From Pakistani beauty startups to UK barbershops and German gifting stores — every project built to the same standard. Shopify development, brand strategy, social media, and performance ads. All connected. All intentional.
Maryam is a Shopify developer and digital growth strategist who has delivered results for businesses across Pakistan and internationally — from fashion and furniture to beauty and wellness.
She combines technical Shopify expertise with performance-driven social media and ad strategies, giving brands a complete online presence that converts visitors into loyal customers.
With a portfolio spanning Pakistan, the UK, Germany, and beyond, Maryam brings global standards to every project she touches.
10 live projects across fashion, furniture, beauty, wellness, and lifestyle — each built to convert and crafted to last.
Pakistani footwear brand selling formal shoes, Chelsea boots, and sandals. The brief: bridge the gap between affordable pricing and premium brand perception — a luxury-feel Shopify store that converts mid-range footwear shoppers into loyal customers.
Puropelle positioned as premium handcrafted leather but operated at mid-range price points (PKR 2,000–7,000). The store had to communicate aspirational quality while remaining accessible — and drive repeat purchases through brand loyalty, not just discounts.
German "birthday wishes" — a content-driven eCommerce hybrid. The model: rank for high-volume evergreen German searches ("Geburtstagswünsche lustig / herzlich"), capture emotional traffic, then convert via greeting card purchases. SEO-first architecture, DSGVO compliant, SEPA payments, seasonal content system built for Christmas and birthday peaks.
Content-eCommerce hybrids need to do two things perfectly: rank in Google and convert visitors. The store had to feel like a native German experience while the SEO architecture drove sustained organic traffic from Germany's millions of birthday-related searches every month.
Pakistani health supplement brand — glutathione, vitamins, hair growth, and glow products. Positioned as pharmacy-grade wellness but operating as a DTC nutraceutical brand. Store built with clinical credibility signals, free-delivery-Pakistan messaging, and COD-first checkout flow for high-conversion supplement selling.
Supplement buyers in Pakistan are sceptical of quality claims. The store had to lead with credibility — ingredient transparency, trust signals, and authentic results language — without making unverifiable medical claims that limit ad reach.
Pakistani beauty and lifestyle brand — serums, skincare, and watches under one brand. Built from zero: Shopify store with COD/JazzCash/EasyPaisa integrations, brand identity system, and simultaneous Instagram + TikTok content launch. Crown = confidence. Aura = glow. The digital presence had to match.
Category alignment — beauty and watches require completely different marketing languages. Serums need trust-heavy, science-led content. Watches need lifestyle and aspiration. Both had to coexist under one brand without confusing the audience or diluting the positioning.
Pakistani men's footwear brand — Chelsea boots, chukkas, oxfords, loafers. 100% genuine cow leather positioning with premium visual branding at mid-tier price points. Discount-driven DTC sales model with heavy Facebook/Instagram ad reliance. Store built to sell shoes, not showcase them.
Mears operates in a price-sensitive market but wants premium brand perception. The store had to justify the brand story ("handcrafted genuine leather") while still being optimised for Pakistan's COD-dominant, discount-responsive shopping behaviour.
UK's home of K-beauty — 2,000+ products from 60+ Korean brands. Positioned as the trusted UK K-beauty curator (4.4★ Trustpilot, 11k+ reviews). Store built around ingredient-led discovery, trend-driven content, and precision ad targeting for Gen Z skincare enthusiasts.
Competing against Boots, YesStyle, and Amazon sellers required winning on speed + trust + curation — not price. Store architecture had to support 2,000+ SKUs while making discovery fast and the brand feel expert, not just a catalogue.
Professional UK nail salon — BIAB, acrylic extensions, gel, nail art. Appointment-based business competing in a saturated UK beauty market. Digital strategy centred on Instagram visual portfolio, before/after content, and local SEO for "nail salon near me" and "BIAB nails Birmingham" searches.
Nail salons live and die by their Instagram. The visual portfolio IS the business pitch. Creating a booking-optimised website that worked alongside a content strategy where every post was a conversion opportunity required both design and strategy thinking.
Pakistan's business investment and acquisition marketplace — think Zameen.com but for buying, selling, and investing in businesses. Connects entrepreneurs (seeking exits or funding) with investors. Listings include startups, franchises, SMEs, and asset-backed deals. Digital platform built for trust in a high-stakes financial niche.
Investment platforms live or die on trust. Every design decision had to communicate legitimacy, security, and professionalism — because the stakes (someone's life savings or business exit) demand it. In Pakistan's emerging M&A space, being the most credible option is the only viable positioning.
Gentlemen's barbershop with locations in Cambridge and Haverhill. Premium grooming experience — hot towel shaves, fades, complimentary drinks. Service-based brand that sells an experience, not just a haircut. Digital presence built to dominate local search and convert walk-in intent into bookings.
Thomas William doesn't sell products — they sell a ritual. The website had to communicate the entire grooming experience: the atmosphere, the craftsmanship, the hospitality. All in a way that made a potential customer book before they'd even visited.
Faisalabad-based wooden furniture brand — beds, wardrobes, almirahs, custom sets. Local manufacturer going direct-to-consumer online. The "Holz" name (German for wood) creates a premium perception. Store built for the WhatsApp-first, COD-dominant Pakistani furniture buyer journey.
Pakistani furniture buyers want to negotiate, ask questions, and customise before committing. The store had to integrate seamlessly with WhatsApp for enquiries while building enough trust online to get buyers to that conversation in the first place.
Every project follows a proven framework — from discovery to launch to ongoing growth. No guesswork, just results.
Deep dive into your brand, audience, competitors, and goals. No assumptions — only data and honest conversation about where you are and where you need to be.
Shopify store architecture, theme development, UX design, and custom code — all built to convert. Every decision is intentional and tied to your business objectives.
Ads, social media content, and organic growth strategies deployed from day one. Your store goes live with traffic — not silence.
Data-driven iteration, ad optimisation, and ongoing Shopify improvements. Growth is not an event — it's a continuous process that gets sharper over time.
Puropelle sells formal shoes, Chelsea boots, sandals, and slippers for men and women — primarily online with small physical shops in Faisalabad. Price points range PKR 2,000–7,000. The brand positions as "premium handcrafted leather footwear" but operates in the mid-range accessible market.
The brief was clear: build a Shopify D2C store that makes their footwear feel aspirational and premium — even to a customer who knows they're paying affordable prices. The store had to close the perception gap between how the brand wanted to be seen and how the product was actually priced.
Beyond the store, a Meta ads funnel was needed: reach → product page → discount trigger → checkout. The typical Pakistani footwear buyer journey mapped and built into every stage.
Puropelle mixes genuine and synthetic leather at competitive price points — yet uses premium brand language ("handcrafted," "luxury"). The store had to honour that aspiration without overpromising. Shoppers who feel misled don't come back. The solution was to lead with craftsmanship and design quality — things that were genuinely true — rather than material claims that could disappoint on delivery.
Maryam built the Puropelle Shopify store with the Pakistani DTC buyer in mind: clean category pages for Formal Shoes, Chelsea Boots, Sandals by gender — fast filtering, clear discount displays, and a checkout flow with COD and bank transfer prominently positioned. Product pages led with editorial-style photography that elevated the perceived quality of each shoe.
The Meta ad funnel was structured as: awareness creative (lifestyle shots) → product page retargeting → discount urgency → checkout. Simple, repeatable, scalable.
"Geburtstagswünsche" means birthday wishes in German. This is a content-driven eCommerce hybrid — not a traditional product store. The business model: capture millions of German searches for birthday messages and wishes, provide high-quality emotional content, then convert that engaged traffic into greeting card purchases.
The real product is the content — long wish lists, heartfelt messages, funny quotes, seasonal greetings — organised and presented so well that Google ranks the pages and users stay long enough to buy a card to send.
The brief required building both an SEO content architecture and a converting eCommerce experience — in German, for German users, with DSGVO compliance and SEPA payment integration.
Content sites and eCommerce sites have different design priorities. Content sites need to be scannable, long-form, and engagement-optimised. eCommerce sites need clear product hierarchy and fast purchase paths. This project had to do both — and do both in a language and cultural context that demanded native-level authenticity, not a translated English experience.
Maryam built a Shopify store structured around German search intent — pages organised by occasion type (birthday, Christmas, anniversary), age groups, and relationship (friend, parent, partner). Each page functioned as both a content resource and a sales page, with greeting card products naturally integrated into the content flow.
DSGVO cookie compliance, SEPA payment integration, and German language throughout ensured the store felt native — not like a translated project. Seasonal content spikes for Christmas and birthday seasons were built into the content calendar architecture.
Nutragenic is a Pakistani health and beauty supplement brand — glutathione glow tablets, vitamin D3, hair growth capsules, skin whitening supplements, and wellness products. Positioned as "pharmacy-grade" but operating as a DTC nutraceutical brand targeting beauty-conscious Pakistani consumers.
The challenge was that Pakistan's supplement market is saturated with low-quality products and bold claims. Buyers are sceptical. A store that looked generic or made unverifiable claims would fail immediately. The brief was to build a Shopify store that earned trust before it asked for a sale.
The store also had to be built for Pakistan's shopping reality — free delivery nationwide, COD as the primary payment method, mobile-first design for smartphone-dominant traffic.
Supplement marketing walks a tightrope — buyers want proof that products work, but platforms restrict before/after claims and ad policies punish medical language. The store had to communicate efficacy through ingredient transparency, customer results, and pharmacy-grade visual language — without making specific health claims that would get ads rejected or mislead buyers.
Maryam built the Nutragenic store around credibility signals — ingredient transparency pages, third-party callouts, before/after-style customer reviews (user-generated, not brand claims), and a clinical visual system that communicated quality without feeling like a pharmaceutical ad. Product categories were structured around consumer intent: glow, hair, immunity, vitamins.
Pakistan-native features throughout: free delivery nationwide messaging, COD-first checkout, WhatsApp order support, and mobile-first speed optimisation for variable connection quality.
Crown Aura is a high-potential early-stage beauty and lifestyle brand from Pakistan. The name is powerful — Crown (confidence, status, beauty) + Aura (glow, presence) — but the digital execution had to match that brand energy consistently. When Maryam was brought in, Crown Aura had no store, no social presence, and no brand framework. Just great products.
The brief covered everything: build the Shopify store with Pakistan-native payment integrations (COD, JazzCash, EasyPaisa), create the complete brand identity system, and launch Instagram and TikTok simultaneously from day one with a content strategy that could sustain momentum. Two distinct product categories — serums/skincare and watches — had to coexist under one brand without confusing the audience.
Serums and watches speak completely different brand languages. Serums need ingredient-led, science-backed, trust-heavy content. Watches need lifestyle imagery, aspiration, and masculine/feminine aesthetic depending on the audience. Most brands fail when they try to bridge these two worlds — the messaging becomes muddy and neither audience feels spoken to. Maryam solved this by creating distinct content pillars for each category while maintaining one unified brand identity that made both feel premium and intentional.
Maryam built the Crown Aura Shopify store with Pakistan's shopping reality at the centre — COD as primary payment, JazzCash and EasyPaisa integrated, WhatsApp support button live, mobile-first design for Pakistan's smartphone-heavy traffic. Product categories were cleanly separated: Beauty (serums, skincare) and Lifestyle (watches) — different visual treatments, same brand DNA.
The brand identity system was created to flex across both categories — the Crown Aura wordmark, colour palette, and typography system worked for a glow serum post and a minimal watch lifestyle shot without contradiction. Instagram content launched with 3 pillars: glow results, ingredient education, and lifestyle aspiration. TikTok launched with transformation content and behind-the-scenes Pakistan brand story.
Mears Shoes is a Pakistani men's footwear brand specialising in genuine cow leather Chelsea boots, chukka boots, oxfords, derbies, and loafers. Their positioning is "affordable premium-looking genuine leather footwear made in Pakistan" — and they mean it. Heavy emphasis on 100% genuine cow leather, durability, and handmade craftsmanship language.
The reality: they're a mass-market DTC brand with a heavy discount-driven sales model and product variety optimised for Facebook and Instagram ads. The store had to do two things simultaneously — communicate premium quality to justify the brand story, and convert the price-sensitive Pakistani buyer who responds to discount urgency and COD availability. That tension is where the work happened.
Showing a 40% discount on a "premium handcrafted" product is contradictory — but it's how Pakistani footwear D2C brands survive. The store had to lead with quality and craftsmanship (building perceived value) and then present the discount as a limited-time reward for smart buying rather than a signal of cheap products. Maryam engineered this through product page hierarchy — quality story first, price second, discount third.
Maryam built the Mears Shopify store with a clear product page hierarchy: leather quality and craftsmanship narrative leads, followed by imagery (multi-angle product shots), size selection, discount display, and COD checkout — in that order. The store's visual system used dark, editorial tones to communicate quality rather than the typical white Pakistani e-commerce template.
Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns were structured as: lifestyle awareness creative (men in premium settings wearing the shoes) → product retargeting (specific styles viewed) → discount urgency close (limited stock, best price). The funnel matched how Pakistani footwear buyers actually move from discovery to purchase.
Pure Seoul was founded in 2019 and has become one of the UK's leading K-beauty retailers — 2,000+ products from 60+ Korean brands, physical stores in UK cities, 11,000+ Trustpilot reviews at 4.4 stars. They position as the trusted UK K-beauty curator: "authentic sourcing, fast UK delivery, real Korean skincare."
The challenge at scale: 2,000 SKUs is a discovery nightmare without the right architecture. Korean beauty buyers are highly informed — they know ingredient names, skin type compatibility, and brand reputations. The store had to speak their language while being fast, beautiful, and easy to navigate for first-time K-beauty explorers too. All while competing against Boots, YesStyle, Stylevana, and Amazon sellers.
YesStyle is cheaper. Boots has more stores. Amazon is faster. Pure Seoul's competitive advantage is trust + curation + UK delivery speed. Every store decision had to amplify those three differentiators. Ingredient-led product pages, skin type filtering, brand storytelling for Korean labels unknown in the UK, and a visual system that felt authentically K-beauty — not just another Western beauty retailer with Korean products on the shelf.
Maryam built a Shopify store architecture that handled 2,000+ SKUs without overwhelming users — category hierarchy by skin type, concern, and ingredient (snail mucin, PDRN, centella, niacinamide) alongside by brand and product type. Each product page featured ingredient breakdowns, skin type compatibility, and routine placement guidance. This spoke directly to the informed Gen Z K-beauty shopper who knows what PDRN does.
Advertising strategy: TikTok trend-riding content (glass skin, 10-step routine) driving awareness → Meta retargeting with specific product creative → email capture for post-purchase routine building. The trust signals throughout — Trustpilot ratings, authenticity sourcing callouts, UK warehouse speed — were positioned to beat the cheaper competitors on the decision-making layer.
Glamour Nails is a professional UK nail salon offering BIAB, acrylic extensions, gel manicure/pedicure, nail art, and repair services. Appointment-based business, primarily Birmingham-based, competing in one of the most visually saturated niches in the UK beauty market. Mid-tier positioning: £25–£45 services, professional quality, accessible pricing.
Nail salons live and die by their visual portfolio. A potential client makes her decision based on the Instagram feed before she ever reads a single word of service description. The brief was to create both a booking-optimised website and an Instagram content strategy that worked together — where every piece of content was a portfolio entry, a trust signal, and a booking invitation simultaneously.
Most nail salons do one thing: post nail photos on Instagram. The ones that grow do three things: beautiful content that stops the scroll, local SEO that captures "BIAB nails Birmingham" and "nail salon near me" searches, and a frictionless booking system that converts that traffic without requiring phone calls or DMs. Maryam built all three as one integrated system.
Maryam built the Glamour Nails website with booking conversion as the primary goal — clear service menu with BIAB, acrylic, gel, nail art, and repair each with pricing, duration, and photo examples. The visual design was built to showcase nail photography at its best — large format, clean backgrounds, nail-first layouts.
Local SEO structure: individual service pages targeting "BIAB nails Birmingham", "acrylic nail extensions UK", "gel polish near me" — each with local schema markup, Google Business Profile optimisation guidance, and location-specific content. Instagram content strategy: weekly nail transformation posts, seasonal trend content, before/after carousels, and Reels showing the application process — each post doubling as a trust signal and a portfolio entry.
Exitbase is Pakistan's business investment and acquisition marketplace — like Zameen.com but for buying, selling, and investing in businesses instead of property. It connects entrepreneurs (who want to sell businesses or raise funding) with investors (who want to buy or invest). Listings include startups seeking capital, SMEs for sale, franchise opportunities, and asset-backed investment deals.
The business model: listing fees, featured placements, and managed deal brokerage. The audience: angel investors, franchise buyers, startup founders seeking exits, and SME owners wanting capital. The critical insight — in Pakistan's early-stage M&A space, the single biggest barrier is trust. Users worry about deal authenticity, investment risk, and scam perception. Every design and content decision had to address that trust barrier before anything else.
Nobody invests their life savings or sells their business through a platform that looks untrustworthy. In Pakistan's emerging M&A market, where the concept of buying and selling businesses online is still new, the trust barrier is even higher than in Western markets. Exitbase had to look like the professional, legitimate, regulated alternative to an informal brokerage — while also making its complex value proposition (asset-backed financing, equity participation, franchise investment) legible to a general business audience.
Maryam built the Exitbase platform with trust architecture at every layer. The visual system was professional and structured — not startup-y or informal. Category pages clearly separated startup investment, business acquisition, franchise opportunities, and asset-backed deals so different investor types could find their relevant listings instantly.
Trust signals throughout: verified listing badges, deal structure transparency, clear fee disclosure, educational content (blogs, podcasts) establishing topical authority in Pakistani business investment. The SEO strategy targeted high-intent financial keywords — "sell business Pakistan", "buy business Pakistan", "invest in startup Pakistan" — that capture motivated users at the decision point. Content marketing positioned Exitbase as Pakistan's go-to business investment authority, not just a classifieds site.
Thomas William is a gentlemen's barbershop with locations in Cambridge and Haverhill, UK. They offer classic hot towel wet shaves, fades, and modern cuts — with complimentary drinks (beer, coke), comfortable seating, and the atmosphere of a private members' grooming lounge. Traditional barbering with a contemporary premium edge.
This is not a product e-commerce project. Thomas William is a local service business — revenue comes from walk-ins, bookings, and repeat clientele. Their competitive positioning is premium grooming experience: they sit above budget street barbers and chain salons, below London luxury grooming clubs. The digital brief: dominate local search in Cambridge and Haverhill, communicate the full experience online, and convert website visitors into booked appointments before they've even walked through the door.
Thomas William's entire value proposition is atmospheric — the hot towel, the sharp razor, the drink in hand, the unhurried attention to craft. None of that is naturally captured in a website. The challenge was to use photography, copy, and layout to make a potential customer feel the experience before they visit, so the booking decision feels not like taking a chance on an unknown barber, but like securing something they're already excited about.
Maryam built the Thomas William website to do one thing first: communicate the experience. Full-bleed interior photography, atmospheric copy that described the hot towel, the craft, the drinks — not "we cut hair" but "we give you 45 minutes of genuine grooming ritual." The booking button was prominent but never pushy — it appeared after the experience had been communicated, at the moment of maximum desire.
Local SEO strategy: location-specific service pages for Cambridge and Haverhill targeting "barber Cambridge", "hot towel shave Cambridge", "men's haircut Haverhill" — each with local schema, Google Business Profile optimisation, and review generation strategy. Google Maps rankings were the primary traffic driver — over 60% of their new clients find them through local search.
Furniture Holz is a Faisalabad-based wooden furniture D2C brand — beds, wardrobes, almirahs, custom bedroom sets, dining tables, and living room furniture. Local manufacturer going direct-to-consumer online. The "Holz" name (German for wood) was deliberately chosen to give the brand a premium, craft-forward perception — and it works. The brand positions as "modern, durable, custom wooden furniture for Pakistani homes."
The business model is distinctly Pakistani: a potential buyer sees a Facebook or Instagram ad, visits the website to browse, then moves the conversation to WhatsApp to discuss custom dimensions, finishes, and pricing before committing. Delivery is local, custom orders are common, and the sale is almost always closed through human conversation. The website's job is to get the customer to that WhatsApp conversation — with enough trust and desire already built that the closing is easy.
The Pakistani furniture buyer wants to see the product, ask questions, negotiate, customise, and only then pay. The website had to satisfy the visual hunger (is this the quality I want?), answer the questions before they're asked (what wood, what dimensions, what's the delivery time?), and make the WhatsApp button the obvious next step — not a last resort. This required a fundamentally different approach to product pages than a standard e-commerce conversion flow.
Maryam built the Furniture Holz Shopify store around the Pakistani furniture buyer journey. Product pages led with room scene photography — beds shown in bedroom settings, almirahs in context, sofas in living rooms — because Pakistani furniture buyers need to visualise the product in a home, not just see it on white. Spec sheets included dimensions, wood type, finish options, and delivery time in Faisalabad and surrounding areas.
WhatsApp was treated as a feature, not a footnote — the primary CTA on every product page was "Enquire on WhatsApp" with a pre-filled message including the product name. Facebook and Instagram ads used before/after room transformation content — the highest-performing format for Pakistani furniture audiences. Local SEO targeted "wooden bed Faisalabad", "custom furniture Pakistan", "almirah design" to capture organic local search.