A Rare Pleasure

[ Celebrity-Led Skincare Brand ]

Dr. Nicole Martin

Fractional CMO — hired the first marketing team, built the go-to-market, ran creative.

Exoceuticals

Mandate
Brand Launch & GTM
Term
3 Months
Lead Time
6 Weeks

Leadership

  • Launch strategy
  • Go-to-market
  • Category positioning

Brand

  • Positioning
  • Narrative
  • Creative direction
  • Product education

Channel

  • DTC website
  • Social content
  • Owned channel build

Audience

  • Founder positioning
  • Audience priming
  • Conversion to customers

A celebrity-led skincare brand taken from nothing to a sold-out first run in six weeks.

[ 01 // Why It Matters ]

A launch on that timeline leaves no room to find the positioning later — brand, site and audience all get built at once, and have to be right first time. The same work a funded launch gives itself a year to do.

[ 02 // Selected Work ]

The Exoceuticals direct-to-consumer website
The DTC site — the brand home the launch pointed at.

Six weeks from brief to a sold-out first run.

On that timeline there is no room to find the positioning later. Brand, site and audience were built in parallel and had to be right the first time.

A founder with a following is not a channel until someone builds one. We built it, primed it, and pointed it at a shop that was ready to take the traffic.

Exoceuticals social content featuring Dr. Nicole Martin
Social content built to prime the audience ahead of launch.
Further Exoceuticals social content featuring Dr. Nicole Martin
← All Work
Next ProjectOkeechobee Music & Arts FestivalFractional CMO2024–2026