Case Study · The Smooth Geezer
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Email & SMS went from £31K to £98K a month in ten weeks

A UK men’s-grooming brand that came to us from an agency where, in their words, “we felt like we did most of the work”. Ten weeks in, email & SMS revenue was up 3.2×, while the store itself almost doubled.

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35.74%
of store revenue from email & SMS (was 22%)
3.2×
email & SMS revenue vs July
£21.2K
from SMS in 30 days, a brand-new channel
£50.5K
from the rebuilt welcome flow in 30 days
TL;DRThe short version
1
The problem

A list over its limit, flows not built out, an offer test without a clean read, and no SMS.

2
What we did

Cleaned the list, rebuilt the flows, switched on SMS and ran clean offer tests.

3
The result

Email & SMS went from 22% to 35.74% of store revenue.

4
The verdict

“The difference is night and day.” The Smooth Geezer, on Trustpilot.

VIDEO REVIEW · 1:13
01The brand

A shaver you keep, heads you replace.

The Smooth Geezer sells a head shaver for bald men. The warranty depends on replacing the shaver head on time, which makes it a built-in replenishment business.

Men’s grooming · DTC · UKShopify · Klaviyo · Alia pop-upWith Sunlo since 13 Aug 2026Results: Jul vs 22 Sep – 22 Oct
02The problem

Four gaps at takeover.

In July, email drove 22% of the store’s revenue. Here’s what was holding it back.

GAP 01
A list over its limit

At 104% of the Klaviyo profile cap, including 2,375 people who never opened, clicked or bought.

GAP 02
Flows not built out

Sunset was one plain-text email. The two strongest reminders, head replacement and warranty, sat at the end of the post-purchase flow.

GAP 03
An offer test with no clean read

The inherited pop-up test pitted £10 off against 10% off, but two of its three variants carried the same 10% offer.

GAP 04
No SMS

Not set up in Klaviyo, and the pop-up collected no phone numbers.

03What we did

Six moves in ten weeks.

We took over on 13 Aug. The first campaign went out two days later.

01 · LIST
Clean the list

Dead profiles out before the first send. Back under the plan limit.

RESULT
2,375 suppressed
02 · CAMPAIGNS
Angles, not discounts

Two to three sends a week, planned a month ahead. No codes in the first 11 sends.

RESULT
44.3% average open
03 · FLOWS
Rebuild the flows

Welcome and sunset rebuilt. Warranty, cross-sell and site abandonment added.

RESULT
£50.5K welcome flow, 30 days
04 · POP-UP
Test the offer properly

Reset to a clean 50/50: £10 off beat 10% off. Then tested the headline wording on the same £10 offer.

RESULT
+14% orders from the new wording
05 · SMS
Switch on SMS

Set up in Klaviyo, phone capture on the pop-up, texts inside the flows.

RESULT
5.45K subscribers
06 · OFFERS
Be Bald & Be Free Day

Leo wanted a customer day. We proposed the offer: a free replacement head with every full-price shaver.

RESULT
£11.7K from 4 sends
– See all six flows we built or rebuilt
  • Welcome flow: rebuilt for email + SMS. First week: 2.39% conversion vs 1.01% on the old one.
  • Sunset flow: one plain-text email became two branches. Two plain-text emails for past buyers, three with a £20 offer for non-buyers.
  • Replacement & Warranty: five emails, plus SMS at three months and just before six.
  • Post-purchase cross-sell: £20 off the beard trimmer for head-shaver customers.
  • Site abandonment: completes the browse, cart and checkout set.
  • Order tracking: switched to transactional, so every customer gets shipping updates.
04Week by week

Slow build, then lift-off.

Six weeks of groundwork. Then the new welcome flow and SMS kicked in.

Email & SMS revenue, every new high
Klaviyo-attributed, rolling 30 days, from our weekly reports to the brand
Before SunloWith Sunlo
£30.9K
22.1%
Jul
£39.4K
24.0%
20 Aug
£41.2K
24.9%
27 Aug
1
£46.7K
24.9%
1 Oct
2
£67.9K
29.5%
15 Oct
£97.8K
35.7%
22 Oct
1 New welcome flow (email + SMS) live 25 Sep
2 Be Bald & Be Free Day, 14–16 Oct
– How to read this chart
  • % = share of total store revenue.
  • July = the calendar month before we took over.
  • Each later bar = a weekly report that set a new high (the 30 days to that date), so August’s include weeks before we joined.
  • The three September reports in between: £39.0K–£39.6K.
13 Aug
We took over
List cleaned the same day: 2,375 never-engaged profiles suppressed.
2,375 suppressed
15–18 Aug
First three sends
1.30% click rate vs a 0.89% account average. No discounts.
+47% click rate
27 Aug
Six sends in
Click rate 1.04% vs 0.49% on the six non-discount sends before takeover.
2.1× click rate
28 Aug
Sunset + warranty flows live
The warranty flow clicked at 9.33% in its first week.
9.33% click
1 Sep
Leo’s “car comparison” angle
His angle, built and sent by us: 28 orders, £1,584.
28 orders
10 Sep
Offer confirmed, SMS on
Pop-up test: £10 off beat 10% off. SMS live inside the warranty flow.
99.8% win probability
25 Sep
New welcome flow live
First week: 2.39% conversion vs 1.01% on the old one.
2.4× conversion
1 Oct
Abandonment set complete
Site abandonment joined browse, cart and checkout. September sent the year’s four best-earning campaigns so far.
Top 4 so far, all Sep
14–16 Oct
Be Bald & Be Free Day
£11,681.79 from two emails and two SMS. 94 code redemptions.
£11.7K from 4 sends
22 Oct
35.74% of revenue
£97,829.66 from email & SMS in 30 days.
+133% vs prior 30 days

Every figure here comes from our weekly account reports to the brand.

05Results

Straight from their Klaviyo.

Same account, same settings. July vs 22 Sep – 22 Oct. Tap a screenshot to enlarge it.

BEFORE · 1 – 31 JUL 2026Klaviyo business performance summary, 1–31 July 2026
£140,235 total · £30,917 from email22.05% of revenue
AFTER · 22 SEP – 22 OCT 2026Klaviyo business performance summary, 22 Sep–22 Oct 2026
£273,741 total · £97,830 from email & SMS35.74% of revenue
Where the £97.8K came from
£71.5K
Flows · up 142% vs prior 30 days
£26.4K
Campaigns · up 112% vs prior 30 days
OF WHICH
£50.5K welcome flow, email + SMS£21.2K SMS, across flows and campaigns
44.3%
Average open rate on our first 11 campaigns, with zero discount codes
2.4×
Welcome-flow conversion after the rebuild: 2.39% vs 1.01%
Top 6
The year’s six best campaigns all went out on or after 25 September
– How we measured this
  • Revenue = Klaviyo-attributed email + SMS (Placed Order). July had no SMS.
  • Both windows are the same length. Per day: £997 → £3,156 (3.2×).
  • The whole store grew too: £4,524 → £8,830 a day (+95%), helped by a new website and creative.
  • So share of revenue isolates email & SMS: 22% (Jul) → 24.9% (1 Oct) → 29.5% (15 Oct) → 35.74% (22 Oct).
06Review

In their words.

★★★★★
“These guys are next level… the difference is night and day.”
The Smooth Geezer
On Trustpilot · 2 October 2026
Leo, the founder, on video: “The team has smashed it, couldn’t recommend them enough.”Watch the 1:13 review ↑
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The Smooth Geezer
GB
2 Oct 2026
★★★★★
These guys are next level

These guys are next level. We moved from an agency where we felt like we did most of the work and the difference is night and day. The metrics are massively different yes but also the quality of suggestions, work and overall tenacity is what makes this partnership worth it. Rui is a don and feels like a part of our company! Keep it going guys, you are amazing

★ Read it on Trustpilot ↗
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