Migro — Digital Transformation Case Study
High-growth Irish ecommerce business sees 7 x increase in turnover in 8 months
“The outputs are great – I’m really happy with the website and the figures speak for themselves! The big thing that’s happened in the last 6 months – is that organic feed into the website has grown 15-20% over the last 6 months.”
— Shane Torpey, Migro
The global marijuana-tech industry is worth an estimated €26 Billion and Threesixty is helping one ambitious Irish entrepreneur to stake its claim in this fast moving and innovative market.
Competing in a sector dominated by established global players looking for new growth markets, Migro is an Irish challenger brand offering a range of high-performance LED lighting systems for home growers.
A 100% Irish owned company, with an ambitious growth strategy, Migro export these high-quality LED lights all over the world. It is a pure play digital business – transacting through its website, www.migrolight.com and operating drop ship via a number of online retailers across the world.
Migro approached Threesixty in August 2017, looking for a strategic partner to help supercharge its business – driving revenue and profit margin using digital platforms alone. With products commercialised and a tentative, but non-performing digital footprint in place, what was required was a plan to elevate the online presence and experience to reflect the brand authority and build a global community.
Shane Torpey, Founder and MD of Migro, asked us to respond with a holistic approach, encompassing visual design, web development and digital marketing to help achieve his objectives. And of course fit with a tight timeline and budget.
Opportunity / Challenge
The website was facing challenges in attracting and converting customers and driving sales growth. The site wasn’t mobile friendly, consisted of images instead of live pages and the overall customer experience was clunky at best. Whilst the content within the site was factually correct and extensive, it wasn’t portrayed in a simple, easy-to-understand way. Work was need to improve the sense of security and trust on the site, and lead users through the sales process.
“From a process point of view, Threesixty really impacted my business by taking the stress out of the online part – they freed up my time by taking charge of this, to be honest, quite daunting process”
— Shane Torpey, Migro
Approach
Using our Digital Transformation Framework of discover, define, design, develop, deploy, then measure and optimise. Threesixty were able to bring Migro through a complete digital transformation, aligning the Migro digital presence and business objectives.
Discover
Threesixty delved into DISCOVERY, examining Google Analytics data, social media and website data, as well as a comprehensive category review. User testing was engaged, as well as qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Key insights uncovered included oportunities for improvements in User Experience on the website, as well as Digital Marketing and Website optimisation.
DEFINE
We then DEFINED the key deliverables we could achieve for Migro, including a full project scope – with a lean start-up budget and ‘need it yesterday’ timeline. We also defined an ideal Customer Experience across every Migro digital touch point, placing the customer truly at the centre of every stage of the project, and building around their needs.
DESIGN
DESIGN then swiftly proceeded, evolving the existing brand identity, but improving the user journey through the site by reconfiguring the pages and navigation structure, and streamlining the content to make it more visually appealing and impactful.
DEVELOP
Once approved, the tech team DEVELOPED these designs using the latest frameworks to create a custom-coded site that is fast, responsive and extensible. We further integrated the site with Magento to enhance the multi-site and multi-language functions, and installed plug ins to optimise site speed and performance. .
DEPLOY
In the blink of an eye, it was October and we were ready to DEPLOY – not just a refreshed website, but a comprehensive Google Adwords Campaign, all with the aim of driving traffic to the site and ultimately create more online conversions.
MEASURE + OPTIMISE
…once launched, a close eye was maintained on sales and site data – we MEASURED and OPTIMISED accordingly ….. and the uplift could be seen immediately, within 6 months the key objectives of the project had been met and exceeded:
Analysis and results
Analysis of Migro website and user traffic from project launch September 2017 to May 2018
Trust
700
%
increase in sales / conversions in 8 months.
Profitability
70
%
of sales are coming direct through the migrolight website.
Engagement
74
%
increase average session duration – now up to 3 mins 20 secs.
Engagement
54
%
increase in pages viewed per session is up
Authority
6000
visitors to the Migro YouTube channel each day, with 250 hours of video content watched daily.
Visibility
222
%
Increase in traffic to the site
Our key learnings
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