Bottled Baking Co had everything a gifting brand needs to win: a genuinely beautiful product, a clear occasion, and an obvious audience. Baking kits in bottles. The kind of thing people love to give and receive.
But the commercial engine underneath it was broken. Revenue was locked at £5,000 per month. At an average order value of £13, the maths were brutal: even a single ad click at competitive CPCs was nearly impossible to justify. There was no margin left to acquire customers through paid media.
Email marketing was non-existent. The website was leaking visitors. There was no offer structure to encourage anyone to spend more. A gifting product with no gifting strategy.
The result was a brand running hard just to tread water, spending energy on channels that could never be profitable at that unit economics level. Until the core constraint was fixed, nothing else could work.