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An Overdrive Case Study
In 2012, we began a strategic marketing campaign to increase the audience of the Overdrive audience. In an effort to practice what we preach, we employed the same custom marketing services we offer clients, but for one of our own brands.
The goal was to increase engagement, social presence and sharing, and secure more emails for our audience database.
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The Goal
- Increase Audience
- Increase Engagement
- Increase Social Media Presence
- Increase Social Sharing
- Increase Audience Database
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How can you build a larger, more loyal audience?
Our Strategy
We focused our efforts on 5 marketing services:
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1. Website Development
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It is imperative that websites are easy to browse and encourage content consumption and social sharing.
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2. Increased Social Media
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Taking advantage of software such as Hootsuite allows you to establish a posting schedule and track all interactions.
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3. Increased Content
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When customers consume more of your content, they are much more likely to make purchases with you.
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4. Mobile Development
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Many marketers consider mobile marketing the most important trend moving forward. All websites should be mobile friendly.
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5. Brand Consolidation
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Consistent messaging and design form a strong bond between customers and your brand and keep you top-of-mind.
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1. Website Development
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Design Overhaul
The main focus was to make the website more browser-friendly and eye pleasing.
HTML5
The redesign used HTML5 as an operating system, which allows for it to function properly on multiple platforms.
Links to Social Media and Sharing
Links to our social platforms were embedded and content on the site was made sharing friendly.
More Content
Articles and Blogs featured “Related Article” and “Most Popular” links to encourage more content consumption.
[social icon=”website” url=”http://www.overdriveonline.com”]
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The Results
- Website visits increased by 690%.
- Unique visitors increased by 530%.
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2. Increased Social Media Efforts
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Updated Accounts
We made sure all social networks were current and designed correctly.
Scheduled Postings
We developed a schedule for how often social networks should be updated.
Facebook Ads
Using the audience segmentation of Facebook, we delivered Facebook Ads to profiles in our target demographic
See the results! Connect with Overdrive:
[social icon=”facebook” url=”http://facebook.com/OverdriveTrucking”]
[social icon=”twitter” url=”http://twitter.com/overdriveupdate”]
[social icon=”youtube” url=”http://youtube.com/user/overdrivemag”]
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Results
- Social fans increased by 194%.
- Facebook drives 33% of website traffic.
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3. Increased Content
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Daily Newsletter
In order to increase our audience database and increase engagement, we began sending out daily newsletters to the Overdrive Audience. We used a form gate to capture emails and linked to the newsletter throughout the site and on social media.
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Results
- We captured more than 90,000 newsletter subscribers.
- Newsletters are #1 driver of website traffic.
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4. Mobile Development
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Mobile Friendly Website
To capture the masses who choose to browse via mobile devices, we created a mobile version of overdriveonline.com.
App Development
2012 saw the launch of our Trucker Tools App. Along with a myriad of trucker-friendly functions, the app was embedded with the mobile version of Overdrive.
[social icon=”app” url=”http://www.truckertools.com/”]
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Results
- Almost half of our web traffic is mobile.
- The Trucker Tools app reached more than 130,000 downloads.
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5. Brand Consolidation
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Results
- Raised Brand Awareness
- A Larger Audience Under a Single Brand
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Conclusion
The increases in audience engagement and lead generation were astounding. Using the same marketing services we offer you, we grew a bigger more loyal audience, that engages with us through social networks and shares our content with their peers.
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