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One team accountable for growth, not for a slice of it

eSolve is an ecommerce growth agency that runs the whole operation: demand, conversion, and retention on top, with the Shopify build and the systems underneath held by the same team.

12 months and counting, one standing team, outdoor and off-grid retailer.Read the case study
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  • One plan, one baselineweek 1-2
  • The demand channels, runmonthly
  • Conversion work that shipsper sprint
  • One standing teamongoing

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You did not sign up to be the integration layer.

Buy these from four suppliers and that is the job you end up doing, in the gaps between them, on top of running the business. Run as one operation they share a baseline, a roadmap, and a team. The order below is the order they earn revenue in.

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The problem

  • We have an agency for ads, a freelancer for the site, and I am the one connecting them.

    The founder becomes the integration layer between suppliers, which is the most expensive job in the company being done by the person with the least time for it.

  • Every vendor reports a good number and revenue is flat.

    Each one optimizes its own slice and reports on its own slice. Nobody owns the interactions between them, and channel-reported returns count the same order more than once.

  • We know what we should be doing. It never ships.

    Recommendations that need a developer die in a queue nobody owns, so the audit gets paid for twice and acted on never.

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What you get

A standing team with one plan and one baseline, rather than four suppliers each optimizing their own slice of your revenue.

  • One plan, one baseline

    week 1-2

    Blended margin and one set of numbers, agreed before anything is bought. Every channel is judged against it instead of against its own dashboard.

  • The demand channels, run

    monthly

    SEO, AI search, paid, email and SMS, executed against that baseline rather than reported against themselves.

  • Conversion work that ships

    per sprint

    The team that recommends the test also writes the theme code, so a finding becomes a live change instead of a slide in a deck.

  • One standing team

    ongoing

    The same people, holding the context, month after month. No re-onboarding, and no vendor coordination left on your desk.

  • The store and the systems underneath

    The Shopify build, plus the ERP, POS and 3PL connections it depends on, kept working as conditions change.

  • One report you can act on

    monthly

    What changed, what it cost, and what is next, in one place. Numbers that survive being switched off.

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What we mean by the whole operation

At most brands these four are four different suppliers, and the gaps between them are where the money goes. Here they are one team and one roadmap.

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Start with a read-only look at the whole operation

One pass across the store, the channels, and the systems behind them: what is working, what is unowned, and which layer is costing you the most right now. Written findings, no pitch deck.

Get a store auditFree. Read-only access, no obligation.

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What one operator actually replaces

Every figure below is a delivery fact from a case study published on this site: the shape of the engagement rather than its results. The consent tier on that account lets us tell the story and not publish its performance numbers, and we would rather show you the shape than invent a number.

Vendors left to coordinate
0Vendors left to coordinateOutdoor and Off-Grid Retailer, multi-channel
Workstreams under one roadmap
6Workstreams under one roadmapOutdoor and Off-Grid Retailer, multi-channel
Storefronts, Canada and US, run as one operation
2Storefronts, Canada and US, run as one operationOutdoor and Off-Grid Retailer, multi-channel
Months and counting with one standing team
12Months and counting with one standing teamOutdoor and Off-Grid Retailer, multi-channel

Nothing here is derived, projected, or averaged. If a number is not on a published case study, it is not on this page.

questions

Ecommerce Growth Programs FAQs

What does an ecommerce growth agency actually do?

It runs the things that produce revenue as one program rather than as separate contracts: demand generation, conversion, retention, and the store and systems those depend on, all judged against one set of numbers. The difference between a growth agency and a channel agency is not capability, it is who owns the interactions. A paid agency optimizes paid, an SEO agency optimizes organic, and both can report a good month while blended revenue sits flat, because nobody is accountable for what happens between them. Ecommerce growth services, done properly, means one team holds that whole picture and is judged on it.

Can you run growth on a store you did not build?

Yes, and most engagements start that way. The audit checks a few things first: whether tracking is telling the truth, whether the product feed is healthy enough to compete, and whether the theme can carry a conversion test without a rebuild. Sometimes the honest answer is that a rebuild would pay for itself before any marketing does, and we will say so. Far more often the store is fine and the problem is that nobody is running it against a number.

How is this different from hiring a marketing agency and a Shopify developer separately?

Two suppliers means two backlogs, and every recommendation becomes a negotiation between them. The marketing side proposes a change, the development side schedules it behind other work, and the brand pays the coordination tax in weeks. With one team the finding and the fix have the same owner, so conversion work ships in the sprint it was proposed in. We would not claim it is cheaper than two suppliers, because it often is not. What it is, reliably, is faster to ship and easier to hold accountable, because there is one place the answer comes from.

What actually ships in the first ninety days?

The baseline and the plan come first, usually inside the opening fortnight, because everything after is judged against them. Channel work starts once that exists, and conversion changes follow as fast as the store allows. What is realistic depends entirely on what the audit finds, so we will not generalize past our own published record: for a pet nutrition manufacturer, two full scopes, a centralized help desk and a direct-to-consumer organic foundation, were live in 90 days. Your store is not that store, which is why the audit comes before the promise.

How do you measure whether it is working?

Blended margin rather than channel-reported returns, conservative attribution windows, and holdouts wherever volume allows them. The test we trust most is the switch-off test: turn a flow or a campaign off and see whether revenue moves. If it does not, that flow was claiming credit for orders rather than creating them. This is the same standard our email and paid pages describe, deliberately, because a growth program that measures each channel by a different rule cannot be compared with itself.

What size brand is this built for?

Brands with more than one channel or more than one system, where somebody internal has quietly become the coordinator between suppliers. That is the point where an operator earns their fee, and it is usually felt before it is measured. It is a poor fit if you need one specific thing built and nothing else, in which case an ecommerce growth consultant or a single scoped project is better value than a program, and the individual service pages are the faster route. We will tell you which of the two you are during the audit rather than after the contract.

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Find out what one team would take off your plate

Tell us who currently owns what: the ads, the site, the integrations, the tickets. We will map the overlaps, name what is unowned, and scope what we would run.