What you can do with handshake
Below are some of the types of objectives clients come to us for help with:
Build consensus and support [more...]
- Provide a common resource that all marketing departments, agencies, and disciplines can use to improve sales performance from their individual/collective efforts
- Present senior management or board of directors with a thorough strategy backed with facts and solutions
- Bring all the marketing disciplines together under one framework/task/timeline/implementation plan
- Have a base of metrics that will provide both the quantitative and qualitative data in support of all types of strategy, creative, media, and other decisions
Make a new venture successful [more...]
- Determine whether a new venture idea or acquisition is viable and can be successful
- Ensure the success and forecasted performance of a new venture launch
- Find and get revenues from the "low hanging fruit" opportunities to build an immediate base of customers and get momentum going
Build/strengthen your brand [more...]
- Identify brand positioning and messages that will resonate with targets and cut through competitive clutter
- Identify brand extensions that will make sense and will generate ancillary revenues
Capitalize on untapped sales opportunities and execute marketing campaigns [more...]
- Tap brand-specific and untapped diversity sales opportunities (Hispanic, African American, Asian, other) in a way that is in sync with your operational capabilities
- Collect and successfully remarket the highest possible number of unsold leads
- Develop alternative marketing and sales channels that will actually deliver high sales volumes and excellent cost efficiencies
- Realize incremental results/excellent ROI from national/local heavy-up campaigns
- "Crack the code" on behavioral/contextual targeting efforts across all forms of internet marketing
Optimize and measure performance and improve existing resources [more...]
- Measure and optimize performance of all targets, tactics, channels, markets, creative, offers--and in combination thereof. Capitalize upon or roll out what's working; fix what's not.
- Improve the conversion performance of all sales channels
- Improve the response rates/sales performance from all types of creative/media executions
- Improve existing (ad, partner, sponsor, or distribution) sales presentations (or create new ones) that weave a compelling sales story together with the factual proof points needed to seal the deal
- Transform existing customer and lead database files into a marketing database that can simultaneously support: target development/refinement, segmented list pulls, CRM, lead remarketing, measurement, optimization, and strategic reports
Performance/Credentials Perspective
- Over 500 successful consumer marketing campaigns executed since 1994:
- All handshake campaigns are performance "back ended" and performance levels are based on actual sales, not calls or "interest."
- Multi-dimensional, integrated campaign approach proven to increase sales opportunities/overall gains without increasing expense.
- Average lift over campaign goal is over 80% and ranged to as high as +475%.
- Average $ revenue per $1 spent for all campaigns is over $8.
- Campaign targets included brand, category, competitive, and multi-cultural opportunities.
- Over 100 Hispanic, African American, Asian, and foreign language group campaigns, with an average lift over goal of over 90%.
- Case histories documented for several types of consumer products/services and retail.
- Over 200 sales presentations developed that helped our clients gain distribution for their products or services, sell-in sponsorships and secure profitable marketing partnerships.
- Experience with segmentation marketing tools since category inception, product developer and "beta" test site for category software manufacturers.
- Judged by segmentation category software manufacturers as being unique in our capabilities (e.g., "At least 5 years ahead of the curve")
- handshake process developed from active marketer perspective, not software/data supplier perspective...applications blend experience and science.
- handshake works seamlessly within Client/ad-agency environments; successful history of providing everyone on the team with solutions that improve sales performance of all tactics and channels.
Need more reasons to work with us? See our case studies/examples page or read client testimonials...