Case Study · Full-Funnel Digital Growth

Client
August Bioscience

Five channels,
one compounding engine.

A 12-month digital growth story across SEO, performance, social, influencer and retention - for a premium, plant-based skincare and haircare brand.

4.5x
ROAS across paid channels
+85%
Monthly sales YoY
+140%
Instagram follower growth
Client
August Biosience
Industry
Clean Skincare and Haircare
Region
India
Duration
1 Year
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The Client

Clean formulations in a very crowded category.

August Bioscience is a premium Indian skincare and haircare brand committed to clean, plant-based formulations. Its line - shower gels, shampoos, conditioners and face cleansers - is built to deliver a luxurious, effective self-care experience.

Over twelve months, The Brand Bee ran an integrated, full-funnel programme to scale its online presence, engagement and revenue.

Category
Clean skincare & haircare
Service focus
SEO, performance, social, influencer & retention
Market
India, D2C · May 2024 to May 2025

Objectives

01

Scale organic visibility and qualified traffic to the website.

02

Drive efficient customer acquisition and sales through paid media.

03

Build an engaged community and credible brand presence.

04

Grow retention, repeat purchase and customer lifetime value.

The Challenge

Everyone claims clean. Few can prove it.

Clean beauty is fast-growing and fiercely contested - and the credentials that differentiate the brand are exactly the ones that are hardest to communicate in a scroll.

Educating and converting are usually at odds. The engine had to do both, at once, in five channels.

A

Crowded clean-beauty market

Standing out in a fast-growing, highly competitive skincare and haircare space.

B

Educating on formulations

Communicating clean, plant-based credentials in a way that actually converts.

C

Full-funnel coordination

Aligning SEO, paid, social, influencer and retention into one engine.

D

Brand vs performance

Holding a premium aesthetic while maximising efficient, measurable growth.

Our Approach

Five workstreams. One programme.

Five workstreams run as one integrated, full-funnel programme - compounding awareness, acquisition and loyalty across the year.

1

SEO - Organic visibility

  • Keyword research on high-intent terms, product-page and blog optimisation, and technical SEO.
  • Delivered +60% organic traffic, top-3 rankings for 20+ keywords and an 18% lower bounce rate.
2

Performance marketing - Acquisition

  • Google Ads on branded and non-branded terms, benefit-led Meta creative and continuous A/B testing.
  • Drove 4.5x ROAS, +85% monthly sales and a 22% lower CAC.
3

Social media - Community

  • Educational content on ingredients and routines, influencer collaboration and live Q&As.
  • Reached 180,000+ followers, a 6.2% engagement rate and 12M+ impressions.
4

Influencer marketing - Credibility

  • 50+ skincare and wellness influencers, product-seeding and sponsored collaborations.
  • Delivered 3.8x ROI and +70% referral traffic alongside deeper brand trust.
5

Retention - Email & WhatsApp

  • Behaviour-based segmentation, automated flows and WhatsApp campaigns.
  • Generated $60K email revenue in a single month and a 98% WhatsApp open / 12% conversion rate.

Capabilities enabled

SEO audit, keyword strategy & contentPerformance marketing (Google Ads, Meta)Social media content & communityInfluencer marketing & partnershipsEmail & WhatsApp CRM automationCampaign analytics, tracking & reporting
The Work

The creative behind the compounding.

Educational content, influencer collaborations and benefit-led performance creative - built to teach and to sell.

August Bioscience brand content reel - the plant-based range styled into the feed
01 · Brand Content

The ritual, styled

The plant-based range styled into the feed - the always-on content layer that keeps the education compounding and carried a 140% follower climb.

August Bioscience performance creative - benefit on skin, up close
02 · Performance Creative

Benefit, on skin

The tight benefit-led cut - product, texture and result up close in eighteen seconds. The sell side of teach-and-sell, behind the 4.5x ROAS.

August Bioscience creator content - the routine explained on camera
03 · Creator Content

The routine, in a creator's voice

Person-led education for the feed - the routine explained face to camera, the influencer layer that makes clean-beauty claims believable before the ad ever asks.

Results

Twelve months of compounding growth.

Measured across acquisition, organic, community and retention - each channel lifting the next.

0
ROAS across all paid media
+0
Monthly sales versus the prior year
-0
Lower customer acquisition cost
+0
Organic traffic; top-3 for 20+ high-intent keywords
+0
Instagram followers, to 180,000+ at 6.2% engagement
0
Impressions via influencer collaborations
$0
Email revenue generated in a single month
0
WhatsApp open rate, with 12% conversion
0
Influencer ROI, driving +70% referral traffic
MetricResult
Organic traffic growth+60% YoY
Top-3 keyword rankings20+ keywords
ROAS (paid channels)4.5x
Monthly sales increase+85%
Customer acquisition cost-22%
Instagram follower growth+140%
Influencer marketing ROI3.8x
Email revenue (single month)$60,000
Repeat purchase rate+40%
WhatsApp open / conversion98% / 12%
The Outcome

A defensible foothold, not a spike.

August Bioscience's integrated digital approach significantly strengthened its online presence, customer engagement and revenue over the year.

By compounding SEO, performance marketing, social, influencer collaboration and personalised retention, the brand established a strong, defensible foothold in a competitive skincare market - one where each channel makes the next cheaper.

Net effect

Five channels run as one engine - 4.5x ROAS, +85% sales, +140% community and a retention layer that compounds.

Deeptanshu Bansal
Founder & CEO, The Brand Bee
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