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D2C Shopify build turns €0 online revenue into €920k in year one

Client

Grafton Street Retail Brand

Industry

Retail & eCommerce

Location

Dublin 2

Year

2024

Services provided

Shopify DevelopmentAI-Powered SEOD2C Strategy

€920k

Year-one D2C revenue

3.6%

Conversion rate

+290%

Organic product traffic

The Challenge

The problem we were hired to solve

A beloved Grafton Street retailer with 20+ years of in-store heritage had watched UK online-native brands take market share for five consecutive years. They had no D2C channel, no digital product catalogue, and a social media presence that drove zero revenue. Worse, Google had no understanding of their product catalogue — making them invisible for every high-intent transactional search query.

Our Approach

How we delivered it

01

Discovery & Audit

Deep dive into the existing digital estate — site architecture, keyword gaps, AI search baseline, and competitive landscape.

02

Strategy & Architecture

Content strategy, information architecture, and technical roadmap designed around the client's commercial goals and target audience.

03

Design & Build

High-fidelity design system, bespoke component development, and CMS configuration — no templates or page builders.

04

SEO & AEO Implementation

Structured data injection, LLM-readable content restructuring, entity optimisation, and AI citation seeding across target queries.

05

Launch & Optimise

Staged rollout with real-time monitoring, Core Web Vitals validation, and 90-day post-launch optimisation programme.

What We Built

Before & after

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After
Before
Before
After

Legacy site — slow, unstructured, invisible to AI engines

Rebuilt — sub-second load, AI-optimised, conversion-first

The Results

Numbers that changed the business

€0k

Year-one D2C revenue

0%

Conversion rate

+0%

Organic product traffic

0 months

To exceed in-store revenue

"
"Our online revenue now exceeds our in-store revenue. The Shopify build and SEO strategy completely changed our business model — we went from zero online presence to our most profitable channel in just over a year."
FO

Founder

Grafton Street Retail Brand

Stack & Tools

Technologies used

🛍️Shopify Plus
💧Liquid
📧Klaviyo
🔖Schema.org
🔍Google Merchant Center
📊Ahrefs
🔥Hotjar
🟠Cloudflare
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