Shaun Leane

We transformed Shaun Leane’s digital marketing approach.

The Brand:

Shaun Leane

THE ISSUE:

Revenue was slowing ahead of peak season, creating urgent pressure to drive significant growth, and the existing paid media strategy was struggling to capture net new customers.

Our Part:

We took complete ownership of Shaun Leane’s paid media strategy, implementing a full-funnel approach across audience strategy, content, and digital marketing.

The Impact:

Heur delivered a dramatic revenue turnaround for Shaun Leane's ecommerce channel, driven by unlocking efficiency and capturing new customer cohorts.

Incremental Revenue

+49%

Average Monthly Revenue

+560%

New Customers

+70%

Improvement in Marketing Efficiency Ratio

+8.7%

Approach

Shaun Leane is a British jewellery brand known for bold, avant-garde designs blending traditional craftsmanship with innovation. Founded by master jeweller Shaun Leane, it gained prominence through iconic collaborations with Alexander McQueen. With a distinctive aesthetic merging elegance and edge, its collections feature sculptural forms and intricate details. The brand continues pushing boundaries, offering fine jewellery that is both wearable and artful.

We audited the client's paid media strategy from the ground up, pinpointing its limitations and the audience opportunities it was missing, then built a data-driven approach to reach beyond existing audiences and generate sustained demand. From there we rolled out a full-funnel strategy across Meta and Google, priming future demand while nurturing existing customers, and paired it with an integrated content and messaging framework that balanced brand storytelling with performance marketing to lift engagement and conversion.

This covered strategic consultancy (leadership and advisory to set clear objectives and drive growth), full ownership of paid media (targeting, execution, and optimisation), and a comprehensive audit of marketing performance and spend to unlock further opportunities.

Challenge

The strategic roadblocks stifling revenue momentum ahead of peak season were rooted in unstructured demand generation and an over-reliance on saturated audiences. The key challenges included:

  • Slowing Revenue: Revenue was slowing ahead of peak season, creating urgent pressure to drive significant growth.
  • Limited Expansion: Paid media strategy was overly focused on existing audiences, limiting expansion and momentum.
  • Unstructured Demand: Demand generation efforts were not structured, risking inconsistent performance during key retail periods.
  • Content Limitations: Content lacked a strategic framework to balance brand storytelling with performance marketing.
  • Messaging Resonance: Brand messaging did not fully resonate beyond the product, limiting broader audience engagement.

The Commercial Impact

Shaun Leane needed a team to elevate its digital marketing strategy and drive sustained growth. We took over strategic leadership of paid media, redefining audience targeting, content, and campaign management to maximise performance. In parallel, we conducted a deep-dive audit of the existing approach to identify inefficiencies and unlock new revenue opportunities. We transformed Shaun Leane’s digital marketing approach, driving significant revenue growth, expanding audience reach, and improving marketing efficiency to maximise peak-season performance.

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“Working with Heur has been invaluable in transforming our paid media strategy. Their full-funnel approach, and audience insights, have allowed us to focus our channel strategy, whilst significantly improving marketing efficiency.”

CHARLOTTE COOPER

HEAD OF MARKETING

SHAUN LEANE

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FAQs

What does Heur actually do?

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We're a commercial operating partner for ecommerce brands. We embed senior operators into your business to own strategy, trading, paid media and CRM, with solutions crafted around your specific needs.

What size of business do you work with?

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Product-led DTC brands, generally £1m to £25m+ in ecommerce revenue, with a sweet spot around £10m. The common thread is a strong product and brand looking for the right architecture and delivery mechanisms to scale.

How are you different from other ecommerce agencies?

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The difference lies in visibility. A channel agency owns one account and answers for that account's metrics. We view channels alongside margin, stock and the customer base. This allows trade-offs to be made holistically, ensuring we answer for the business's bottom line rather than a single channel's performance.

What does the engagement structure look like?

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A weekly strategy or trading meeting, always-on Slack access throughout the week, and a deeper monthly review against the roadmap. Everything runs in 30-, 60- and 90-day sprints against a longer-term plan.

Can you work alongside our internal team or existing agencies?

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Yes – integrating alongside existing teams and agencies is a common operational setup. We provide the senior strategic layer, aligning all internal talent and external partners to a single, unified commercial plan, ensuring seamless execution without disrupting the roles that are already performing well.

How much does an engagement cost?

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It depends on scope. Engagements are priced against ecommerce revenue and complexity rather than a flat rate. Once we understand your turnover and goals, we can put a clear number in front of you.

Do you build or design websites?

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We're not a design and development agency. We work with a trusted network of development partner agencies to support with clients' dev requirements, and can provide stewardship, project management and commercial strategy support to ensure projects are delivered to their full potential.