One of CTC’s earliest hires just returned after years away. He left to build his own media agency, acquired a major email and retention agency, then co-founded a beverage company where mastering subscription economics was the only path to survival. Now he is back, and the skills he forged along the way make him a different kind of asset for 7-to-9-figure ecommerce brands than when he first walked in the door.

Our guest today is a returning member of the CTC family — a media buyer turned agency founder turned beverage entrepreneur, now rejoining as a senior leader focused on retention strategy, media, and industry events. Find out who it is in this episode.

Topics covered:

• The original CTC hiring story and what early platform arbitrage taught him about finding edges

• Why he left CTC and what he set out to prove by building his own agency

• Acquiring a top email and retention agency and what running lifecycle marketing for real clients taught him

• Co-founding a beverage company and what subscription economics looks like from inside a real P&L

• Why Statlas and CTC’s current scale made returning the obvious move

• The financial forecast connection: why email revenue expectations must be tied to the paid calendar

• Where offer-to-ad-to-landing-page continuity breaks down at most brands

• Deep storytelling vs. volume tactics: a real example of what actually drives conversion

• Active vs. lapsed customer strategy and the economics of subscription reactivation

• Commerce Roundtable events and Hyrox Anaheim Dec 3-4

Show Notes:

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