Engagement playbooks
How we'd run it, step by step
We're a young company and we won't fake testimonials or invent results. Instead, here's something more useful: detailed playbooks for the situations growing businesses hit most, so you can judge our thinking before you ever pay us.
The Brand With Stalled Paid Social
A DTC skincare brand runs its own Meta ads with flat results and a slow mobile site. JDL audits the account, fixes the landing experience, and rebuilds testing.
The pain
- Meta ad performance has been flat for months despite steady spend, and the founder cannot tell which campaigns actually earn their budget
- The same small batch of creatives has run so long that frequency is climbing and engagement is dropping
- Mobile product pages load slowly, so paid traffic bounces before it ever sees the offer
The SaaS Founder Scaling Past the Back Office
A bootstrapped SaaS founder spends evenings on onboarding, support, books, and reporting. JDL builds the automation layer and takes over the back office.
The pain
- Every new customer is onboarded by hand: the founder sends the kickoff email, provisions the account, books the walkthrough call, and chases the follow-ups personally.
- Support requests land in one shared inbox where bug reports sit next to billing questions, and the founder triages it all after dinner.
- Bookkeeping happens in batch panic sessions before filing deadlines, and the numbers in Stripe, the accounting tool, and the spreadsheet never quite agree.
The Service Business Buried in Admin
A six-person consulting firm loses billable hours to scheduling, proposals, and invoicing. JDL absorbs the admin, tightens ops, and starts outbound prospecting.
The pain
- Partners handle their own scheduling, proposal formatting, invoicing, and follow-up emails, which eats directly into billable time.
- Invoices go out late and inconsistently, so cash flow depends on whoever remembers to chase payment that week.
- Every proposal is rebuilt from scratch with no templates, no version control, and no central pricing reference.
The Shopify Brand Drowning in Operations
A growing Shopify brand stalls because the founder personally runs support, inventory, listings, and email. JDL takes over daily operations so growth resumes.
The pain
- The founder spends most of each day on support tickets, inventory updates, and listing edits instead of product and marketing decisions.
- Email campaigns go out sporadically, with no welcome, abandoned cart, or post-purchase flows running consistently.
- Inventory counts drift between the supplier sheet and Shopify, causing oversells and refund conversations.
These playbooks describe representative scenarios and our standard operating approach. They are not claims about past client results.
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