TRTL Travel Case Study
TRTL Travel makes the world's best-selling travel pillow — viral reach, global markets, loyal customers. What they didn't have was a conversion strategy that matched. GrowthHit identified price as the #1 blocker, flipped it with a family bundle strategy that drove 5X sales, and scaled the same playbook into 5 new markets.
5X
Sales
+20%
Email-Attributed Sales
+48%
A/B Test Win Rate
Conversion Rate Optimization
Homepage Conversion Redesign
Product Page (PDP) Redesign
Cart & Offer Optimisation
Challenges/goals
What TRTL Travel Needed
- A conversion rate that matched the brand's reach. TRTL had built one of the most recognised travel products in the world through organic virality. But a great product and a high-converting Shopify store are different things. The opportunity was to bring conversion rate optimization discipline to a brand that had earned its traffic — and make every visit count.
- AOV growth without discounting the brand. Starting AOV was ~$60 against a target of ~$100. Getting there required more than bundles and free gifts — it required testing which combinations of urgency, offer framing, and cart experience actually moved AOV without training customers to wait for a deal.
- Tailored experiences for five global markets. TRTL sells across US, UK, CA, AU, and EU — each with distinct pricing, offer sensitivities, and shopper behaviour. A single conversion approach wouldn't work. The program required region-by-region testing and an email strategy built for five separate markets, not one.
- Brand elevation for premium positioning. The TPC (TRTL Pillow Cool) represented a higher price point that required stronger storytelling to justify. Without clear brand narrative and quality cues, price resistance increased and visitors defaulted to discounts. Elevating the brand experience on these pages was a direct conversion and margin lever.
Retention-driven email campaigns
Lessons from helping TRTL Travel grow
Running a CRO and email program across 5 countries at the same time taught us things no single-market playbook contains. Here's what moved the needle:
We flipped the biggest blocker — price — by changing who the customer was buying for.
TRTL sells a premium travel pillow. The price objection was real: why buy one for $60 when you can get a cheaper one? The breakthrough wasn't lowering the price — it was reframing who the purchase was for. Instead of selling one pillow to one traveler, we trained customers to buy for the whole family. The bundle strategy removed the per-unit price anchor entirely and replaced it with a different question: how many people in your family travel? Once that shift landed on the page, sales didn't inch up — they went 5X. We then scaled that exact test into five new markets. It worked every time.
One email program for five markets is leaving money behind.
Most brands send the same emails to their entire global list. TRTL had customers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and EU — five markets with different currencies, different seasonal travel patterns, different shopper behavior, and different compliance requirements. GrowthHit built five independent Klaviyo programs from scratch, each with its own flow architecture, content calendar, and offer strategy. The result: +20% average email capture lift across the program. When emails are relevant to where and when your customer is buying, they perform.
Offers need urgency to convert — a discount alone isn't enough.
Testing 15% off vs. 10% off sounds simple. But the real insight wasn't the size of the discount — it was what happens when you combine the right offer with a clear time limit. 15% off with urgency outperformed 10% off without it by +50% in the UK and +49% in Canada. Layered promotions (discount + gift + countdown) outperformed single-incentive offers across every region tested. Shoppers need a reason to act now, not just a reason to buy.
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