eCommerce Shopify Plus Chicago, IL 12-month engagement

How we generated $2.4M in new organic revenue for a premium eCommerce brand in 12 months

A premium home goods brand had reached a ceiling with paid acquisition. We built an organic growth system that now drives 60% of total revenue, with consistent month-over-month compounding.

+690%
Organic traffic growth
+8,490%
Organic revenue increase
340
Keywords ranking top 3
52%
Reduction in blended CAC
The Challenge

Hitting the paid-ads ceiling.

Loam & Lark had grown to $4M ARR almost entirely through Meta and Google Ads. But by year three, CAC had crept up 78% and ROAS was sliding every quarter. Worse: their organic traffic was flat at ~12K/month — most of it branded. They were renting their entire growth.

Their internal team had tried two SEO agencies before us. The first delivered a 90-page audit and disappeared. The second wrote 40 generic blog posts that ranked for nothing.

We came in for a 90-day diagnostic with one question: where is unmet search demand for this brand's products, and why isn't it converting?

Our Approach

Three Parallel Growth Systems

Instead of a traditional roadmap, we executed three coordinated systems from week one:

1. Entity-mapped product SEO

We mapped products, categories, and materials to high-intent search entities, then rebuilt PDP and collection architecture around them. 280 product pages got new schema, new copy, and new internal linking.

2. AI-citation-ready content engine

40 educational articles built around buyer questions, optimized to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Each piece linked into 3–5 product pages.

3. Authority and digital PR sprint

12 high-quality placements in design/lifestyle publications over 6 months — sites that AI platforms already trust as citation sources.

No content sprawl. No keyword spam. Every piece was tied to a product, a buyer intent, and a measurable revenue path.

The Results

Organic became their largest channel.

By month 12:

  • Organic traffic grew from 12K to 95K/month — a 690% increase, with 73% non-branded.
  • $2.4M in attributed organic revenue — an 8,490% increase from $28K baseline.
  • 340 keywords ranking in Google top 3, including 18 head-term product categories.
  • 52% reduction in blended CAC as organic carried more of the load.
  • Cited 90+ times by ChatGPT and Perplexity for product-research queries in their category.

Most importantly: their organic engine now compounds without our hand on the wheel. We've shifted from execution to advisory — exactly the way it should work.

Minhal gave us a growth engine that runs on its own. Six months in, organic became our #1 channel.
Maya Reyes VP Growth, Loam & Lark
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