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Every insight we've published
The full index of our notes on ecommerce growth — where demand comes from, why conversion stalls, what retention is really worth, and how to decide what to fix first. 9 published notes, newest first.
August 2026
Conversion and Journey4 min readWhat is a good ecommerce conversion rate in the UK?
A single 'average' conversion rate is a commercially misleading metric. We share our observed benchmarks for UK businesses, broken down by category and AOV.
- Market analysis12 min read
The state of UK ecommerce growth investment, 2026
Established UK ecommerce businesses are not short of growth investment — they are short of conviction about where it should go. A senior read on where the money is sitting, what changed, and what the best-run businesses are doing differently.
- Measurement5 min read
The four numbers that tell you growth is stalling
Most ecommerce reporting is too detailed to make a decision with. Four numbers, read together, tell you whether the business is genuinely growing or simply spending more to stand still.
- Retention4 min read
Retention is a merchandising problem before it's an email problem
When repeat rate slips, the CRM roadmap gets the blame. Usually the range, the second purchase and the reason to return were never designed in the first place.
- Operating model5 min read
What a good 90-day growth plan actually looks like
Most 90-day plans are a list of everything, ordered by who asked loudest. A usable one names one constraint, a handful of decisions, and what the business will stop doing.
- Prioritisation4 min read
More traffic isn't always the answer
When growth slows, most ecommerce teams reach for more demand. Often the constraint sits further down the system — and more traffic simply makes it more expensive.
- Home & interiors5 min read
Considered purchases break the standard ecommerce playbook
Home, interiors and furniture brands are handed tactics built for £30 impulse buys. Long consideration windows, high basket values and offline overlap change almost every decision.
July 2026
- Operating model4 min read
Most ecommerce teams don't have an activity problem
They have a prioritisation problem. Plenty is happening across channels and agencies — very little of it is sequenced against the same commercial constraint.
- Discovery5 min read
AI discovery is a distribution change, not a content tactic
Assistants and AI answer surfaces sit between your brand and the buyer. That changes what needs to be machine-readable — and it is closer to merchandising than to blogging.