Sticky Be Socks: A Weekly Program That Sounds Like the Brand

A success story from a brand that used to send once or twice a month. We moved Sticky Be to a weekly email and SMS program across D2C and wholesale, rebuilt every flow and design, and took over campaign management. Volume roughly quadrupled, spam complaints fell 54 percent, conversion value climbed 126 percent, and attributed revenue climbed 51 percent.

Sticky Be Socks lifecycle success story hero, Atelier Commerce, weekly email and SMS, D2C and wholesale

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Sticky Be Socks

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Sticky Be Socks: A Weekly Program That Sounds Like the Brand

A success story from a brand that used to send once or twice a month. We moved Sticky Be to a weekly email and SMS program across D2C and wholesale, rebuilt every flow and design, and took over campaign management. Volume roughly quadrupled, spam complaints fell 54 percent, conversion value climbed 126 percent, and attributed revenue climbed 51 percent.

Sticky Be Socks lifecycle success story hero, Atelier Commerce, weekly email and SMS, D2C and wholesale

Client

Sticky Be Socks

Duration

Ongoing

Date

We were brought in to turn email into a dependable revenue channel for a brand with a strong product and a lean team. The audience was there. What was missing was a system, a cadence, a content strategy, and the confidence to use the channel fully.

Michael J. McBride, Founder and CEO of Atelier Commerce, on the Sticky Be Socks weekly lifecycle program

Michael J. McBride

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

BUILT WITH

We were brought in to turn email into a dependable revenue channel for a brand with a strong product and a lean team. The audience was there. What was missing was a system, a cadence, a content strategy, and the confidence to use the channel fully.

Michael J. McBride, Founder and CEO of Atelier Commerce, on the Sticky Be Socks weekly lifecycle program

Michael J. McBride

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

BUILT WITH

A Sunday evening, a phone lit on a kitchen counter, an inbox with three hundred sender voices in it. A pair of grip socks with the word Fearless printed on the arch has to sound like the person who bought it, not like every other brand shouting for a Monday sale. Cadence alone will not win that inbox. Content will.

A Sunday evening, a phone lit on a kitchen counter, an inbox with three hundred sender voices in it. A pair of grip socks with the word Fearless printed on the arch has to sound like the person who bought it, not like every other brand shouting for a Monday sale. Cadence alone will not win that inbox. Content will.

Sticky Be Socks lifecycle scorecard: 4x sends, 54% fewer spam complaints, 126% conversion value, 51% attributed revenue

An audience that wanted to hear more, not less

Sticky Be Socks had a lightly used email list and a wholesale program the channel had never really served. Outreach ran once or twice a month, shaped by a belief that customers did not want to be contacted often. The real problem was underuse, not fatigue. With separate D2C and wholesale lists, limited internal bandwidth, and no sustained content rhythm, the program stayed thin while the brand quietly left owned revenue on the table.

The picture we drew for the brand was clear. Move to at least weekly sends across email and SMS, so the program had a cadence a reader could trust. Build content pillars, broader lifestyle storytelling, gifting ideas, product recommendations, and thoughtful reasons to purchase, so each send had a reason to exist. Split the welcome, abandonment, and loyalty journeys into dedicated D2C and B2B paths, so the D2C customer looking for a second pair after morning class and the studio owner ordering wholesale for the front desk were never treated like one list. Two audiences, one coherent system, sent more often but written better.

An audience that wanted to hear more, not less

Sticky Be Socks had a lightly used email list and a wholesale program the channel had never really served. Outreach ran once or twice a month, shaped by a belief that customers did not want to be contacted often. The real problem was underuse, not fatigue. With separate D2C and wholesale lists, limited internal bandwidth, and no sustained content rhythm, the program stayed thin while the brand quietly left owned revenue on the table.

The picture we drew for the brand was clear. Move to at least weekly sends across email and SMS, so the program had a cadence a reader could trust. Build content pillars, broader lifestyle storytelling, gifting ideas, product recommendations, and thoughtful reasons to purchase, so each send had a reason to exist. Split the welcome, abandonment, and loyalty journeys into dedicated D2C and B2B paths, so the D2C customer looking for a second pair after morning class and the studio owner ordering wholesale for the front desk were never treated like one list. Two audiences, one coherent system, sent more often but written better.

Sticky Be Socks D2C and B2B welcome, abandonment, and loyalty flows split on Klaviyo across email and SMS
Sticky Be Socks weekly content calendar with lifestyle storytelling, gifting, product, and mantra pillars
Sticky Be Socks D2C and B2B welcome, abandonment, and loyalty flows split on Klaviyo across email and SMS
Sticky Be Socks weekly content calendar with lifestyle storytelling, gifting, product, and mantra pillars

A cadence and a content system, not just more sends

Sending more often only compounds if the sends earn the attention. The work was to give the program a rhythm the reader could count on and a voice she wanted to open.

The program expanded from email into email and SMS with a regular rhythm, moving the brand from occasional monthly sends to at least weekly communication. On top of that cadence, content pillars gave the program direction and staying power. When the engagement expanded in September 2025, we rebuilt the foundation underneath the calendar: every flow, every design, and ongoing campaign management across D2C and the wholesale program. Welcome, abandonment, and loyalty journeys were split into dedicated D2C and B2B paths rather than running one list against another. Send volume roughly quadrupled, spam complaints fell 54 percent, conversion value climbed 126 percent, and attributed revenue climbed 51 percent. The rebuilt flows now generate more than half of all flow driven revenue on their own. Louder was not the outcome. Written to be kept was.

A cadence and a content system, not just more sends

Sending more often only compounds if the sends earn the attention. The work was to give the program a rhythm the reader could count on and a voice she wanted to open.

The program expanded from email into email and SMS with a regular rhythm, moving the brand from occasional monthly sends to at least weekly communication. On top of that cadence, content pillars gave the program direction and staying power. When the engagement expanded in September 2025, we rebuilt the foundation underneath the calendar: every flow, every design, and ongoing campaign management across D2C and the wholesale program. Welcome, abandonment, and loyalty journeys were split into dedicated D2C and B2B paths rather than running one list against another. Send volume roughly quadrupled, spam complaints fell 54 percent, conversion value climbed 126 percent, and attributed revenue climbed 51 percent. The rebuilt flows now generate more than half of all flow driven revenue on their own. Louder was not the outcome. Written to be kept was.

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Our approach brings marketing, experience, and retention into alignment so each stage of the journey performs with greater precision. Reach out and begin your journey with us.

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Let’s bring your vision to life

Our approach brings marketing, experience, and retention into alignment so each stage of the journey performs with greater precision. Reach out and begin your journey with us.

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