1:1 MARKETING AND TARGET MARKET EFFECTIVENESS
The company offers investment management, retirement, brokerage, and shareholder services to millions of individuals and institutions, as well as through financial intermediaries.
Business Challenges
- This financial services customer struggled with a costly supply chain and high rate of obsolescence.
- Increase customer touches with more targeted information.
- Increase speed to market.
- Reduce time, cost and burden on marketing staff associated with creative, production and procurement.
- Extend marketing capability to the field.
- Manage brand and overall process.
Solution
A fully integrated Web-to-print site that allows for versioning of templates to create highly customized marketing collateral.
Results
- Overall print spend has been reduced by 22% despite increased quantities and transactions.
- Postcards are produced and shipped in two business days, a speed to market increase of nearly 12 days on average.
- Customer can cost effectively order highly directed cards in quantities as few as one.
- Internal marketing department spends no time in production or creative, except for final sign-off.
- Field has the ability to quickly and easily execute directed marketing efforts.
- Brand is managed and controlled by marketing office.