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Case Study · DTC Beef · Adams Ranch Natural Beef
How Adams Ranch went from $0 to sold-out with the DTC Launch Engine, without an existing audience, in under six months.

From $0 to a 6-figure month, then sold out the beef.

Adams Ranch came to us with no DTC paid engine. We built the ads, bundle builder, pages, and content. Online sales grew 132% year over year, the record month cleared six figures, and demand ran so hot they sold out.

Online sales, year over year
+132%
Built from a standing start to a six-figure record month, online plus in store.
5.3×
Peak vs. baseline
10.4×
Best week ROAS
27.7×
Best day ROAS
$0 → 6 figures
Record month, online plus in store
+132%
Online sales, year over year
5.3×
Peak month vs. pre-engagement baseline
10.4×
Blended ROAS in the best week
The challenge

No paid engine. No funnel. No content pipeline.

Adams Ranch is a premium natural-beef brand with a great product and effectively no direct-to-consumer paid system when we started in September 2025, with online sales a small fraction of where the brand would land within months. Selling a perishable, premium-priced commodity online means you have to build trust, lift average order value, and keep media brutally efficient, all at once. We built the whole engine from scratch.

What we did

We built the entire DTC engine.

Media, a custom bundle builder, landing pages, a content pipeline, and lifecycle, all run as one system.

01

Media buying + content engine

Meta and Google managed daily, fed by a recurring creative pipeline of video and statics, including on-ranch shoots. Single ads hit 14.5× ROAS.

02

Custom bundle builder

We built gift-with-purchase and bundle logic (add a ranch steak, gift two bavettes) to lift AOV and margin on every order.

03

Landing pages + lifecycle

Purpose-built pages for Bavette, Ranch Steak, Hot Dogs and Ground Beef, plus a Klaviyo email and SMS program driving five figures in a single week.

The results

From a low baseline to a six-figure record.

Online sales by month, indexed to the pre-engagement baseline. We took over in September 2025, and sales peaked in January at more than 5× baseline. April was the most recent full month.

1.0×
1.9×
3.2×
5.3×
2.1×
3.7×
3.5×
Jun ’25Before us
OctRamp
DecCleared inventory
JanRecord
FebSold out
MarRebound
AprLatest
Source: Shopify Total sales over time. Trailing 12 months (Jun 2025–May 2026) up 132% year over year. The January record month cleared six figures once in-store sales are counted alongside online. Bars indexed to the pre-engagement baseline; absolute figures withheld.
The record month: January cleared six figures combined, online plus in store. The best week returned 10.41× blended ROAS, the best day 27.7×, and a single creative 14.5×, with net margin above 90% on top sales days.
We steered demand to the inventory. In December we sold a ton of premium preferred cuts, then repivoted spend to move an overstock of ground beef, then flipped it again and cleared out every preferred cut and the ground beef together. By February demand outran supply and the brand sold out of its beef entirely.
From a low baseline to a six-figure record. Online sales up 132% year over year.
6 figures
Record month (online + in store)
+132%
Online sales YoY
5.3×
Peak vs. baseline
27.7×
Best day ROAS
What we built, in full

The whole system, not a service line.

Growth & media

Meta and Google media buying managed daily, plus tests across Newsbreak, AppLovin, NextDoor and SMS. Named, structured campaigns hitting 6–8× ROAS on core products.

Creative pipeline

A recurring engine of video and static ads (roughly 15 videos and 20 statics per cycle) fed by on-ranch content shoots, with proven winners scaled hard.

Custom bundle builder

Gift-with-purchase and bundle logic built to lift average order value and margin on every order, launched in March 2026.

Pages, email & SMS

Landing pages for Bavette, Ranch Steak, Hot Dogs and Ground Beef, a full Klaviyo email and SMS program (five figures in one week), and a ranch-tours acquisition program.

Work with Del Bando

Starting from zero? So did they.

No audience, no funnel, no content? That’s exactly where Adams Ranch started. We build the full DTC engine, media, funnels, custom tech, and content, from zero, and we take on a handful of brands at a time. Book a call and we’ll show you the path to your first record month.

A full-funnel DTC growth partner. Media, creative, funnels, and custom tech engineered to scale profit.

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