How We Helped an Ecommerce Ad Agency Grow Sales by 143% with Content Distribution
Industry:
Ecommerce
Role:
Content Distribution
THE CHALLENGE
An e-commerce agency was looking to leverage content distribution to scale their organic and word-of-mouth leads. The agency was actively (but inconsistently) using social media to connect with its audience and direct traffic to its website; however, without a focused, strategic approach, it was unable to efficiently and effectively reach its qualified target audience. The agency partnered with Foundation to develop and execute a distribution strategy that would guide them to more strategically and confidently distribute their content and scale referral leads.
FOUNDATION APPROACH
Like any effective strategy, research plays a critical role. We audited the agency’s existing distribution efforts and conducted an in-depth competitor and industry analysis to understand the behaviour of its qualified target audience, its competitors, and the overall trends within the e-commerce space. These insights formed the foundation for a 12-month distribution strategy.
The goals, objectives, data and insights that we uncovered led to us being able to prioritize tactics and recommendations. Those recommendations formed the basis for the development of strategic distribution playbooks that would guide distribution efforts across priority channels, maximize reach and drive traffic to the website, for the next 12 months and beyond.
RESULTS
Maintaining consistency with distribution is absolutely essential to maximizing and expanding reach; it was vital to us successfully meeting our goals. With the consistent creation and distribution of our monthly distribution playbooks, the client has seen a significant increase in web traffic, social engagement, and sales – 104 organic closed deals — a 189% increase YoY.
Closed Won Deals
189% increase (104 organic closed-won deals) YoY
Twitter Impressions
90% increase of impressions YoY on brand’s Twitter
194% increase of impressions YoY on individual contributors’ accounts
Social Traffic
19% increase in traffic YoY from social sources
New Twitter Followers
2,168 New Followers on the brand’s Twitter account
12,837 New followers on the individual contributors’ accounts
Social Media Engagement
2.8% increase in overall Engagement YoY on Twitter (48% increase in Likes, 25% increase in Replies, 70% increase in Retweets, 11% increase in Post Link Clicks)
2% increase in overall Engagement YoY on LinkedIn (1% increase in Reactions, 106% increase in Comments, 17% increase in Shares, 1% increase in Post Clicks)
Published Posts
24% increase in published posts YoY on Twitter on the individual contributors’ accounts
75% increase in published posts on the brand’s Twitter account