results-driven" aren't positioning, they're the absence of it. Here's what actually differentiates an agency.
A working checklist, not a vibe check. Run through this before you ship or before you decide the site needs a redesign.
Ranking on Google and getting cited by an AI answer are related but not identical problems. Here's what actually changes.
Most CRO audits eyeball the site. These three questions tell you what's actually stopping people from buying.
If you only run one survey on your thank-you page, you're missing the other four places where real friction data lives.
The final email in your abandoned cart flow is doing the wrong job. Turn it into your best research channel.
Attribution is broken. Post-purchase surveys fix it. The 2-question setup and where to deploy it.
Heuristic audits tell you what you think is wrong. Customer research tells you what's actually stopping buyers.
A folder of survey replies is useless. Here's how to tag, theme, and prioritize them into real fixes.
Three patterns in session replay data that reveal exactly where your store is losing revenue. Every store has them.
Funnel data shows where people drop off. Session replay shows why. The workflow that turns 20 replays into a priority fix list.
You don't need Hotjar's paid plan to run session replay and heatmaps. Clarity does 80% of the work for free.
Looking at one CR number for your whole store hides every real insight. Segment correctly and you find the revenue.
If your mobile conversion rate is 30% below desktop, your mobile experience is broken. Not "less convenient." Broken.
Trying to move purchase rate directly is a losing battle. Map your micro-conversions instead. That's where the leverage is.
Forward funnels tell you where people go. Reverse funnels tell you where they came from before a key event.
Most A/B tests are guesses in a fancy outfit. A real hypothesis names the change, the segment, the metric, the lift, and the evidence.
Every test you run teaches you something. If you're not logging the losses, you're paying tuition and throwing the lesson out.
Customers who view 3+ products convert higher and spend more. Almost no Shopify dashboard surfaces this metric.
A cancel button with no interception is a revenue leak. The 6-step save flow that catches 15-30% of cancellations before they happen.
A discount as the only save offer is lazy. Ask the cancel reason first. The reason determines which offer actually works.
Klaviyo attribution gaps, CRO retainers that outlast the work, and ad incentives that don't align with yours. A transparent breakdown from the brand side.
SEO from day one, margins before ads, and why hiring an agency too early is the most expensive mistake you can make.
The 3-phase framework for turning Black Friday into your biggest revenue month, and why starting early is everything.
Why segmentation, hotlists, and owned channels beat blasting your entire list, and how to set it up in Klaviyo.
Most stores go dark after Cyber Monday. Here's how to turn one-time holiday buyers into year-round revenue.
The same conversion killers show up on almost every Shopify store. Hero images, buy box placement, trust signals, mobile. Here's the framework.
AI search is reshaping how people find products. If your SEO strategy hasn't adapted for generative engines, you're already falling behind.
Welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, winback. The flows that get 30-50% of store revenue from owned channels. Built from inside real brands.
Not every store needs twenty automations. The 4-6 core flows to build first, and which ones actually earn their spot after that.
Klaviyo prices by active profile, not just engaged contacts, which catches a lot of stores off guard. Here's what it actually costs at each size.
They both send email. Only one was built around your store's order history, catalog, and browsing behavior. Here's the real difference.
Leading with a discount trains shoppers to abandon on purpose. A better 3-email sequence, and where segmentation actually moves the number.
Most stores segment by customers vs non-customers and stop there. Here's the segmentation that actually moves revenue and protects deliverability.
Klaviyo added SMS as a feature. Postscript built the whole company around it. Here's what the G2 ratings, pricing, and support data actually show.
You think you know how people use your site. Heatmaps and eye tracking show the real story, and it's usually not what you expected.
Affiliates aren't a side channel. They're a compounding engine that generates revenue, UGC, social proof, and SEO backlinks simultaneously.