Prepared by Green Dot Advertising — June 20th, 2016
Create a consolidated Brand ID for American Force Wheels encompassing all existing product lines, as well as a brand roadmap to accommodate the introduction of future product lines.
American Force Wheels has grown quickly during the last few years, spawning new designs and entirely new product lines for a variety of vehicles. As a result, the brand’s identity has also changed. New types of customers are continually joining the mix. Beyond simply trucks, American Force now creates wheels for muscle cars, UTV’s and racing applications as well. The challenge is to redefine and reposition the brand to appeal to each of these different market segments and their respective dealers and customers.
Explore consolidating the various American Force Wheels brands (muscle, racing, UTV) under one consumer brand “American Force” to allow for the execution of the most economical and effective marketing strategy. Instead of developing and maintaining a variety of brands, logos and their associated brand touch points, including separate social media pages, brochures, websites and the like, Green Dot recommends exploring consolidation and developing a roadmap for how to continually introduce new product lines without additional complexity and unnecessary cost.
Additionally, Green Dot will review all existing brand touch points and standardize each application of the various branding elements and define future use by developing a formal brand guidelines document detailing the dos and don’ts of the American Force brand usage.
Green Dot will deliver several branding concepts, each consisting of 3-4 brand touch points.
A relevant, distinct and visually appealing brand identity your target audience identifies with is imperative for success in a crowded marketplace.
Green Dot takes a holistic approach to designing logos and brand identities. We don’t present raw ideas, we present finished concepts. Clients can make better decisions when seeing their entire brand story “in action” versus first a logo design and then other brand touch points in a linear manner. As a result, we thoroughly develop your brand’s story and multiple touch points prior to presenting any of it for client feedback.
While the cost for this holistic approach is initially higher than simply developing a logo, we credit the time spent designing additional brand touch points (website or brochure) to those projects going forward, leveraging the investment and offsetting the upfront costs.
Reputation management allows you to stay informed about what consumers and competitors are saying about your brand around the web. Green Dot actively monitors conversations about your brand online, then responds to comments and questions in a timely manner.
Influencer Outreach
We research and identify influencers for your brand category and establish relationships on your behalf asking for product reviews or posts about your services. The service also includes building social proof and support for your brand through influencer relationships, as well as reviews and ratings from customers.
Digital display ads are used to retarget all prospects who visited your website but did not complete the desired action. These display ads can be shown to visitors from all traffic sources. The retargeting ads run on a wide network of websites that support display advertising and “follow” your prospects from site to site as the browse the net, giving you a second and third opportunity to close the deal.
Emails can be used to nurture a lead or promote a specific product, service or event. Even in a crowded inbox, an email with a good subject line and relevant content will stand out and drive action. Green Dot has experience with a wide array of email marketing platforms including MailChimp, HubSpot, Exact Target and many more.
Engaging and original content is vital to the success of every advertising campaign.
Content can be shared via email and social media while helping to drive SEO rankings and free traffic for important long-tail keywords. Proprietary content in the form of well researched blog posts, and branded social media graphics engage visitors who are researching brands and evaluating the competition.
This service provides clients with individually researched and well written blog posts, as well as customized social media graphics on an ongoing basis.
Green Dot ensures you know how your campaigns are performing at all times. Clients have direct access to the marketers working on their campaigns as well as to reporting platforms like Google Analytics (website performance), RavenTools (campaign performance) and Call Tracking Metrics (phone call lead tracking).
How much you spend on media every month is totally up to you. The more you spend, the greater your reach and frequency. Green Dot provides recommendations and guidance based on campaign performance and objectives, while allowing clients to adjust their budgets as needed.
Green Dot does not bill clients for media insertion, or require a minimum budget. Instead, we only invoice for media planning and campaign management. We manage and execute the media buys, create all ads, a/b test the ads, optimize your monthly spend (we may suggest increasing / decreasing the budget allocation depending on a channel’s performance) and report on the results.
All media expenditures are the responsibility of the client and are billed directly to the client by the media vendor or advertising platform. This approach creates pricing transparency and trust, while allowing media budgets to be adjusted as needed.
Green Dot includes these media management services at no additional charge with your marketing retainer up to the specified monthly threshold. Scaling the media buy beyond this baseline triggers a media management fee of 12% applied only to the net new spend above the included monthly threshold.
The project includes the following services:
$9,500
One-time campaign setup fee includes:
$5,500
Your marketing services package includes the following:
$2,500 p/m
Your marketing services package includes the following:
$3,000 p/m
You set the budget
Search: $1,500 – $5,000 p/m
Social: $2,000 – $3,500 p/m
Retargeting: $300 p/m
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logo & Brand ID | $4,250 | $4,250 | ||||
| Campaign Setup | $5,500 | |||||
| Monthly Marketing Services | $2,500 | $2,500 | $2,500 | |||
| Monthly Content & Communications Services | $3,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 | |||
| Monthly Totals | $4,250 | $4,250 | $5,500 | $5,500 | $5,500 | $5,500 |
Social Advertising & Marketing
Social Advertising
Green Dot designs and develops social media advertising campaigns that move the needle and incite action. We grow your community and reach beyond your existing followers to bring new prospects and customers into the channel.
Many social networks only allow you to reach a percentage of your community for free. For example, Facebook only allows you to reach up to 6% of your page follows organically and after that you must pay to reach the remaining 94%. Social advertising helps help reach the people in your community that the networks won’t allow you to reach for free.
“Social advertising also allows you to reach new people in your target audience. Once they follow you they can then be nurtured through your daily postings until they convert.”
Includes the Following:
Social Marketing
Social marketing on Facebook and other social networks allows you to engage directly with your social community on a daily basis.
Includes the Following: