B2C · Leisure & Events Growth-stage DTC Email Marketing
Case Study

Fixing broken email automation — +15% projected revenue uplift on a DTC brand

The audit showed welcome, cart-abandon, post-purchase, and win-back flows were either missing or firing incorrectly. I rebuilt all 4 with segmentation by box type and recipient relationship. Conservative projected uplift: +15% email-attributed revenue on top of the existing 98K NIS/year baseline.

Based on a true story. Client Names and Company have been changed and identifying details to protect confidentiality.

+15%
Projected email uplift
4
Lifecycle flows rebuilt
98K NIS
Email baseline /year
100%
Segments flow-covered
Goals

Stop leaking revenue on broken lifecycle flows. Rebuild welcome, cart-abandon, post-purchase, and win-back with proper segmentation.

Scope

Flashy platform audit, segmentation by box type and recipient relationship, rebuild of all 4 core lifecycle flows, platform-spend rationalization (~32K NIS/year), founder handoff so the program runs without me.

Impact

+15% projected email revenue uplift on top of the 98K NIS/year baseline. Every customer segment now covered by at least one lifecycle flow. Retention spend rationalized against what it actually drives.

The challenge

The brand was producing 98K NIS/year in email-attributed revenue on a Flashy platform running broken flows. Welcome was firing late. Cart-abandon had segmentation errors. Post-purchase wasn't triggering on half the SKUs. Win-back was missing entirely. Every month the program leaked revenue that the business had already paid to acquire on the front end.

Platform spend (~32K NIS/year) was going out the door whether or not the flows worked. Retention is the cheapest growth a DTC brand has — and this one was paying for the infrastructure and getting a fraction of the output.

What I did

Audit & segmentation

  • Audited all active flows against the actual customer journey. Documented every break: missing triggers, mis-tagged segments, duplicate sends, wrong-language templates.
  • Rebuilt segmentation by box type and recipient relationship — a couples box to the recipient reads differently from the same box to the gift-buyer.

Rebuilt 4 lifecycle flows

  • Welcome — triggered correctly, segmented by first-touch source, copy matched to the box type browsed.
  • Cart-abandon — 3-touch sequence with escalating urgency, segmentation by box price tier.
  • Post-purchase — thank-you, experience redemption prompt, review ask, cross-sell window.
  • Win-back — new flow from scratch, triggered on 90-day dormancy with segmentation by past purchase behavior.

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Platform rationalization

  • Benchmarked the ~32K NIS/year Flashy spend against what the flows were actually producing post-rebuild.
  • Handed the program off to the founder so it runs without me.
Revital K.
Shani brought structure and clarity where I had neither — and the strategic insight to turn that into real revenue. She helped me sharpen my focus, scale my operations, and tie every move back to the business. The impact was immediate.
Revital K. Founder, B2C Leisure

The outcome

Conservative projected uplift: +15% email-attributed revenue on top of the 98K NIS/year baseline. Every customer segment is now covered by at least one lifecycle flow. Platform spend is pegged to output, not to "we already pay for it so let's keep it." And the program is self-serve for the founder — no agency retainer, no dependency on me.

Shani Wolf
Shani Wolf
Fractional CMO · MarTech & AI Strategy

15+ years in B2B marketing, from global enterprises to high-growth startups. I build the marketing infrastructure that makes revenue predictable.

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