Product rebrand & relaunch campaign
Client case study: Global technology and services
- Cross-channel product rebrand campaign
- Personalised landing pages - PURLs
- Campaign integration with salesforce.com
- 40% response from personalised marketing
The Problem
We had to plan and co-ordinate email and direct mail to seven different target groups across three different phases and push all response data into Salesforce.com
Our client, one of the largest brands in the world, had recently acquired several new products from a competitor and needed to tell the market that they were being brought into an existing suite of products and would therefore be rebranded.
Wall To Wall Sunshine were asked by the internal marketing team to communicate this rebrand and build brand engagement with time poor senior managers at blue-chip clients, prospects and partners as well as employees and the media.
The Solution
Experience told us straight away that a simple re-badging message would not be enough to get the attention of our target groups. We also knew that each group would need slightly different versions of the core message – broad generic messages are not good enough for a world leading brand. For this reason, mainstream PR and advertising were secondary activities.
Once we had a solid understanding of the target groups and their relationship with the two brands, we uncovered how the products would be developed in the first 12 months and the benefits this would bring to end users. This allowed us to build messages based on tangible changes rather than a simple name change.
- Strategy
- Campaign planning
- Concept development
- Message development
- Database management
- Project management
- Supplier selection and management
- Direct marketing
- Direct mail
- Email marketing
- Web development
- Personalised URLs (PURLs)
- Video production
All of the target groups are bombarded by thousands of messages every day so we developed a highly personalised communications campaign based around Personalised URLs (PURLs) – effectively one-off websites. To drive traffic to the sites, we sent three phases of visually striking direct mail and email. Each piece was personalised using not just the target’s name and job title, but the message took account of their relationship with the brand. For example, the landing pages had several videos on them and the order they were presented in changed for different groups.
At each stage we could track how individual recipients had reacted to the previous communications piece (including the direct mail) enabling us to change our message and their personalised website accordingly. This meant that different contacts could move through the phases at different speeds – if someone had not watched a video or filled in a form, they were sent a prompt explaining the value of doing so.
The Results
- Exceptional response levels | Almost 40% of the target audience visited their personalised site and responded how the client had wished. An average direct marketing campaign will generate a 0.5% - 2% response.
- Improved efficiency | The PURL system tracked all activity so the sales team could focus their activity in a far more efficient way.
- New contact data | Approximately 15% of prospects provided new or updated their contact data thereby increasing the intregrity of the client's database.
- On time and under budget | The project was delivered on time and for 10% less than originally planned.
