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title: Client Health Review — Doudlah Farms (2026-02-10)
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created: '2026-02-10'
updated: '2026-04-05'
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- doodla
- client-health
- revenue
- inventory
- amazon
- advertising
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client_source: Doudlah Farms
industry_context: food-beverage
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# Client Health Review — Doudlah Farms (2026-02-10)

## Overview

Discussed during the [[wiki/meetings/2026-02-10-weekly-call-sebastian|Weekly Call w/ Sebastian — Team Restructuring & Hiring Kickoff (2026-02-10)]]. Doodlah Farms (internally referred to as "Doodla") is experiencing a revenue dip to approximately **$4,000/day**, down from a recent recovery period. The likely root cause is inventory shortages affecting ad performance rather than a structural marketing problem.

A secondary concern was raised around client-side communication hygiene: the primary contact, Lucy, was receiving all operational notifications and reacting negatively to routine noise, creating a distorted perception of account health.

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## Revenue Situation

- **Current daily revenue:** ~$4,000/day (down from a recent high)
- **Organic units:** Growing steadily — not the source of the problem
- **Paid/ad units:** Underperforming; likely suppressed by inventory gaps
- **Root cause hypothesis:** A popcorn SKU ran out of stock; inventory is in transit/receiving. Mark noted a significant shipment with a net loss of ~$4,000, which had been at risk of being ~$8,000.

> *"Organic units are growing nicely and it seems like where we're suffering a little bit is on advertising... I don't know whether he's tightening up the ROAS on some of these or whether it's an inventory thing."* — Mark Hope

Karly confirmed a new inventory order was placed and pickup was expected imminently.

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## Key Issue: Notification Overload (Lucy)

Lucy (client-side contact) was receiving all operational notifications — returns, fulfillment alerts, system events — and treating each one as a critical problem. This was creating a negative perception of account performance despite underlying metrics being largely healthy.

**Action taken:** Mark instructed Gilbert to **remove Lucy from all operational notifications** so that her primary touchpoints with the account reflect positive momentum (sales growth, organic performance) rather than routine operational noise.

> *"What we want to do is try to get it where all they ever hear is, hey, look, your sales are up and look at how good everything's going."* — Mark Hope

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## Action Items

- [x] Remove Lucy from all operational/fulfillment notifications *(Mark → Gilbert, completed morning of 2026-02-10)*
- [ ] Review Wade's email re: Doodla inventory/marketing situation (@Mark Hope)
- [ ] Investigate whether Gilbert is adjusting ROAS targets or if underperformance is purely inventory-driven — Mark has a meeting with Gilbert scheduled
- [ ] Complete marketing plan and inventory strategy proposal for Doodlah Farms (@Mark Hope)

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## Context & Related Notes

- Gilbert manages the Amazon advertising side; he previously worked at Amazon
- Karly manages the inventory/supply chain coordination
- The account uses a vector database sentiment tool (demoed this call) — no specific sentiment flag was raised for Doodla, but the revenue dip and notification issue were flagged manually
- Compare to [[wiki/clients/current/overhead-door/|Overhead Door]] where the sentiment tool *did* surface a risk flag proactively

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## Related

- [[wiki/meetings/2026-02-10-weekly-call-sebastian|2026-02-10 Weekly Call w/ Sebastian]]
- [[wiki/clients/current/doudlah-farms/_index|Doudlah Farms Client Index]]