
How U.N. Luggage broke a four-year revenue ceiling by finally treating email and Shopify like real growth channels.
U.N. Luggage is a Winnipeg luggage and travel retailer with deep product knowledge, loyal local customers, and a Shopify store that had quietly underperformed for years.
From 2021 through 2024, online revenue landed in the same narrow band every year. Four years without real growth. Not shrinking, but not moving either.
Everything online was run in-house, squeezed between the day-to-day of running a store. Email had become more chore than channel. The team knew Klaviyo could do more. They just didn't have the time to make it happen.
That's where I came in.
Email first, since the infrastructure was already there. Then the storefront, once email was funding the work.
The first six months were all Klaviyo. The infrastructure was there. Nobody was using it.
The welcome series and abandoned checkout flows were running, but underperforming. I rebuilt both and added three that didn't exist: abandoned cart, browse abandonment, and post-purchase. Every flow built around the real customer journey, not a template.
The old popup had run for years, converting at a dismal 0.1%. I built a new one and layered in tactical forms for specific campaigns. Popup completions went from 450 to over 6,400 in a year.
Instead of blasting every campaign to the whole list, I built engaged-subscriber segments and sent to smaller, sharper audiences. Frequency went up. So did opens and clicks.
Email stopped being a stream of sale announcements. Now product guides, education, and brand stories run alongside the promotions, giving people a reason to open even when there's no discount attached.






By early 2026 email was scaling, but the site itself was holding revenue back. A dated theme, a weak mobile experience, a codebase that fought every change. In February 2026 I rebuilt it on a modern Shopify theme.
The new site is faster, cleaner, and built around how people actually shop. Especially on mobile.
The new theme is built to be improved, not fought. Since launch, I've shipped custom changes nearly every week to keep pushing conversion higher.
Rebuilt on a modern Shopify theme, with continuous CRO work ever since.
After four years stuck in the same band, the trailing twelve months tell a very different story.
Across the storefront, after the email rebuild and site relaunch.
The Klaviyo program went from side function to major contributor.
List growth was the leading indicator that made everything else possible.
Let's talk about what's possible.