Deadstock Coffee — Platform

The follow-on engagement: taking a store that now looked right and making the economics behind it work at volume.

Growth & Performance

  • 2.2X Subscription revenue
  • 29% Lower cost per first order
  • 4.1X Return on ad spend

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E-commerce & D2C, Food & Beverage

Growth & Performance

2 quarters of continuous optimisation

Shopify, Klaviyo, Meta Ads, Google Ads

Make paid acquisition profitable on the first order, not the third

The Challenge

Growth That Cost More Than It Returned

Paid was scaling revenue and losing money doing it. Every new customer was profitable eventually and unprofitable on day one.

The blended numbers looked acceptable because repeat purchase was carrying acquisition. That works until you try to grow, at which point first-order economics decide how fast you can move — and theirs did not allow for much.

The Strategy

Why We Went This Direction

We fixed the first order before spending more on getting it.

Work concentrated on the entry offer, the landing experience and the subscription prompt — the three things that determine whether a first order pays for itself. Only once first-order contribution was positive did we scale spend, which is why the return held as budget increased.
  • Brand Repositioning
  • Conversion-Focused Web Design
  • Paid Acquisition
  • Retention Through Subscription Messaging

Execution

What We Actually Did

  1. Offer Architecture

    Restructured the entry offer so a first order contributes rather than costs.

  2. Landing Experience

    Purpose-built pages per campaign angle, replacing traffic sent to the homepage.

  3. Subscription Prompt

    Moved the subscription decision to where intent is highest instead of the account page.

  4. Spend Discipline

    Scaled budget only against first-order contribution, so return held as spend rose.

  • Brand Repositioning
  • Conversion-Focused Web Design
  • Paid Acquisition
  • Retention Through Subscription Messaging

The Impact, Quantified

Performance You Can Measure

Metric Before After
Subscription revenue Baseline 2.2x
Cost per first order Baseline 29% lower
Return on ad spend 1.9x 4.1x

The Work, As It Happened

Execution You Can See

(Recommended visuals: before/after homepage screenshots, sample paid ad creative, revenue growth graph, funnel conversion chart)

In Their Words

What clients say when we're not in the room.

  • “Koncept rebuilt our entire online presence in under three months, and our online orders have nearly quadrupled since. They think like a partner, not a vendor.”

    Rachel Simmonds

    Founder, Northfield Organics

  • “What stood out was how few people we had to talk to get things done. One team, one point of contact, and the work still felt senior at every step.”

    James Whitfield

    Marketing Director, Harrow & Vale Properties

  • “We've worked with agencies twice their size that couldn't move this fast without breaking something. Koncept hasn't dropped a ball yet.”

    Sarah Delgado

    VP Marketing, Vantera Health Clinics

  • “Their strategy work alone justified the engagement. The creative and performance marketing that followed just compounded it.”

    Michael Chen

    CEO, Loopline Technologies

  • “Time zones were never an issue. It genuinely felt like they were down the hall, even with a twelve-hour difference.”

    Olivia Bennett

    Head of Brand, Coastal & Co.