WE BUILD BUSINESSES — NOT JUST WEBSITES

Smart strategy and great design, with decades of experience dedicated to every job.

With a unique strategic approach, ELEVATR brings decades of branding, marketing and business experience to your project. You’ll get a beautiful, modern ecommerce site, carefully designed to build your brand and your business, with clean bold visuals, artful persuasion and smooth usability. All on the world’s best ecommerce platform.

The Core Engagement

While projects vary widely, there is a core scope common to most engagements, give or take a few items. We’ll deliver:

Clean, bold, modern site design that delivers a great brand experience on desktop and mobile
High-impact homepage brand pitch
Streamlined navigation and product schema design
Customized product and collection templates
Setup for up to 15 products, including image processing and SEO copy
Basic info pages — About us, Contact us, Shipping info
Blog strategy recommendations and setup
Social media integration and recommendations
App setup: Google Analytics, MailChimp, plus one or two others
Shopify account setup and configuration — excluding shipping, taxes and inventory
Launch: DNS setup, key redirects
Limited post-launch support

Around $7,500

Other Sample Engagements

Of course every client has different requirements, and each job is carefully custom quoted. we can strip down our standard process to suit a startup budget, or add extra creative, technical and deployment scope to deliver exactly the site your business needs to grow to the next level. Here’s a few scenarios, do you recognize yourself in one?

The Startup

We get it, money is tight—you need to spend carefully on just the key things to get launched. We can deliver a great site for very little money. How do we do it? You’ll get our great visual design, but we limit our strategic thinking and push all the setup details over to you. So your engagement would look something like this:

Clean, bold, modern site design that delivers a great brand experience on desktop and mobile
Homepage brand billboard
Streamlined navigation design
Basic product and collection templates, ready for you to enter products
Info pages — About us, Contact (copy supplied)
Basic blog setup
Basic Shopify account configuration — excluding payments, shipping, taxes, inventory

Around $3,500

You may also need: product photography, logo design, brand and/or product copywriting, Shopify training and support

The Platform Switcher

Your old e-commerce platform is feeling dated and it’s holding back your business. You’re ready to make the leap to Shopify to streamline your backend, optimize your conversion, freshen up your look and modernize your customer experience. In addition to The Core Engagement, you may need:

Migration of products, inventory levels, reviews and customer lists from your old platform
Streamlining your product schema
Cleaning up your product data and descriptions
App setup for integration into inventory, fulfillment, accounting or marketing apps

Around $12,500

The Brand Builder

You’re an established online business that needs to modernize your site and take your brand persuasion and conversion rate to the next level. You’ll want The Core Engagement plus:

Brand strategy and messaging development to create a more powerful brand experience and home page sales pitch
Marketing review and strategy recommendations

Around $12,000

The Brick & Mortar Shop

You have a successful brick and mortar business, and it’s time to make the leap to ecommerce. Not just to build your business, but also because it is increasingly what your customers want. You’ll need The Core Engagement, plus you may also need:

Product photography (say 50 skus to start)
Product setup (50 skus)
Mailing list migration and setup and integration
Shopify POS setup
Accounting integration
Shopify training and support (up to 8 hours)

Around $15,000

Creative Services

Brand strategy and messaging development: This is foundational work that can have a huge impact on the success of your business. It starts with our guided discovery and brainstorm session, either live or by Skype. Then we’ll go away and turn that meeting into a brand strategy document that we can all use to guide design, copywriting, marketing and business strategy.
Logo design/brand refresh: A strong logo and brand identity is foundational. If you’re just getting started, or maybe have outgrown your old branding, we’ll design you something solid for this critical piece.
Brand story development: Storytelling grows deep roots of brand engagement. Let us help you express your brand in stories to engage your customers and build your business.
Product photography: Beautiful product shots are critical for modern ecommerce. We’ll make your stuff look great for as low as CAD $30 per shot (over 100 shots).
Lifestyle photography shoot: Sometimes you need to capture the feeling of the brand with more ambitious photography. You’d be surprised how much mileage you can get from a single day shoot.
Custom graphics, illustration or stylized imagery: From banners to illustrations, infographics and icons. We’ll make sure all your graphics are great looking and on spec.
Print material: The world isn’t completely digital...yet. Need brochures, business cards, packaging or sales collateral? We can go old-school and deliver beautiful print materials for you.

Extra Production Scope

Additional product setup: Our standard scope includes up to 15 products to get you started; we always recommend that clients take it from there, using our initial setups as a guide (and our email support as well). But if you want us to do it all, no problem!
Platform migration: Moving from your cranky old platform and want to bring your data? We can help move customer lists, product data, reviews and even order history to your shiny new Shopify store.
Shipping, taxes and inventory setup: These are business settings that can get quite complex, so we recommend you do this internally, with our advice and support of course. If you want us to handle all the details, we can do that too.
Specialized website functionality: Need something specific that Shopify doesn’t do out of the box? We’ll investigate options and advise on the best way to implement, then get it done.
Additional sales channel setup: Want to sell on Amazon, Facebook, Houzz, etc? We’ll get things set up for you.
Shopify POS setup: If you run a bricks and mortar store, centralizing all your sales on Shopify can be a brilliant solution. We’ll help you get set up quickly and properly.
Shopify training & support: Shopify itself has excellent customer support, and we include some ourselves in every scope. But if you need more, we can be there for you when you need us.

Extra Marketing Scope

Email marketing strategy and campaigns: Email is one of the most powerful tools in the digital marketing toolkit; we can help you find the right strategy and design campaigns around it.
Content Marketing & Social media strategy and campaigns: In 2017, this is how your brand reaches out. We can help you design strategies and campaigns to build your brand and your business.
Marketing audit and strategy recommendations: This starts with an audit, goes to a discovery/brainstorm session and ends with an actionable marketing strategy document.