Nine Times The Revenue In The 1st Month

Nine Times The Revenue In The 1st Month

Website Redesign · Launched June 30, 2026

Nine times the revenue in one of being live.

Mountain Serenity had a real business, real clients, and 25+ years of craft behind them. What they had online was a grid of products on a lavender background. Here's what changed when the website finally told the story about the company.

Website Redesign Brand Positioning Conversion Strategy Shopify
0% → 9.48%Conversion rate
Revenue, month one
+101%Site sessions
+39%Avg. order value
The Client

Mountain Serenity

Mountain Serenity is a Colorado-based custom studio founded in 2025 by Amy Ford and Jessica McCloskey. Custom embroidery, laser engraving, screen printing and vinyl plus a shop of handcrafted gifts made entirely in-house. Twenty-five years of craft expertise between them, and a policy of no order minimums: one piece or ten thousand, they say YES!

They were already doing serious work. Branded uniforms for a multi-brand luxury dealership group. Uniform patches for the Denver Police Department. Staff apparel for the City of Arvada. Spirit wear for schools and sports teams across the Denver metro. They also donate 5% of every single sale to Humane Colorado, Feeding America, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

None of that appeared on their website.

The Problem

The site was a product grid, not a business.

The entire website was one page. Not a homepage with sections below it. One page, with a logo at the top, fifteen product thumbnails in the middle, and a short paragraph in the footer. That was the whole site. A visitor could see a tote bag. They could not learn what the company did, who it served, or how to order anything custom.

The result was a business with two revenue engines running on a website that acknowledged neither. The commercial embroidery work, the largest and most repeatable part of the business, had no page, no explanation, and no way to request a quote. The handcrafted shop had products, but no story, no categories, and no reason to trust the seller.

The previous Mountain Serenity Creations website: a single page with a logo, fifteen product thumbnails, and a short footer paragraph on a lavender background.
Before: the entire website, top to bottom

What was missing before the rebuild

  • No navigation of any kind, a single scroll with nowhere to go
  • No services page: embroidery, laser engraving, screen printing and vinyl were invisible
  • No B2B or bulk-order path, despite commercial work being the core of the business
  • No quote request form, the only available action was buying a $5 magnet
  • No About page, founder story, or explanation of the 5% giving-back model
  • No proof: no client names, no featured projects, no testimonials, no credentials
  • No product categories: fifteen unrelated items in one undifferentiated grid
  • Default theme styling on a lavender background, with no brand identity
The Work

Rebuilding the site around how they actually make money

The strategic call was simple, and it changed everything: Mountain Serenity is not a gift shop that also does embroidery. It's a custom manufacturer that also runs a shop. Once the site was organized around that, every other decision followed.

01

Repositioned the business

Moved from "handmade goods" to "custom services for every need," with the shop as a secondary track. The hero now leads with embroidery, engraving, printing and vinyl, the work that pays the bills.

02

Built a real B2B path

A dedicated section for businesses, schools, sports teams, nonprofits and government, with the differentiators spelled out: no minimums, 100% in-house, live account rep, rush capability, samples before production.

03

Put the proof on the page

Six featured projects with named clients: luxury dealership group, Denver Police, City of Arvada, an Air Force Academy 50th reunion, plus a trust bar and three detailed five-star reviews.

04

Designed the quote funnel

One form with a B2B / Personal toggle capturing service type, quantity range, deadline and project detail, backed by a promise to respond in one business day. This is the conversion engine.

05

Restructured the shop

Fifteen loose products became six browsable categories: apparel, wreaths and home decor, magnets and pins, jewelry, bookmarks and trackers, and tote bags, each with its own entry point.

06

Told the founders' story

Amy and Jessica by name, 25+ years of Colorado craft, and the 5%-gives-back model made a headline feature instead of a footer sentence. Values became a reason to buy, not a footnote.

The Results

One month live. Nine times the revenue.

The new site launched June 30, 2026. Below is the month before the rebuild against the first full month after it. The same store, same products, same team. The only variable that changed is the website.

Before Shopify analytics for the month before the redesign, April 30 to May 31, 2026: $907 total sales, 126 sessions, 0% conversion rate, $69.42 average order value.
Apr 30 to May 31, 2026 · $907 · 126 sessions · 0% conversion
After Shopify analytics for the first month after the redesign, June 30 to July 30, 2026: $8.4K total sales, 253 sessions, 9.48% conversion rate, $96.58 average order value.
Jun 30 to Jul 30, 2026 · $8.4K · 253 sessions · 9.48% conversion
Metric
Before
After
Change
Conversion rate
0%
9.48%
0 → 9.48%
Total sales
$907
$8,400
+826%
Sessions
126
253
+101%
Average order value
$69.42
$96.58
+39%

For context: a typical ecommerce site converts somewhere between 1% and 3%.

Mountain Serenity went from a flat zero, not one conversion in the prior month, to 9.48%. Traffic doubled, and unlike before, that traffic now had somewhere to go and something to do. Average order value climbed 39%, because the B2B and custom-quote path finally captured the larger orders the old single-page site had no way to handle.

A note on how the revenue arrives. Most of Mountain Serenity's sales are recorded as draft orders: custom and commercial work that starts with a quote request and gets invoiced, rather than checked out from the shop. That's exactly what the rebuild was designed to produce. The old site had no way to start that conversation at all; the new one turns it into a repeatable pipeline. Figures come from the store's own Shopify analytics, comparing the month before launch with the first full month after.
Why It Worked

The products were never the problem.

Mountain Serenity didn't need better inventory, more traffic, or a bigger ad budget. They needed a website that made the same argument in public that they'd been making in person for twenty-five years: we do beautiful custom work, at any scale, and we'll say yes when other shops won't.

Everything in the rebuild served that one sentence. The services section proves the range. The B2B block proves the scale. The named client projects prove the trust. The quote form makes it easy to start. And the founders' story and the 5% give-back give people a reason to choose them over a faster, cheaper, colder alternative.

The pattern, if you're looking at your own site

  • If your highest-value service isn't on your homepage, it isn't part of your business online
  • Products without categories are a warehouse, not a shop
  • Every business has proof: client names, projects, reviews. Unused proof is wasted proof
  • A site with no clear next action converts at exactly the rate you'd expect: zero
Your Turn

Is your website telling the story about your business?

If what you actually sell isn't visible in the first ten seconds, that's a fixable problem. Let's talk about what your site should be doing for you.

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