Feetures

Revenue Up 67% in 1st Year

Feetures grew their ecommerce business with Pattern's ecommerce business solutions. Find out more here!

Feetures | Pattern Case Study

Founded by runners and innovators, Feetures are engineered to have a custom-like fit that solve conventional sock problems.

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How Feetures grew their ecommerce business with Pattern

Feetures faced damaged brand equity due to price erosion on Amazon and multiple unauthorized sellers. They also were challenged by the high cost of optimizing images and content on their ecommerce channels. This led to an inconsistent brand message throughout content and across sellers.

- Damaged brand equity due to price erosion on Amazon.
- Multiple unauthorized sellers.

- High cost of optimizing images and content.
- Little bandwidth and budget to optimize creative.

- Inconsistent brand message throughout content and across sellers.
- Listings were not up to par with their brand.

- Needed better data and reporting about their Amazon listings and unauthorized sellers.

Key Challenges

With Pattern's ecommerce knowledge and expertise, we were able to give Feetures the resources they needed to empower them to uphold MAP, including our Predict software to to identify unauthorized sellers and connection to legal counsel to remove them. Lastly, Feetures' access to Pattern’s digital marketing team of creatives, advertisers, and marketplace experts helped them optimize images and content on all their Amazon listings.

Our Approach

Pattern and Feetures' combined efforts led Feetures to experience increased brand equity online, regain control of their online channel with 99% MAP compliance, and grow revenue nearly 70% in their first year partnering with us.

- Optimized images and content.
- Maintained a consistent brand message across all marketplace and Amazon listings.

- Revenue grew 67% from 2017 to 2018.
- Feetures revenue grew 20% YoY from 2018 to 2019.

- Marketplace expansion to sell and monitor products on 3 marketplaces.

- Regained control from unauthorized sellers and improved conversion rates.
- Feetures achieved 98% MAP compliance in their first year and now average 99% MAP compliance overall.

Results

Pure Encapsulations, Pattern

400% Revenue Growth

Pure Encapsulations grew their ecommerce business over 400% with Pattern's ecommerce business solutions. Read their case study!

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Pure Encapsulations manufactures hypoallergenic, research-based dietary supplements that are designed to deliver predictable and desired results. Pure is committed to sourcing pure, premium ingredients and working with experienced healthcare professionals to create safe and effective dietary supplements to help consumers achieve optimal health.

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Pure Encapsulations ecommerce growth and control, Pattern

Pure Encapsulations

“In 2012-2013, grey-market distribution and product diversion (especially on Amazon) was damaging brand integrity and relationships with our most valued health practitioner customers. Our brands were inaccurately represented, growing out of control, at ever increasing discount prices, and distributed by grey-market unauthorized resellers posing as HCPs, violating MAP policy.” — Adam Branfman, E-Business Director, Professional Brands at Atrium Innovations (Pure)

- Threatened brand integrity, as well as online discounting.
- Threatened relationships with trusted healthcare practitioner customers.

- Inaccurate product information spread from unauthorized sellers.
- Practitioner/consumer trust was compromised.

 - Unauthorized sellers were posing as healthcare practitioners.
 - Grey-market unauthorized sellers were disrupting prices.

 - Content, descriptions, and claims were incorrect.
 - Consumer safety, transparency, and accuracy were paramount in their industry.

Pure needed better insights and data into their ecommerce business, connections to help them gain control of their online channel, and a holistic ecommerce strategy to clean up, protect, and grow their brand online. By partnering with Pattern, Pure gained access to comprehensive ecommerce reporting through our Predict software. Then we connected them to counsel who created a legal framework to enforce against MAP violations, grey-market sales and unauthorized distribution.

Not only was Pattern able to help Pure gain back control of their online channel, but our Predict software and ecommerce best practices helped Pure grow revenue by 4x since 2016. Today, Pure's online channel is no longer a threat to their brand's continued growth and adoption by healthcare practitioners.

- Amazon revenue increased by 400% (4X) since January 2016.
- Product conversion increased 48% over 1 year.

- Units sold increased by 325.7% after one month of using our images and EBC.
- Pattern created new product images and optimized product listings.

- MAP compliance increased to 98%.
- Removal of 215 unauthorized sellers over 2 years.

- Our Predict software offers real-time insights on Pricing & Compliance, Ratings & Reviews, Advertising, and more. 

Thorne

Launched on 7 New Marketplaces

Thorne was able to grow their ecommerce business by partnering with Pattern. Learn more from their case study!

Thorne | Pattern Case Study

Thorne is a supplements and wellness brand dedicated to quality ingredient sourcing, clinical research, lab testing, and sustainable business practices.

Thorne case study with Pattern's ecommerce solutions

Thorne grew their ecommerce business with Pattern's global ecommerce expertise

Thorne needed more bandwidth to expand their ecommerce presence. They wanted to grow to new marketplaces, but needed a partner to get there. Not only that, but MAP compliance issues from various online sellers were creating problems for their pricing and profitability. Finally, a lack of a uniform customer experience across marketplaces brought them to Pattern.

- Lacking bandwidth to expand ecommerce presence to new markets.
- Wanted to go international and to new marketplaces but needed help.

- MAP compliance issues from online sellers.
- Prices and profitability decreased.

- No uniform customer brand experience on all marketplaces.
- Wanted to create a seamless customer journey.

- Thorne's content on listings was not the same across different marketplaces.

From the beginning, we partnered Thorne with a personal Brand Manager to maintain a close relationship with Thorne's production and operations team. Then we attacked all of their problems head on together: Our creative team revamped their A+ content and made full 360 product renders, we gave Thorne compliance tools through our Predict software, and Pattern's digital advertising and marketing experts grew sales. Lastly, our international marketplace experts took Thorne to China and beyond.

Through their Pattern partnership, Thorne was able to expand to 7 new marketplaces and countries including Walmart.com, Tmall, MercadoLibre, Jet, and Amazon China, CA, and EU. Their brand control has never been better, and all their listings are optimized for sales growth.

- Enhanced SEO for titles, headlines, back-end search terms, etc., as well as A+ Content implementation.
- New image stacks, 360 bottle renders, and videos from the Pattern creative team.

- MAP compliance has averaged 99% over the last 6 months.
- Listings are uniform.


- Thorne has expanded to Walmart.com, Tmall, MercadoLibre, Jet, and Amazon China, CA, and EU.

Yogi Tea, Pattern

Top 10 Amazon Search Results

Yogi Tea grew their ecommerce business with Pattern's global ecommerce expertise. Read their case study here!

Yogi Tea | Pattern Case Study

Yogi blends over 140 spices and botanicals to make 40+ Herbal, Green, and Black wellness teas, each created with delicious flavor and healthy benefits in mind.

Yogi Tea ecommerce success story, Pattern

Yogi Tea's ecommerce growth case study with Pattern

Yogi Tea

Unauthorized seller activity online was resulting in poor customer experience, and Yogi wasn't able to consistently enforce quality controls and brand standards. Yogi needed the ability to control Amazon product listings to ensure accuracy. "We were challenged to meet the ever-changing and increasing demands of ecommerce retailers and shoppers while maintaining quality and brand equity." — Robin Gabel, National Account Manager, Yogi Tea

- Created a poor customer experience.
- Inability to consistently enforce quality controls and brand standards.

- Yogi needed the ability to more readily control Amazon product listings to ensure accuracy, supporting customers when shopping online.


First, Pattern's compliance monitoring software Predict identified unauthorized sellers and employed rules-based advertising tools. Then we connected Yogi to legal counsel for  assistance removing unauthorized sellers. Finally, a personal Brand Manager became an extension of Yogi's team, helping them enhance the customer experience, increase sales volume, and simplify supply chain, allowing Yogi to move strategic company employees to other key business objectives.

Through our Predict compliance software, over 90% of Yogi Tea sold on Amazon is now coming from Pattern, supporting the customer experience and upholding product quality standards. In addition, Pattern's SEO and Amazon strategies have upped Yogi sales and Yogi's ranking to the top 10 search results.


- Over 90% of Yogi Tea sold on Amazon is now coming from Pattern.
- Unauthorized sellers are down and listings are uniform.

- Pattern created 6-pack bundles of Yogi teas to introduce customers to different product lines and to provide a better introductory size.

- Within two months of launch, Yogi Tea bundles ranked in the Top 10 search results when searching the broad terms Tea, Herbal Tea, and Tea Variety Pack.
- Yogi controls the majority of the listings for the keyword “Yogi Tea.”

- Quick sales growth lead to bundles being featured on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” page in the top 10 new releases.
- Variety Pack sales lead to incremental top line revenue growth, accounting for 14% of revenue in December 2019.

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