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Your customer doesn't separate online and in-store. Your reporting shouldn't either.

Hale helps retailers connect digital growth, ecommerce, and store traffic into one measurable system, instead of three teams reading three different dashboards.

RETAIL PERFORMANCE Onlineecommerce $412k In-storefootfall + sales $308k Total attributed revenue $720k one view, both channels

Retail

Performance marketing for retailers balancing digital and in-store growth

Retail is harder to measure than pure ecommerce, not because the marketing is more complex, but because the outcome splits across two channels that rarely talk to each other. A campaign drives a store visit. A search drives an online sale. Most reporting only sees one half of that story.

Hale builds marketing and measurement for retailers around the customer's actual path, not around which channel happens to be easiest to track.

ONLINE IN-STORE sees the ad visits a store buys online One customer, one journey, two channels

Growth Challenges

The pressure points retail feels differently than pure ecommerce

Connecting online and offline

A digital campaign that drives store visits looks like it underperformed online, when it actually worked exactly as intended.

Online adclickstore visitThe credit never connects

Competing in paid search and shopping

Crowded categories where every competitor is bidding on the same terms and the same product feeds.

office chairsCompetitorCompetitorYouEveryone bidding the same feed

Improving local visibility

Showing up for "near me" and location-specific searches across every market the brand operates in.

Present in every market that matters

Increasing conversion

Both online and in-store, where friction shows up differently but costs the same.

Interested 100%Considered 44%7%Friction in both channels, same cost

Measuring channel impact

Knowing which channel actually deserves credit when the customer journey spans both.

Online?In-store?Who gets the credit?Two systems, two different answers

The half you're missing

The campaign that looks like a miss often drove a store visit you never counted.

What We Do

One system across paid, local, web, and reporting

Performance marketing and paid media

Search, shopping, and paid social campaigns built around revenue and store visits, not just online conversions.

Local SEO

Visibility for location-specific searches across every market, with consistent presence wherever the brand operates.

Website optimization

Product and category pages built to convert, whether the customer buys online or just decides to visit a store.

Retail campaign strategy

Promotional and seasonal campaigns planned around how retail demand actually moves, not a generic content calendar.

Analytics and reporting

A measurement approach that connects online activity to offline outcomes, so credit goes where it's actually earned.

Outcomes

What better retail marketing actually looks like

Improved traffic quality

Visitors, online and in-store, who are more likely to convert.

BeforeAfterMore visitors who actually convert

Stronger product and category visibility

Better presence in shopping feeds and search for the categories that matter most.

1Front of the shopping feed

Better campaign performance

Promotions and seasonal pushes measured against the right outcome, not just clicks.

Spring promoOnline sales+18%Store visits+2,400Measured on the real outcome, not clicks

More measurable growth

A clearer answer on which channels are actually contributing, instead of a guess split across two systems.

BEFOREOnlinein-store, blindAFTEROnlineIn-storeIn-store finally counts

Brands We've Helped Grow

Real retail brands, real growth pressure

Performance marketing support across a national retail footprint balancing ecommerce and in-store demand.

Marketing built for a premium retail customer across both digital and in-store experience.

Marketing support for a retailer serving both consumer and business customers across channels.

Retail marketing FAQs

Can you actually connect online campaigns to in-store sales?
We build toward that connection wherever the tracking allows it, store visit conversions, location-based reporting, and consistent measurement across both channels. It's rarely perfect, but it's far better than treating them as unrelated.
Do you handle local SEO for multi-location retailers?
Yes, including Google Business Profile management and citation consistency across every market the brand operates in.
Can you help with seasonal and promotional campaigns specifically?
Yes. Retail demand moves on its own calendar, and campaign planning needs to move with it, not against it.
Do you manage shopping feeds and product listings?
Yes, as part of paid media and SEO working together, since product visibility depends on both.
What if our online and in-store teams use different reporting today?
That's common. Part of this work is building a shared measurement view so both teams are looking at the same picture.
How do we get started?
A Performance Growth Audit, scoped to look at both digital and in-store performance together.

The next move is yours

Ready to see the whole picture, not just half of it?

If online and in-store performance get reported separately today, that's the gap most worth closing first.