Questions about Accelerated
What brands ask before and on the first call: the two ways to work with us, Meta ads, funnels, AI, results, cost and fit.
Last updated: 14 October 2026
About Accelerated
What is Accelerated?
Accelerated is an eCommerce growth agency from Hamburg that helps DTC brands grow with direct response (DR) funnels, paid ads and AI. Since 2019 it has worked with 400+ DTC brands, including AG1, Huel, IM8 and Vessi. Brands work with Accelerated in one of two ways: Accelerated Advisory (done with you) or Accelerated Partnership (done for you).
Who founded Accelerated, and when?
Carl Weische (CEO) and Lars Schröder (COO) founded Accelerated in Hamburg in 2019. Both are managing directors of the company behind Accelerated, Schröder & Weische GmbH.
Where is Accelerated based?
Accelerated is based in Hamburg, Germany. The legal entity is Schröder & Weische GmbH, Heimhuder Straße 30, 20148 Hamburg, registered at the Local Court of Hamburg under HRB 168386.
Who leads Accelerated?
Accelerated's leadership team is Carl Weische (Founder and CEO), Lars Schröder (Founder and COO), Niklas Klietsch (Head of Operations) and Ken Wenz (Head of Customer Success). The founders are involved in every project.
Who is Carl Weische?
Carl Weische is the founder and CEO of Accelerated, which he started in Hamburg in 2019 with Lars Schröder and built to 40+ people. He has given keynotes at Affiliate World, Adworld, GeekOut Dubai and VidTao at the Oxford Union, and shares what works in eCommerce growth on YouTube, Instagram and X.
What are Accelerated's key numbers?
Accelerated has worked with 400+ DTC brands since 2019, across more than 100 product niches. More than $100M in client ad spend has run through Accelerated's system, and client brands generated $500M+ in revenue while working with Accelerated. The team has 40+ people in strategy, media, design, development and data.
Which brands has Accelerated worked with?
Accelerated has worked with 400+ DTC brands since 2019, and clients include AG1, Huel, IM8 and Vessi. Named results on the case studies page include Holzkern, Outdoorheld, Naturtreu, Drippy Amsterdam, Makani, WLDOHO, Colibri Skincare and Schema M.
What are the two ways to work with Accelerated?
Accelerated Advisory is done with you: for seven-figure brands doing $50k to $1M a month, the brand's own team builds its paid ads and funnel system with Accelerated's guidance over six months. Accelerated Partnership is done for you: for eight- and nine-figure brands doing $1M+ a month, Accelerated's team runs conversion rate optimization and builds new funnel pages. Both start with the same call, where Accelerated looks at the brand's numbers.
Is Accelerated a legitimate company?
Yes. Accelerated is run by Schröder & Weische GmbH, registered in Hamburg under HRB 168386, with Lars Schröder and Carl Weische as managing directors. The company was founded in 2019, has 40+ people, and its case studies page shows client videos, named client results and Trustpilot reviews.
Does Accelerated have outside investors?
No. Accelerated is bootstrapped and has no outside investors. Its two founders, Carl Weische and Lars Schröder, run the company as its managing directors.
Where can I find a short fact sheet about Accelerated?
Accelerated's fact sheet is at acceleratedagency.com/ai-info, with the company facts, the two ways of working and the key numbers in one place. This FAQ answers the questions buyers ask before a sales call, and the case studies page shows client results.
Accelerated Advisory
What is Accelerated Advisory?
Accelerated Advisory is Accelerated's done-with-you program for seven-figure eCommerce brands doing $50k to $1M a month. Accelerated helps with paid ads, mainly Meta, and direct response funnels while the brand builds its own in-house team. The brand's team does the work, Accelerated plans it with them and reviews it every week, and what gets built stays with the brand.
How long does Accelerated Advisory take?
Accelerated Advisory runs for six months. Month 1 is onboarding, an audit and a custom roadmap for the brand. In months 2 to 6 the brand's team executes the roadmap while Accelerated guides it through weekly calls with a success manager, Slack and reviews of pages and ads. After six months the system runs inside the brand's company.
Who is Accelerated Advisory for?
Accelerated Advisory is for seven-figure DTC brands that sell a physical product from their own online store and do $50k to $1M a month. The brand needs at least one person on its team, often the founder, who will do the work and has one to two hours a day for it. Brands at $1M+ a month that want the work done for them are a better fit for Accelerated Partnership.
What happens in the first month of Accelerated Advisory?
Advisory starts with a 15-minute onboarding call, a Slack channel and access to Accelerated's platform with SOPs and trainings. Accelerated then audits the brand's products, site, ads, tracking and KPIs, which takes four to seven days. A roadmap call with the success manager follows, and the brand gets its prioritized roadmap within 14 days of onboarding: what to do in which order, and why.
What happens in months 2 to 6 of Accelerated Advisory?
The brand's team executes the roadmap and Accelerated guides it: one call a week with the success manager, Slack in between, and reviews of pages, offers and creatives before they go live. The work follows a fixed order: offer and funnel first, then building and scaling the ads on top, then documentation and handover in the last weeks. The goal is that the team runs the system without Accelerated from month seven.
What does Accelerated Advisory cover?
Accelerated Advisory covers the full paid acquisition system: the offer, creative strategy, media buying and the funnel. Accelerated works through it in four parts: the offer, the funnel after the click, the ads, and ownership, meaning the written playbook and AI workflows the brand's team keeps. Meta is the main ad channel.
Does Accelerated do the work for me in Advisory?
No. In Accelerated Advisory, Accelerated does not run the media buying or build the pages for the brand. Accelerated does the research, the roadmap, the structure and copy direction, and reviews everything before it goes live, while a named person on the brand's team builds and launches it. Brands that want Accelerated's team to do the work are looking for Accelerated Partnership, which starts at $1M+ a month.
How much time does my team need for Accelerated Advisory?
Plan for one to two hours a day from the person who executes, which can be the founder. Accelerated asks for that person's name, role and weekly hours before the program starts, because the brands where Advisory does not work are the ones where nobody owned the hours.
What does my team get in Accelerated Advisory?
The brand gets an audit and a custom roadmap, a weekly call with a success manager, Slack feedback and Loom reviews on its ads and funnel, and access to a training platform with 60+ hours of content that is updated monthly. The team also works from Accelerated's step-by-step SOPs and AI workflows.
Who will we work with in Accelerated Advisory?
Each Advisory brand works with a success manager at Accelerated, who runs the roadmap call and the weekly call. Between calls, reviews of pages, offers and creatives happen in a shared Slack channel.
What do we keep after Accelerated Advisory ends?
Everything built for the brand stays with the brand: the research, the roadmap, the pages, the offer, the ad rules, and the prompts and AI workflows. Accelerated's training platform is a tool for the six months, while the brand's own version of the system is written down inside its company.
What happens after the six months of Accelerated Advisory?
After six months the system runs in the brand's company, with the team trained and the playbook written down. Whether to keep working with Accelerated after that is the brand's choice.
Why does Accelerated Advisory take six months?
Fixing the offer and the funnel takes the first part of the program, and scaling the ads on top of them needs the second half, which is where most of the money is made. Six months also leaves time to hand the system over, so the brand does not need Accelerated on a retainer afterwards.
Accelerated Partnership
What is Accelerated Partnership?
Accelerated Partnership is Accelerated's done-for-you service for eight- and nine-figure eCommerce brands doing $1M+ a month. Accelerated's team runs conversion rate optimization (CRO) and builds new funnel pages on the brand's store, covering research, design, development and A/B tests, reported every week. The founders are involved in every project.
Who is Accelerated Partnership for?
Accelerated Partnership is for DTC brands doing $1M+ a month that want CRO and funnel work handed to a dedicated team instead of built in-house. These brands usually already have a team, already know that CRO works, and want more tests shipped without hiring for it.
What does Accelerated's team do in a Partnership?
Accelerated's team handles the full CRO process on the brand's own store: research, design, development and A/B tests, plus new funnel pages. For larger scopes this extends to full funnel builds, including VSL and post-purchase pages. Results are reported every week.
How many A/B tests does Accelerated run per month in a Partnership?
Depending on the scope, Accelerated runs between 5 and 10 A/B tests a month for a Partnership brand. The tests focus on changes that move revenue and profit, such as the offer, pricing, bundles and the funnel, instead of cosmetic details like button colors.
How fast does an Accelerated Partnership start?
Onboarding takes 10 to 14 days, and the first A/B test goes live within two weeks. The first new page follows within three to four weeks, depending on the scope.
How much time does an Accelerated Partnership take from our side?
Accelerated Partnership is built to be hands-off: brands typically spend 6 to 8 hours a month on it. The brand approves designs, joins the regular calls and gives feedback in a shared Slack channel, and Accelerated's team does the rest.
How many Partnership brands does Accelerated take on at once?
Accelerated works with a maximum of 25 done-for-you brands at a time. The cap keeps the company small enough for the founders to be involved in every project.
What does a brand need before starting an Accelerated Partnership?
Accelerated checks two things before quoting a price. First, no other agency or in-house team may run tests on the same store in parallel, unless the in-house tests run on Accelerated's ideas, because parallel tests block each other and make the results unusable. Second, the store needs enough traffic for a test to reach statistical significance in under 30 days.
How does Accelerated approach CRO?
Accelerated treats CRO as profit engineering: the target is more profit per session, measured beyond conversion rate alone. The process runs from data and a prioritized roadmap through offer and funnel optimization to A/B tests, and each winner is scaled before the next test is stacked on top. Learnings are documented so that every round builds on the last one.
Which pages does Accelerated test first?
Accelerated tests where the traffic is, so high-traffic pages come first, including presell pages that carry a large share of paid traffic. The roadmap is prioritized by expected business impact.
How long does an Accelerated Partnership last?
An Accelerated Partnership runs on a six-month term. The scope, meaning how many tests and new pages per month, is set at the start based on the brand's size.
How does Accelerated report on a Partnership?
Accelerated reports results every week and states the dollar impact of winning tests in its calls with the brand. Day-to-day communication runs through regular calls and a shared Slack channel.
Meta ads and creative
How does Accelerated help with Meta ads?
Accelerated helps brands build a Meta ads system with four parts: angles from customer and competitor research, creatives produced in batches, a testing structure with fixed budgets and written kill criteria, and rules for when and how to scale winners. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand's team runs the ad account with this system and Accelerated reviews the work every week. Meta is the main channel, and Google usually takes a smaller share of the spend.
Will Accelerated run my Meta ad account?
In Accelerated Advisory, no: the brand's team or media buyer runs the account, and Accelerated plans the structure, reviews creatives before launch and goes through the numbers every week. That way the skill stays inside the brand's company after the six months. Accelerated Partnership focuses on CRO and funnel pages on the store.
What is the job of a Meta ad for an eCommerce brand?
In Accelerated's playbook, the ad's job is to sell the click: it wins attention with an angle that fits the audience's awareness level, and the presell page and sales page do the selling after that. The angle comes from research into customers and competitors, and the page after the click continues that same angle.
How many creatives does a brand need to start on Meta?
Accelerated starts with a batch of creatives across a few angles, each angle with static ads and video ads such as mini-VSLs. The angles come from research, roughly half customer research and half competitor research.
Which ad formats does Accelerated use on Meta?
Accelerated works with static ads, mini-VSLs (short video sales letters), UGC-style creator ads and cartoon-style ads, produced in batches per angle. In Accelerated's playbook, mini-VSLs beat long-form UGC.
How does Accelerated test new Meta creatives?
New creatives are tested on a small budget first, and anything that misses the target CPA by more than an agreed buffer is turned off. The kill criteria are written down before a test starts, so decisions follow rules rather than moods.
How does Accelerated scale winning Meta ads?
Winners from the test campaigns move into a scaling campaign with a larger budget. Scaling follows written rules for how much, how often and on which signal, and each new batch of creatives is briefed from what the last winner proved.
Which metric does Accelerated use to steer ad spend?
Accelerated steers by revenue per user (RPU), which is conversion rate times average order value. A brand that makes more per visitor can afford to pay more to acquire a customer, and the brand that can pay the most for a customer wins the auction in its category.
Why do winning Meta creatives stop working after a few weeks?
In Accelerated's experience, a winning creative often gets expensive again after about two weeks when the offer on the page is the same one competitors run. More creatives do not fix that, so Accelerated starts with the offer and the page after the click, which lets the same traffic convert at a higher value.
Why does ROAS drop when we raise the Meta budget?
Many seven-figure brands scale by feel: budget goes up, ROAS drops and budget comes back down, so they never learn whether the creative or the budget step failed. Often the limit sits after the click, when cold traffic lands on a product page built for people who already know the brand. Accelerated fixes the offer and the funnel first, then scales the ads with written budget rules.
Does Accelerated have results with Meta ads?
Yes. One client on Accelerated's case studies page scaled to $1.95M a month and spends $30k a day profitably on Meta, and another went from 1.3x to 3.7x ROAS and stopped spending $100k a month on unprofitable ads. Schema M, which spends $100M a year on Meta and TikTok, worked with Accelerated on several projects.
Funnels: advertorials, presell, VSL, quiz
What is a direct response funnel for eCommerce?
A direct response (DR) funnel is the path a cold visitor takes after clicking an ad: a presell page, then a sales page built on the offer, then post-purchase upsells. Accelerated builds each step to continue the exact angle of the ad, so the visitor never lands on a page that asks for a decision before it has given a reason.
Why shouldn't we send cold traffic straight to the product page?
A product page is built for someone who already knows the brand, so a cold visitor lands on a page that asks for a purchase before giving a reason to buy. The brand pays full price for the click and captures only part of what that click was worth. Accelerated sends a large share of cold traffic to a presell page first and retargets visitors to the product page.
What is an advertorial?
An advertorial is a long, article-style presell page that tells a story and sells the reader on the problem and the solution before sending them to the product page. Accelerated uses advertorials where the audience responds to a story, and a listicle is its default presell format otherwise.
What is a presell page, and what goes on it?
A presell page sits between the ad and the sales page and warms up a cold visitor before asking for the sale. Accelerated's presell pages, usually listicles or advertorials, open with a hook on the reader's pain and desire, then use a comparison table, five reasons to choose the product and a limited-offer call to action.
What is a VSL, and how should an eCommerce VSL be structured?
A VSL (video sales letter) is a video that sells the product and the offer in one piece. Accelerated's frontend VSL runs 3 to 5 minutes in six sections: hook, problem, proof, mechanism, offer reveal and call to action. The first one to two minutes sell the product, and the last one to two minutes pitch the offer.
Does Accelerated build quiz funnels?
Yes. In Accelerated Partnership, the funnel work extends to quiz, listicle and advertorial funnels, usually after the first rounds of A/B tests and landing pages. In Accelerated Advisory, the default presell format is a listicle, or an advertorial where the audience responds to a story.
What makes a good sales page for a cold visitor?
Accelerated's sales page is built on the offer and has five sections: the offer, pricing, an ingredient or product breakdown, social proof and an FAQ. It uses around ten detailed product images instead of three generic ones, and it closes on the same angle the ad and the presell page opened.
Why do post-purchase upsells matter?
Post-purchase upsells are offered right after the first order, when the buyer has already decided to buy. In Accelerated's funnel playbook, two to four upsells follow the purchase to raise the average order value on traffic the brand has already paid for.
Why does Accelerated start with the offer?
The offer sets how much a brand can afford to pay for each customer. In Accelerated's worked example, a $51 product at 30 percent off needs a 3.25x ROAS, while bundling it with a second product ($78 of value for $54) brings the required ROAS down to about 1.86x. Bundles, quantity tiers with a decoy middle option and a cart progress bar raise order value on the same traffic.
What is funnel congruency?
Congruency means the ad, the presell page and the sales page tell one continuous story. The ad runs one angle, the presell page continues that exact angle, and the sales page closes on the offer built for it. Accelerated treats congruency as the piece that makes cold traffic convert.
Who builds the funnel pages?
In Accelerated Partnership, Accelerated's team researches, designs and develops the pages. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand's team builds them, and Accelerated provides the research, the structure and copy direction, and reviews every page before it goes live.
Is there a client example of a presell page working?
A shapewear client quoted on Accelerated's case studies page described the switch: strong ads had sent cold traffic to a collection page, where many visitors bounced. After the traffic went to a presell page instead, visitors stayed engaged much longer and more profitable new customers came in at the top of the funnel.
AI in growth
How does Accelerated use AI?
Accelerated uses AI workflows, the exact prompts and chains its own team uses, for research, copy, pages, ads and analysis. In Accelerated Advisory these workflows are handed to the brand's team as step-by-step SOPs, and the brand keeps them after the program ends.
Why does Accelerated include AI in its growth system?
AI is one of the three things Accelerated builds growth on, next to DR funnels and paid ads. In practice that means documented AI workflows that let a lean team handle research, copy, pages, ads and analysis, so the brand can grow without hiring for every task.
Does AI replace my marketing team?
No. In Accelerated's model, AI workflows make a small team faster at research, copy and analysis, while people still decide the offer, approve the pages and run the ad account. In Accelerated Advisory, Accelerated reviews that team's work every week.
How does AI help with customer research?
Accelerated's research workflows pull buyer language from sources like Reddit, Quora and Amazon reviews and sort it into pains and desires. That language then feeds the offer, the ad angles and the copy on the presell and sales pages.
Does Accelerated use AI for ads and copy?
Yes. Accelerated's workflow chains run from research to copy, pages and ads, so the angles found in research turn into ad copy and page copy in the same process. Each new batch of creatives is briefed from what the last winning ad proved.
Does Accelerated review AI-generated work before it goes live?
Yes. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand's pages, offers and creatives are reviewed before they go live, whether a person or an AI workflow wrote the first draft. The reviews happen in Slack and in the weekly call with the success manager.
Do we keep the AI workflows after working with Accelerated?
Yes. The prompts, AI workflows and SOPs built for the brand in Accelerated Advisory stay with the brand after the six months, together with the research, the roadmap and the pages.
Is Accelerated an AI software tool?
No. Accelerated is a team of 40+ people that works with brands through Accelerated Advisory and Accelerated Partnership. AI is part of how the work gets done: workflows for research, copy, pages, ads and analysis that the team uses and, in Advisory, hands to the brand's own team.
Results
What results has Accelerated achieved for clients?
Client brands generated $500M+ in revenue while working with Accelerated, across 400+ DTC brands and more than 100 product niches since 2019. More than $100M in client ad spend has run through Accelerated's system. Individual results, with client videos and reviews, are on the case studies page.
What are examples of revenue growth from Accelerated clients?
Examples from Accelerated's case studies page: one client went from $387k to $1.36M a month, another from $300k to $1.94M a month, another from $186k to $1.1M a month, and another from $122k to $2.6M a month, with almost $10M in sales in his first year. These clients are shown without brand names.
Which named clients have published results with Accelerated?
Holzkern added $1.16M in revenue in its first 4 months with Accelerated, Outdoorheld added $2.5M in its first year, and Drippy Amsterdam added $3M across its brands over 2 years of working together. Makani added over $2M in revenue since August 2022, Naturtreu's card shows $1.9M in revenue, and Solace Bands added $400k.
What conversion rate improvements have Accelerated clients seen?
Colibri Skincare raised its conversion rate by 27 percent and its AOV by 15 percent in the same 3 months with Accelerated. Rosental's conversion KPIs rose 30 to 40 percent in Q4, and WLDOHO grew revenue 24 percent in 12 months from almost 40 tests with a high success rate.
Has Accelerated increased average order value for clients?
Yes. One client on Accelerated's case studies page raised AOV from $40 to $97, added $200k a month in profit with 40 percent less ad spend, and turned one-time buyers into $69-a-month subscribers. Other clients raised AOV from $56 to $65 and from $39 to $74.
Does Accelerated focus on revenue or profit?
Accelerated optimizes for profit per session, so results are measured on more than top-line revenue. Cases on the results page include a client adding $200k a month in profit while cutting ad spend 40 percent, a client pulling in hundreds of thousands a month in profit at $1.94M a month in revenue, and a client who went from 1.3x to 3.7x ROAS.
Does Accelerated guarantee results?
No. Accelerated sets goals with each brand but never guarantees results, because the outcome depends on the product, the market and how the work is implemented. The results on Accelerated's website come from selected clients, are not typical and are not a promise.
Are the results on Accelerated's website typical?
No. The results shown on acceleratedagency.com come from selected clients and are not typical, and they are not a promise or guarantee. What a brand can reach depends on its product, numbers and team, which is why the call starts with the brand's own numbers.
How do I know Accelerated's approach will work for my brand?
Nobody can promise that on a web page, so the call starts with the brand's numbers. Across 400+ brands, Accelerated has most likely seen the category before, and on the call the brand can ask for the case closest to its own.
How quickly do results show with Accelerated?
Accelerated does not promise a timeline. In Accelerated Partnership the first A/B test goes live within two weeks of starting. In Accelerated Advisory the offer and funnel work comes first in months 1 and 2, and scaling the ads on top follows in months 2 to 4.
Has Accelerated worked with large brands?
Yes. Accelerated's clients include AG1, Huel, IM8 and Vessi. On the case studies page, Sebastian Szalinski's portfolio grew from $300M to over $400M a year, with Accelerated as one part of that, and Schema M worked with Accelerated on several projects.
Where can I see reviews of Accelerated?
Accelerated's case studies page shows client videos from founders such as Georg Holzer (Holzkern), Marko Kaufmann (Outdoorheld) and Johannes Bittag (Drippy Amsterdam). It also shows written client quotes, Trustpilot reviews and messages from clients.
Working together, duration and cost
How do I start working with Accelerated?
Book a call at acceleratedagency.com/demo. Picking a time and answering a few questions about the brand takes about two minutes, and the form asks for monthly revenue so the brand talks to the right team.
What happens on the first call with Accelerated?
Accelerated goes through the brand's last three months: store, ad accounts and funnel. It names the part of the growth system that is capping revenue, then says which way of working fits, done with you or done for you, and what it costs. If Accelerated is the wrong fit, the brand hears that in the first ten minutes.
Is the first call with Accelerated free?
Yes. The first call is a free growth audit, in which Accelerated goes through the brand's store, ads and funnel with the founder or team. The call ends with a clear yes or no, and both are fine answers.
How much does Accelerated cost?
The price depends on the brand and the way of working that fits, so Accelerated does not publish prices. The price is given on the call, after the audit of the brand's store, ads and funnel. Book a call to get the number for your brand.
How long does an engagement with Accelerated last?
Both ways of working run for six months. Accelerated Advisory is a six-month program that ends with the system running inside the brand's company. Accelerated Partnership runs on a six-month term, with the scope set at the start based on the brand's size.
Done with you or done for you: how do I know which fits?
The brand's revenue and team decide it, and the booking form asks for both. As a rule, brands doing $50k to $1M a month fit Accelerated Advisory, and brands doing $1M+ a month that want the work done for them fit Accelerated Partnership. On the call, the brand hears which one fits and why.
Who should join the call from our side?
Bring everyone who has a say in the decision, such as a co-founder or the head of marketing. For Advisory it also helps to bring the person who would do the work, because Accelerated asks who signs, who reviews and who executes.
What should we prepare for the call with Accelerated?
Have the online store's revenue for the last three months, ad spend per platform, sessions and conversion rate at hand. Accelerated looks at store revenue separately from Amazon, TikTok Shop, wholesale and retail. With those numbers ready, the call can go straight to what is capping revenue.
How does Accelerated communicate with clients?
In Accelerated Advisory, the brand has one call a week with its success manager, with Slack and Loom reviews in between. In Accelerated Partnership, the team reports every week and works with the brand through regular calls and a shared Slack channel.
How soon can we start after deciding?
Accelerated Advisory starts with a 15-minute onboarding call in the first week, followed by the audit and a roadmap within 14 days. Accelerated Partnership onboarding takes 10 to 14 days, with the first A/B test live within two weeks.
Will Accelerated use our brand name or results publicly?
Only with consent. Accelerated uses a client's name, logo or attributable results only with the client's prior consent, while anonymized results can be shown without it. Several case studies on Accelerated's results page show numbers without a brand name.
Can our lawyer review the contract before we sign?
Yes. Accelerated sends the contract ahead of time and can walk through it on a call with the signer and their lawyer.
Is Accelerated a fit?
Who is Accelerated a fit for?
Accelerated works with DTC brands that sell a physical product from their own online store and do at least $50k a month. Seven-figure brands doing $50k to $1M a month fit Accelerated Advisory, and eight- and nine-figure brands doing $1M+ a month fit Accelerated Partnership.
Is my brand too small for Accelerated?
If the online store does less than $50k a month, it is too early for Accelerated. Below that level, Accelerated's free training is the better place to start.
Does Amazon or wholesale revenue count toward the $50k a month?
No. Accelerated qualifies on the brand's own online store, so revenue from Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Etsy and wholesale does not count toward the minimum. The number that counts is the lowest of the last three months on the store, not the best month.
Which types of businesses are not a fit for Accelerated?
Accelerated works only with brands selling physical products from their own store. Digital or app subscriptions, memberships, prize draws, marketplace-only sellers without their own store, services, agencies, coaching, info products and B2B SaaS are not a fit. That includes a physical front-end product whose main business is a coaching or information product sold behind it.
Does Accelerated work with subscription brands?
Yes, if the subscription is for a physical product shipped from the brand's own store. One client on Accelerated's case studies page turned one-time buyers into $69-a-month subscribers, and another has over $1M a month in subscription revenue. Digital and app subscriptions are not a fit.
Has Accelerated worked in my niche?
Probably. Accelerated has worked in more than 100 product niches, from shapewear to tactical gear, with a focus on supplements, beauty, fashion, health, pain relief, outdoor, pet and home brands. On the call, ask for the case closest to your category.
Do we need our own team to work with Accelerated?
For Accelerated Advisory, yes: at least one named person, who can be the founder, needs one to two hours a day to do the work. If nobody is available yet, the hire needs a role, a budget and a start date before the program begins. Accelerated Partnership needs less, about 6 to 8 hours a month to approve designs and join calls.
Do we need to be running paid ads already?
Yes. Accelerated asks for last month's ad spend per platform in the first conversation, because its work builds on the traffic a brand already buys. The aim is to make more per visitor from that traffic and then scale it.
Does Accelerated work with brands outside Germany?
Yes. Accelerated is based in Hamburg and works with brands in the US, the Netherlands, Northern Europe, the DACH region and Australia, and most results on its case studies page are in US dollars. Calls run in English, and German-speaking brands can work in German.
Can a pre-launch or new brand work with Accelerated?
Not yet. Accelerated needs a brand to already sell at least $50k a month from its own store, with paid traffic running. Until then, Accelerated's free training is the better start.
When is Accelerated the wrong partner?
Accelerated is the wrong partner for brands looking for a magic button, brands unwilling to implement, and products that do not deliver what they promise. Advisory is also the wrong fit when nobody on the team can do the work and the brand, still below $1M a month, wants everything done for it. If Accelerated is the wrong fit, the brand hears that in the first ten minutes of the call.
We are a seasonal brand. When should we start with Accelerated?
Before the season opens. Accelerated counts the start backwards from the season's opening: onboarding and audit in week 1, the roadmap in week 2, and offer and funnel work in months 1 and 2. A brand that is below $50k a month in its low season talks to Accelerated again in the week the season opens.
Agency, in-house or Accelerated
Should we hire an agency, build in-house, or work with Accelerated?
A brand can fix its growth in-house on its own, with a consultant, with an agency that does it for them, or with Accelerated so the team keeps the system. Accelerated Advisory is for seven-figure brands that want their own in-house team to run paid ads and funnels, with guidance while they build it. Accelerated Partnership is for brands at $1M+ a month that want a dedicated team to do the CRO and funnel work for them.
How is Accelerated different from a typical marketing agency?
With a typical agency, the agency owns the system, and it leaves when the contract ends. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand's team builds the system with Accelerated and keeps the research, the roadmap, the pages, the ad rules and the AI workflows. In Accelerated Partnership, a dedicated team works on the brand's store with weekly reporting, the founders are involved in every project, and Accelerated takes on at most 25 such brands at a time.
How is Accelerated Advisory different from a course?
A course gives you theory and leaves the work to you. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand gets a custom roadmap, a weekly call with a success manager, and reviews of its own pages, offers and ads before they go live. Each review looks at the brand's actual numbers.
Why not just hire a media buyer?
A new hire usually needs about three months to ramp up before producing results, and the brand only owns what that person writes down. In Accelerated Advisory, the brand gets a documented system and a written playbook, so a hire made later starts from it instead of from zero. The person a brand hires can also be the one who executes during Advisory.
Can't we figure it out ourselves with free information?
You can, but it is the most expensive way to learn, because the brand pays full ad spend while it figures things out. The steps themselves are widely available. What Accelerated Advisory adds is the order they go in, the thresholds for stopping or scaling, and a weekly call with someone who looks at the brand's numbers and holds the team to the plan.
We had bad experiences with agencies. Why would Accelerated be different?
In Accelerated Advisory, the brand does not depend on an agency: its own team does the work and keeps the system after six months. Clients on Accelerated's case studies page include one who now runs marketing in-house, independent from ad agencies, and one who replaced his ad agency with an in-house team.
Can Accelerated help us build an in-house marketing team?
Yes, that is what Accelerated Advisory is built for. The brand's team runs paid ads and funnels with Accelerated's guidance for six months, is trained in the weekly calls, and ends up with a written playbook and AI workflows, so new hires start from a documented system. One client on the case studies page went from $300k to $1.94M a month and built a team of A players.
Should an eight-figure brand build an in-house CRO team or use Accelerated Partnership?
Brands at $1M+ a month often need CRO but cannot fill the roles, or want more tests shipped without hiring. Accelerated Partnership gives them a dedicated team for research, design, development and A/B tests, for about 6 to 8 hours a month of the brand's own time. A brand that already tests in-house can work with Partnership only if those tests run on Accelerated's ideas, so the tests do not collide.
Will we depend on Accelerated after Advisory ends?
No. The last weeks of Accelerated Advisory are a planned handover, and everything built is written up for the brand's team: roadmap, research, offer and funnel documentation, ad rules and AI workflows. From month seven the brand decides whether to keep working with Accelerated because it is useful.
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