DTC Brand & Growth Strategy

Your brand has traction.Now it needs direction.

Senior brand and growth strategy for founder-led consumer brands ready to scale — organic, paid, or both.

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Case Study
The Dog Nutritionist
951% ↑
Revenue growth over 3 years, reaching $2.4M+ AUD
40%
Profit margin maintained throughout
500k+
Organic followers, zero spend on content production
Chris Gracey
About

Drove 951% revenue growth for a DTC brand over 3 years. Now I help others do the same.

The Dog Nutritionist had a great product but little marketing direction when I came on board two years in. Over three years I helped scale it to over $2.4M AUD with a consistent 40% profit margin — including 951% growth against the period before I joined. Growth came from a combination of challenger brand positioning, organic social across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, paid media on Meta and Google, and a lean content operation that scaled without a large team. The results attracted a strategic investor whose previous Amazon business exited for £100m.

Before that I spent a decade in senior marketing roles in London — Head of Marketing at David Yarrow Photography and Senior Strategist at Manning Gottlieb OMD, managing brand, paid, and social strategies for Waitrose, Renault, Specsavers and others.

That experience is what I bring to a small number of founders each year. I work at the strategy level — helping you decide what to focus on, what to stop doing, and how to build a marketing operation that actually scales. I also use AI tooling across content production, workflows and research to keep operations lean, which means the brands I work with get more output for less overhead.

Proof of work

Results that speak for themselves

Revenue growth — The Dog Nutritionist
$2.4M+ AUD
Revenue over 3 years  ·  951% growth against prior period
Aug 2023Aug 2024
Prior year
Followed by a further 56% increase to ~$890k AUD the following year, maintaining a consistent 40% profit margin throughout.
Client testimonial

"Chris turned my business around. He focused on the right marketing mix to create profitable results and managed everything. Great knowledge, great communication and great results."

Cam Wimble Founder, The Dog Nutritionist
Organic social growth
Instagram194,000
followers
TikTok109,000
followers
YouTube60,600
followers
Facebook131,000
followers
Built organically without agency support. Reels and TikToks regularly exceeding 500k views.
Career background
Manning Gottlieb OMD, LondonSenior Strategist
David Yarrow PhotographyHead of Marketing
The Dog NutritionistCMO
15 years across brand strategy, paid media, organic growth, and DTC e-commerce. Master of Business, QUT.
How I work

Three ways to work together

01

Brand Growth Audit

A full review of your positioning, content, social and email strategy. Delivered as a clear written roadmap within five business days. A good starting point if you are not sure where the gaps are.

$900 — $1,500 AUD
02

Fractional CMO Retainer

Senior strategic guidance without the full-time hire. Two to four calls per month plus async support. No execution, no agency markup. Just a senior brain on your business every month.

$2,500 — $4,000 AUD / month
03

Growth Strategy Sprint

A 90-day growth strategy across organic and paid channels. Clear priorities, channel recommendations, and a playbook your team can execute. You own the results.

$1,200 — $2,000 AUD
Who this is for

You have a product that works. The strategy is what's missing.

You are past the early stage. Revenue is coming in. But something is not clicking at the marketing level and you are not sure why.

  • You have been burned by an agency that took your money and delivered nothing
  • You are running marketing tactics without a clear strategy behind them
  • You are spending on paid ads but the organic foundation is not there
  • You need senior thinking but cannot justify a full-time CMO hire yet
  • Your brand looks and sounds like everyone else in your category
Get in touch

Ready to talk?

I work with a small number of clients each year. If the timing feels right, reach out and we will figure out together if it makes sense.