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An e-commerce retention agency turns email, SMS and lifecycle work into measurable client revenue.
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Mark Milutin started Bread Loaf in 2016 after leaving an agency role and shutting down his online wine business. He put up a personal website, tested demand through his professional network, and landed two clients in the first month, then two more in each of the next two months. Early work spanned paid media and e-commerce operations. Diff Eyewear was an important account: the brand was doing roughly $140K–$150K monthly when he joined, then passed $1M in monthly sales over the following 9–12 months as influencer campaigns, product launches, ads and an early email program worked together. The agency later centered its offer on retention, productizing it as Retention Labs. Its baseline package starts at $3,500 per month for two campaigns a week, with performance compensation layered on after unit economics and targets are agreed. The interview intro attributes more than $1B in revenue to client work; that is cumulative client revenue, not Bread Loaf’s own sales.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: The video host and founder describe more than $1B in revenue generated for clients; this is a creator-reported cumulative impact claim, not Bread Loaf revenue and not independently verified in the interview. The pricing figures and client growth examples are founder-reported. No third-party audit or dashboard is presented.
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