Designer eyewear cases — sold beautifully, worldwide.

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Client
The Pout
Industry
eCommerce / Lifestyle
Engagement
Web Design + SEO + Email Marketing
Timeline
10 weeks · 2020
4mkts
AU · NZ · UK · USA
SEO
Traffic post-SEO
3×
Email campaigns
98
First experience
thepout website
The Challenge

A beautiful product with no digital presence to match.

The Pout makes some of the most distinctive eyewear cases in the world — hand-crafted, designer-led, and entirely unlike anything else on the market. But their online presence was an afterthought: a generic template, low-quality product photography, and no SEO strategy to speak of.

For a product this visual, the digital experience had to be just as considered as the product itself. Every page needed to communicate craft, quality, and character — while functioning as a high-converting store across four international markets.

  • Generic template didn't reflect the product's premium positioningVisitors arrived expecting luxury and found a layout that looked like every other store.
  • No SEO strategy despite a unique and rankable productZero category pages, no commercial content — invisible to anyone searching for designer eyewear cases.
  • Email marketing was ad-hoc with no automation or segmentationCampaigns went out sporadically with no follow-up sequences to convert browsers into buyers.
  • International shipping and pricing not clearly communicatedCustomers in the UK and USA were dropping off at checkout due to unexpected costs and currency confusion.
Discovery

The product was the brief — no compromise on craft.

We started with the product itself — photographing, handling, and understanding what made The Pout genuinely different. The brief that emerged was simple: build a digital experience as considered as the cases themselves. No generic grid, no stock photography, no compromise on craft.

Approach

Every decision made to earn attention and convert it.

We designed the experience around the product's visual identity — then built the traffic engine and email infrastructure to make that experience pay off across four markets.

Visual-first design

Full-bleed photography, editorial-style product pages, and a colour palette drawn directly from the product range. Every page was designed to be shared.

SEO from scratch

Category pages, brand pages and buying guides built around search terms with real commercial intent — 'designer eyewear cases', 'luxury sunglass holders', and location variants for each market.

Email that converts

Abandoned cart sequences, post-purchase flows, and seasonal campaigns — all designed to match the brand's visual identity and drive repeat purchases.

"

A brand this distinctive deserved a digital presence that matched its ambition. We built one.

T
Studio note, Webwingz
2020
Results

Four markets. One store. Performing globally.

The new site launched with a full SEO foundation and email automation stack in place from day one. Organic traffic climbed steadily as category pages indexed, and email sequences became the single largest driver of repeat purchase revenue.

4 Markets
Selling globally
AU, NZ, UK and USA from a single store with localised experience.
↑ Organic
Traffic growth
SEO strategy driving qualified buyers to every product category.
↑ Conv.
Email performance
Automated sequences turning browsers into buyers.
Mobile
First experience
Over 70% of buyers on mobile — designed for them specifically.

Have a product that deserves a store to match?

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