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Ecommerce Consulting: Grow your ecommerce business, not just its traffic
Our ecommerce consulting team scales online businesses with senior operators. For founders and ecommerce leaders whose growth has plateaued. Chameleon Collective pairs you with senior ecommerce operators who have scaled online businesses past $100M and led DTC and omnichannel growth for global brands.
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Our ecommerce consulting team scales online businesses with senior operators
Why teams hire our ecommerce consulting
Operators who have owned the P&L
You work with people who have run ecommerce as a business, scaling online revenue to nine figures, not a strategist who has only ever advised from the outside.
Growth, not just traffic
We connect merchandising, conversion, retention, and lifecycle into one growth model, so the work shows up in revenue and contribution margin, not vanity sessions.
Strategy through execution
From ecommerce audit and roadmap to interim leadership and hands on growth, one senior operator stays accountable end to end.
Why hire an ecommerce consultant from Chameleon Collective
Most ecommerce problems are not traffic problems. The store is live, the ads are running, and yet conversion is soft, repeat rate is flat, and nobody can say which lever actually moves the business. A Chameleon ecommerce consultant is a senior operator who has run online businesses at scale and stays hands on from diagnosis to a growth model that holds.
You get an ecommerce owner, not an advisor
Our consultants have carried ecommerce P&L and teams, scaling online revenue to nine figures. They diagnose the whole funnel and the operating model, then drive the work, rather than leaving a deck behind.
Growth across the full funnel
Acquisition, conversion, retention, and lifetime value treated as one system. We find the constraint that is actually capping growth instead of optimising the channel that is easiest to measure.
Merchandising, site, and data as one
Assortment, pricing, site experience, and analytics connected so decisions are made on real customer behaviour and the catalogue works as hard as the marketing.
Senior only, no layers
Chameleon Collective is a collective of senior independent operators. The person who scopes your engagement is the person who does the work. There is no account management layer between you and the strategist.
What our ecommerce consulting engagements cover
Engagements are scoped to your situation, from a focused growth audit to a full ecommerce transformation and interim ecommerce leadership. Common workstreams include:
- Ecommerce audit and growth roadmap assessing funnel, merchandising, retention, tech, and team against where the business needs to go.
- Conversion rate optimisation site experience, merchandising, and checkout work tied to revenue, not just test win rate.
- Retention and lifecycle repeat purchase, subscription, and loyalty programmes that lift lifetime value.
- DTC and omnichannel strategy aligning direct, wholesale, marketplace, and retail into one coherent customer experience.
- Acquisition and performance paid, organic, and creative working to a contribution margin target, not a vanity ROAS.
- Merchandising and pricing assortment, promotion, and pricing strategy that protects margin while driving growth.
- Analytics and reporting the dashboards and unit economics leaders actually trust to run the business.
- Interim ecommerce leadership running the function while you hire, or standing up the team and operating model from scratch.
How We Compare
| Feature | Chameleon Collective | Digital / ecommerce agency | Full time hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | A senior operator who has run ecommerce as a business | An account team led by a junior strategist | One person you must find, vet, and onboard |
| Incentive | Grow your contribution margin | Grow retainer and media spend | Aligned, but single point of failure |
| Scope | Strategy, growth, and execution end to end | Execution of the channels they sell | Bounded by one person's bandwidth |
| Platform stance | Agnostic across Shopify, BigCommerce, and the rest | Often tied to a build or media specialism |
Frequently asked questions
Common questions from teams evaluating ecommerce consulting.
Our ecommerce consulting advises: Engagements are scoped to the work, not sold as fixed packages. A focused growth audit and roadmap is a short, defined project. Transformations and interim ecommerce leadership are priced fractionally by the days per week you need, so you get a senior operator's rate without the overhead of a full time hire or an agency retainer.
Our ecommerce consulting advises: It depends on where growth has stalled. Typical scopes include an ecommerce and growth audit, conversion rate optimisation, retention and lifecycle work, DTC and omnichannel strategy, merchandising and pricing, and analytics. Many engagements start with an audit and expand into execution once the constraint is clear.
Our ecommerce consulting advises: Agencies are paid to run the channels they sell, so the answer is usually more media and more retainer. Our consultants are operators who have owned ecommerce P&L, so they optimise for contribution margin and lifetime value across the whole business, and will tell you when the problem is merchandising or retention rather than ad spend.
Both, and that is the point. The same senior operator sets the growth strategy and stays accountable through execution, so nothing is lost in a handoff between a strategist and a delivery team.
Yes. This page focuses on ecommerce strategy and growth leadership. If your need is platform selection, replatforming, or build and integration work on Shopify, BigCommerce, or Magento, our ecommerce consultant practice pairs you with senior technical and platform operators instead.
Because the collective is senior and independent, scoping takes days rather than the weeks an agency needs to staff an account. Most engagements move from first conversation to active work within one to two weeks.
Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior only collective, with no account management layer between you and the operator who does the work.
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Hiring for ecommerce consulting in-house? If the work points to a permanent ecommerce, DTC, or growth leader rather than a fractional engagement, our Recruit practice runs senior ecommerce searches with the same operator led standard.
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