Honey Tradition contacted The Alternative Agency looking for help growing from their Amazon retailer business, to launch a full brand with an eCommerce website, and more.

Read on to discover more about this client, their needs, our solution, and the results.

Results Overview

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Brand New eCommerce Website
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Pieces of Great Press Coverage
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Klaviyo Workflows

The client

Honey Tradition

Honey Tradition’s owners, Sarah and Marek, ethically and consciously source all honey from Marek’s family’s fourth generation family apiary in Slovakia. Home to over 200 beehives and happy bees, the apiary was established in 1929 by Marek’s great grandfather and has been in the family ever since. Sarah and Marek have now introduced this amazing and nutritious product to the UK market, and all stock is shipped from the UK.

Their aim is to support their customers health and well-being by bringing them raw and natural products from bees that are cared for. The health of their bees is of the upmost importance to them and they operate ethically conscious and sustainable farming methods. They also support local forestry organisations who preserve and protect the unique and natural areas ideal for bees. They are passionate about educating people about their products and their benefits.

The Need

Honey Tradition wanted to grow from their current position of being an Amazon retailer. This need comprised of various elements:

Branded Website Design

As the client’s digital presence was on Amazon & Instagram, whilst they had some amazing imagery of their products on social media, as is the way with Amazon stores their digital branding wasn’t great (Amazon gives limited ability to do this).

So the client needed a website that showed off their stunning product photography, matched their brand, and had a premium feel (for their premium, raw honey products).

eCommerce Website Build

Once the design was done, dusted and approved, the eCommerce store needed building. The client was unsure which eCommerce platform would be best for their needs… Shopify? Big Commerce? Magento? Woocommerce? Sarah & Marek needed guiding through the options and the pros & cons of each, so they could decide what worked best for them.

Brand Awareness

Also an issue, was the need to raise brand awareness. As an Amazon retailer, Honey Tradition was keen to expand their brand to get their product known within the food & drink sector, reducing their reliance on Amazon for ‘brand discovery’.

The Solution

Woocommerce Website Design & Creation

After discussing options with Sarah & Marek, the client opted for Woocommerce. As we have excellent WordPress developers able to create both WP Themes & Plugins from scratch, we avoided ‘visual’ website builders, coding from scratch. This gives a better result.

So, once the design for the website was done, dusted & sign-off, our staff got to work coding a WordPress / Woocommerce website.

Branding & PR

Once the website was live, Honey Tradition needed to get the word out and The Alternative Agency were only too happy to oblige! We ran a PR campaign to raise awareness in several sector’s that the client wanted to reach into…

Marketing Automation

Okay, so…

  • A stunning looking on-brand eCommerce website? Check!
  • Coverage in several industry websites & print magazines? Check!

This is great, but not every visitor will convert right away… So how can Honey Tradition be sure to get the most bang for their buck? Thats where Marketing Automation comes in.

As Klaviyo partners, we knew what would help here. So, we created several automated workflows to handle automated messaging for various scenarios, including new visitor welcome messaging, abandoned cart recovery emails, and much more.

Absolutely great. I’ve always felt that the guys are an extension of our team. It’s just like having new team members on board.

The Results

New Website

A stunning new eCommerce website, built from scratch and on-brand, and with lots of custom functionality, including:

  • Customised product reviews
  • Integration with the client’s fulfilment supplier
  • Klaviyo integration
  • Integration with Xero
  • Custom footer-cart creation for CRO
  • And much, much more.

Click the image on the right to view the website.

Klaviyo Messaging

As well as the Klaviyo email marketing automation workflows, we created engaging offers & pop-ups on the website, to hook-in visitors with special offers, newsletters, free recipes, and more:

PR Coverage Examples

Below are a few examples of some of the coverage achieved for Honey Tradition

It’s got us into the right type of publications or the types of places we want to be seen in and it’s also been a really great mix of online and print to get the brand out there in front of the right sort of people.

Coverage Achieved

The team has a genuine interest in sustainable brands, friendly brands, happy brands. They got to know us as people, individuals and as business partners. They really got under the skin of why we were doing it… They took the time to get to know us.

Sarah & Marek