ZINC / Once Upon a Book Club

A rebuilt store.
Books, boxes
& book lovers.

We rebuilt Once Upon a Book Club’s Shopify website. We manage its SEO, blogs, Google Shopping, Meta and TikTok ads. Now we’re building a BI app to make the reporting more useful.

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Once Upon a Book Club / Shopify rebuild
Rebuilt Once Upon a Book Club Shopify storefront, June 2025 archive
Books, page-numbered gifts and a store that changes with every release.
Build / Shopify

A new home for
the reading experience.

Once Upon a Book Club pairs books with wrapped gifts, opened at specific pages in the story. The website has to explain that experience while helping readers find subscriptions, one-time boxes and bookish gifts.

Rebuilt Once Upon a Book Club homepage, archived June 9, 2025
Earlier Once Upon a Book Club homepage, archived October 1, 2024
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Archived views: October 1, 2024 ↗ / June 9, 2025 ↗. Capture dates, not launch dates.

Storefront rebuilt.

A revised header, product-led homepage and clearer Book Boxes and Books & Products navigation.

Built for changing releases.

Subscriptions, limited editions and pre-orders share the store with the growing boutique collection.

Work continues after launch.

We maintain product and collection content, search metadata and publication checks as the catalog changes.

The work in context

Google Shopping. Meta. TikTok.

We manage all three paid channels around subscription boxes, limited editions and seasonal releases. These presentations use the client’s campaign artwork.

MetaCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book ClubCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book Club Halloween campaign artwork in a Meta creative presentation.

A seasonal story.

Client-approved Halloween artwork, presented for the Meta feed.

TikTokCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book ClubCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book Club Bridgerton box and book artwork in a TikTok creative presentation.

The box becomes the story.

Bridgerton product artwork in a vertical creative presentation for TikTok.

Google ShoppingCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book ClubCreative presentation
Once Upon a Book Club Shopping source artwork showing Love of My Lives, its box and numbered gifts.

Show what arrives.

Shopping campaign source artwork from 2024: the book, box and gifts shown together.

Intelligence / BI app in development

Two months invested.
Before they asked.

We took the initiative to build a business-intelligence app for Once Upon a Book Club, investing two months beyond the work they had requested. The aim: better reporting and better-informed decisions.

The app is still in development. These screens show the work in progress, with private client figures removed.

Plan around demand. Once Upon a Book Club BI app in development; private figures removed.

Plan around demand.

The demand calendar puts seasonal search interest beside the products and content being planned.

See where visits stop. Once Upon a Book Club BI app in development; private figures removed.

See where visits stop.

The store’s funnel follows visits into carts, checkout and purchase, with the source and reporting window kept visible.

Read each channel on its own terms. Once Upon a Book Club BI app in development; private figures removed.

Read each channel on its own terms.

Advertising views keep platform-attributed purchases distinct from the store’s order record.

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Seasonal product records · BI app in development; private figures removed
Seasonal product records
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Season outlook
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Guided walkthrough
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Dated work and content
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Meeting records
Record correction · BI app in development; private figures removed
Record correction
Creative analysis · design package · BI app in development; private figures removed
Creative analysis · design package
Checkout behavior · design package · BI app in development; private figures removed
Checkout behavior · design package
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Market context · design package
An ongoing engagement

The work keeps moving
with the catalog.

A rebuilt website, ongoing search and paid-channel management, monthly reporting and an app being developed to connect the next decisions.

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