Case study — Outdoor Cooking
Ember Grill Works: the build that paid for itself.
Ember Grill Works came to us as outdoor cooking operators in Kansas City, USA with a problem that was costing them weekly. The program below is what moved their headline number: +174% Q4 revenue.
Fig. 01 — DTC Growth ProgramKansas City, USA
The challenge
Peak seasons carried the year and the infrastructure carried the stress: landing pages buckling under campaign spikes, follow-ups manual, and leads aging unanswered between marketing and sales.
Every campaign started from zero — no warm segments, no lifecycle flows, no reusable experiment backlog. Expensive way to learn the same lessons annually.
The approach
We rebuilt measurement first: server-side tracking, a single source of truth per metric, and channel reports in cost-per-acquired-customer units the CFO could compare honestly.
Creative became a system: testing sprints with hypotheses, hooks from customer language, and a fatigue-based rotation cadence — volume with a method, not a factory.
Lifecycle flows shipped in revenue order: abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment, winback — with suppressions so customers hear a person, not a trigger.
- Segment infrastructure: RFM, engagement, and suppression lists
- Measurement rebuild: server-side tracking, one dashboard of record
- Lifecycle email flows in revenue order with suppressions
- Channel diversification plan with budget-shift milestones
The results
The first report that ever fit on one page was also the first one our board actually read.Sara Whitfield — Founder, Ember Grill Works
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