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A Lavender Farm Website
That Existed.
Now One That Converts.

Arrowhead Lavender Farm had a website. It had four sections, a butterfly photo, and a quote about serenity. It did not have a clear path to purchase, a visible shop, or a way to turn visitors into buyers. We rebuilt it from the ground up using AIDA conversion architecture, delivering a dark moody, brand-true storefront that works as hard as the farm itself.

+260%
Shop Sessions Post-Launch
+88%
Average Order Value Increase
4x
More Pages Discoverable
100%
Rebuilt From Scratch

About Arrowhead Lavender Farm

Arrowhead Lavender Farm and Co. is a family-run lavender operation established in 2020, growing and handcrafting small-batch lavender products in the Pacific Northwest. From essential oils and bundles to seasonal events and U-pick farm experiences, the brand has a genuinely compelling story, beautiful products, and a loyal local following.

The problem was that none of that came through online. When visitors landed on the website, they encountered a full-screen nature photo, a spiritual quote, and a navigation bar with two links. There was no clear call to action, no visible shop, no event booking flow, and no structure that guided a first-time visitor toward any action at all. Traffic arrived and left without converting.


The Problem

The original website was built as a passion project, not a sales channel. That distinction matters because the two require fundamentally different design decisions. A beautiful website that communicates a vibe is not the same as a website that converts visitors into buyers.

Four specific structural problems were preventing the site from performing:

  • No above-the-fold value proposition: The hero section contained only a photograph and a quote about lavender symbolism. A visitor arriving from search or social had no immediate understanding of what the brand sold, whether they could order online, or where to go next.
  • Buried shop: The shop was accessible only through a single navigation link. There was no visual product showcase, no featured collections, no price anchoring, and no pathway that naturally led a browsing visitor toward a purchase decision.
  • Events section missing entirely: Arrowhead runs farm visits, U-pick seasons, and seasonal events that are a meaningful part of both their revenue and their brand identity. The original site had no dedicated events page and no booking or enquiry mechanism.
  • No conversion architecture: The site had no clear calls to action, no visual hierarchy guiding the eye from awareness to interest to desire to purchase, and no trust-building elements like product photography at scale, reviews, or seasonal urgency.
Before: Original 4-Section Website
Arrowhead Lavender Farm original website showing butterfly photo with lavender quote and minimal navigation
After: CRO-Optimised Redesign
Arrowhead Lavender Farm redesigned website with dark moody hero, clear navigation, shop and events CTAs

What We Built and Why

The brief from the client was specific: a dark, moody aesthetic that felt true to the farm and the season, with a proper shop, a proper events page, and a site that actually moved visitors toward a purchase or booking. We delivered all three, built entirely on AIDA conversion architecture.

What changed
Old Website
New Website
Hero section
Quote about serenity
Clear value prop + 2 CTAs
Shop visibility
1 nav link only
Full shop page + featured products
Events page
Does not exist
Dedicated page with booking flow
Navigation
2 links
Farm, Shop, Events, Contact
Primary CTA above fold
None
Explore Our Shop + Plan Your Visit
Brand aesthetic
Default template
Dark moody, custom typography
Seasonal urgency signals
None
2026 Bloom Season badge
Trust and product depth
None
Product photography, farm story

How AIDA Architecture Works in Practice

AIDA is not a design style. It is a persuasion sequence that maps to how real people make buying decisions. Every section of the new Arrowhead website was placed, written, and designed to move a visitor through each stage in order. Here is exactly how that played out on this project.

Step 1 of 4

Attention

Stop the scroll in 3 seconds or lose the visitor forever. Five things must be in the hero fold:

  • Background imagesets the mood and brand instantly
  • Headlinesays what you do and who it is for
  • Sub-headlineadds context in one sentence
  • CTA buttongives the visitor one clear next step
  • Social proofshows others already trust you
Step 2 of 4

Interest

Attention gets them to stay. Interest gives them a reason to care. This fold goes deeper into your products, what makes them different, and the benefits the customer actually gets. Not features. Outcomes.

  • What you sell and why it matters
  • What makes it different from every alternative
  • The specific benefit the customer walks away with
Step 3 of 4

Desire

Make them want it before they have bought it. Real reviews in every format, each with a name, a star rating, and a highlighted quote. The goal: the visitor reads this and thinks "that could be me."

  • Video, image, and text reviews, all three formats
  • Named reviewers with ratings, not anonymous quotes
  • Highlighted emotional lines that sell the feeling, not the product
Step 4 of 4

Action

One offer. One CTA. Zero reasons to hesitate. Visitors who leave rarely come back, so the Action fold needs a specific reason to act right now with every friction point removed.

  • An offer that rewards acting today
  • One clear CTA, not three competing options
  • Risk removal so the first purchase feels safe

Why most websites skip AIDA: Most website projects start with design rather than persuasion architecture. A designer makes something beautiful, a developer builds it, and everyone approves it visually without asking whether it actually moves a visitor toward a purchase. AIDA forces the question first. Every section must earn its place by serving a specific role in the buying journey. Sections that cannot answer "what does this make the visitor feel or do?" get cut or rewritten before a pixel of design begins.


The Results

Within 90 days of the new website launching, Arrowhead Lavender Farm had a functioning online storefront that reflected the quality of their products and gave visitors a clear path from first impression to purchase or booking.

+260%
Increase in shop page sessions in the 90 days post-launch compared to the prior period
+88%
Average order value increase as product pages and collections surfaced higher-ticket bundles
4x
More discoverable pages indexed, including the new Events and Farm Story sections
2
Brand new revenue-generating pages built: dedicated Shop and dedicated Events with booking flow
<3s
Page load time maintained despite full visual rebuild, with optimised image handling throughout
100%
Custom design from scratch, no template, no compromise on the dark moody aesthetic the client wanted

A note on the numbers: Website redesign results take time to compound. The metrics above reflect the 90-day post-launch window. Longer-term compounding through organic search, repeat visitors, and seasonal traffic peaks is still in progress. What the numbers confirm is that the structural changes — a visible shop, a proper hero, clear CTAs, and an events page that actually exists — immediately moved visitor behaviour in the right direction.


Our Responsibilities

AIDA Conversion Architecture
Full Website Design and Development
CRO Copywriting and Page Structure
Shop Page Build and Product Architecture
Events Page and Booking Flow
Brand Aesthetic and Typography System
Navigation and Information Architecture
Mobile-First Responsive Build