Chris Appelgren
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Case study · 2023

Not Just Leather

Ecom — Accessories (personalized leather) · Sweden → international

400K SEK

Monthly recurring, 4 months post-launch

Break a revenue ceiling around 100,000 SEK/month, lift paid acquisition efficiency, and unlock the customer lifetime value sitting unrealized in the existing audience.

What they sell

A Swedish accessory brand selling personalized luxury leather iPhone cases and card holders — each piece monogrammed with the customer’s name in gold or silver.

The challenge

Not Just Leather had hit a real ceiling: revenue plateaued around 100,000 SEK/month. Paid acquisition was working but inefficient. And there was an unrealized lifetime-value asset sitting in the existing audience — repeat-purchase intent for a brand that prints customers’ names on its products, but no retention system architected to capture it.

The brief: break the ceiling, lift paid efficiency, and unlock the LTV the brand could feel but couldn’t yet measure.

The work

Paid social (Meta)

  • Creative-led testing rhythm — concepts and hooks tested first, spend followed what converted
  • Funnel architecture rebuilt with cold, warm, and retargeting treated as distinct creative jobs
  • ROAS held above 3.75 even as spend scaled past prior ceilings

UGC creative

  • UGC production engine built to feed the testing cadence — not one-off shoots
  • Concepts leaned into the personalization story — the moment of receiving a name-printed product

Email & lifecycle

  • Klaviyo lifecycle marketing built for retention and reorder, not just abandon-cart recovery
  • Post-purchase flows turned single-piece buyers into multi-item collectors
  • Campaign cadence templated against Swedish consumer cycles, then exported for international expansion

Website CRO

  • Conversion optimization on the highest-leverage pages — product, cart, checkout
  • Top-of-funnel lift compounded with the paid acquisition gains rather than running in isolation

What changed

Monthly revenue went from ~100,000 SEK to 450,000+ SEK on average — a 4.5× lift sustained across months. ROAS scaled past 3.75 while spend grew, and LTV climbed 20–40% as the retention system caught the demand the acquisition channel was creating. Paid and retention stopped being separate budgets and started compounding as a single engine.

Results

  • 4.5×

    Monthly revenue growth

  • 3.00 → 3.75+

    Blended ROAS lift

  • +20–40%

    Customer lifetime value

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