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Ice Cartel: 10x Email & SMS Revenue increase in 90 Days — 40% Email Attributed Revenue

Created email marketing infrastructure and boosted $20k/mo in email revenue to $220k/mo. In 3 months we built the full retention system with list growth, automations and weekly campaigns.

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results
the brand

Ice Cartel is a direct-to-consumer jewelry brand selling premium iced-out pieces to an engaged, conversion-ready audience. Strong on product and acquisition, needing a a retention channel that was doing leaving revenue on the table since they were paying to drive customers to the site.

the challenge
  • no email marketing infrastructure in place — flows, campaigns, and pop-ups were either missing or barely functional.
  • Email revenue capped at just $20k/mo despite a high-traffic 7-figure store, every paid click was being monetized only once.
  • No weekly campaign cadence, so the existing list wasn't hearing from the brand.
  • List growth flat with no high-converting pop-up to capture traffic into the funnel.
  • Founders trying to manage a channel they admit they couldn't build themselves at the level required.
the goal
  • 10x the email and SMS channel within the first quarter of partnership.
  • Build the full retention system from the ground up — list growth, automated flows, and campaign cadence.
  • Turn a high-traffic site into a compounding subscriber and revenue engine.
  • Take email & SMS to 30-40%+ of total store revenue.
  • Hand the founders a channel they don't have to think about, with email flows they couldn't have built internally
the strategy
  • Ran the WellCopy retention playbook tuned to a brand already scaling hard on paid acquisition
  • Built the full 30+ flow automated customer journey from scratch
  • Launched a high-converting pop-up backed by new offer strategy and ongoing testing
  • Consistent weekly campaigns segmented to the right audience at the right time
  • Built out the SMS channel in parallel with email instead of as a follow-up phase
  • Layered in deliverability work, list hygiene, and Klaviyo billing optimization from day one
the execution
  • Built the entire automated customer journey from scratch — welcome, abandonment, post-purchase, replenishment, winback.
  • Launched pop-up forms to drive 3x list growth, converting more of Ice Cartel's existing paid traffic into subscribers and downstream buyers.
  • Consistent weekly campaign cadence with proper segmentation, multiplying revenue per send across the existing list.
  • Built and scaled the SMS channel alongside email so the two channels compounded.
  • 10x'ed email & SMS revenue in 90 days.
the results
  • 3x growth in email & SMS list size from new pop-up and offer strategy
  • 40% of store revenue now driven by email & SMS
  • Full retention engine running with zero founder bandwidth required
WHY THIS WORKED
  • We built a real system build that delivers 10x/mo return
  • Pop-up and list growth were treated as the foundation, so every downstream metric had fuel
  • SMS launched alongside email, doubling the channel revenue from day one
  • Weekly campaign cadence turned an underused list into a compounding asset
client review

"Hiring WellCopy was one of the best investments we made in our jewelry business. It's so beneficial to outsource things you don't understand instead of trying to do it yourself. When I look at the campaigns WellCopy has built in Klaviyo, I know I could have never built workflows that are this complex. Big up to Alex, Michael and Max — they're the goats of email."

Ice Cartel