Case Study·02·2023 — 2024·Lifestyle Creator + SaaS

Cassie Schoonover — content plus product.

Cassie came in at 400K followers with a hit content engine and no owned asset. As her social media growth partner, I ran daily short-form capture, editing, and publishing across Instagram and TikTok, coached her creative to voice and trend — and co-built DFY Reels, a social analytics SaaS, on top of the audience. She grew to 630K+ while DFY Reels turned that attention into an owned product.

400K → 630K
Followers
+230K
Followers Added
Daily
Capture · Edit · Publish
1
SaaS Co-Built
The Transformation

From viral creator to owned asset.

Before

The 400K creator.

  • Audience400,000 followers
  • ContentHit engine, no system
  • IncomeAds · sponsors · affiliates
  • Owned assetNone
After

The 630K brand + SaaS.

  • Audience630,000+ followers
  • ContentDaily, trend-fluent short-form
  • Asset+ owned software product
  • Owned assetDFY Reels App
What I Did

Two engines, one system.

Growth work and product work ran on the same loop — the content fed the audience, the audience fed the product, the product's data fed the content.

Daily Capture & Edit

Shot, edited, and published her daily short-form across Instagram and TikTok — coastal lifestyle content, trend-fluent and on-voice.

Creative Coaching

Coached her creative alignment to brand voice and real-time platform trends — which formats to ride, which to skip.

Trend Systems

Turned trend-spotting from instinct into process — pattern analysis across virality, formats, and performance.

DFY Reels Co-Build

Co-built a social analytics tool that measures trends, virality, and performance to scale organic reach — live, with paying users.

Launch Content

The product launch ran on the content engine — awareness sequences, activation posts, and conversion beats from day one.

Performance Loop

The tool's own analytics fed back into her content strategy — a closed loop between what the data said and what we shipped.

The Growth

The curve, and the asset on top.

Audience growth compounded while DFY Reels turned that attention into a live software product — proof that content can carry a product, not just a profile.

Follower Growth · 2023–2024+230K followers
400K630K+
Q1 2023 Q4 2023 Q4 2024
+230K
Followers Added
1,500+
Paying SaaS Users
+57%
Audience Growth
Daily
Short-Form Shipped
Next

A brand of my own — Better Daze Collective.

A DTC apparel brand built from zero to a 75K+ community — organic only, end-to-end.