Their bags, backpacks, technical backpacks, and luggage have received international attention, and in 2012 their ski bag was a finalist for Innovation of the Year at the largest sporting goods trade show in the world – ISPO in Munich, Germany. A recent hit has been their luggage which has won multiple design awards (Red Dot among others).

Their main focus is to expand their offering in the EU, the UK, and the US, their strongest markets at the time we started working with them were Norway and Sweden.

The added challenge was that the e-commerce also had to change from Centra to Shopify. The goal was to create new and different stores for greater segmentation, special contacts, increased feedback and top-of-the-line experience for their customers according to markets/location. The best bags possible, the best service possible. These would become 5 different stores.

Over time we would need to incorporate changes, new languages French and German, Include new markets like UK, Phase out others (AU) and merge them into EU. The push to launch harder in the US market was huge as well, and over the years the strategy was adjusted to be more and more hyper-local and specific to the market. The pace of launching new product lines, colors, and collaborations was on a professional level just like any top brand with thousands of employees but this was done by a small team of 30 (now about 70 people). Collaborations and launches with great photographers, surfers, footballers you name it. We were that extra muscle that Db needed to give the full experience and communication to their clients.

The email list that was in the several thousands needed to grow to hundreds of thousands, we needed to manage and help create segmentations, and emails and link it all up, new stores, new experiences, new products, and new markets.The need for something out-of-the-ordinary was in place and Refindable found a way to manage it and drive Db into a new era.

We became a symbiotic entity that pushed the boundaries of email experiences together.

Audits & Proposals:

Refindable did an audit of their past setup in Mailchimp + Centra and re-made + pitched a full setup for automations for the new website in Shopify and Ometria as a Email CRM System for BtC automations as well other types of automations and system support We also set a proposal for automations and we helped in every step of the process of their rebranding in their email communications.

Starter Level: Email Campaign Roadmap

1. Welcome Purchaser
2. Welcome non Purchaser
3. Abandoned Browser
4. Abandoned Basket
5. Specific Topic or Specific Segmentation
6. 30 days (when applicable)
7. 60 days (when applicable)
8. Refer a friend
9. Review system

We documented all of the current running promotions not only visually but also what their goals in various forms and files. We followed the documentation and changes of the emails over several years and months.

Over time we set up and included:

• 18 Automations.
• Better tracking and segmentation.
• Languages support (FR & GE).
• Store-specific automation (NO, SE, US, UK, EU).
• Unique Triggers.
• Welcome flows to new audiences.
• Tags to specific audiences and purchasers

Excel file documentation included:

• Names descriptions & links.
• Market where it was active.
• Links to designs and visual reference in Miro board (platform).
• Link to the original brief.
• The monetary result so far.
• Coupon/discount codes relevant to each email sent in the email flow.

A full step up in everything related to email marketing as a whole. All migrations (of systems and CRMs) are complex and difficult to manage but thanks to the precise documentation, information experience in management changes became easier and easier over time. As well as local implementation of strategies for each market.
Every single Black Friday was better than the previous one, the email list grew to a large number from several thousands to hundreds of thousands. Thanks to the work, every part of the process of creating, making, and executing email send-outs has become faster and more detailed due to the development and standardization of design elements, and documentation of email flows.

Understanding the ins and outs of each platform on how to include data and send welcome emails to event signups Reporting and updating is done in a centralized database, which allows the organization to work together more efficiently.

The numbers tell their own story. 32 automations in 5 different platforms. 5 distinct markets. Automation that brought hundreds of thousands in revenue becoming close to 30% of all ecommerce revenue. What is very hard close to impossible work for us was an amazing journey working with a beloved and innovative brand from Norway, which is compared in design to Apple.
we were a part of that international expansion into the rest of the EU (special focus on France and Germany) and their expansion in the US.

Of course, the magic is in the details, which we can’t share because that’s the secret sauce.