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Industry · Retail & Consumer

Turn one-time shoppers into repeat buyers.

Retail margins are made on the second, third and tenth purchase, not the first. We help you find the buyers you already paid to acquire, bring them back by email and WhatsApp, and take the manual work out of stock, orders and customer questions across stores and online.

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The context

Where retail value leaks today

01
Acquisition costs keep rising.

Paid social and marketplace fees take a larger share of each first order, so the business only earns its margin if the customer comes back.

02
Customer data sits in silos.

POS, website, marketplace and loyalty records rarely match, so nobody can say who your best customers are or when they last bought.

03
Buyers search before they walk in.

Shoppers check Google, Instagram and AI assistants for stock, price and opening hours before visiting, and the store with clear answers wins the visit.

04
Store teams carry admin.

Staff spend selling hours answering the same delivery, return and availability questions by phone and WhatsApp instead of serving people on the floor.

Both numbers

Where we move revenue and cost in Retail & Consumer.

Revenue ↑ · The leak

Footfall and online traffic that never turns into repeat buyers, because nobody owns the customer after the first purchase.

Single customer viewJoin POS, website and marketplace records into one customer list, so you can see first-time, lapsing and loyal buyers by store and channel.
Loyalty and win-backRun email and WhatsApp journeys for second purchase, replenishment and win-back, triggered by what each customer bought and when they last visited.
Local search and AEOMake every store findable for nearby buyers on Google and in AI answers, with accurate stock categories, hours, reviews and directions.
Content that sellsProduce product photography, short-form video and buying guides built around the questions customers ask before they choose a brand.
Cost ↓ · The drain

Stock, orders and customer queries handled across disconnected tools, with staff copying data between systems every day.

Stock and order syncConnect POS, ERP, website and marketplace inventory so stock levels and order status update automatically instead of being keyed in by hand.
AI customer repliesAnswer routine questions on order status, returns, sizes and store stock automatically, with a clear handover to a person for complaints and exceptions.
One sales dashboardGive owners one daily view of sales, margin, stock cover and repeat rate across every store and online channel, without weekly spreadsheet work.
Replenishment alertsFlag fast-moving and slow-moving lines from sales data so buyers reorder on evidence rather than gut feel or last year's pattern.
Your first 90 days

From review to results in one quarter.

Days 1-7

Review

Map your channels, customer data and repeat-purchase behaviour, and find where revenue leaks and staff hours go. You get a one-page baseline.

Days 8-30

Connect

Join customer and sales data into one view, fix store listings for local search, and launch the first win-back journey on email or WhatsApp.

Days 31-60

Automate

Switch on AI replies for routine customer questions and automate stock and order updates between POS, website and marketplaces.

Days 61-90

Scale

Extend journeys to replenishment and loyalty, roll the sales dashboard out to every store, and set targets for the next quarter.

What we measure

Judged by the numbers, not the activity.

We take a baseline in Review week, agree targets in writing and report against them every month.

Repeat purchase rate
Revenue from returning customers
Customer queries resolved without staff
Hours spent on manual stock updates
Typical starting points
Marketing Automation: Leads are expensive to win and easy to lose.
SEO: Buyers who search for what you sell are already in the market.
Workflow Automation: Much office work is moving information between systems, chasing approvals and producing the same reports.
FAQ

Questions retail & consumer leaders ask us.

Do we need a new POS or ERP to start?
No. We start with the systems you already run and connect them. If a system genuinely blocks progress, we show you the cost of keeping it against the cost of replacing it, and you decide. Most early gains come from joining data and automating routine work, not from new software.
Yes. The first step is a single customer and sales view across stores, your own website and marketplaces. From there, campaigns and automation run on that combined data, so a buyer who shops in store and online is treated as one customer, not two.
We set up automated replies for routine questions such as order status, returns and store stock, using approved templates and opt-in lists. Complaints, refunds above a limit you set and anything unclear go to a named person, and every automated reply is logged.
Keep exploring

Services we usually start with.

Lever 04 · Fill the PipelineMarketing Automation

Leads are expensive to win and easy to lose.

ExploreLever 03 · Get FoundSEO

Buyers who search for what you sell are already in the market.

ExploreLever 03 · AutomateWorkflow Automation

Much office work is moving information between systems, chasing approvals and producing the same reports.

ExploreLever 05 · DeployReEngage20

ReEngage20 is an email and WhatsApp automation platform from our partner Focus20 Labs.

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