Client:
- Global retailer with +50 years of operation.
- Highly competitive market with several new online entrants.
Client challenge:
- Growing gap between sales goals and actual outcomes.
- Increased investments due to media complexity and fragmentation.
- Increasing costs due to content production and tech-implementation.
- Lacked principles for setting the marketing budget and plan investments.
- Unable to defend overall global marketing budget to company board.
Our diagnosis
- Client faced difficulties in aligning business objectives with marketing investments.
- Client lacked guidelines for aligning global marketing operations and save costs.
What we did | our process
- Outline a global media investment guideline according to business objectives the and laws of buyer behaviour.
- The guidelines meant the client will reach more potential customers, more often with higher contact quality at lower marketing costs.
The result: (1 month: ongoing)
- Est. savings ca 50% in media investments and content. (From 14 platforms to 5)
- Savings in FTE:s, tech fees, coordination costs not realized yet.