Confidential brandBeauty & Personal Care12 mo

Six launches in a year, each one faster than the last

Launch to profitability: 22 → 7 weeks

A color-forward beauty brand ships new products constantly, and every launch had been improvised. We built a launch playbook and cut the time from listing live to profitable by two thirds.

Six launches in a year, each one faster than the last

At a glance

Category
Beauty & Personal Care
Marketplaces
US, CA
Revenue at start
$196k / month
Cadence
6 new products per year
Engagement
PPC + creative
Timeframe
12 months

Results

Launch to profitability-68%22 weeks 7 weeks
Monthly revenue+78%$196k $349k
Launch ACoS, first 8 weeks-43 pts94% 51%
New products reaching page one+32 of 6 5 of 6

The challenge

The brand's advantage is speed — it ships six products a year in a category where trends move monthly. Its Amazon launches did not reflect that. Each one started from a blank page: someone wrote copy, someone briefed photography, someone built campaigns, and each of those people made different decisions than the last time.

The cost was measured in weeks. Products took roughly five months to become profitable, by which point the trend that justified them had often moved on. Four of the previous six launches never reached page one at all, and their inventory was still sitting in the warehouse.

Our approach

We turned a series of improvisations into a repeatable process.

  • A launch template used from the factory brief onward — keyword research format, copy structure, image sequence and campaign skeleton defined before the product exists, with the research itself done during production so the listing goes live already indexed.
  • A fixed 8-week launch budget with defined bid ladders, rather than a monthly argument about how much to spend.
  • A kill rule — clear criteria at week 6 for whether to double down or stop, so a failing launch stops consuming budget.

Timeline

Launches 1–2

Codify

  • Existing launches documented step by step
  • Template drafted from what worked in the two successes
  • Keyword research moved into the production phase
Launches 3–4

Apply

  • Template used end to end
  • Image stack sequence standardized
  • Time to profitability down to 11 weeks
Launches 5–6

Refine

  • Bid ladder tuned from four launches of data
  • Kill rule applied once at week 6, ending a launch that would previously have been funded for months
  • Both launches profitable inside 7 weeks

Inside the ad account

Anonymized account view, rebuilt from the figures reported above: ad sales growing from $88k to $157k a month while ACoS falls from 41% to 24% across the 12-month engagement.

Anonymized account view, rebuilt from the figures reported above: ad sales growing from $88k to $157k a month while ACoS falls from 41% to 24% across the 12-month engagement.

The results

Time from listing live to profitable fell from 22 weeks to 7, and five of the six launches reached page one — against two of six in the previous year; the sixth was stopped at week six by the kill rule.

Revenue grew 78% on the strength of that cadence: six products compounding instead of two working and four stranded. Launch ACoS in the first eight weeks nearly halved, because the listings now arrive indexed rather than buying their way into relevance from zero.

“Our products were never the problem. Doing the same twelve things in the same order was worth more than any single campaign tweak.”
Head of Growth, Beauty brand

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