CASE 06 · WATCH TRADERA marketplace thatknows who is looking.A long-running WordPress watch marketplace with buyer-profile segmentation, FeedPulse-powered listing sync, and a lifecycle pipeline that keeps the right buyer matched to the right listing.
YEAR2023PLATFORMWordPressCATEGORYMarketplaceSTATUSLIVE · PRODUCTIONVisit site
FILTERS · SEGMENTED FEED
SECTION 01THE BRIEF · TWO AUDIENCES, ONE FEED
01 / BRIEF

A bargain hunter and a collector. Same site.

Watch Trader serves two completely different buyer profiles — the £200 first-watch hunter and the £15k collector. The same homepage was being asked to do both jobs and doing neither well.

SECTION 02THE APPROACH
02 / APPROACH

Different intent, different page.

The hardest thing about a marketplace is that "the user" is at least three different people. We modelled each properly and let the system serve the one in front of it.

01

Buyer profiles via FeedPulse

Three buyer segments inferred from on-site behaviour and (consented) past activity. The homepage and lifecycle email shape themselves to the segment within a session.

02

Lifecycle that knows which inbox

SendPulse fires segment-aware sequences. The collector gets the new-stock alert; the bargain hunter gets the weekly under-£500 round-up.

03

Listing sync to channels

High-value listings push to specific marketplaces; lower-tier listings stay on-site only. Same FeedPulse rule engine, two different routes out.

04

WordPress that doesn't fight us

A small set of custom plugins sit on top of vanilla WordPress + a managed-host setup. We don't use the WP UI for content the team didn't want to manage.

SECTION 03THE STACK
Frontend
WORDPRESSCUSTOM PLUGINSPHP 8.3
Segmentation
FEEDPULSEBUYER-PROFILE
Lifecycle
SENDPULSEKLAVIYO BRIDGE
Hosting
WP ENGINECLOUDFLARE
Observability
SENTRYNEW RELIC
SECTION 04THE OUTCOME
04 / OUTCOME

Three audiences, one site.

Long-running. Quietly making the marketplace work harder than it did before. Specific segment-level lift figures belong to Watch Trader.

The site has been live and segmented for two years. The lifecycle pipeline runs without intervention; new buyer signals get factored into the profile model on a weekly retrain.

09 / WORK WITH US

Show us your stack.
We’ll tell you exactly what we’d ship.

One call. We'll dig into what you've got, where it's friction, and whether we're the right people to help. No deck, no pitch.

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