Growth Strategy
Growth that costs more to acquire than it returns is a cash problem with good-looking revenue. We find the growth the business can afford and build what it needs.
Questions we help answer
- Which of our customers, products and channels are profitable once returns and acquisition cost are counted?
- How much of last year's growth came from new customers and how much from repeat purchase?
- Is our advertising producing new demand or claiming credit for sales we would have made anyway?
- What growth can our stock, fulfilment and service teams actually carry?
- Where should the next pound of growth investment go?
What we do
Sources of growth
Revenue split into new customers, repeat purchase, price and mix, read from the order system, so the plan knows which engine is actually running.
Customer and channel economics
Acquisition cost, first-order margin, repeat rate and returns by channel and cohort, with the advertising platforms' own claims reconciled against the orders recorded.
Growth plan
Priorities by customer, product, channel and market, each with the investment it needs, the operational capacity it uses and the measure that will judge it.
Capacity check
A test of whether stock, fulfilment, payment and service can carry the plan, so growth does not arrive as refunds and complaints.
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How we approach it
- 01
Separate real demand from reported demand
We compare what each advertising and analytics platform reports with what the order system recorded, and set out the gap before any budget is moved.
- 02
Model growth by cohort
Customers are grouped by when and how they were acquired, so the plan can see payback periods instead of a blended average that hides them.
- 03
Build the growth system
The same team sets up the measurement, campaign structure, pricing and commerce changes the plan needs, then reads the results from the same order data as the baseline.
Client results
View allTürkiye · Commodities, Trading & Sourcing · 2026
Verified buyer sourcing and sales-channel comparison for a small agricultural grower
A small grower holding a few tonnes of a new-season crop asked for verified firms that buy direct from producers. We built the list from official membership registries and showed that the choice of sales channel mattered more than the choice of buyer.
Verified buyer list, channel comparison and call plan delivered; sale outcome not recorded
Türkiye · Jewellery & Luxury Goods · 2026
Launch program for a new fine jewellery brand, from positioning to storefront and production equipment
A young jewellery brand preparing to sell direct to consumers engaged us for a multi-phase launch program. So far that has produced the brand position, a built storefront, the sales and social accounts, a product render standard and a purchase recommendation for in-house casting equipment.
Positioning, storefront and equipment decision delivered; brand not yet launched
Relevant industries
How an engagement with THEFOCUS starts
A first conversation is about your situation. If there is a fit, we propose a scoped diagnostic with a fixed deliverable before any larger commitment.
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A working conversation
Forty-five minutes with the person who would lead the work. We ask about the decision, the systems behind it and the deadline.
02
A scoped diagnostic
Read-only access, a fixed timeframe and a written finding: what the records show, what it costs and what to change first.
03
A plan you can act on
Changes, owners, measures and exclusions in writing. The same team then builds and measures, or hands over cleanly.
- One accountable team
- The people who diagnose also build the systems and measure the result.
- Partners chosen per problem
- Independent specialists join for the parts that need them, under one contract.
- Records before dashboards
- Orders, ledgers and logs are reconciled before any recommendation depends on them.
Questions executives ask
Do you also run the advertising?
Where the growth plan depends on it, the same team can restructure and manage campaigns and measurement, with specialist partners where a channel needs them. The plan states which work we do and which your team or agency keeps.
We sell through marketplaces and our own store. Can you compare them?
Yes. We rebuild contribution per order for each channel, including marketplace commission, fulfilment and returns, so the comparison uses the same cost rules on both sides.
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