The client had developed a new website in WordPress, and the web developer called me in at the eleventh hour to check the site's organic optimization. I very quickly determined that the client's organic footprint would suffer badly by taking the site live. The client then redeveloped the site in Magento, and I took the lead in all matters related to organic optimization, including keyword research, content development and on-page optimization.

Founded by CEO Don Halpern, the company's chief competitive advantage is their products' unique patented features and material that prevent the bag from being opened or broken into. Their product features are unique and cannot be found with any other companies on the market. In 2017, Loctote was featured on Shark Tank where they successfully garnered an investment deal with Shark Tank investor Robert Herjavec. The company successfully established eCommerce and wholesale distribution channels but needed help improving the profitability of their paid advertising strategy for their eCommerce channel. When we began working with the Loctote company, they were experiencing issues that were interfering with the profitability of their paid advertising channels. While the company’s initial online advertising campaigns had been successful in the beginning, over time due to the increasing complexity and competitiveness of advertising platforms, the ad campaigns had declined in performance. Due to these issues, the company was experiencing a downturn in online revenue, an increase in wasted ad spend, and a decline in ROAS across all online advertising channels.

Tech Checks is a check printing service that competes against high profile brands such as QuickBooks, Deluxe, and VistaPrint. Tech Checks needed a firm that can help them promote to their target audience their value and vastly superior processing times. Retaining customers was also a huge challenge, as many of their customers ordered one time from them and never returned to reorder.

Andrea joined Fellow as the Director of DTC eCommerce - a Series B, coffee gear startup in San Francisco. She led the eCommerce B2C business, responsible for the P&L, eCommerce marketing and website product roadmap.

When she joined, the team has experienced some success with the first year of the pandemic, due to people investing in their home coffee brew bar. The challenges she faced were: there was no eCommerce team, no growth strategy, limited resources and budget, few business processes + low cross-team cohesion.