Insights, guides, and strategies for Shopify store owners and brands looking to grow online.
If your Shopify store is not getting the search traffic it should, the obvious move is to hire a Shopify SEO consultant. Sometimes that is right. Often it is not, plus the SEO world is crowded with people who will happily take a retainer to send you reports while nothing actually changes. Here is how to tell what you really need, and how to spot a consultant worth paying.
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The first question most founders ask about a fractional CTO is the right one: what does it cost? The honest answer is “less than a full-time one, and it depends”, which is useless on its own, so let me break down how fractional CTO pricing actually works for ecommerce brands and what moves the number.
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“Ecommerce consultant” is one of those titles that can mean anything from a genuine senior advisor to someone who read a few growth blogs last month. So before you pay for one, here is what the role actually involves, what it should cost, plus how to tell whether you need one at all. We do this work for Shopify brands, and we also build, so this is the version grounded in execution rather than theory.
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Most ecommerce founders hire a CTO either too early, burning budget on leadership they cannot yet use, or far too late, after a string of expensive technical mistakes that a senior head would have caught. Having led this role for ecommerce brands myself, here are the actual signals that you need one, plus why a fractional CTO is usually the right first step rather than a full-time hire.
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