The Canadian tax industry is very competitive. TurboTax and H&R Block are the giants in the space. SimpleTax came along with any innovatively easy product and fun product that challenged the status quo. The brought fun to a stale space. My job was to efficiently bring in new customers to simpletax.ca through primarily paid search, and assisted with paid social activities. It was very important the message was 'on brand' which had a more 'fun' approach than the competitors. We also had tight CPA requirements as the payment model was a 'pay what you want' or donation model.

Andrea joined Fellow as the Director of DTC eCommerce - a Series B, coffee gear startup in San Francisco. She led the eCommerce B2C business, responsible for the P&L, eCommerce marketing and website product roadmap.

When she joined, the team has experienced some success with the first year of the pandemic, due to people investing in their home coffee brew bar. The challenges she faced were: there was no eCommerce team, no growth strategy, limited resources and budget, few business processes + low cross-team cohesion.

They were looking to improve their results on Facebook, Google ads & email marketing

Woulvestuff reached out to us because they were trying to find a better way to use their existing chatbot. The store had a chatbot referring customers to the website from Facebook and inviting people to join a mailing list, according to the client, that list is responsible for 40% of the sites income.

the main challenge was that the client wanted to use the same chatbot for the website and Facebook, we had to do something that will provide a reason for new and returned users to engage with the chatbot and give their emails to join the community.