Industries / Ecommerce & DTC
Industry — Los Angeles

eCommerce & DTC Marketing in Los Angeles.

CRTE scales Los Angeles eCommerce and DTC brands with SEO, paid media, CRO, and conversion-ready content — plus product photography from our in-house studio. One team handles the growth strategy and the creative it runs on. Talk DTC marketing with CRTE.

Overview

How we run ecommerce & dtc.

DTC in LA is a specific game. The city has more Shopify Plus brands per zip code than almost any US metro, which means the creative bar is high and CAC drifts up every quarter. Winning brands are the ones running paid, organic, marketplace, and creative as one program — not four.

We run the full DTC stack: Meta, TikTok, and Google Ads on paid; SEO and lifecycle on organic; Amazon on marketplace; and full-funnel CRO on the site itself. Weekly creative comes out of CRTE Studio — Meta, TikTok, and PDP hero shots produced in the same shoot.

Reporting is MER-first, not platform-ROAS-first. We tie ad spend to blended new-customer margin so growth decisions aren't made on the last-click fiction Meta and Google both sell.

Category challenges
  • CAC creep
  • Creative fatigue
  • Marketplace vs DTC tradeoffs
How CRTE fixes it
  • +Meta Ads
  • +Amazon marketing
  • +UGC content
  • +CRO
The playbook

What we ship for ecommerce & dtc.

Paid-social scale on Meta + TikTok

Native creative production, CAPI setup, and MER-based reporting.

Google Ads + PMax discipline

Feed hygiene, negative keywords, and offline conversion imports pushed back to the platform.

Amazon marketplace

Sponsored Ads and DSP tied to your DTC calendar so promos don't cannibalize.

PDP + checkout CRO

Structured testing on hero, PDP, cart, and checkout with real statistical rigor.

Local

For brands across Greater LA.

We work with ecommerce & dtc clients across Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and the greater LA metro — plus remote-first engagements across the US.

  • +Shopify + Shopify Plus programs across LA-based DTC brands
  • +Weekly creative pipeline out of CRTE Studio
  • +MER-first reporting model, not last-click theater
How we work

A four-phase cadence, every engagement.

01
Discover

Kickoff, audit, and diagnostics. We map the account, the market, and the goal before we touch anything.

02
Plan

A 90-day roadmap with the channels, creative, budget, and KPIs the team will actually be measured against.

03
Build

Senior operators do the work — no juniors on your account. Weekly cadence, transparent Slack, real deliverables.

04
Optimize

Monthly review + quarterly recalibration. We double down on what works and cut what doesn't, on purpose.

Ecommerce & DTC FAQ.

For strategy-led retainers, yes — we won't run two direct competitors in the same LA-metro market at the same time.

Ready when you are

Bring us your ecommerce & dtc program. We'll scope it in a week.