Great CBD Shop
Direct-to-consumer CBD retailer offering hemp wellness and lifestyle products.
Three weeks of focused execution. Zero compliance issues. $80K in new revenue and a 22% lift in returning buyers. Here's how we built and shipped Great CBD Shop's 4/20 campaign in the most regulated category in ecommerce.

Headline metric
+$80K
Revenue from one campaign
02 · Supporting
+22%
Returning buyers
03 · Supporting
0
Compliance issues
04 · Supporting
3 weeks
From kickoff to launch
Great CBD Shop is a direct-to-consumer CBD retailer selling hemp wellness products to customers across the United States. The brand operates in one of the most restricted categories in ecommerce, where deliverability, payment processor compliance, and regulatory copy aren't side issues. They're the entire game.
When Great CBD Shop came to us, they had one big moment on the calendar: 4/20. The biggest revenue day of the year for any CBD brand. They needed to maximize it without triggering compliance issues that could shut down their account or burn their deliverability. They needed an agency that actually understood the category, not one that would refuse to take them as a client.
4/20 is not a normal campaign for a CBD brand. It's the highest-stakes revenue moment of the year. Get it right and the campaign delivers months of cash flow in a single day. Get it wrong and you burn your deliverability, trigger payment processor reviews, or flag compliance issues that take weeks to undo.
Great CBD Shop knew the opportunity but they also knew the risk. They needed an agency that had actually shipped 4/20 campaigns before, in the CBD category specifically, without breaking anything. Most agencies they had talked to either refused CBD brands outright or had no real experience with the deliverability and compliance constraints the category requires.
Their existing email program was running but had not been optimized for the campaign-level intensity 4/20 requires
The campaign needed to ship in three weeks, including strategy, copy, design, build, QA, and send
Every piece of copy and creative had to survive both spam filters and payment processor reviews while still converting
We started with a deliverability and compliance audit. Before writing a single line of copy, we made sure the sending infrastructure could handle the volume, the domains were warm enough to push through the campaign, and the language frameworks would survive both spam filters and payment processor reviews.
From there, we built the campaign in three phases. Phase one was strategy and copy: we mapped the buyer journey for 4/20, designed the offer structure, and wrote compliance-safe copy that still converted. Phase two was design and build: our team produced the creative, built the campaign in Klaviyo, ran QA, and tested across email clients and devices. Phase three was launch and optimization: we shipped the campaign on schedule, monitored deliverability and engagement in real time, and adjusted send timing based on what was working.
Throughout the engagement, we worked as Great CBD Shop's embedded campaign team. Direct Slack channel. Daily check-ins during the 3-week build. No layers, no delays.
A 4/20 campaign built and shipped in three weeks, with zero compliance issues.
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The 4/20 campaign delivered the biggest single-day revenue moment Great CBD Shop had ever seen. Compliance held. Deliverability stayed strong. Returning buyers showed up at higher rates than any previous campaign. The team shipped the work in three weeks with zero missed deadlines and no last-minute scrambles.
Outcome at a glance
After the campaign, Great CBD Shop expanded the engagement into an ongoing retainer. The 4/20 campaign was the first project. The full retention system came next. CBD brands rarely find an agency that actually understands the category. When they do, they don't let go.
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