GROWTH STRATEGY · PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT · CONTENT & ACQUISITION
CASE STUDY · DAG ATHLETICS
TURNING EXPERTISE INTO A DIGITAL PRODUCT AND CUSTOMER ACQUISITION SYSTEM.
Project overview
FROM COACHING EXPERTISE TO A REVENUE-GENERATING PRODUCT.
DAG Athletics had deep subject-matter expertise and an established audience, but no complete digital product or system connecting that audience to paying customers.

I helped build that infrastructure from the ground up—translating Dave's methodology into digital coaching products while developing the content, acquisition, onboarding, and operational systems needed to support them.
  • GROWTH / PRODUCT / CONTENT
    role
  • 2025–2026
    timeline
  • 4 programs
    88 videos
    product development
  • 18 customers
    10 active
    customer growth
the challenge
expertise without the infrastructure to scale.
Dave had spent decades developing his own approach to pain, posture, and performance, with experience coaching elite athletes. But his methodology had never been translated into a complete digital coaching product. There was no repeatable customer journey and no infrastructure connecting his growing online audience to a scalable offer.

The challenge wasn't simply to market an existing product. It was to help turn Dave's methodology into something people could discover, understand, purchase, and actually use while building the systems required to support that journey from the ground up.
what I discovered
THE BOTTLENECK WASN'T CONTENT.
IT WAS THE SYSTEM BEHIND IT.
As I worked through the business, it became clear that producing more content alone wouldn't solve the underlying problem. Attention was growing, but the infrastructure required to turn that attention into a repeatable customer journey was still incomplete.
01 — PRODUCT
Dave's expertise hadn't been structured into a digital experience customers could independently follow. The methodology first needed to become a deliverable product.
02 — CONVERSION
Growing attention had no repeatable path to revenue. Content needed to connect interest to product education, purchase, and onboarding.
03 — OPERATIONS
The systems behind the customer experience still had to be built — from onboarding and communication to delivery and ongoing customer management.
what i built
PRODUCT
4 programs / 88 videos

Structured Dave's methodology into a digital coaching experience customers could follow independently.
ACQUISITION
Multi-platform content

Built a content system across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube to generate awareness, demand, and inbound interest.
CONVERSION
ManyChat + lead flow

Connected social interest to product education, lead capture, purchase, and onboarding through a repeatable conversion path.
DELIVERY & OPERATIONS
Trainerize + customer systems

Built the onboarding, payment, communication, delivery, and operational infrastructure supporting the customer experience.
growth & Acquisition
CONTENT CREATED ATTENTION.
THE SYSTEM TURNED IT
INTO CUSTOMERS.
Once the product and customer journey were in place, content became the acquisition engine. I developed and distributed short-form content across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube — using performance data to refine the creative strategy and grow Dave's audience.

That attention was then connected to a ManyChat conversion flow that moved interested viewers from social content to product education, purchase, and onboarding.
FROM ATTENTION TO ACQUISITION
Content generated demand. The conversion system gave that demand somewhere to go.
  • 1,347 → 15K
    Dave's personal Instagram audience
  • 591
    ManyChat contacts
  • 281
    product page visits
  • 12
    cold customers acquired
content & distribution
ONE CREATIVE.
MULTIPLE CHANNELS.
MORE OPPORTUNITIES
TO REACH THE RIGHT
AUDIENCE.
I managed content across Dave’s personal brand and DAG Athletics, using Instagram Collab posts to distribute individual reels across both audiences while adapting the broader content system for TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.

Performance data informed what we filmed, edited, and published next — turning content production into an iterative growth system rather than a fixed posting calendar.
MULTI-PLATFORM AUDIENCE GROWTH
Personal Instagram 1,347 → 15K
DAG Athletics Instagram 6,397 → 11.6K
TikTok 0 → 2,234
YouTube 18 → 468
CONTENT PERFORMANCE
Creative testing produced repeatable breakout content — with multiple reels reaching tens to hundreds of thousands of views.
iterating on what worked
ONE WINNING CREATIVE.
MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTION
OPPORTUNITIES.
After one reel generated 575K+ views, I identified it as a winning creative and tested adjusted versions through Instagram Trial Reels, exposing the content to new non-followers.

Two additional tests generated 374K+ views, bringing the creative to 950K+ cumulative views across three versions.
CONVERSION & CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
TURNING CONTENT
INTO A CUSTOMER
ACQUISITION
SYSTEM.
I connected organic content to an automated ManyChat funnel that moved interested viewers from Instagram into a guided DM sequence and then to the coaching product.

The system captured hundreds of contacts, with 281 reaching the product page and 12 customers purchasing through the funnel.
TURNING ATTENTION INTO REVENUE
FROM ORGANIC CONTENT
TO PAYING
SUBSCRIBERS.
The acquisition system converted audience attention into paying customers for a newly launched digital coaching product.

By September 2026, the business had generated $5.3K in YTD gross revenue, sold 18 subscriptions, and retained 10 active subscribers.
product development
TURNING EXPERTISE
INTO A PRODUCT
PEOPLE COULD
ACTUALLY USE.
Dave had years of coaching expertise, but no scalable digital product or infrastructure for delivering it online.

I translated his methodology into a structured coaching experience inside Trainerize — turning the curriculum into a digital experience, producing and editing the video content, building the program architecture, and creating the systems needed to onboard and serve paying clients.
  • 88
    Video Lessons
  • 4
    structured programs
systems & operations
BUILDING THE
INFRASTRUCTURE
BEHIND THE
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.
As acquisition began generating customers, the business needed systems to manage what happened after the sale.

I built the operational infrastructure connecting acquisition, purchase, onboarding, product access, and client delivery — creating a system that could move customers from first conversion through fulfillment with less manual intervention.
the outcome
FROM COACHING
EXPERTISE TO A
WORKING DIGITAL
BUSINESS SYSTEM.
What began as a content engagement evolved into building the infrastructure needed to turn Dave’s expertise into a functioning digital coaching business.

I helped connect product development, content distribution, lead generation, conversion, onboarding, and fulfillment into one operating system — validating that the offer could attract customers beyond Dave’s existing network.
  • 1,347 → 15K
    personal instagram
  • 591
    LEADS CAPTURED
  • 12
    COLD CUSTOMERS ACQUIRED
  • $5.3K+
    YTD Gross revenue
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