Los Angeles
eCommerce Marketing in Los Angeles.
CRTE is a Los Angeles eCommerce marketing agency that scales online stores profitably — with eCommerce SEO, PPC, CRO, and Shopify expertise. We grow traffic, lift conversion, and increase ROAS so your store makes more from every visitor.
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- Investment
- $2,000–$4,000 per month
- Turnaround
- Diagnosis and ninety-day plan within 20 business days
- Great for
- Los Angeles stores that plateaued after one channel stopped working · Catalogues with healthy traffic and an unexamined product page · Brands with repeat-purchase potential and no lifecycle programme
Who this is for.
This fits established stores with genuine order volume, a catalogue someone maintains, and enough margin that acquisition can be paid for. The most common presenting problem is a store that grew on one channel — a founder's social audience, or a period of cheap paid traffic — and has since flattened as that channel's economics changed. The second is a store with acceptable traffic and a product page that has never been examined. Both need diagnosis before spending. Two situations we will turn away: stores whose margin cannot support paid acquisition at current market rates, where the honest answer is pricing or product work rather than marketing, and stores on a platform so neglected that page speed and checkout reliability undermine everything else. In the second case we recommend fixing the store first, through our web development service, rather than spending on traffic that will bounce. Margin is the number that decides everything else, and it is the one most stores have never handed to an agency. Without it, a programme optimises toward revenue, which is how a store ends up celebrating a record month that lost money once discounting, shipping and returns are counted. Category-level gross margin is enough for us to set defensible targets, and it changes which products we advertise as often as it changes how much we spend. Lifecycle work is usually where the first honest gain sits, because it acts on demand you have already paid for. A store with abandoned checkouts, no post-purchase sequence and a dormant customer list is leaving revenue on the table that costs nothing further in media to recover. It is also the least visible work, which is why it goes undone for years while attention stays on acquisition. Returns and fulfilment reality constrain what we are willing to advertise. If a product ships slowly, arrives inconsistently or is returned at an unusual rate, promoting it harder increases complaints and refunds rather than profit. We would rather know that at scoping and weight the plan toward the products that hold up.
What we need before starting.
Store work depends on data access and honest numbers more than anything else. Without the items below, recommendations become educated guesses dressed up as strategy, and neither of us can tell whether the programme is working.
- Admin access to your ecommerce platform, analytics, advertising and email or SMS tools.
- Your actual gross margin by product category, so acquisition targets can be set against profit rather than revenue.
- Current fulfilment and returns reality, including anything that limits what we can promise in advertising.
- A named decision-maker who can approve creative, discounting and budget without a committee.
- Product imagery and copy source files, or agreement that producing them is part of the scope.
What the programme covers.
Store programmes are built from the disciplines below in whatever proportion your diagnosis calls for. A store leaking value at the product page gets conversion and merchandising weight; a store with strong conversion and no repeat purchase gets lifecycle weight instead.
Unit economics first
Acquisition targets set against your gross margin rather than revenue, so a campaign that grows sales while losing money is identified as a failure, not a win.
Paid acquisition
Paid search, paid social and shopping feeds run on a flat scope-based fee, with your media budget paid to the platforms and never marked up by us.
Lifecycle flows
Welcome, abandonment, post-purchase and win-back automations built once and then revised against actual open, click and repeat-order behaviour.
Merchandising
Collection structure, product page content and catalogue navigation reviewed so the products with margin are the ones customers reach first.
Conversion work
Funnel analysis across the templates that carry orders, with a prioritised list of fixes ordered by expected value against implementation cost.
One reporting view
Platform, analytics and advertising data reconciled so you have a single defensible figure for what a customer costs and what they are worth.
How the engagement runs.
The first month is spent making the numbers trustworthy and finding the largest recoverable loss. Stores usually expect to start with campaigns; starting there is how programmes end up optimising a channel that was never the constraint.
- Step 1Weeks one and two — data audit across platform, analytics and ad accounts, plus margin and unit economics review.
- Step 2Weeks three and four — diagnosis naming where value leaks, and a ninety-day plan weighted to that finding.
- Step 3Month two onward — execution across the channels in scope with reporting at your package cadence.
- Step 4Each quarter — performance against plan, what we are stopping, and the next ninety days proposed in writing.
Scope and packages.
Two monthly packages plus a custom tier. Store Growth Foundation concentrates on one acquisition channel alongside core lifecycle flows. Ecommerce Growth runs several channels with conversion work and a creative cadence. Multi-Channel Commerce is quoted on scope for larger catalogues and channel mixes. What moves the number is your platform and its technical condition, catalogue size and how often new products launch, how many acquisition channels are managed, creative and lifecycle production volume, and the conversion and media requirements. Advertising media spend and your email, SMS and app subscriptions are billed by those vendors directly.
$2,000 – $4,000 per monthMedia spend and email, SMS or app subscriptions billed by the vendor. Larger scope quoted separately.
| Scope | Store Growth Foundation | Ecommerce Growth | Multi-Channel Commerce |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting point | From $2,000 / month | From $4,000 / month | Quoted on scope |
| Acquisition | One primary channel | Several channels planned together | Full channel mix |
| Lifecycle | Core automated flows | Full flow set plus campaigns | Segmented lifecycle programme |
| Conversion | Product page recommendations | Ongoing conversion work | Continuous testing programme |
| Not included | Media spend, original production | Media spend, replatforming | Media, platform fees, development |
Questions we get asked.
These are the questions that decide whether a store programme is viable. The margin question in particular is worth settling before any budget is committed.
We work on the major hosted commerce platforms and on custom builds where the data is accessible. Your platform's technical condition is a genuine price driver: a well-maintained store costs less to grow than one where speed and checkout reliability need constant workarounds.
Deliverables.
- Data audit across platform, analytics and advertising accounts
- Margin and unit economics review setting acquisition targets against profit
- Written ninety-day plan weighted to the largest recoverable loss
- Management of the acquisition channels named in the agreement
- Lifecycle flows built or revised across welcome, abandonment and post-purchase
- Monthly reporting on customer acquisition cost, orders and repeat purchase
Where to go next.
- Marketplace MarketingRuns Amazon and other marketplaces alongside your own store.
- CRODigs deeper into the product and checkout templates that carry orders.
- Web Design & DevelopmentRebuilds or repairs the store when the platform is the real constraint.