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Shopify strategy from someone who runs a Shopify store every day.

Store strategy, conversion optimization, landing pages, retention and paid media for Shopify brands. Extra Medium currently leads growth for a consumer brand on Shopify, so this is operating experience, not theory.

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What this actually means

What Shopify strategy means here.

Shopify strategy is the plan for how a Shopify store makes money: which products lead, how pages convert, how customers are retained and how paid and organic traffic fit together. A Shopify growth agency turns that plan into results through store optimization, landing pages, apps and integrations, lifecycle marketing and media.

Extra Medium works on Shopify the way we work on everything else: strategy first, then design and build, then relentless measurement. Our founder manages a Shopify business day to day as fractional CMO, which means we know which apps, tactics and "best practices" actually move revenue.

Who this is for

You will recognize yourself, or you won’t.

  • Your Shopify store gets traffic but conversion rate has never been engineered, only tolerated.
  • You are launching on Shopify and want the store, the offer and the growth plan built together.
  • Subscription, retention and email are set up but nobody is actively growing them.
  • You have outgrown a theme and a handful of apps and need a real growth strategy.
How we think about it

The work, in order.

  1. Audit the store like a customer and like an analyst

    We walk the purchase path on mobile, then read the numbers: conversion by device, product, source and step. The gap between the two is the plan.

  2. Fix the highest-value pages first

    Product pages, collection pages, cart and checkout, in order of revenue exposure. Small conversion gains here beat any new channel.

  3. Build retention into the store

    Subscription, post-purchase flows, loyalty and email are designed as part of the store experience, not bolted on as apps nobody configured.

  4. Scale with paid and creators

    Once conversion holds, we scale traffic through paid media and creator programs with landing pages built for each audience.

What we actually do

Specifically.

  • Shopify store strategy and audits
  • Conversion rate optimization
  • Product page and landing page design
  • Theme customization and development
  • App and integration strategy
  • Subscription and retention programs
  • Email and SMS flows (Klaviyo and similar)
  • Paid media for Shopify brands
  • Analytics and reporting setup
  • Ecommerce transformation and replatforming
From experience

Why we see it this way.

Real work, not a summary of the internet.

Our experience

We run Shopify growth for a consumer brand right now: product strategy, paid media, creator and affiliate programs, lifecycle email and SMS, reporting. That day-to-day reality is why our Shopify recommendations are unusually specific. We have seen which apps slow a store down, which subscription tactics quietly hurt lifetime value, and which landing page patterns convert cold paid traffic. We also built our own diagnostic tooling for finding revenue leaks in ecommerce stores, because we needed it ourselves.

Questions people ask

Straight answers.

What does a Shopify growth agency do?

It grows a Shopify store's revenue through conversion optimization, landing pages, retention programs, app and integration strategy, and paid or organic traffic, with a single plan connecting all of it.

Can you build or redesign our Shopify store?

Yes. We design and develop Shopify stores, landing pages and theme customizations, and we handle replatforming to Shopify from other systems. See website design and development.

Do you manage Klaviyo email and SMS for Shopify brands?

Yes. Lifecycle email and SMS are core to Shopify retention. We design and build flows, campaigns and segmentation and connect them to your growth reporting.

Do you work with Shopify stores outside the US?

Yes. We work with Shopify brands across the US and UK, and with UK-based businesses selling into the US market.

Let’s talk

What are you trying to make happen?

Don’t know what you need? Good. That’s our job.

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The small print

What Extra Medium is.

Extra Medium is a strategy, creative, growth and technology studio based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with presence in Chicago and London. We help businesses launch, reinvent and grow brands, products and digital experiences: fractional CMO leadership, brand strategy and rebranding, growth marketing and paid media, websites, ecommerce and Shopify, SEO and AI search, AI consulting and automation, go-to-market and launch strategy, executive branding, podcasts and experiential marketing. Founded and led by Jeff Rimmer.