The retail marketing agency built to slash acquisition costs and
scale revenue
Rising ad costs are squeezing retail margins, and generic campaigns are making it worse. Shout builds multi-channel strategies across SEO, paid and PR that lower your cost per acquisition while scaling revenue. Get your X-Chart and see where you stand.
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Michael Jenkins
Strategy Director
22 years Experience
Trusted by Australia’s most recognised brands
The rules of online retail have changed. Has your strategy?
Rising acquisition costs eating into margins
CPCs and CPMs keep climbing across every platform, making it harder to acquire customers profitably.
Disconnected channels, disconnected results
SEO, paid and social all run separately, so no one has the full picture of what’s actually driving revenue.
Traffic that doesn’t convert
Visitors land on product pages but leave without buying.
Losing customers to AI-driven discovery
As shoppers use AI tools to research and compare, retailers without the right visibility risk being left out of the shortlist entirely.
The old retail playbook doesn’t work anymore
You need clarity around your retail marketing performance
Rising acquisition costs, disconnected channels and traffic that doesn’t convert all point to the same issue: a strategy built for how retail used to work. The X-Chart is Shout’s proprietary audit, built around a guaranteed sales forecast for your business over the next 3, 6 and 12 months. It gives you a clear, commercial view of what’s working, what’s costing you customers, and exactly what it will take to lower your acquisition costs and scale revenue.
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The retail marketing agency for brands ready to scale profitably
It’s why retail brands choose Shout
Running a retail brand today means fighting rising ad costs, tighter margins, and customers who research across five different channels before they ever add to cart. Most agencies respond by throwing more budget at the same underperforming campaigns. We don’t. Shout Digital builds SEO, paid and PR into one connected strategy, so every channel earns its place in your customer’s journey instead of competing for the same budget. Backed by 15 years of experience and clients who’ve generated over $100 million in new revenue, we turn the complexity of running a retail brand into profitable, lasting growth.
We’re business people too, and we understand how busy you are.
So here’s our pitch in 30 seconds.
We know retail margins are tighter than ever, and every dollar spent needs to earn its place. We’ve scaled over 1,000 brands across retail and beyond, backed by multiple 5-star Google reviews from businesses who’ve felt the difference. Book a call, and we’ll show you exactly where to focus first.
Michael Jenkins
Integrated marketing services for retail businesses
Retail growth depends on being visible across every channel your customers use, so Shout builds and connects multi-channel strategies that turn visibility into sales.
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SEO
Build lasting organic visibility that keeps working long after the initial investment, without ongoing per-click costs.
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Local SEO
Be the store customers find first when they’re searching nearby, ready to buy.
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Ecommerce SEO
Give your product and category pages the best chance of converting browsers into buyers.
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Google Ads
Capture shoppers already searching for exactly what you sell, with campaigns built around real conversions.
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YouTube ads
Reach shoppers through the videos they’re already watching, with creative designed to convert.
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Pinterest ads
Reach shoppers while they’re actively planning, saving and preparing to purchase.
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TikTok ads
Turn attention into action with native creative built for how people actually scroll and shop.
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Meta ads
Reach and convert audiences across Facebook and Instagram with creative built around your sales goals.
We were referred to Shout by Bed Bath N Table who highly recommended them. Shout has increased our organic search by 36% in 9 months and it’s climbing steadily. They are also handling our international campaigns.
Helping a do-it-yourself business do it themselves globally.
Shout helped create an international search strategy to drive brand awareness and demand generation and helped launch several new products successfully.
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We’ve been working with Shout for our SEO after trying a few other agencies, and the difference has been excellent. The team is knowledgeable, professional and easy to deal with, and they keep us informed with clear updates on our progress each month. We’ve been really happy with the service and results so far.
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Gregory Levett
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We've used Shout for our SEO after trying several other agencies, and couldn't be happier with the team. They're all highly experienced and keep us well updated on our monthly progress.
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Rodney Norris
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Excellent customer service!
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Thomas Morgan
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These guys have done great work for my small service-based business. Highly recommend them - It's worth the investment and much, much more :)
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Ash Cherrett
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Michael and the team are the best in the business - professional, passionate and a pleasure to work with.
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matt alpass
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Great experience working with Michael and Sangeeta from Shout. The Shout team has supported our digital marketing by building and optimising our SEO strategy from the ground up. Their approach has been thorough, transparent, and consistently results-driven.
A big shout out to Sangeeta in particular as she has been incredible with her dedication quality of work and follow up.
Highly recommend Shout for anyone looking to strengthen their online presence through SEO.
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Michael Harvey
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I've worked with Michael and his team at Shout Digital on several long term projects over the past 8 years, and I've always been impressed by the professionalism, accountability and frankly honest approach to simplifying digital marketing and providing great, reliable results for our projects time and time again.
We have worked on several Magento and Shopify migrations both domestically and global brands and the technical expertise in replatforming ecommerce sites without losing search equity first class.
Shout Digital is setting a better standard for the whole industry and I would definitely recommend them to brands starting out all the way to established complex marketing operations.
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Nigel Ewart
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We’ve had a fantastic experience working with Michael, Sangeeta, and the team at Shout. They supported us in building and optimising our SEO strategy from the ground up, taking a thoughtful, data-driven approach that delivered consistent results.
Their process has been transparent and well-structured, with reporting that is clear, easy to understand, and genuinely useful. Sangeeta's communication has been excellent throughout, and we’ve always felt informed and supported.
We highly recommend Shout to any organisation looking to strengthen their online presence through SEO.
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Michael Gammon
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We've been working with Shout for a little over a year now - moving to external support from an agency was a big transition for us, but one that the Shout team, specifically Matilda & Megan M have supported us with tremendously. Willing and eager to understand our requirements and how to best deliver on that each and every week. We look forward to continuing to work together in the future.
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Jessica Townley
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Our experience with Michael and the team has been excellent. Their interest and ability to understand our business has been crucial in developing strategies that have improved both the growth and reach of our brand. In addition they have been able to bring in professional creative support to further develop and update our website.
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Michelle Skinner
The senior team scaling retail brands
Every account is led by senior specialists who’ve spent years helping retail brands turn multiple channels into one profitable growth engine.
Michael is a pioneer of the Australian digital marketing landscape. Since opening Shout in 2010, he’s driven growth for businesses of every shape and size. There isn’t a digital challenge he hasn’t seen or a platform he’s not experienced in.
Guy Rintoul
HEAD OF GROWTH
Guy brings a postgraduate qualification and 10+ years’ experience across SEO, Google Ads, social and web development. He sits at the intersection of strategy and delivery — building client partnerships and cutting through jargon to deliver clear, measurable growth.
Gabriela Serrano Ruiz
Head of Paid Media
Gabriela has 14 years in performance marketing, including Head of Biddable Media at B&T’s 2023 Performance Agency of the Year, and 10 years in executive leadership. She develops data-driven strategy across all paid media and leads teams towards excellence.
Chamal Alahakoon
Head of SEO
With 10+ years across enterprise and technical SEO, CRO and analytics, Chamal specialises in turning complex websites into high-converting customer journeys — especially where SEO, journey optimisation and emerging AEO/GEO opportunities intersect.
Parmiss Kia
SENIOR SEO LEAD
Parmiss brings 15+ years of senior in-house and agency SEO leadership, having driven organic and paid search growth at Kmart Australia ($450M incremental revenue), Country Road Group ($35M) and REA Group ($375M). She now specialises in AI Search and Answer Engine Optimisation,.
Eric Shaikh
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES
Eric leads client services at Shout, bringing extensive digital marketing experience and a consultative approach to bridging strategy and business outcomes. He’s built a career on customer advocacy, turning complex challenges into clear, accountable growth plans.
Anna Martin
SEO CONTENT MANAGER
Anna spent years as a TV editor for networks including Warner Bros., ITV Studios, Fremantle and BBC Studios, cutting shows like My Kitchen Rules and The Great Australian Bakeoff. She now brings that storytelling instinct to Shout’s content strategy.
Laura Ridley
PAID MEDIA SPECIALIST
15+ years running paid social and performance media for major brands — Nestlé, Nespresso, Lion and Spotify as Performance Director at Reprise Australia (APAC Agency of the Year, 2021). Deep, hands-on paid social expertise at real scale.
Retail marketing is the practice of promoting and selling products through channels that drive both visibility and purchases, spanning SEO, paid search, social advertising, digital PR and more. Effective retail marketing typically combines several of these channels, since customers now discover, compare and buy across multiple touchpoints before making a purchase.
Budget depends on your industry, competition and margins, so there’s no universal figure that applies to every retail business. Rather than guessing, we build a free X-Chart first, a guaranteed sales forecast that shows exactly what’s achievable for your business, so your budget is based on realistic, expected returns.
Most retail businesses benefit from a combination of both. Paid ads can drive quick, immediate traffic, particularly useful for new product launches or seasonal campaigns, while SEO builds compounding, long-term visibility that reduces your reliance on ad spend over time. The right balance depends on your current visibility, competition and growth goals.
Lowering acquisition costs typically comes down to improving targeting precision, strengthening organic visibility so you’re less reliant on paid clicks, and making sure your product pages convert the traffic you’re already paying for. Running channels in isolation, without a clear view of what’s genuinely driving profitable customers, is one of the most common reasons acquisition costs creep up over time.
This depends on your products and audience, but Google Ads and Google Shopping tend to capture high-intent shoppers actively searching to buy, while Meta, TikTok and Pinterest are strong for reaching customers earlier in their discovery and planning phase. Many retail brands see the strongest results from combining a few of these channels, rather than relying on just one.
Customers increasingly use tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews to research and compare products before visiting a website, which means retail brands that aren’t structured to be cited by these platforms risk becoming invisible at the moment a customer is ready to choose. This shift means retail marketing strategies increasingly need to account for AI-driven discovery, not just traditional search and social channels.
No. Each channel reaches customers at a different stage of their buying journey and behaves differently, so content, targeting and creative built for one platform rarely translates well to another without adjustment. The strongest retail marketing strategies treat each channel as part of one connected plan, while still tailoring the approach to how that specific platform and audience actually behave.
We work with retail businesses of every size, having scaled over 1,000 brands to date, from small independent stores just getting started online to large, established retail organisations with complex, multi-channel operations. Every strategy is shaped around your specific goals, budget and stage of growth, rather than a generic approach applied regardless of size.
We’ve worked across a wide range of retail categories, including fashion, home, beauty, and general ecommerce, each with its own distinct customer behaviour, seasonality, and competitive landscape. Past clients include Bed Bath N’ Table, Decjuba, Bondi Sands, to name just a few. Even outside a client’s specific niche, our senior specialists bring the same research-led, data-backed approach to every new category we take on, rather than relying on assumptions from a completely different market.
Yes. We work with retail businesses across both models, building strategies suited to how each one actually operates. For brands with physical stores, that often means a stronger focus on local SEO and driving foot traffic, while online-only retailers typically benefit more from ecommerce SEO, paid media and conversion optimisation across their site.
Yes. We track and optimise brand visibility across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, helping retail brands show up as customers increasingly use AI search tools to research and compare products, often well before they ever land on a website or search directly on Google.
Yes, this is core to how we work. Rather than managing SEO, paid and social in isolation with different specialists chasing their own individual metrics, we build these channels into one connected strategy, so a strong-performing keyword or ad creative in one channel can inform and strengthen what we’re doing elsewhere.
Success is measured against clear, agreed metrics tied directly to your business goals, whether that’s cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, or overall revenue generated across your channels. Reporting stays focused on commercial outcomes that matter to your bottom line, rather than vanity metrics like impressions or clicks that look good on a dashboard but don’t translate into real sales.
Beyond the channels already covered, we offer enterprise SEO for larger, more complex retail organisations managing multiple stakeholders, international SEO for brands expanding into new markets overseas, and integrated marketing strategies that bring every channel together under one connected plan, rather than running each in isolation.