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Tactical Solutions

integrated. COORDINATED. ALWAYS ON.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT.

  • Oversee all client interactions and deliverables

  • Guarantee on-demand 24/7 consultation and response

  • Coordinate all strategic functions within the agency

  • Connect Strategy, Analytics, Creative, Production and Media teams

  • Orchestrate meetings, presentations, recommendations

  • Manage scope of work

  • Assure overall expectations are met

  • Identify growth opportunities

  • Manage day-to-day campaign and production operations

  • Ensure strategy and branding are on point for specific campaigns

  • Ensure contractual, legal and governmental requirements are met

  • Manage timelines, process, and quality control procedures

  • Prepare and review tactical schedules and results

  • Update account budget/billing review and questions

  • Facilitate industry research/review/reporting to client

  • Supervise, set, and update recurring status meetings as needed

CREATIVE & MESSAGING STRATEGY

  • Foundational discovery of key products, services and organizational soul

  • Research into marketplace and competition

  • Exploration of audience demographics and behaviors

  • Review, adjustment and/or formulation of your unique value proposition

  • Review, adjustment and/or formulation of your brand voice, look and feel

  • Product positioning and offer alignment

  • Applying behavioral economics and the psychology of influence

  • Development of lead, engagement, opportunity creation, close and CRM strategies

  • Tactic development (including personalization, localization, affinity targeting)

  • Refinement of channel strategies, integration, sequencing and alignment

  • Development of cross-product and partner opportunities

  • Testing hypotheses and timing including go-forward and rollout strategies

  • Simple, relevant and memorable creative executions

DATA

  • Establish KPIs for all data measurement

  • Online and offline data collection, management and reporting of:

    • Audiences, their actions and affinities

    • Consumer/donor feedback

    • Consumer/donor journey mapping

    • Competitive and vertical industry information

    • Marketplace and trends

  • Performance reporting

  • Historical and year-over-year comparative data

  • Test reporting

  • Qualitative research

  • Quantitative research

  • Focus group research

  • On-line studies/surveys

  • User experience tests, studies and surveys

  • Experiments & Field Trials

  • Observations

  • Brand Trackers

  • Database management and reporting tool management

ANALYTICS

  • Establish primary assumptions, previous trends and baseline knowledge

  • Define and rank analytical goals

  • Analyze by file, by campaign, by timing and timeline, by factor

  • Measure interconnected effects of business Intelligence driving all factors:

    • Results

    • Testing results

    • Audience parameters

    • Strategic executions

      • Positioning

      • Messaging

      • Creative

      • Product and service

      • Offer/Call to action

      • Storytelling

      • Innovations

    • Applied application and identification of metrics of all elements

      • Individually

      • Collectively

MEDIA PLANNING & BUYING

  • Set business rules—objectives, constraints, measure of success

  • Work with vendors to define their audience reach and definitions

  • Assess audience segments through attribution and affinity modeling

  • Evaluate current best and worst results by audience response and gifts

  • Deconstruct attributes of best and worst performing segments

  • Apply Loyalty Insights model based on co-op ranking

  • Map Loyalty Insight model scores with past behavior to optimize response

  • Develop hypothesis for improvement based on results and What if? scenarios

  • Rank segments, best to worst and contact accordingly

  • Formulate Predictive and prescriptive model

  • Apply new definitions to existing list attributes

  • Negotiate placement, timing, pricing and special opportunities

  • Test and re-evaluate

  • Optimize list based on ongoing results

  • Create the next hypothesis

SEARCH

  • Competitive and keyword research

  • Site optimization for keywords and conversion

  • Effective Google, Yahoo and Bing ads

  • Pay-per-click and bidding parameters

  • Real-time tracking and adjusting

  • Disciplined campaign ad grouping

  • Managing cross-group negatives

  • A/B testing of landing pages, homepage and interior pages and links

PRODUCTION & EXECUTION

  • Manage all stages of production in all channels, start to finish

  • Control vendor relationships and negotiations

  • Actuate data control/processing

  • Optimize tools and technology

  • On-time, on-budget and optimized, error-free executions

  • Create and integrate across relevant channels and formats including:

    • Digital

      • Website (creation and optimization)

      • eCommerce, shopping cart and giving pages

      • Landing pages

      • SEO

      • Google ads

      • PPC and other SEM

      • Display

      • Email

        • Appeals

        • E-newsletters

        • Special promotions

        • Automated and triggered marketing

      • Social ads and content postings

      • Social monitoring and response

      • Paid influencers content

      • Mobile platforms

      • iPhone and Android phones

      • Bluetooth and RFMD-enabled

      • Tablet

      • Wearable technology

    • Direct mail

      • Targeted, EDDM, zipwalk, and direct delivery

      • All size and format envelope/letter packages

      • All size postcards

      • All size self-mailer and brochure packages

      • Non-USPS delivery vehicles like FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.

      • Dimensional, oversize and irregular packages

    • Print

      • Magazine

      • Newspaper

      • Collateral

    • Catalog

      • B2B, B2C and nonprofit (strategy, product development)

      • B2B, B2C and nonprofit (execution)

      • Printed

      • Online

      • Integrated

    • Television, online streaming and other video platforms

      • :30 and :15 spots

      • Interstitials

      • :60 and 1:20 direct response spots

      • Half-hour and hour-long direct response shows

      • Product placement

      • Series development

      • Video blog and podcast

      • YouTube channel development

      • Kiosk and live event videos

    • Cinema

    • Radio

      • Spots

      • Traffic and weather sponsorships

      • Promotions

    • Out-of-home

    • Point-of-purchase

    • Telemarketing

    • Face-to-face support

    • Event support

    • Alternative response media

    • Smart Devices

    • In-game advertising

    • Co-op partner advertising