Journal
Field notes from live catalogs
Short pieces on conversion paths, basket attachments, and merchandising photographs — written from readings, not from generic productivity advice.
2026-03-12 · Mira Colson
What weekday baskets reveal about add-ons
Tuesday baskets in a home-goods catalog often carry a cloth and a refill; Saturday baskets carry the hero and little else. The merchandising response is not the same prompt on every day.
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2026-01-28 · Elena Voss
Reading the drop between a product page and the cart
A conversion drop at add-to-basket is often a size chart, a shipping sentence, or a photograph that hides the back of a garment — not a missing chart in a reporting suite.
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2025-11-04 · Mira Colson
When a hero SKU crowds out attachments
Putting the bestseller in every module trains the catalog to sell one object well and everything beside it as decoration.
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2025-09-18 · Jonah Hale
Keep return notes beside conversion, not after it
A page that converts and then comes back in the parcel bin is not a conversion success. Size language and pack shots belong in the same reading.
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2025-06-02 · Elena Voss
Catalog photographs that change what shares a basket
A mug photographed on a bare sweep sells as a gift. The same mug on a breakfast board sells with a napkin. The photograph is merchandising, not decoration.
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