Full-Service Marketing Partnership · May 2026

Four agencies.
One marketing department.

A proposal to run Spite House Studios' marketing as one integrated department. Paid media, lifecycle, CRO, creative, and launch planning, operating as a single connected system instead of four separate agencies.

What Success Looks Like
Shopify becomes a larger revenue channel, not the third behind TikTok and Amazon
Product launches move from last-minute scrambles to repeatable playbooks
Meta, email, CRO, and creative operate as one connected system
Retail expansion supports growth instead of creating complexity
Spite House product
Spite House product
Spite House product
Andrew Lamping

A Note from Andrew

Chris,

What stuck with me from our call was how clearly you see the brand. The bit about the layer beneath the humor, the moment where someone has to admit something across the table before the joke lands, isn't how most founders in this category think. That's the read most agencies would never get to on their own. You don't need one to teach you why the product works.

You need a team that can take how you already think about the brand and operationalize it across paid, lifecycle, creative, and CRO without losing what makes it the brand. That's the relationship we build with the clients we keep. We spend time understanding how an owner sees the business and build around it. We tell you when we think something's the wrong call. We bring you quarterly plans you can trust and weekly execution you don't have to babysit. And we treat the business like ours, because that's the only version of this that ever actually works.

We've worked this shape of business before. Toilet Timer at #1 on Amazon. ACA running four product launches back to back in a single summer with the launch system we built for them. Low AOV, seasonal curve, gift-coded buyer, founder voice carrying the brand. Different products, same shape, same playbook.

Let's build it.

Andrew Lamping signature
Andrew Lamping
Founder & CEO, Cyclone Social

Current State

Where the
account is
right now.

A million units sold, a billion TikTok views, and Walmart, Target, and Spencer's coming online. The marketing infrastructure underneath hasn't kept pace. Growth is happening despite the structure, not because of it.

The product has earned ad-grade claims most brands can't make. 1M+ units sold, 1B+ TikTok views, #1 party game on TikTok Shop. None of them are in the current creative rotation.

Email opens at 48.86%. Almost no DTC brand reads above 33%. Brand voice is working. The 0.44% click rate says the emails don't ask anyone to buy.

One Meta campaign is doing real work. "Scaling | Winners" at $12.56 CPA, 2.15x ROAS, 30% of spend, 40% of purchases. The other campaigns that should be feeding into it are paused.

Attribution math is off by 45%. Meta reports $48.5K; Shopify credits Meta with $33.5K. Real ROAS is between 1.24x and 1.83x. Budgeting from either number alone is budgeting from half the picture.

38% of Meta spend is on a 1.61x ROAS campaign. Mom & Dad. The original GFY angles are doing 2.5x+ on a fraction of the budget. Inside Mom & Dad, one creative is 20% of total Meta spend on its own.

No post-purchase flow behind 38,382 buyers. Someone who buys GFY is the perfect prospect for Mom & Dad. Mom & Dad buyers haven't been told about the Naughty Pack. That's automated revenue going unclaimed.

Channel Parity

TikTok runs 40-45% of revenue, Amazon 30-35%, Shopify 15-20%. The channel-parity goal you named runs through email, paid, and CRO acting as one system. Right now they operate as four agencies that don't share a brain. That's an integration problem.

The Seasonal Curve

Bachelorette season is now. Father's Day in three weeks. Fourth of July after that. Grad gifts are open. Every one is a buying moment that already exists, and none are being targeted in Meta with persona-specific creative. Marketed against the actual purchase windows, the seasonal curve flattens.

Bundle Builder

1,528 sessions a month (up 773%) and weak conversion. AOV at $27.16 on a product line built for stacking. Moving AOV from $27 toward $40 raises allowable CPA by roughly 50%. The brand with the highest allowable CPA wins.

Retail Pull-Through

Walmart, Target, and Spencer's don't require driving spend through retailer-owned checkout. The right play is awareness in store-trade-area DMAs, an "in stores now" campaign not measured against ROAS, and a sampling/affiliate program. The marketing system you build now is what makes retail work.

The Real Challenge

You don't have a traffic problem.

You don't have a product problem.

You have an operating system problem.

Today
Channels operating separately
TikTok Amazon Shopify Agency Partners
With Cyclone
One connected system
Creative Paid Email CRO Launches Retail

The Gaps

Four things that need to change before $35K becomes $150K.

01

Rebuild the funnel that was already designed

Six full-funnel campaigns are paused. Everything is collapsed into Advantage+ Sales, which converts the hot 5% but can't build the warm pool that feeds it. Session quality dropped 24% in 30 days. That's the symptom.

02

Move past the same hook in four costumes

Every live ad opens with a version of the same joke. The brand bit is a year old. The Meta audience is broader and older than TikTok's. Persona hooks, pain agitation, social proof leads, and founder POV are all missing from the rotation.

03

Roll Klaviyo into the system with a few small tweaks

Klaviyo is mostly working. 48.86% opens, clean segmentation, SMS performing well. A handful of low-lift fixes (a CTA in every campaign, a post-purchase flow, a welcome series patch) and it rolls into the same retainer as the Meta work, no separate workstream needed.

04

Consolidate the four agencies into one team

One agency for paid, one for creative, one for CRO, one for email is how the strategy ends up disconnected from the math. Spite House needs a single team running every lever, quarterly planned, weekly executed, daily optimized.

The Approach

How we handle this.

Four integrated pillars, one team. Each one solves a specific problem in the business, and they all run through the same strategy and the same operating cadence.

Paid Media + Creative + Lifecycle + CRO & Strategy
PILLAR 01

Paid Media

A scalable acquisition system that creates predictable growth instead of relying on viral spikes.

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  • Rebuild the full-funnel structure that's currently collapsed
  • Free up budget from underperforming campaigns and feed it to the ones that scale
  • Layer in Google Search a few months in for category and competitor capture
  • Reconcile Meta and Shopify into a single source of truth so budget decisions stop running on two different stories
PILLAR 02

Creative

A creative system that ships new tests every week, so winners don't burn out before the next one is ready.

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  • Six concept types running in parallel: statics, founder POV, persona hooks, social proof, credibility, UGC
  • Hook libraries built around the actual buying moments (bachelorette, gift, group chat, Mom & Dad)
  • Super-cuts and angle variations off every winning concept, no new shoots required
  • Coordinated with your affiliate program so we direct without duplicating what's already being made
PILLAR 03

Lifecycle

Klaviyo runs as a connected channel inside the larger system, not a separate workstream.

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  • Build the post-purchase flow behind 38K buyers that doesn't exist yet
  • Fix the welcome series and deliverability tweaks the audit surfaced
  • Add a clear product CTA pattern to every campaign send
  • Move SMS from monthly to 2-3x/month against its proven RPR
  • Pre-built launch sequences for the four-month product cadence, planned a quarter ahead
PILLAR 04

CRO & Strategy

Shopify becomes a real revenue channel, and the brand gets planned at the quarter level instead of the week level.

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  • Bundle Builder rebuild and bundle-specific ads
  • Landing page A/B testing that matches LPs to the ad concepts driving them
  • AOV from $27 toward $40, which raises allowable CPA by roughly 50%
  • Quarterly business reviews with leadership: what scaled, what didn't, what changes next quarter
  • A documented theory of the brand built with you, so the strategy ahead of the launches stays consistent

Execution

How we work together.

A relationship that moves through three phases of business progression. You're not managing us, you're approving direction and showing up to the calls that move the work forward.

Phase 01

Understand + Stabilize

We start by learning the business beneath the metrics.

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Deep dive into customers, products, purchase behavior, and growth goals
Audit current acquisition, lifecycle, and conversion systems
Identify spend leakage and immediate opportunities
Establish reporting and business visibility
Build alignment around priorities
Outcome
Clear visibility and a strong foundation
Phase 02

Build + Connect

Once the foundation is clear, we begin connecting the pieces.

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Refine acquisition systems
Strengthen lifecycle marketing
Improve landing pages and conversion opportunities
Develop repeatable creative testing systems
Build launch frameworks and operating rhythms
Outcome
One connected growth engine
Phase 03

Scale + Optimize

With systems in place, the focus shifts toward growth.

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Scale winning channels
Expand opportunities across platforms
Improve customer value and retention
Increase efficiency and profitability
Continuously test and refine
Outcome
Predictable, repeatable growth

Ongoing Rhythm

Every Week

Always Running

Behind-the-scenes work that keeps things moving without requiring your attention.

Creative Pumped LiveContinuous creative testing and iteration across concepts, hooks, and formats.
Paid Media OptimizationBids, budgets, and creative rotations adjusted against the kill-switch and scale-switch thresholds set on day one.
Standing Tuesday Touch-BaseStand-up call between you and the account manager. Quick, focused, clears the email backlog in one conversation.
Every Month

The Main Touchpoint

A focused strategy call. Data translated into plain decisions, not a dashboard dump.

Monthly Strategy CallYour account manager walks through what worked, what didn't, and what's changing in the upcoming month.
Performance ReportReconciled blended CAC, attributed revenue, AOV trend, and creative graduation rate, tied to business outcomes.
Next Month PlanContent calendar, paid strategy, and email/SMS sends locked and approved before the month begins.
Every Quarter

Strategic Review

A bigger-picture session with leadership, designed to keep the strategy ahead of the launches.

Quarterly Business ReviewFull leadership review of the quarter, locked plan for the next, outline of the one after that.
Launch Plan LockEvery product launch every four months mapped out at the quarter mark, with sequences, ads, CRO, and SMS pre-built.
Executive ReportingExecutive-level reporting designed for leadership and growth planning.
How We Think

Data runs the system

Every creative decision, budget shift, and platform call is tied to a metric that matters to the business. We optimize based on what the numbers say, not what feels right.

Speed is a competitive advantage

When something works, we scale it. When it doesn't, we cut it fast. A 4-month product cadence demands a creative team that ships every week, not every quarter.

We lead, we don't wait

Your time isn't spent approving every ad. It's spent making the calls that matter. We bring you recommendations, push back where it counts, and run inside the boundaries we set together.

Every dollar earns its seat

Blended CAC is the north star. We are not chasing platform ROAS, we are chasing what the store actually keeps. Profitable scale or no scale.

CASE Study

American Cornhole Association

Four new product lines launched back to back in a single summer, all run through one in-house system: creative, paid media, email, and profit-tied reporting under one roof.

$4.7M
In sales over four months, nearly double their original goal
~2x
Of ACA's original seasonal revenue goal
4
Product lines launched back to back, no overlap or audience confusion
Case Study

American Cornhole Association

"It never felt like we hired an agency. It felt like we added an in-house marketing team that actually drives things forward."

Logan Bronkema
Logan Bronkema
Marketing Manager, American Cornhole Association
$4.7M
In sales over four months
~2x
Of ACA's original seasonal goal
4
Product lines launched back to back

ACA is the largest producer and seller of cornhole products in the world and the official governing body of the sport. Going into their biggest summer, they set an ambitious goal: launch four new product lines back-to-back without losing momentum between drops, and nearly double seasonal revenue. The four lines were distinct: Versatex All-Weather Boards (durability), NXT Bags (waterproof, reflective), Gold and Silver Series boards (pro-level play), and Synergy Edge Technology bags (advanced push and block shots). Each needed its own creative, landing page, and positioning. ACA had run individual launches before but never a sequenced system at this scale. Leadership also wanted accountability beyond surface-level ROAS: real profit math that factored in Shopify fees, shipping, fulfillment, and acquisition.

A full launch engine, end to end, built and operated in-house. We mapped a staggered campaign calendar so each launch had its own window while building narrative momentum into the next drop. Full-funnel paid across Meta, TikTok, and Google, each with custom landing pages built to convert. All creative produced internally, from photography to video ads to lifestyle imagery. Klaviyo email and SMS sequences supported every launch: pre-launch hype, launch-day announcements, urgency follow-ups, post-purchase upsells. We worked directly with ACA's merchandising team to align inventory with launch timing so nothing ever went live without product in stock. And we built custom profit calculators that tracked true campaign performance, factoring in ad spend, Shopify fees, shipping, and fulfillment. Daily tracking, weekly live calls, Loom video recaps for leadership.

Same shape of business as Spite House: seasonal curve, multiple product launches in sequence, and leadership that cares about real profitability, not platform ROAS. The launch engine we built for ACA is what gets the Spite House product cadence on a repeatable system.

$4.7M in sales over four months, nearly double ACA's original goal. Four new product lines launched without bottlenecks, overlap, or audience confusion. The launch system became repeatable: ACA now uses it for new drops including the Game Day Collection co-branded with Solo Stove, Canvelle, and LMNT. Reporting tied to real profit, not inflated platform ROAS, with daily tracking and weekly reviews that kept leadership in front of the numbers instead of chasing them.

Partnership

Growth Investment Structure.

Monthly Partnership
$13,500
/mo

One integrated team across strategy, paid media, creative, lifecycle marketing, CRO, reporting, and planning.

What's Included
  • Strategic marketing leadership and quarterly planning
  • Paid media management and growth systems
  • Creative iteration and testing engine
  • Klaviyo email and SMS management
  • Shopify conversion optimization support
  • Attribution, reporting, and visibility
  • One team with full accountability
Media Scaling Investment
10% of managed ad spend
Capped at $5,000/mo. Designed to support aggressive growth without penalizing scale.

As spend increases, the goal is simple: invest more into growth, not agency overhead.

Monthly Ad Spend
Media Fee
Total Investment
$25,000
$2,500
$16,000
$50,000
$5,000
$18,500
$100,000
$5,000 cap reached
$18,500
$250,000
$5,000 cap reached
$18,500
Kickoff + Discovery
  • Meet your core Cyclone team
  • Align on goals, priorities, and business context
  • Gather account access and existing assets
  • Identify immediate opportunities
Early Buildout
  • Complete audits and strategic planning
  • Build reporting visibility
  • Prioritize early wins
  • Establish communication rhythms
Launch + Momentum
  • Begin rolling out approved initiatives
  • Launch testing and optimization efforts
  • Start recurring strategy and reporting cadence

Your Team

Some of the folks you'll work with.

This is a slice of the team that touches the Spite House account day to day. Director-level lead for every function that matters to the business, with specialists running execution underneath.

Emily Hoffman
Emily Hoffman
Senior Account Manager
Your day-to-day point of contact. Weekly stand-ups, monthly strategy calls, performance reads tied to outcomes.
Wes Teska
Wes Teska
Creative Director
Concept direction across statics, super-cuts, founder POV, and the persona-coded hook library.
Ryan Smith
Ryan Smith
Director of Marketing Ops
Reporting infrastructure, attribution visibility, and performance systems that help decisions happen faster.
Eric Hall
Eric Hall
Director of Paid Digital
Meta and Google campaign architecture, kill-switch thresholds, scaling structure, and the path from $35K to $150K/mo.
Bob Phillipp
Bob Phillipp
Director of Organic Marketing
Email and SMS strategy, lifecycle flows, and the broader organic ecosystem. Built the OG digital playbook at theCHIVE.
Jada Shaw
Jada Shaw
Project Manager
Timelines, deliverables, and coordination across the full team. Launches don't slip on her watch.
Joey Lamping
Joey Lamping
Meta & Social Paid Strategist
Hands on the Meta and TikTok ad accounts day in, day out. Building tests, killing fatigue, graduating winners. This is the seat where the social ads work actually happens.
Amelia Kline
Amelia Kline
Organic Lead
Creator strategy, social coordination across channels, and hands-in on email. The connective tissue between organic, lifecycle, and the affiliate program.
Cyclone Audit · Spite House Studios

What we found
in the account.

I spent time inside your Meta and Klaviyo accounts and reconciled both against Shopify. Here is what jumped out. The short version: there's a lot of room to grow on Meta, and Klaviyo is doing more right than wrong already.

45%
Meta over-claiming vs Shopify attribution
38%
Of Meta spend on a 1.61x ROAS campaign
1
Static ad in the entire Meta account
0
Post-purchase emails behind 38,382 buyers
48.86%
Email open rate, well above the 33% benchmark
Meta · 30-Day Audit

Here's the Meta read.

Context before the findings: this account isn't failing. It scaled hard. Gross sales up 51% in 30 days, sessions up 47%, Facebook-attributed revenue up 270% per Shopify. The growth is real. What's missing is the structure to scale it cleanly. A few things are working really well. A few are misaligned. And one creative is doing too much of the work.

Meta Says It Drove
$48.5K
1.83x ROAS on $27K spend. Reported under 7-day click + 1-day view attribution. Includes view-through conversions Shopify doesn't credit back.
Shopify Says Facebook Drove
$33.5K
1.24x ROAS on $27K spend. First-click attribution. Captures direct clicks from Facebook, no view-through credit.
What this means

Real Meta-driven ROAS is somewhere between 1.24x and 1.83x. Neither platform is lying, they just count differently. Meta gets credit for view-through; Shopify only counts the first click. The number we'd actually budget against is the blended one: $92K in gross sales against $27K in Meta spend over 30 days. That's the read we trust.

Six things worth flagging.

What's Working
"Scaling | Winners" is doing real work

$8,199 of spend, 653 purchases, $12.56 CPA, 2.15x ROAS. That's 30% of spend driving 40% of purchases. This is the campaign every other campaign should be feeding into. Whatever else we do, leave this one alone.

What's Working
The creator pipeline is solid

You've tested 12+ creators and 4 to 5 of them are landing at 1.5 to 2.2x ROAS on small budgets. The ad-naming convention is clean too, which tells me whoever's running this takes the account seriously. The path to graduate creators into the bigger campaign already exists, it just needs more volume going through it.

Big Spend, Soft Return
Mom & Dad is overinvested

This is the one I'd want to walk through on a call. 38% of total Meta spend ($10,284) is going to Mom & Dad at 1.61x ROAS. One creative inside it (Grey Hairs Game Night) is $5,355 on its own, which is 20% of your entire Meta spend on a single ad with nothing ready to replace it when it fatigues. Meanwhile your original GFY angles are doing 2.5x+ on a fraction of the budget. The money is in the wrong campaign.

Structural
Testing and scaling are inverted

The scaling campaign is on ABO instead of CBO. Every winner lives in its own ad set, so when fatigue hits one of them, Facebook can't shift budget into the others, it just keeps spending on the tired one. Flipping this to CBO is a quick change that compounds over time.

Underbuilt
Almost everything is UGC video

This one honestly surprised me. The whole account is UGC video. One static ad has ever run ($580 spent, fatiguing at 2.5 frequency). No card-phrase carousels, no founder POV, no review screenshots. Your product is basically a billboard already, the box, the card phrases, the brand name, and statics should outperform UGC for that reason. It's a whole category of creative the account hasn't started testing.

Funnel
Six full-funnel campaigns are paused

TOF interest, TOF lookalikes, TOF broad, MOF re-engagement, BOF retargeting, awareness. All off. Everything got collapsed into Advantage+ Sales, which is excellent at converting your warmest 5% but has no way to build that warm audience in the first place. The signal is already showing: sessions are up 47% in 30 days but conversion rate dropped 24%. Translation, the traffic getting through is colder than before.

Klaviyo · 30-Day Audit

Klaviyo is in good shape already.

Worth saying upfront: whoever is running this account knows what they're doing. 48.86% opens against a 33% benchmark, holding even on 30K+ sends. Segmentation is intentional. SMS performs. Most of the hard work is already done. There are a few small things I'd tweak (a missing CTA pattern, a post-purchase flow, a couple welcome-series settings) and they roll into our scope without needing their own workstream.

What's Working
Brand voice and opens are excellent

48.86% opens against a 33% benchmark, holding even on 30K+ sends. Subject lines like "Welcome, you magnificent bastard" are doing the work. Your audience actually wants to hear from you, which is the rare thing most brands never get to.

What's Working
SMS performance is strong

The Mom & Dad launch SMS went to 16,781 people: 6.51% click rate, 1.04% placed order rate, rated "Excellent" by Klaviyo. SMS revenue-per-recipient is $0.29 against email's $0.04. The channel works, it just runs at roughly half the cadence it could.

What's Working
Segmentation is intentional

Exclusion logic on every major send (spam traps, never-engaged, bounced, suppressed) is intentional. Your default send list is "120 Days Engaged // US Only," which is real list hygiene. Most brands at your size are still batch-and-blasting. You're not.

Small Fix
Add a product CTA to every campaign

The opens are great. The clicks aren't (0.44%). Most of your story-forward campaigns don't have a clear product link, so people open, read, and move on. Adding one consistent CTA pattern to every campaign closes a real chunk of that gap. Easy fix, meaningful lift.

Small Fix
Build a post-purchase flow

You have 38,382 buyers all-time and no post-purchase flow behind them. Someone who buys GFY is the most obvious prospect for Mom & Dad. Someone who buys Mom & Dad probably doesn't know the Naughty Pack exists. A Day 3 / Day 7 / Day 14 sequence is a one-time build that prints recurring revenue from then on.

Small Fix
Two quick technical tweaks

Couple things to flag. Smart Sending is on with a 16-hour window, but Email 2 of the welcome flow is set to fire 4 hours after Email 1, so Smart Sending blocks it for most new subscribers. They never get the highest-converting email. One-checkbox fix. Second, deliverability is sitting at 71 (Fair) because there's no dedicated sending subdomain yet. Setting one up is a half-hour job and it protects every send going forward.

Where the real lift is.

If we had to point at one place where the biggest gains live, it's Meta. The funnel is collapsed, scaling and testing are running backwards, statics haven't been tested, and one creative is doing 20% of your total spend. Fix that structure and the path back to $150K/mo opens back up. The Klaviyo work rolls into the same retainer and adds on top of it.

Meta Reallocation
Pull about $75/day out of the sub-1x ads in week one and feed it back into static testing, persona hooks, and the rebuilt TOF/MOF layer.
Creative Pipeline
Six concept types running in parallel instead of one. Statics, founder POV, persona hooks, social proof, credibility-stat ads, UGC. New tests every week instead of every quarter.
AOV Lift
Bundle Builder is getting 1,528 sessions a month and barely converting. Rebuild the page, run bundle-specific ads, and move AOV from $27 toward $40. That alone raises your allowable CPA by roughly 50%.
Klaviyo Tweaks
CTA on every send, post-purchase flow, welcome series fix, deliverability subdomain, SMS to 2-3x/mo. All rolls into the same retainer.
Ready when you are

Let's get
to work.

If this proposal lines up with what you're looking for in a marketing partner, the next step is a short call to align on priorities and get going. We'd love to do this with you.

andrew@cyclonesocial.com