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Services · Email & SMS

Email & SMS the revenue already in your list.

Every business we audit has money sitting in its list. Not theoretical money — revenue from people who already bought, already trust you, and are waiting to hear something worth responding to.

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+300%
email conversions, Malama
+$3K/mo
no added ad spend
+10%
total sales lift
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The problem

A growing list that converts worse every month.

The list gets bigger. Open rates drift down. Revenue per subscriber falls. So the discount comes out, which works once, then trains everyone to wait for the next one — and now full price feels like a mistake to your best customers.

Malama Mushrooms arrived exactly here. A seven-figure brand, a loyal list, a genuinely good story, and email that had quietly become a coupon delivery mechanism. The audience was not the problem.

Why it persists

Discounting is a tax on your best customers.

Most email programmes are built around promotion because promotion produces an immediate, attributable spike. The cost is deferred and invisible: margin erosion, a list conditioned to wait, and a brand that has taught its most loyal buyers that patience beats enthusiasm.

The alternative is to treat the channel as publishing. Send things people would open even if there were nothing to buy — then the occasional ask lands against accumulated goodwill instead of depleting it. This is what we did at Malama, and email conversions rose 300% in thirty days without a single added ad dollar.

The method

How we actually do it.

No black box. This is the sequence, and the order matters more than any individual step.

  1. 01

    Build the flows first

    Welcome, browse abandonment, cart and checkout recovery, post-purchase, replenishment, win-back. Automated sequences triggered by behaviour typically carry the majority of email revenue and run once built. Most accounts we inherit have two of these, half-configured.

  2. 02

    Turn broadcast into publishing

    A cadence people actually want in their inbox — the founder's thinking, the story behind the product, genuine use of the thing you sell. Malama had all of this already; Ben had simply never had it sequenced into the channel where his most engaged audience lived.

  3. 03

    Sequence to the real product cycle

    Replenishment timing based on how long the product actually lasts. Win-back windows based on genuine repurchase intervals. Cross-sell logic based on what people really buy next. Generic templates ignore all of this, which is why they underperform against sequences built on your own data.

What you get

In the engagement.

  • Full flow architecture, built and tested
  • Broadcast calendar and story-led content plan
  • Segmentation based on behaviour and lifecycle stage
  • SMS programme where it genuinely fits the audience
  • Deliverability audit — authentication, list hygiene, sender reputation
  • Replenishment and win-back timing modelled on real data
  • Revenue attribution by flow and by campaign

The receipts

Where this already worked.

FAQ

Straight answers.

How big does the list need to be?

Smaller than you would think. Percentages matter more than size, and a small engaged list outperforms a large indifferent one. If you have a few thousand people who have bought from you, there is almost certainly recoverable revenue there.

Is SMS worth it, or is it just annoying?

It works when it is rare, timely, and genuinely useful — order updates, restocks, a real deadline. It fails when it becomes another promotional channel. We would rather run SMS sparingly than watch a list burn out in a quarter.

Will you stop us discounting entirely?

No, but we will make it deliberate. Discounts are a legitimate tool for clearing inventory or reactivating dormant buyers. The problem is discounting as a default cadence, which erodes margin and trains patience.

How long until this shows revenue?

Flows produce the fastest return because they run against traffic you already have — Malama saw $3K a month in new revenue inside three weeks. The publishing cadence compounds more slowly and is what keeps the channel healthy long term.

Also in the practice

The rest of the machinery.

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