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Parent company Townsend Energy has 80 years of brand equity. The challenge: Take that brand equity and trust and move it into a completely different vertical.
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Utilized the comfort of “trusted guidance” iconography that speaks to the geographic and cultural history of the areas served. The lighthouse became the perfect beacon to guide this brand into the marketplace.
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By creating a logo that mirrors the parent energy company, and builds off the established equity, trust and confidence, we were able to launch the Townsend name into a new industry, without losing the connectivity. The result is a true “A-ha!” moment between the two brands.
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Our goal was to roll different, recently acquired, small player home energy providers into the Townsend Energy family, capitalizing on brand equity in markets where it exists, and establishing it in markets where it does not.
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By focusing on the deep roots of the Townsend name within the New England communities it serves, we crafted the strategy and messaging, reflective of the brand’s history, thus creating a true Masterbrand that is big enough to absorb new companies and new customers within new geographic locations.
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Townsend Energy has now rolled five new companies under their Masterbrand umbrella, and branched out of their native Massachusetts to grow their business into New Hampshire.
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Already industry leaders across multiple verticals, the challenge was to make the Angus brand synonymous with business success, from energy to finance.
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We took the visually disconnected brands and created a color theme and consistent logo treatments across all divisions, resulting in the connective tissue necessary for a Masterbrand, while still allowing each division to stand alone within their industry.
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The initial success of the Masterbrand roll out teed up Angus to capitalize on the company’s 25th anniversary. Updated logos and branding called out the company’s longevity, heritage, and history of expertise and experience.
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The task was to elevate the brand to a technological leader within the fuel delivery and service industry, by showcasing their unique software that offers unparalleled analytics to grow your business.
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By creating a sleek, easy-to-navigate website, we positioned BRITE as a cutting edge leader in the analytics market.
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Website envisioned, we understood that the true value proposition for potential consumers is within the software itself. So, we set out to highlight the tool’s capabilities by means of an engaging, consumer friendly video that takes a complex and robust product, and turns it into a visually compelling tutorial, underscoring why business owners within the industry simply can’t live without this technology. The resulting video is not only the main focal point of the website, but also a star at trade shows, and an invaluable sales tool.
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Deliver a visually compelling campaign with an emotional tie-in, to elevate the brand to “family partner.”
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We took the focus from simple craftsmanship, which isn’t ownable, to the emotional benefits derived working with a brand that wants to make your house into your home.
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The result was a warm and beautiful campaign that left consumers feeling inspired about what is possible.
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Our challenge was to take this natural gas provider’s lead generation into the 21st Century by making their email marketing efforts work harder, faster, and more efficiently, and to eliminate the costly and less productive practice of cold calling.
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For phase one of our efforts, we linked the email blasts to direct mail efforts, effectively delivering a one-two punch for potential customers.
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The depth of communications ramped up in phase two of our efforts. We brought the company mantra of the “personal touch” to life with a fully activated marketing automation campaign. Through targeted efforts, warm messaging, and deeper dive into consumers’ digital behaviors, we took our efforts from the one-two punch, to a multi-layered, highly personalized campaign that converted potential customers into brand loyalists.
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We wanted to retain this brand’s equity as a local neighbor and partner, while simultaneously catapulting the brand – and its digital footprint – into the 21st Century, maximizing market share.
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To fend off the larger, multi-state competition in the area, we simply underscored what has always set the brand apart – their truly local focus. By highlighting this local equity, the brand could combat the encroaching corporate competitors. This is how the tagline “You’ve got a Friend in Fred” was born.
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CallFreds.com took the brand’s status as a trusted resource and put a sleek, digital footprint to it, taking the brand way beyond its humble heating and plumbing beginnings, and giving it the SEO and SEM boost it needed to grow.
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We needed to ensure that this automobile seller and financing operation is able to beat the competition in reaching its large Spanish-speaking demographic at all possible touchpoints.
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Despite the digital nature of the 21st century, personalized direct marketing efforts continue to prove effective. We took this thinking and put a bilingual spin on it, from start to finish. We took our efforts well beyond simply translating copy, targeting Spanish speaking recipients within our target financial demographic.
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Our direct mail efforts needed a digital home to drive to, which is why we created a brand new, bilingual responsive website, allowing customers to search the vast inventory based on their financial criteria.
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Move the needle on the brand from simply a necessary service to a valuable content provider with compelling digital communications regularly spaced throughout the year.
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The focus for this exurban brand, servicing bedroom communities outside of Manhattan, is on environmental awareness, which can seem like a tall order for a home heating oil service. By utilizing the digital magazine, the company is able to draw attention to their cutting edge environmental efforts in ways that provide value – not background noise – to their customers, complete with an environmentally responsible format.
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The mobile component to this e-campaign allowed the brand to create a new touchpoint with their consumers, creating a two-way dialogue between customer and brand, right at the customers’ fingertips.