Case Study 01 · Women's Apparel
A landing page that turned a loss-making ad account profitable.
Monthly Revenue
$9K$31K
Paid ROAS
0.9x2.9x
Conversion Rate
0.9%2.8%
01 · The Situation
The ad was doing its job. The page was not.
A women's apparel brand came to me in a frustrating position.
They were spending $10,000 a month on Meta ads. Their ROAS was 0.9x. Every dollar they put into advertising was returning 90 cents. The more they scaled, the more money they lost.
The instinct in that situation is usually to fix the ads. Better creative, better targeting, better copy. They had already tried that with two different agencies. Nothing moved.
When I looked at where the traffic was going I understood immediately. Every ad was sending clicks to a generic Shopify collection page. A page built for browsing, not for converting. The ad was doing its job. The page was not.
"We kept thinking the ads were the problem. Nobody ever looked at what happened after the click."
Founder
02 · The Diagnosis
The whole journey pointed at one page.
Audit Snapshot: Before
The collection page had 47 products on it. A customer clicking an ad for a Summer dress was landing on a page showing everything from winter coats to accessories. No narrative. No urgency. No social proof. Just a grid of products and a search bar.
On mobile it was worse. By the time the page appeared, 57% of visitors had already left.
03 · The Architecture
One page, rebuilt six ways.
Not the ads: the page. Six changes, built specifically for the traffic the ads were already sending.
Build 01
A dedicated Summer Collection landing page
Not a collection page. A landing page, built specifically for the traffic the ads were sending.
Opened with a lifestyle hero image showing the product worn in a real context, not a flat lay on a white background.
Matched the season and mood of the ad creative, so customers immediately recognised the world they'd just seen in their feed, closing the ad-to-page disconnect.
Build 02
Social proof above the fold
Reviews and UGC placed within the first scroll, not at the bottom where most visitors never reach.
Pulled the 12 most specific reviews, "I wore this to three summer events and got compliments at all of them. The fabric does not wrinkle in heat."
Specific reviews answer specific objections. Vague reviews do nothing.
Build 03
Mobile performance rebuild
Load time: 5.4 seconds to 1.8 seconds, the single biggest conversion lever on the page.
Every additional second of mobile load costs 7-12% of conversions.
Recovered a significant portion of traffic that was leaving before the page had even loaded.
Build 04
Sticky CTA throughout the scroll
A fixed add-to-cart button visible at every point on the page.
Customers never have to scroll back up to buy.
Every scroll is a decision point; the CTA needs to be there at every one.
Build 05
Express checkout
Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal added to the Shopify checkout.
On mobile, two taps for a returning customer.
The standard checkout, card details, billing, shipping, is where most mobile users abandon.
Build 06
Tracking properly configured
GA4 connected. Meta Pixel firing correctly on all purchase events.
Without accurate tracking the algorithm can't optimise for buyers; it optimises for whoever it can find data on.
Improved ad performance without changing a single ad.
04 · The Results
Eight weeks later.
The ad account went from losing money to generating a 2.9x return, without changing the ad spend, the targeting, or the creative. The ads were fine the whole time. The page was the problem.
05 · The Takeaway
The ad is the promise. The page is where that promise gets kept or broken.
Most apparel brands treat landing pages as an afterthought. The ad gets the attention, the budget, and the testing. The page gets whatever the theme looks like out of the box.
For fashion brands specifically, the page needs to do what a physical store does. Create an environment. Tell a story. Let the customer see themselves in the product. A collection grid does none of that.
After seeing what a single dedicated landing page did to their ROAS, this brand moved onto the Full DTC Growth Architecture retainer. The next phase was email retention and a full site rebuild.
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