The Situation
As brand recognition grew, it became increasingly difficult for Crazy Dog T-Shirts to keep up with demand.
“We had a strong presence on eBay and Amazon,” explains Digital Marketing Manager Tony Kingston. “But the market was moving to lots of marketplaces, and we couldn’t keep track of them.”
With more than a hundred global marketplaces to choose from, just determining which channels would be the best fit for the brand’s catalogue was a big challenge — not to mention getting up and running on each one.
After attempting to manage one new marketplace on their own, the team realized they’d need a better solution. The setup was inefficient, and keeping track of so many moving parts was virtually impossible.
With a strong core strategy and big visions for future growth, all the company really needed was the right technology.
The Solution
Eight years after the first Crazy Dog T-Shirt was sold, the company started leveraging Rithum’s e-commerce platform.
“When we were considering different options, we talked with a few different services,” Kingston says. “[Rithum] was the most robust of all the platforms.”
So the company uploaded its product data, started leveraging integrations and began expanding to new marketplaces.
“To manage thousands of SKUs on 20 different platforms is impossible,” Kingston explains. “Rithum allows us to use one SKU. [We] make one change on one product and have it affect all 20 marketplaces at once, which is phenomenal.”
In addition to relying on Rithum to manage multiple marketplaces and stay ahead of emerging trends, Crazy Dog T-Shirts leverages the platform’s ShipStation connection to help streamline fulfilment.
“Rithum is the central hub through which everything is done,” Kingston says. “It’s been important to the point where if people need to lookup an image or a UPC number, Rithum is the master record we can default to.”
The Results
With Rithum, Crazy Dog T-Shirts was able to put its core strategy to work and exceed the company’s business goals.
Most recently, the company has been experiencing double-digit growth for eight consecutive months.
“We would need a lot more manpower to handle our e-commerce platform without Rithum,” Kingston says. “I think we would’ve had a much harder time seeing this level of success.”
From revamping Amazon keywords to getting in on the ground floor of new and emerging marketplace opportunities, Crazy Dog T-Shirts continues to find all kinds of ways to lean on the platform.
“Rithum makes everything run a lot more efficiently than it would otherwise. It’s such a cornerstone of the business, I don’t know what we’d do without it.”
Kingston’s advice to other sellers facing similar challenges?
“If you have the tech ability to understand the platform, you can leverage it to an amazing extent. Take your time to try to figure out the system and that will pay dividends in the long run.”
Solutions
- To help you meet and exceed the expectations of the empowered consumer, Rithum offers Fulfilment Automation services that help you save money and optimise your customer experience through Intelligent Order Routing, Shipment Tracking, Inventory Management and more.
- Our deep integrations and click-to-ship connectivity simplify every part of the fulfilment process, from generating pick and pack lists, printing shipping labels and even automatically allocating orders to your warehouse management system.
- Ensure your products are front and center across the internet by bringing all the elements of digital marketing under one umbrella.
