How Sand Cloud achieved 30% ROAS growth with Klaviyo email and flow strategy
Sand Cloud is an apparel brand dedicated to protecting marine life and preserving the world's oceans.
Retail Apparel and Fashion
San Diego, CA
Context
Sand Cloud isn't just selling beach towels — it's selling a mission. Every purchase ties back to ocean conservation, and that story is one of the brand's most powerful conversion tools. But a compelling brand story only generates revenue if the marketing infrastructure behind it is working. Sand Cloud's Klaviyo setup wasn't.
Lead data was fragmented across sources with no automated way to bring it in cleanly. Dynamic content capabilities were going unused. Email flows were underperforming. The philanthropy division — arguably the heart of the brand's differentiation — had no structured approach to creative templates or best practices. RevX came in to unlock what Klaviyo was capable of and build the email marketing engine the brand deserved.
The challenge
Sand Cloud's challenges were a mix of structural and strategic. The platform was in place; what was missing was the segmentation depth, the flow architecture, and the content sophistication to make it perform at the level the brand's audience and mission warranted.
Leads were coming in from various channels, but there was no automated system to import them cleanly into Klaviyo while preserving data integrity. Without a reliable lead import process, the database accumulated inconsistencies that undermined segmentation, personalization, and the ability to route contacts into the right journeys based on where they'd come from. Data that couldn't be trusted couldn't be used — and for a brand whose email program was meant to drive meaningful revenue, that was a foundational gap.
Klaviyo's dynamic content capabilities — the ability to tailor what different segments see within the same email — were available but untapped. Sand Cloud's team wanted to learn how to use them effectively and report on their performance, but without guidance and implementation support, the feature remained dormant. That untapped capability represented a significant missed opportunity to deliver more relevant, personalized experiences to a database that included both cause-driven buyers and repeat customers with distinct behaviors.
The existing email flows weren't generating the revenue they should have been. There were gaps in the flow strategy, limited testing infrastructure, and no systematic approach to identifying and acting on opportunities for increased conversions and repeat purchases. For a brand with a loyal, mission-aligned customer base — the kind of audience that responds strongly to the right message at the right moment — underperforming flows were leaving real money in the inbox.
Our solution
RevX addressed Sand Cloud's challenges across three connected areas: getting the data right, building a smarter segmentation and content strategy, and overhauling the flow architecture to drive conversions and repeat purchases.
RevX implemented an automated process for importing leads from Sand Cloud's various sources into Klaviyo, ensuring data flowed in cleanly and consistently while maintaining integrity across the database. Thorough lead segmentation was built on top of that clean data foundation — enabling the team to route contacts into email journeys based on their lead source and behavior, rather than treating every subscriber as the same.
RevX implemented dynamic content across Sand Cloud's email program, ensuring the capability that had been sitting unused was put to work delivering tailored experiences to different segments. Reporting on dynamic content performance was configured alongside it, giving the team visibility into what resonated with which audiences and a data-backed foundation for ongoing optimization.
The impact
The overhaul of Sand Cloud's Klaviyo program produced results across every dimension the engagement had targeted — revenue, brand visibility, and the quality of the customer experience the email program was delivering.
The combined effect of better segmentation, activated dynamic content, and a strengthened flow strategy was a 30% improvement in return on ad spend and email marketing revenue. That number reflects what happens when a brand with genuine audience loyalty finally has the marketing infrastructure to activate it — the demand was there all along; the program just needed to be built to capture it.
By developing creative ways to tell Sand Cloud's conservation story through email, RevX amplified the brand's visibility and conversion rates beyond what transactional campaigns alone could achieve. Content that connected customers to the mission — not just the product — drove the kind of engagement that extends beyond the inbox, building the word-of-mouth momentum that mission-driven brands depend on to grow.
The new flows, testing infrastructure, and A/B optimization produced a measurable lift in both conversions and repeat purchases from outbound campaigns. For a brand with a loyal customer base, repeat purchase revenue is one of the highest-return levers available — and the improved flow architecture was built specifically to pull it. Combined with revamped product imagery and updated branding, the email program presented a more compelling, cohesive version of Sand Cloud to every subscriber it reached.
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