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AI, algorithms, and how customers discover brands evolve constantly. What worked last year (or even last quarter) can stall fast if you’re not grounded in fundamentals, not hacks. And it doesn’t matter how polished your ad agency’s dashboard looks if it’s not showing up in real revenue growth and profitablity.
We’ve lived it. We've run brands the way great bands perform—with timing and creativity you can’t fake. We're operators, not agency lifers. Our team includes founders, Shopify experts, paid media specialists, project managers, SVPs of Sales, technical leads, and creatives. You won’t be handed off to a junior team, and you won’t work with anyone who’s never owned a P&L or had to make payroll.
Before a customer ever adds to cart (or books, or fills out a form), they’ve already decided what they think—based on Google, ChatGPT, social, comparisons, and reviews. Most agencies default to funnels for messaging and “spend more on Meta.” We diagnose and fix your customer journey before you spend more on ads so you scale profitably. Discovery → Brand Research → Onsite UX → Conversion Flow → Follow-Up
Your Customer Journey. Explained.
Let’s Talk. Book a Karma Call and we’ll dig into your brand and goals to pinpoint the highest-impact customer journey improvements. You’ll leave knowing what to work on first and what to test next without reinventing what’s already working. No scripts. No hard sell. You’ll get useful insight even if we never work together. That’s good karma for both of us.
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Your brand, niche, and ideal customer are unique. Your plan should be too.
Below are eCommerce business models we know deeply that sell products, services, or both. If none of these feel like you, that’s a signal we may not be the right fit—and that’s okay. We’d rather do our best work where our experience is strongest.
Premium, daily-used purchases such as Eight Sleep mattresses, standing desks, or TVs, where customers research deeply and decide slowly. Without the right steps, touchpoints, and cart upsells, you can lose them before or after the sale.
This is our sweet spot.
Products people need immediately, if not sooner, in a specific niche: Plumbing & HVAC companies like Mountain Valley or rush replacement parts, where decisions are quick and speed, clarity, and trust in the journey decide who gets the sale.
This is a core focus.
Businesses that schedule appointments via contact or booking forms and the customer must show up for the service. Examples include wellness clinics like Massage Envy or destination experiences like Sustainable Wine Tours. Success depends on ease of booking and follow-up: immediate calls, SMS reminders.
We love these journeys.
Solo product websites like Beast Blender and other hero brands built around one flagship SKU with just a few sizes or colors, where every touchpoint has to pull its weight because your whole story, traffic, and revenue ride on a single product.
We specialize in this model.
Supplements, vitamins, or oral care products such as Quip. The first sale often just covers acquisition cost, real profit starts on the 2nd or 3rd order. Subscriptions, easy reorders, and smart retention flows are the engine, so every step after the 1st purchase has to be dialed in.
Another of our favorites.
Online stores that do not make their own products but resell or drop-ship many SKUs in a single niche. Success is built on product curation and vendor relationships rather than owning the product.
A great model, just not our specialty.
A no-pressure Zoom conversation to understand your company, your concerns, and growth opportunities. High-level thoughts on your current customer journey: Discovery → Brand Research → Onsite UX → Conversion Flow → Follow-Up
A holistic view of your entire customer journey. This is our core service and the foundation of everything we do. This is not an "audit." This is a deep, platform-level teardown of your full customer journey. It is powered by platform access and completed over an average of 30 days. It shows where you're winning and the highest-impact opportunities for growth. Ideal for ecommerce brands with an internal team who want prefer to implement the changes themselves.
- Brand Discovery
- Brand Research
- Onsite UX
- Conversion Flow
- Follow-Up
Everything in our Karma Journey service package plus 3 priority fixes chosen by you and done for you.
You get 3 meaningful changes in place, coaching, and thoughtful follow-up 90 days after to discuss the impact of the improvements.
Ideal for eCommerce brands that want both a roadmap and hands-on implementation with no recurring fees.
- Pre-purchase email/SMS flows
- Post-purchase email/SMS flows
- Ad spend to result analysis
- Product detail page rebuild
- Homepage/landing page rebuild
- Chat/contact functionality
- Checkout flow/CRO analysis
Ideal for brands that need expert support on a specific initiative using our deep bench of specialists.
All services listed are custom and begin with a Karma Call. We recommend our Karma Journey prior so all projects support one clear plan.
NEW IMAGES + VIDEO: Infinity wall studio with pro photographers and videographers
PODCAST: Pro studio for video OR audio only, recording + production
FULL BRAND REFRESH: Website, social, and overall online presence
TECH STACK: Streamline or rebuild
3D PRODUCT EXPERIENCES: Immersive builders, 3D models, Augmented Reality
AD CAMPAIGN MGMT: Google/Meta
PROJECT MGMT: Professional PMP-certified services
PRICING STRATEGY: Competitive guidance by current VPs and SVPs of Sales
No. There are no ongoing monthly fees, long term contracts, or setup costs.
Everything at eCom Karma is project based, not a subscription.
Each package covers a defined scope of work with a clear start, end, and followup date to see how things have improved.
We’re hired to deliver outcomes. We want you to feel good about the investment and earn the right to be your first contact for the next opportunity.
In most cases, your marketing agency or internal marketing team is doing fine work on their specific responsibilities (Meta ads, email, SEO) but they are typically not responsible for the entire journey.
Our intention is not to tell you what your current marketing department or agency is doing "wrong." Far from it. Our goal is to help as a team partner to shine a light on areas that can be improved and data to back it up. In marketing, you’ll often hear “top-of-funnel” and “bottom-of-funnel.” That framework can be useful for ad creative and messaging at different stages, but it can also zoom out too far. Sales don’t happen all at once. They happen one step at a time, leading to “yes.”
That’s why we focus on the ENTIRE customer journey to answer the customer’s next question, build trust, and make the decision easier. When the journey improves, you increase revenue from the same traffic, your ad dollars go further, and you pay less to win each customer so you can grow profitably.
Our Karma Journey service package gives you a neutral, cross-channel view and a prioritized roadmap your internal team or existing partners can use to execute to work in harmony, or we can implement the changes ourselves. Your choice. It all starts with a free Karma Call.
If your reports look “good” but profit, conversion rate, or repeat purchase isn’t improving, it often means someone is optimizing a channel—not the full customer journey.
Common signs: rising new Customer Aquisition Cost, heavy use of discount codes to hit revenue, strong traffic but weak conversion, stagnant Average Order Value, high drop-off on product/checkout, or customers not having clarity and needing too much “hand-holding” (excessive chat and phone calls) to buy.
Our Karma Journey gives you a neutral, cross-channel view so you stop paying-and-praying and can make confident decisions about what to fix next.
Many brands get stuck a mental state of paying and praying “next month will be better” with long term contracts and not getting a different viewpoint.
A one-time holistic Karma Journey analysis can reveal the real issues.
Very deep. This is a platform-level teardown across each step of your customer journey: Brand Discovery → Customer Research → Onsite UX → Conversion Flow → Follow-Up
We use this to confidently recommend next steps for your team, or us, to implement for you that will provide real ROI. We combine account access + real buyer behavior + business context to find the true opportunities (not surface-level “tips”).
Our average timeline from start to finish is 30 days. Expect for your team to share: Shopify + GA4 (and/or analytics), ad platforms (as applicable), and access to any key tools that influence conversion (reviews,support/chat).
This is done via our onboarding setup and meeting with your team. Once that is done, we get to work.
You receive a clear, owner-ready playbook your team can execute with zero ambiguity—plus full transparency on how and why we’re recommending each change.
We recommend reviewing the Karma Journey product page for the full scope. Scroll down to our "Discover Your Journey" section. It effectively acts as a “pre-walkthrough” of your customer journey and helps you start thinking in stages (Brand Discovery → Customer Research → Onsite UX → Conversion Flow → Follow-Up) and where your biggest opportunites may be.
What you’ll get:
- A prioritized 90-day roadmap (what to fix first, and why)
- Specific recommendations by funnel stage (discovery, PDP, checkout, post-purchase)
- A 120-minute Zoom walkthrough with the owner/marketing lead
- A Loom recording your team can use to implement internally
- A follow-up coaching call 2–3 months later to review what changed and what moved
Our approach is “no secrets.” We give you the full playbook so you can implement internally, use your existing team/agency, or choose for us to help with execution. We are here to improve your business and share what works. That's good karma.
Yes. Any Karma Creative project can start immediately—the scope is custom, and it begins with a free Karma Call to discuss what you want to build.
That said, if you are the type of operator who likes to protect ROI and move with conviction, a Karma Journey first is often the best first step. It makes sure the creative investment (video, photography, branding, 3D, site updates) is aimed at the highest-impact bottlenecks in your customer journey—not just more content, new product images, or modernizing the site.
If you already have strong clarity on the problem and want to go full steam, we will not slow you down. We can absolutely execute a targeted creative project right away. Our philosophy for best practice is always to bring the data first so whatever you choose has the best chance of driving measurable results.
Yes. Most clients keep their current team/agency. We are designed to align everyone around one plan, reduce channel silos, and eliminate conflicting priorities.
Your team can implement the roadmap, or you can choose Karma X3 so we implement the first three high-impact fixes for you.
You are not handed off to junior staff and everyone is 100% US based. eCom Karma is a collective of senior operators and specialists—strategy, performance, UX, Shopify Plus, conversion Rate optimization, lifecycle, creative, and technical—brought in based on what your business needs.
For creative initiatives, we can support the full spectrum: brand refresh, photography, video production, landing pages, PDP rebuilds, 3D/AR experiences, and more—all coordinated to support the same customer journey plan.
Absolutely! That is actually on the menu, falls under Karma Creative, and a common request.
For creative initiatives, Our Team can support the full spectrum: brand refresh, photography, video production, Meta ad management, landing pages, product detail page rebuilds, 3D/AR experiences, all coordinated to support the same customer journey growth plan.
It all starts with a free Karma Call to discuss your unique business, situation, and goals.
With that said, our Karma X3 is a popular choice for most companies. It's our "Karma x 3 Fixes" package.
Karma X3 includes everything is the Karma Journey package and you choose 3 priority improvements based on what we discover and we implement them for you.