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Improving Efficiency While Scaling New Customer Revenue Year-Over-Year
Case Study: PAKA Growth
The Challenge: Scale Q4 New Customer Revenue YoY While Increasing ROAS
PAKA, a DTC apparel brand, came to DTCo to improve media spend efficiency In September of 2023. While PAKA scaled new customer revenue in Q1 - Q3 of 2023, return on ad spend struggled to reach profitability.
PAKA sells outdoor apparel crafted from alpaca fiber, renowned for its sustainability compared to conventional materials. Their Peruvian Alpaca Fiber offers an exceptional blend of softness and thermoregulation.
PAKA aimed to increase new customer revenue by 30% year-over-year while concurrently improving new customer return on ad spend.
The Solution: Restructure Campaigns And Optimize Creatives
After identifying the lack of incremental gain from remarketing efforts on paid search and social, DTCo reduced remarketing investment from 60% of overall ad spend to 15%.
DTCo reduced interest targeting on Meta from 64% to 24% by shifting to broad targeting that allowed Meta to use the creative itself to capture a diverse group of high converting users.
DTCo established creative content pillars centered on themes and user intent, emphasizing the prioritization of unlocking audiences through creative strategies.
The Year-Over-Year Results: Scaled New Customer Revenue 48%, Increased New Customer ROAS 38%
After reducing inefficient remarketing spend, DTCo was able to streamline prospecting efforts with a more tactical campaign structure that improved ROAS and new customer acquisition.
PAKA is on track to increase ROAS another 15% while increasing spend and scaling revenue another 30% in Q1 of 2024.
With strong new customer performance in tandem with improved return performance driven by email marketing efforts, PAKA improved MER 36%.