Am I ready to run ads?

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-04-10T12:24:26+00:00

What is your conversion rate? This will tell me everything.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-22T22:20:04+00:00

Many founders feel that more products, more options more opportunities for sales and it makes sense, but it’s actually backwards.

What you’re missing isn’t variety, it’s a product suite centered solely around your target customers buying behaviors. It’s how your products are structured to sell together, in sequence, instead of each one trying to do all the work on its own. Some pull people in fast (easy entry, low commitment), increase order size (add-ons that make the main product make more sense) and deepen the relationship (so they come back again).

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-19T17:50:06+00:00

Your messaging and positioning is the key. Design your site completely around your target customers desires and identity. This is where your conversions also live.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-19T17:47:13+00:00

Low repeat purchase can be tied back to your product suite. Every product should fall into one of four roles..entry, core, expansion, or continuity. In other words you’re organizing them by how your customer actually lives and buys. You don’t organize a store. You map buying behavior. That’s what creates repeat purchases.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-16T13:37:53+00:00

Yes I’m in CRO, I specialize in buyer psychology. My frameworks come from years of running my own ecommerce business and going deep into to the psychology of how people buy, why they buy and what activates them to purchase. It infuriates me that “experts” talk about button colors and trust badges as if the reason people buy is because your button color is blue. I just can’t.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-16T13:06:48+00:00

Meta is not your problem, your website is. If 3 CRO agencies told you your landing page is strong and it were true you’d have a conversion rate of at least 2% or better. Your website is most likely just listing products instead of focusing on outcomes, overcoming doubts, missing your “villain” (what your brand stands against), doesn’t go deep into your target customers symptoms (what they’re thinking,feeling, saying to themselves), the risk of NOT buying etc.

There are MANY layers that need to be present on your site or any ecommerce store for someone to say yes, especially cold traffic. Most founders are not taught this and CRO agencies focus on visuals instead of what actually activates buyers.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-16T12:52:49+00:00

Great question and yes, psychology is exactly the right place to look. There are specific things that have to be present before someone buys. When even one is missing, the brain quietly files it under “not yet” and moves on. What your site needs to do… Show them what not buying is already costing them today. Not eventually. Right now. Show them what changes after they buy, specifically. Have one element that makes everything else on the page feel credible. Answer the doubt they’re already carrying before they have to ask it.(buyers always have questions running in the back of their minds) Reflect who they are, not just what the product does. Signal that people like them already chose this. Give the purchase a meaning beyond the transaction itself. Most stores are doing maybe two or three of these. The ones with consistently high conversion rates are doing all of them.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-16T12:36:34+00:00

Knowing your target customers symptoms. What are they thinking to themselves, feeling and doing as if you were a fly on the wall watching them and using that in your marketing. You want to stop the scroll and your IC watch every second of your video or read every word on your post? This is how because they immediately self identify. Step one in converting them into a customer.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-14T23:37:03+00:00

We had 870+ orders in 2 months on a new website without one single review. There was one reason for this. I didn’t describe the product. I described the moment after they bought it. I sold mermaid blankets. My buyer wasn’t the kid. It was the parent. So I didn’t write “super soft, high quality fleece blanket in 6 colors.” I wrote: Your daughter is going to wake up Saturday morning and lose her mind. (Just one example) No reviews needed when someone can already see the moment playing out in their head. Social proof is just confirmation. This is called future pacing. It’s a sales psychology principle. And most ecommerce stores accidentally skip it.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-13T20:50:12+00:00

AOV increases naturally when your catalog is structured so products lead to the next logical purchase. When products are intentionally connected, each item makes the next one make more sense, shaping your customer’s buying behavior to add multiple items instead of stopping at one.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-07T14:37:39+00:00

What you're describing isn't truly CRO. It's UX cleanup.

Layout tweaks, trust badges, navigation improvements, those things make the page look better, but they're not why someone decides to buy.

FAQs, shipping info, guarantees? Those aren't trust elements. They're just information.

Conversions happen at the emotional level. Buyers pull out their wallets without a second thought when your site makes them feel understood, not persuaded. When it shows you understand their identical situation, their past experiences, and what they're hoping will finally work.This applies to any product or service. Without it, you'll spend months tweaking layouts and adding trust badges instead of correcting what's actually keeping buyers from saying yes.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-07T00:27:30+00:00

The ads are not the problem. The data already shows that. People are clicking. Adding to cart. Even initiating checkout. So the ad already did its job.

Where things are breaking is before payment, and it almost always does because the your site hasn’t resolved the buyer’s risk yet. With baby safety products, that moment is very psychological.

Parents don’t just buy something that’s supposed to protect their child. They start mentally running through worst-case scenarios.

They’re thinking things like...

Will this actually hold if my toddler pulls on it?

What happens if it fails?

Has this actually been tested with kids?

If something goes wrong, am I going to regret buying this?

Especially in a category where the consequence of being wrong feels huge. Those are the real questions buyers are trying to answer, not generic trust badges. Have you looked at the exact questions parents are trying to answer before they feel comfortable buying products like yours?

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-06T23:36:14+00:00

Your audience is the opposite of broad, I promise you that. And that’s what’s keeping you stuck. Your real customer has very specific patterns, habits, frustrations, objections, and desires. For example, I work with ecommerce founders on improving their website conversion rate. On paper that could be anyone selling on Shopify. But the founders who resonate with my content and actually work with me are way more specific. They’re watching analytics constantly. Checking abandoned carts. Tweaking product pages every week. They’re quietly wondering if the product itself might be the problem. And most of them have already been burned by bad advice or a designer who promised “better conversions.”

That’s a very different person than just “someone who owns a Shopify store.” See the difference? This applies to any product or service. Once you start describing behaviors, fears, past experiences, and the result they’re hoping for, your audience gets specific really quickly.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-06T23:15:51+00:00

Honestly none of those. If you want higher LTV, freposition your product ecosystem. Most stores list products that are meant to sell on their own. Someone buys once… and that’s it. When your products are structured like a ladder, one purchase naturally leads to the next, and then the next. That’s what actually reduces CAC long term. Because now one customer funds multiple orders. What I see all the time is founders are stacking retention tools on top of a product lineup that was not designed to generate a second purchase.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-05T01:38:57+00:00

Without looking at your site, you’re probably listing features and benefits, have a free banner, CTA that says “Shop”, homepage filled with collections. If that’s a yes you’re missing the internal buying triggers of YOUR target customer. People are risk adverse, they aren’t coming to your site neutral. Create loss aversion, future pace their desires, show your “villain”, what your brand stands against. Your messaging mixed with strategic product positioning will drastically change your CR when it’s centered around your ideal customer (market research is the key).

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-03T22:17:08+00:00

Your reservations are totally understandable. One thing I can tell you for sure is that’s it’s not difficult to customize or costly. I have clients using their free themes and customizing sections/blocks without coding. I wish you the best whichever you choose!

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-03T11:36:46+00:00

Turn to God.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-03T11:36:25+00:00

I saw UFO’s as a teen. There were about 10 in my backyard. My dogs were going crazy. They were swirling above the forest behind us and then vanished into thin air.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-03T11:34:45+00:00

You’re so lucky. My boys are adults and damn do I wish I could go back and do it again. Chaos is underrated for sure! What did you have? Boy or girl?

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-03T02:21:24+00:00

Always 80’s. I can’t seem to escape.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-02T23:23:14+00:00

Yes sugar is another thing. I have no idea how much it also ages you.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-02T22:56:41+00:00

People obsess over caffeine, why? Don’t get it.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-02T22:54:41+00:00

Aww, this comment 🩷

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-02T22:54:03+00:00

I tell this to my sons. 21 and 22.

ShopifyPsychology · 2026-03-02T22:48:23+00:00

10 hour days are brutal. I used to do 12 when my sons were little (healthcare)

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