Email-First Retention for DTC Brands

Your Sharp Email-First

Retention Agency

At The Clever Inbox, we help DTC brands turn email & SMS into a predictable revenue engine powered by segmentation, lifecycle strategy, and buying psychology.

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How We Drive Predictable Retention Growth

Turn Your Inbox Into a Profit Engine

Trusted by Top Retention & DTC Technology Partners

What We Do Best

Your Retention Growth Is Our Top Priority

We build retention systems that scale with your brand - leveraging segmentation, lifecycle automation, and behaviour-driven strategy to turn email & SMS into predictable, compounding profit. Our work bridges data, creativity, and buying psychology to deepen customer relationships and maximise LTV.

Strategy

We build the retention blueprint your brand needs to scale.

Segmentation

Send the right message to the right customer at the right time.

Automation

Automated flows that convert, retain, and re-engage customers.

Design & Copy

Beautiful, conversion-focused emails that drive action.

Our Results Speak for Themselves

We help DTC brands unlock predictable revenue through segmentation, lifecycle automation, and strategic email & SMS execution.

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Brands Scaled Through Retention

We’ve Built Retention Systems for Fast-Growth Brands

From welcome flows to advanced LTV optimization, our work is tailored to the customer journey — not guesswork.

We Drive Consistent, Compounding Growth

Everything we build — strategy, segmentation, creative, automation — is focused on maximising LTV and repeat purchase rates.

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About The Clever Inbox

Email-First Retention Experts for DTC Brands

We help brands turn their inbox into a profit engine. Our work is driven by segmentation, buying psychology, and behaviour-led automation — ensuring your customers keep coming back, again and again.

Our Resolved Cases

Real Results From Our Retention Work

Email & SMS — January 16, 2024

How We Increased LTV by 42% for a DTC Skincare Brand

We rebuilt their lifecycle flows, introduced behaviour-based segmentation and optimised post-purchase messaging — resulting in meaningful revenue compounding month after month.

E-Commerce — December 11, 2023

Reactivating 28% of Dormant Customers With Automated Winback Journeys

A data-driven customer map and a personalised winback series brought thousands of inactive customers back into the buying cycle.

Retention Strategy — November 22, 2023

Building a High-Intent Segmentation System for a Fast-Growth Apparel Brand

We segmented their audience by buying behaviour, intent and lifecycle stage, lifting campaign revenue and boosting CTR and repurchase rates.

Lifecycle Automation — October 03, 2023

Scaling Repeat Purchases With a Post-Purchase Strategy for a DTC Home Goods Brand

We created a multi-touch post-purchase sequence that educated, nurtured and upsold customers — resulting in stronger retention and higher AOV.

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What Our Clients Say About Working With Us

Blane Cassar
Blane Cassar

Head of Marketing — Duelbits

“Our experience with The Clever Inbox has been exceptional. Extremely proactive, fast and sharp. They understand the crypto + iGaming lifecycle better than any agency we’ve tried. Their segmentation, flows and retention strategy are elite.”

Caroline Attard
Caroline Attard

CMO — CasinoBet

“The Clever Inbox have been a game changer. True experts in email, SMS and lifecycle strategy — not just campaign senders. They’re responsive, full of smart suggestions and consistently push our retention numbers forward.”

Marie-Ann Lynch
Marie-Ann Lynch

Head of Propositions — Entain

“The Clever Inbox dig deep into data, customer behaviour and journey mapping. Their ideas are thoughtful, strategic and grounded in logic. They’ve helped us improve engagement and unlock new retention opportunities.”

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Whether you want a full audit, a strategy rebuild or ongoing retention management — we’re here to help.

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We work with DTC, subscription, iGaming and lifestyle brands that want predictable retention-driven revenue.

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