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Shopify design and development for Pittsburgh brands.
Looking for a Shopify agency in Pittsburgh? Start with what actually needs doing: build the store, redesign the one you've outgrown, or market it once it's live with ads, email, search and testing. For brands doing six to eight figures a year.
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Word of mouth · first campaigns
Taking a brand past the people who already knew it.
Pumpin Pal grew on search and word of mouth — the Pittsburgh order of things, where the customers come before the website does. What it didn't have was any way to reach someone who hadn't heard of it yet.
We launched its first Facebook and Google campaigns, tuned them every week as the data came back, and killed the ads that didn't earn their spot.
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Selling from Pittsburgh
Three rivers, one port district, and a market street that went retail.
Pittsburgh's freight still moves on water, and its best-known market street started as wholesale. Sources beside each one.
Two hundred miles of river
All 200 miles of commercially navigable waterways in southwestern Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio, sit in the Port of Pittsburgh's district.
Source: Port of Pittsburgh Commission
A top-five inland port
Army Corps of Engineers data for 2020 ranked Pittsburgh the fifth busiest inland port in the country, handling 15.5 million tons of cargo.
Source: Port of Pittsburgh Commission
Wholesale turned retail
The Strip District grew up as the city's wholesale produce district; as the dealers thinned out, those left opened retail stores on Penn Avenue and Smallman Street.
Source: Strip District Neighbors
Across two state lines
The Census Bureau's combined statistical area for Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh-Weirton-Steubenville, reaches into Ohio and West Virginia.
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Get the store built — or get the one you have selling better.
A build is one project: the design and theme, your catalog, the move off whatever you’re on now, and a launch somebody watches. From $10,000 one-time, and you own every bit of it.
Already on Shopify? Shopify Growth keeps the store improving month to month, from $2,250/mo. Ads, email, search and testing go on top when they’ll pay for themselves.
Questions, Pittsburgh edition.
Are you actually in Pittsburgh?
No, but we're in the state — Montgomery County, outside Philadelphia, which is about five hours east on the turnpike. We're a remote agency with people across the US, so in practice you'd get the same team either way.
We built an audience before we built the store. Does that change anything?
It changes the order, not the work. An audience that turned up before the store means demand is already proven, so the build's job is converting people who already like you: clear product pages, a signup that actually gets used, and ads only once both are pulling their weight.
We sell food through a shop in the Strip. How does that become an online store?
The same way the Strip itself changed: by selling direct to people who already know you. Start with the things that travel — sauces, pantry goods, gift boxes — and let the regulars who've bought over the counter for years be the first email list, because they'll forgive a new store more than a stranger will.
Our customers reach into Ohio and West Virginia. Do we count them as local?
The Census Bureau does: its combined area for Pittsburgh runs into both. So set local delivery and ads by drive time from the city, not by the Pennsylvania border, or a state-shaped campaign leaves out the Ohio and West Virginia side of your own market.
Where we work
Pittsburgh and the towns up the rivers.
Pittsburgh is a city of neighborhoods that behave like small towns, and the brands that come out of it tend to have a real customer base before they have a real website. That order is a good problem.
We’re a remote agency with a home base in Norristown, Pennsylvania — the team is spread across the country, with a good chunk of it on the west coast. Everything runs on video calls, so you get the same people and the same hours whether you’re downtown or an hour out of it.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover
- Downtown
- Lawrenceville
- The Strip District
- Shadyside
- Squirrel Hill
- The South Side
- Mount Washington
- Cranberry Township
Nearby metros
More markets in the Mid-Atlantic
We’ll tell you what we’d do first with your Pittsburgh store.
Thirty minutes, free, and the notes are yours whether or not we work together.
