Prepared by Green Dot Advertising — October 9th, 2020
Deliver a marketing program that will integrate social media, email marketing and advertising to establish Moran Yacht & Ship as charter experts, while also nurturing the brokerage, construction and management segments with relevant messaging.
When high net worth individuals decide to charter a yacht, they expect everything but the packing to be done for them. However, before they can take that vacation, they will need to know how to charter a yacht and will need to choose their destination, budget, and type of charter among other considerations. That’s why a successful marketing effort should engage potential clients and their sphere of influence during this process on multiple channels.
The proposed strategy aims to engage and grow the contacts in your email database and on social media with custom messaging and curated content relevant to charter and each specific segment. As users click links in ads, posts and emails to visit the sales, charter and construction pages on your website, they will be retargeted with relevant display ads when they are active on their favorite websites and on social media, keeping the brand top of mind and linking them back to Moran Yacht & Ship.
When a prospect inquires via a contact request form on the website, a series of emails (drip campaign) are triggered to nurture them with timely information, to set expectations and suggest next steps throughout the sales cycle. Green Dot recommends creating multiple segmented email drip campaigns for each business unit – charter, brokerage, new construction and management, as each of these divisions have a unique sales cycle and information relevant to one audience may not be relevant to the target in another segment.
Using the Salesforce / ParDot platform, Green Dot suggests building automated email workflows that re-engage clients who have become inactive, automatically suggests charter destinations based on previous activity, or up sells and cross sells services based on the behavior of the user. This project can run for multiple months as new opportunities are identified.
Tracking, reporting and optimization of the campaigns is included with the monthly services fee. We report diligently on campaign performance and maintain a content calendar with seasonally appropriate content. During the live monthly call we review campaign performance and discuss any optimization initiatives and the content calendar for the upcoming period.
Google Ads allows your website or landing pages to be listed prominently on Google when people search for relevant keywords. A Google Ads certified marketer can help you write targeted ads that cost less than your competitors are paying by optimizing each part of your campaign. Keywords and geography will change with seasonality and desirable locations for charters.
This project includes the planning, creation and production of an engaging and powerful video ad unit designed to run on social media channels, primarily YouTube. As a result, short form content of five (5), ten (10) and thirty (30) second ad units is required.
In order to lower cost per click, we strongly recommend retargeting landing page visitors for a period of one month. Digital display ads can be used to retarget all prospects who visited the landing page but did not complete the desired action. 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.
Green Dot recommends using segmented retargeting ads to ensure each type of client sees content they can relate to. As a result, users who visit the charter page and inquire from there see different retargeting ads than users who visit the new construction page or inquire from there.
Emails can be used to nurture a lead and promote charters. 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 ParDot, HubSpot, ActiveDemand and many more.
Green Dot recommends segmenting monthly Moran Yacht & Ship emails by division – charter, brokerage, and new construction and management. This could all be done in one monthly email, but segmenting the information will result in the content being more relevant to the recipients.
The goal is to inform customers about charter destinations and available yachts, new inventory and new construction projects. Topics could include: hottest destinations for charters, trends in interior design, newest custom builds or highlighting a special listing. Email marketing can help reduce overall marketing costs by generating additional leads and referrals without incremental media spend.
The program also includes a series of email drip workflows that are triggered automatically once a prospect submits a “Contact Our Charter Team” form, or inquires from other sections of the website. Each email in the workflow is sent 2-3 days apart from the previous message in an effort to nurture the prospect with relevant information, set expectations and inspire action.
Email Drip Series Example
Drip emails spaced out over a 2 week period while the prospect shops alternative solutions have been proven to increase response rates dramatically, thereby reducing overall marketing costs.
Engaging and original content is vital to engaging this high net worth audience that has “seen it all”. Green Dot has included (budgeted) time to curate, create and produce custom content for social media and email communications on a monthly basis. This could include editing video footage supplied by the client into short clips, or styling supplied images with branding elements.
Content can be shared via email and social media while helping to help drive engagement, clicks to the website, sign ups for email and to keep the brand top of mind with all audiences. This service provides clients with customized social media graphics, GIFs and short video clips created from supplied assets on an ongoing basis.
Green Dot ensures you know how your campaigns are performing at all times. Moran Yacht & Ship will have direct access to the marketers working on the campaigns as well as to reporting platforms like Google Analytics to view a live campaign dashboard detailing the performance of the campaigns.
Green Dot publishes monthly reports detailing every lead that was generated, the source and the cost. We also review reports with clients by phone or via a virtual meeting platform.
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.
Services include:
$1,500
Services include:
$1,200
Services include:
$6,000
One-time campaign setup fee includes:
$3,500
Your marketing services package includes the following:
$4,000 p/m
You set the budget
Google Ads: $3,500 – $7,500 p/m
Facebook: $2,500 – $3,500 p/m
Instagram: $2,500 – $3,500 p/m
Youtube: $2,500 – $3,500 p/m
Retargeting: $300 – $500 p/m
Includes the following:
$3,000 p/m
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | Month 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video Production | $6,000 | |||||
| Campaign Setup | $3,500 | |||||
| Retargeting Ad Creative | $1,200 | |||||
| Email Drip Creative | $1,500 | $1,500 | ||||
| Digital Marketing | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | |
| Content and Communications | $3,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 | $3,000 | |
| Monthly Totals | $12,200 | $8,500 | $7,000 | $7,000 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
To accept this proposal please complete the form below. You’ll receive an email confirmation and your account executive will reach out to you soon thereafter.
Social Advertising and Management
Social Advertising
Advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube allows you to laser target and reach those people most likely to find your product or service relevant, interesting and valuable. Placing ads on social channels is the best way to grow your followers and reach targets that are not already aware of your brand, but should be.
Using geographic and demographic targeting we plan to pinpoint high net worth individuals, yacht owners, captains, crew, naval architects and interior designers to create awareness and demand for information on charters, brokerage, luxury yacht construction and management. Social advertising will focus on growing your audience and nurturing them with relevant content on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube.
Includes the Following:
Does not include:
Social Media Page Management
Posting on Facebook and Instagram allows you to engage directly with your social community on a daily basis. Green Dot will work with Moran to curate a variety of content to help establish Moran Yacht & Ship as new construction experts while also keeping clients for the other business segments interested, engaged and inspired.
Includes the Following:
Does not include video production