Ajayi. M | Shopify Landing Page | Shopify Expert

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Someone DM'd me last month. She's launching a beauty brand in 2027 and wanted help with her Shopify design. Our discussion was going so well, so I built a full concept to show her where we could take it. Homepage, mobile layout, the whole thing. That's the one you're looking at. I took my time to get it right. She loved it. Said so herself. Then I sent my price: $1,300 for the full design. She asked why it costs that much. I explained, she said okay, and she seemed totally cool with it. Then she went quiet. I followed up. Then I followed up again. And again. Nothing. Today I checked her website. She hired someone else. I won't lie, it stung. I put real care into that concept, and it's hard not to take it personally. But the more I think about it, the more I see my part in it. I showed the full design before we'd agreed on a budget. Once she saw the finished thing, it stopped feeling like a service she was buying. All that was left to talk about was the price. The concept still did fine on its own. 11k people saw it on Pinterest and 81 saved it. It's in my portfolio, and the next person who sees it will know what I can build. Some you win, some you learn.

Something weird happens in your store. Sales drop out of nowhere. You panic, and your brain does the thing brains do, it grabs the first scary thing it can see and blames that. Saw a spike in bot traffic the same day revenue crashed? Must be the bots. Added a new app the week bounce rate went up? Must be the app. Switched ad platforms and conversions dropped? Must be the new platform. Feels obvious in the moment. Usually it's wrong. Here's why. Two things happening on the same day doesn't mean one caused the other. It just means they happened on the same day. Your brain hates that answer because it's boring and doesn't give you anything to blame. So it skips the boring explanation and jumps straight to the dramatic one. And the dramatic one almost always falls apart the second you actually check the size of it. A hundred extra bot visits isn't enough to crash a store built to handle thousands of real customers. A new app isn't automatically the reason traffic behaved differently that week. These things get blamed because they're the most visible, not because they're the most likely. The real answer is usually sitting somewhere quiet and unglamorous. A payment gateway that hiccuped for twenty minutes. A discount code clashing with a shipping rule. Stock that went out of sync and showed products as available when they weren't. Boring stuff. Stuff nobody wants to be the answer, because it's not a dramatic story, it's just a small mistake sitting in the setup. So next time your numbers do something strange, don't ask "what's the scariest thing that happened today." Ask "is this actually big enough to cause what I'm seeing." That one question alone kills most wrong theories before you waste a week chasing them. This is honestly most of what fixing a store comes down to. Not finding some dramatic hidden enemy. Just actually checking the boring things properly before blaming the obvious thing.