Project Overview

Dr. Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web School is a global leader in regenerative agriculture education, training consultants who help farmers and land stewards rebuild soil biology and restore ecosystems. From 2020 to 2024, our “work” with the Soil Food Web School felt less like a traditional agency–client relationship and more like an extension of our own passions. With that level of alignment and purpose, a rare kind of magic can happen… and it did.

When we began, Soil Food Web School was a young online academy with fewer than 3,000 contacts on its list and just over one million dollars in annual revenue. Four years later, it had become a thriving online portal certifying Soil Food Web consultants around the world, with revenue up more than 10x and an email database that had grown roughly 175x.

Deliverables

Strategy

Advertising

YouTube

Video Production

Website / Landing Pages

Case Study Details

The Plan

Our first step was to build a comprehensive growth plan that addressed the structural issues holding the business back:

  • Revenue spikes and dips from launch-to-launch “roller coaster” cycles.

  • Incomplete customer journeys and an underutilized CRM.

  • Minimal use of social media and paid media channels.

  • Under-leveraged SEO and technical website issues limiting organic visibility.

We mapped a multi-year strategy across SEO, CRO, paid media, funnel architecture, and marketing automation. That plan defined quarterly launch cadences, always-on lead-generation systems, evergreen high-ticket funnels, and the fixes needed in tracking and segmentation. Our mandate: build a predictable engine that attracts, nurtures, and converts high-intent students into certified consultants—without burning out the internal team.

Process

To realize this vision, we executed across several key disciplines:

Funnels & Launch Strategy

  • Designed a high-ticket evergreen funnel around a three-part, Product Launch Formula–style video series, including campaign architecture, scripts, and outlines.
  • Produced all critical launch assets: webinar registration pages, long-form sales pages, order flows, and supporting content.
  • Engineered 17 quarterly launch cycles with post-campaign analyses and hypotheses that improved performance with each iteration.
  • Integrated a sophisticated launch campaign & customer life value analytical tool (SegMetrics) to isolate long-term ROI for each marketing channel & asset.

Quizzes & Lead Magnets

  • Co-created three lead-generation quizzes (Compost IQ, Soil Biology IQ, and Soil Health Assessment), including scoring mechanisms and dynamically generated reports that gave prospects immediate, personalized value.
  • Built email nurture sequences that educated subscribers and seamlessly teed them up for upcoming launches and high-end programs.

YouTube & SEO

  • Developed and implemented a YouTube SEO program (as detailed in our dedicated YouTube case study), including keyword research and ongoing optimization.
  • Conducted technical and on-page SEO for SoilFoodWeb.com, identifying crawl issues and producing a prioritized optimization plan for 30+ high-opportunity pages.
  • Reduced long-term dependence on paid media by expanding the school’s organic footprint and leveraging its strong domain authority.

Paid Media & Creative

  • Managed substantial budgets across Facebook/Meta Ads, Google Ads, and YouTube Ads, consistently achieving strong ROAS for premium offers.
  • Performed long-term Facebook audience analysis to identify which segments produced the highest ROI over 12–24 month windows.
  • Continuously lowered cost per lead through creative testing, new hooks, and refined targeting.
  • Developed video scripts and ad creative for every funnel stage, using retargeting to move cold audiences into warm subscribers and ultimately high-value enrollments.

CRO, CRM & Automation

  • Ran extensive split tests on sales pages and registration pages to lift conversion rates.
  • Repaired and re-architected CRM (Ontraport) structures and marketing automations so the team could segment by interest, temperature, and lifecycle stage.
  • Built automation flows that dropped the right people into the right sequences at the right time, replacing ad hoc email blasts with predictable, behavior-based nurturing.

Results

The growth numbers are dramatic, but they only tell part of the story. Over four years, we:

  • Led 17+ major product launches, averaging over 700% ROI after deducting ad spend and our fees.

  • Grew the email database from under 3,000 contacts to well over 400,000 (approximately 175x growth).

  • Helped the school scale annual revenue by 10x over the span of our partnership.

  • Co-developed four lead-generation funnels—anchored by three high-performing soil health assessment “quiz” funnels and the Soil Food Web Summit—that consistently brought in new leads and pre-sold them on the mission.

We also developed the strategy and excecute the campaigns for the inaugural Soil Food Web Summit, turning it into an annual flagship event that:

  • Brought together world-renowned experts in soil biology and ecosystem health.

  • Deepened the school’s brand authority and thought leadership.

  • Generated a new, high-intent audience each year for launches and evergreen offers.

  • Created charitable goodwill and community engagement aligned with the school’s mission.

Tech & Tools

Behind the scenes, this partnership relied on a full modern marketing stack, including:

  • Marketing automation and CRM tools for tagging, segmentation, and multi-branch launch and evergreen workflows.

  • Landing page and funnel builders for webinars, summits, quizzes, and premium programs.

  • Analytics dashboards and custom reports for post-launch analysis, ROAS tracking, and long-term audience performance.

  • Paid media platforms (Facebook/Meta, Google Ads, YouTube Ads) with structured creative and audience testing protocols.

  • SEO and content tools for technical audits, keyword research, YouTube optimization, and on-page improvements.

Conclusion

This was not a single campaign; it was a full-scale transformation of Soil Food Web School’s growth engine. By embedding as a near in-house marketing team, we helped turn an inspiring early-stage academy into a scalable, global education platform that underpins a real movement in regenerative agriculture.

For mission-driven education brands, this case underscores what can happen when you pair a powerful purpose with disciplined, data-driven marketing: a dramatically larger audience, more stable and scalable revenue, and the freedom to focus on delivering world-changing work.

Peaceful has been a tremendous partner for the School. We've grown quickly since our first launch together, and a lot of it has to do with their strategic development and execution.

LUKE LOUKACo-Founder, CMO
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