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Ecom and digital products

REAL Growth Partnership works on the digital channels where the sale is made or lost. We map the omnichannel journey, diversify revenue through marketplaces and third-party channels, run a continuous personalisation and test roadmap on site, and prioritise investment in channels and product features against the conversion economics underneath them. Retail media and data monetisation sit inside the same scope.

Diagram: an on-site experience laid out as a page, with the conversion point as the one element carrying weight.On-site experienceConversion

What gets in the way

Digital trade is measured constantly and understood rarely. The reporting says what happened on the site, and very little about the journey that brought someone to it or the one that took them somewhere else.

  • A journey nobody owns end to end

    Site, app, marketplace and store are run and reported separately, so the customer crossing between them is the one thing nobody is watching. The drop-out happens in those gaps, which is exactly where nothing is measured.

  • Revenue resting on one channel

    Trade concentrates on the owned site because that is where the margin looks best, and the demand that never visits it goes to whoever is on the marketplace instead. The exposure only becomes visible once traffic falls.

  • Testing as a project, not a habit

    Optimisation arrives as a burst of work around a redesign and then stops. Without a standing roadmap, a stated hypothesis and a decision at the end of each test, the site gets changed on opinion in between.

  • A roadmap built from requests

    Channel and feature investment gets prioritised by who asked loudest and what a competitor shipped last month. With no view of the conversion or revenue each item should move, the expensive build and the cheap fix are argued on the same terms.

Diagram: an omnichannel journey stepping between two channels, carrying on into conversion optimisation, which feeds marketplace and third-party revenue and retail media and data monetisation, with a continuous test loop back to the start of the journey.Omnichannel journeyConversionoptimisationRevenueMarketplace and3P revenueRetail media anddata monetisationContinuous test roadmap

The journey, the channel mix and the conversion behind it.

REAL Growth Partnership works on the digital channels where the sale is made or lost.

  • Omnichannel journey mapping
    The whole path to purchase across channels, mapped and sized.

  • Marketplace and 3P revenue
    Revenue diversified beyond the channels you own.

  • Conversion optimisation
    On-site personalisation and a standing test roadmap, monitored on conversion.

  • Retail media and data monetisation
    First-party data and owned audience turned into a revenue line.

Ecom & digital products features

Omnichannel journey mapping

Marketplace & 3P revenue diversification

Channel and product features investment prioritisation

Personalisation of on-site experience and continuous test roadmap

Conversion optimisation & monitoring

Data monetisation and retail media

Omnichannel journey mapping

Marketplace and 3P revenue

Conversion optimisation

Frequently asked questions

  • It maps the path to purchase as the customer actually takes it, across site, app, marketplace and store, rather than one channel at a time. The output shows where customers leave, which steps carry the most value, and where the journey breaks in the hand-off between two channels.

  • Because marketplaces reach demand that will never arrive at your site, and they carry a different cost and margin profile. REAL sizes the third-party opportunity alongside those economics, so the channel mix is settled on reach and margin rather than on preference.

  • On expected value. Each channel and product feature is ranked on the revenue or conversion it should move against the effort to deliver it, and the roadmap is built from that ranking. The expensive build and the cheap fix are then argued on the same terms.

  • A standing sequence of tests on the site rather than a burst of optimisation around a redesign. Each test carries a stated hypothesis, a measure and a decision at the end, and the order of the roadmap changes as results come in.

  • Yes. The tests, personalisation and tracking are built in the platform, tag manager and analytics you already have. We recommend new tooling only where the current stack cannot support the design, and we show you the reasoning before you spend.

  • Retail media is selling advertising and audience access to the brands and suppliers you already trade with, using your own first-party data. It applies where you have enough traffic, and enough data about that traffic, to be worth a supplier's budget. Establishing whether you do is the first piece of work, not an assumption we start from.

A leading UK omnichannel retailer in fashion and electricals

Competing against more than 20 established players in two of the most contested categories in the UK, the retailer performed well on trust, value and delivery and still ceded the drivers that actually decide a purchase. Leadership had no evidence base for who the most valuable shoppers are or where to focus to win them.

  • 10k+

    Shoppers surveyed, anchored on their most recent purchase

  • 11

    Demand spaces defined per category, sized, profiled and scored on need

  • 263

    Index in the client's strongest space: 13.4% penetration against a 5.1% market average