As one of the world's leading news agencies, Reuters goes "back to the start, where there’s no bias and no agenda to tell the real story," thereby providing a critical service all Reuters employees deeply believed in. Yet as a small business unit in shrinking industry (Publishing) within a large company (Thomson Reuters), the news agency was severely limited in both staff and budget.

My challenge was to help grow revenue through the digital marketing channel for the news agency with only $100k-$200k budget and no staff support within the new agency.

HOW AN ECOMMERCE STORE GENERATED 4,475 PURCHASES IN 2 YEARS WITH OVER 697% RETURN ON AD SPEND USING FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM ADS

   4,475 purchases

   6.97 ROAS across a 2 year period

   $416,879.29 Purchase Conversion Value

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Located in Pigeon Forge, TN, in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains, Client’s Factory Store has been charming locals and visitors with handcrafted southern belle girls’ dresses for more than 25 years. Client also has an enormous inventory of beautiful quilts, throws and home decor. Client’s Factory Store is right up there with Dollywood and other Pigeon Forge attractions. You can purchase their merchandise online or at their store.

 INTRODUCTION

The brand was new to Facebook advertising and had never run Facebook ads before. They had a Facebook page and posted to it occasionally.

SOLUTION

Develop a strategy which included organic content development and a strategic paid advertising campaign. The strategy also included regular recommendations, inbound engagement monitoring, as well as monthly analytics reporting.

SOCIAL PROFILE RESULTS:

COMPANY OVERVIEW

While the brand had a business Facebook account set up, their follower base and engagement rate was very low as they were not actively posting on this channel. Within the first couple of months Facebook following more than doubled.

With the follower growth campaign along with paid social media campaigns Lid’l Dolly's Factory Store following grew 460% over 2 years.

PAID ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN RESULTS:

BRAND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS:

These strategically-targeted ads and boosted posts generate significant product views and add to carts.

WEBSITE PURCHASE CONVERSION CAMPAIGNS:

Prior to the social media marketing strategy, an online store had not run any Facebook ads. We were able to test and find their target audiences and scaled their ad spend from 1k/ month to 20k/ month and still retain the same ROAS.

Our partnership began as the company underwent a complete rebranding and repositioning. Formerly Sunshine Kids and well known in retail spaces for exceptional safety standards, Diono wanted to establish themselves as an international brand with its own ecommerce channel and a product line that expanded beyond car seats. With a small budget and strict pricing requirements, we drove growth of the Diono brand and digital footprint up to the point of acquisition in early 2018.

• Defining the global media strategy and playbook based on business goals for Existing and New customers through direct and indirect channels using ATL-BTL media. Supervising the execution of media campaigns to drive growth for the business through media, launching new products and services across 16 different markets integrated with CRM and Sales. 
• Defining customer segmentation and audience-data strategy; identifying personas, and segments, user journey and selection of media-data-channels to target.
• Driving growth and improving conversion rate by planning testing roadmaps through paid and owned channels and data sources: Paid social / Facebook and Linkedin, Programmatic display, ABM, Paid search, email marketing automation (Pardot) and landing pages.
• Reporting and success measurement: Standardizing ways to measure success through the whole funnel, identifying metrics and set of media and performance reports.
• Driving digital transformation by developing media training, generating content and presenting it live and via mobile app formats, focused in 2 main areas: Media planning (process-focused) and media strategy (strategy-focused) delivered to 22 local markets.