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Shoes Tic شوز تيك

Footwear 🇪🇬 Egypt B2C E-Commerce

Driving online footwear sales through lifestyle-first Meta campaigns for an Egyptian sneaker e-commerce brand.

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Overview

Shoes Tic is an Egyptian footwear e-commerce brand built around a simple philosophy: "Making sports and trendy shoes more accessible to everyone with no worries or hassle." The brand targets young Egyptian consumers — particularly those passionate about sneaker culture, street style, and fashion-forward footwear.

The brand competes in Egypt's increasingly crowded footwear e-commerce space — a market that has expanded rapidly with mobile commerce and a younger generation that prefers discovering and buying shoes online.

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Objectives

Drive direct online purchases through Meta sales and catalog campaigns
Convert social media traffic into paying customers on the Shoes Tic store
Build brand awareness as a recognizable, trustworthy name in Egyptian online footwear
Establish a consistent purchase funnel with full-funnel retargeting architecture

Challenges

⚠️Visually saturated category — Egyptian fashion and footwear ads require creative that stops the scroll in the first second
⚠️High competition from both local and international footwear brands advertising on the same platforms
⚠️Converting fashion-interested audiences into committed buyers across a high-SKU catalog environment
⚠️Avoiding brand dilution through discount-heavy promotions while still driving volume

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Strategy

The targeting strategy prioritized in-market behavior over broad demographic assumptions. Rather than reaching people who simply "like fashion," campaigns targeted users exhibiting active shopping signals — recent product searches, competitor engagement, and online purchase behavior.

The creative strategy placed lifestyle ahead of the product. Rather than leading with catalog-style product shots, campaigns built visual stories around how the shoes fit into the target audience's daily life — street scenes, casual outings, and self-expression moments. This approach positioned Shoes Tic not just as a cheap online option, but as a style-conscious destination for Egyptian sneaker buyers.

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Execution

Managed campaigns on Facebook and Instagram using Catalog Sales and Conversion objectives
Developed lifestyle-led creative featuring street-style and daily-life scenarios rather than plain product photography
Built a full-funnel campaign architecture: cold acquisition → warm engagement → retargeting → cart recovery
Created layered retargeting sequences for store visitors, product viewers, and cart abandoners
Rotated creative regularly to combat ad fatigue in a visually competitive category
Incorporated seasonal offers and free-shipping thresholds framed within brand identity — not as discount-first hooks

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Campaign Funnel

From awareness to conversion

1 Awareness
Put Shoes Tic in front of Egyptian sneaker buyers
Lifestyle video: shoes in real street settings Trending product showcase: new arrivals content Fashion and sneaker culture content
2 Interest
Build desire for specific products
Product catalog carousel ads Style inspiration content Segmented creative for women and men collections
3 Consideration
Push from browsing to buying intent
Free shipping threshold offers Limited-time discount windows Product page retargeting with urgency copy
4 Conversion
Complete purchase on Shoes Tic store
Catalog sales and conversion campaigns Cart abandonment retargeting 1-3 day window Purchase lookalike audience scaling

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Audience Insight

Who this brand's ideal customer is

👤 Demographics
  • Ages 18-35, Egypt Cairo Alex major cities
  • Fashion-conscious youth
  • Both genders, slight female lean 55%
  • Online shoppers with mobile-first behavior
❤️ Interests
  • Sneakers and streetwear
  • Fashion and style
  • Sports and active lifestyle
  • Online shopping
  • Trendy footwear brands
🔍 Behavior
  • Online purchase behavior
  • Engages with fashion pages and influencers
  • Mobile online shopper
  • Competitor brand interaction Nike Adidas pages
Pain Points
  • Finding trendy shoes available online in Egypt
  • Sizing uncertainty for online shoe purchase
  • Want style options that reflect personal identity
  • Value-conscious: wants trend at reasonable price

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Targeting Strategy

How we reached the right people

Cold Audience
Sneakers and footwear interest Online fashion shopping Egypt Streetwear and sportswear Ages 18-35 mobile users Competitor brand engagers Nike Adidas Puma
Warm Audience
Website product page visitors Video viewers 25%+ Instagram shop visitors
Retargeting
Add-to-cart without purchase 3 days Product viewers 7 days Previous buyers for repeat purchase
Lookalike
1% LAL of purchasers highest priority 2% LAL of add-to-carts Separate male and female LAL audiences

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Key Learnings

💡Lifestyle creative outperformed plain product shots in both engagement and conversion — placing the product inside the target audience's world built more desire than a clean catalog image.
💡Retargeting campaigns efficiently recovered a meaningful share of abandoning visitors at significantly lower cost than cold acquisition — validating the importance of full-funnel architecture.
💡In-market behavior targeting (shopping signals, competitor engagement) outperformed broad demographic interest targeting in both reach quality and purchase conversion rate.
Brand Info
Market🇪🇬 Egypt
IndustryFootwear
TypeB2C E-Commerce
Period2024 – 2025
Platforms Used
Meta Ads (FB & IG) TikTok

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