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Hammerhead

Hammerhead

Hammerhead is building the future of cycling by only building products they believe will be the best in their class, and are fully focused on making Karoo 2 the world’s best cycling computer. Hammerhead came to Ambaum in early 2021 looking for a development partner for their website hammerhead.io and to create four new expansion stores in CA, AU, UK and EU.

We initially helped Hammerhead with writing scripts in the Shopify Plus script editor for discounts and custom logic to support various marketing campaigns. Hammerhead utilizes Klaviyo for email marketing automation, which we used to set up promotional emails with unique/dynamic discount code fields.

Prior to working with Ambaum Hammerhead was using a page builder for most pages on their website. We rebuilt their homepage, multiple PDP templates, and tweaked collection templates, and cart using ThemeKit. A major part of the rebuild was creating a new system to sync data across all five stores. We needed to make sure shared data could easily be synced across all five stores, while ensuring store-specific data could be added/updated. We used the US store as the base, deploying to all four expansion stores at once using code, which minimized manual work. Since the website was built pre Shopify 2.0, we utilized metafields on the product detail pages where we used metafields to be able to add, remove and rearrange sections.

As Hammerhead’s development partner, Ambaum has not only helped with maintenance work, but also solutioning future designs, building new custom features, and efficiently deploying data and theme updates across all stores.

Pro Compression

Pro Compression

Compression sock brand.

Pro Compression is a direct-to-consumer powerhouse in the growing athletic category of compression socks. For over a decade, PRO Compression has provided premium compression socks for all your favorite activities. Whether you need the best compression socks for running, walking, home workouts, or for everyday comfort, we have a pair for you. Designed and made in the USA, our compression socks improve circulation, accelerate recovery, reduce muscle soreness, help prevent swelling and varicose veins.

Ambaum has been Pro Compressions agency of choice through their rapid calling first lending support in simply a fractional development to designing and developing their new front-end Shopify Plus store (2022).

Dewey Crush

Dewey Crush

Regional ready-to-drink cocktail in can brand.

Dewey Crush is a Delaware-based brand with the tagline: We Canned Summer. Their initial three products were designed to take full advantage of the exploding ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktail segment of the alcohol and spirits category. Ready-to-drink cocktails are the fastest-growing alcohol product in the country right now, and beverage companies and industry experts are predicting even more growth in the future.

Ambaum was approached in 2021 to form a digital strategy that contemplated zero eCommerce initially but with a changing legal landscape in retail alcohol sales, something that could easily morph in the future to accommodate. So basically, build it on the platform they will eventually fully-leverage for eCommerce – Shopify.

Tactically the work involved setting a roadmap for digital growth and building out the eCommerce stack to accommodate all marketing and features they will be using in the future, but doing so without technically turning on product sales. So this involved building out flavor pages and turning off any sort of shopping functionality, rather pushing users to find their crush at local stores in the Mid-Atlanic. Beyond that relatively light merchandise sales were turned on to offer some level of shopping. But this was done more so as practice then it was for any level of revenue growth.

The activities for the Dewey Crush launched involved full digital strategy, design and build, app integration and marketing systems setup and growth services.

Anne Howrey

Anne Howrey is a PMI certified Project Manager.  She has decided to join the Ambaum team to bring her knowledge of running a Shopify storefront from selecting apps to physically fulfilling orders to help other entrepreneurs’ problem solving a little less daunting.

Taylor Payne

A Washington, D.C. native with a background in acting, Taylor adores the storytelling of agency marketing. She graduated from Towson University with her Masters degree in Marketing, Graphic Design, and Computer Sciences, and she enjoys kayaking, playing Animal Crossing, and spending time with her two cats.

Duc(k) Nguyen

Full-time developer, full-time daddy, and part-time at being-cute. I love working with clients, solving technical challenges, and developing products that meets our client’s goals and represent their business values.

Matt Peters

Matt is the Chief Technology Officer for Ambaum and possesses a wide array of development talents. He has a passion for teaching, learning and helping other team members on all kinds of Shopify Plus and custom development projects.

David Stober

Business builder, eCommerce, digital, and growth marketing leader, and Shopify Plus merchant since 2014. David leads operations and creative at Ambaum and works with clients ranging from startup DTC brands to high growth, venture-backed companies. He is design inspired, spreadsheet focused, and constantly curious.

Chad Fisher

Born in Burien, Chad fell in love with ecommerce, Shopify and development ever since he left PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2007. Sports fan who follows all the local teams, I also like running and spending time with my wife and 2 awesome daughters.

Seven Coffee Roasters

Ambaum has been supporting Seven Coffee Roasters since late summer in 2019. Sean Lee approached Ambaum looking for help with a number of services: Shopify site updates, strategy and consulting, design and online advertising help. David Stober, Ambaum’s COO met with Sean and mapped out an initial strategy to help him grow the revenue through his online Shopify store.

The first thing David and Sean discussed was getting a new look and feel for the Seven site. Sean started Seven Coffee Roasters in a small cafe/roastery in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle with the mission of bringing Hawaiian coffee to the mainland. Ambaum setup Seven with a new theme that brought together two brands under one main site and gave everything a smoother and more streamlined look. 

A big focus for Sean was getting more customers signed up with a monthly subscription for his coffee. Seven was already leveraging Recharge’s Shopify app for managing subscriptions but they weren’t getting the most out of it. David and Sean spent many months designing and building out a new product detail page and the outcome was this:

This enhanced product detail page saw a large increase in customers that signed up for a subscription. Before Sean started working with Ambaum he had less than $500/month in subscription customers and within 6 months he was approaching $8,000/month in total subscription revenue.