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Maybe you feel you have an adequate marketing machine in place, but you need a more sophisticated system to take your good marketing results and make them industry benchmarks. Crankworks has your back.
We believe research and data are the lifeblood of marketing – as is knowing exactly what the competition is up to. But many organizations resign themselves to trying to make sound business decisions from data that is corrupt, invalid, or statistically insignificant.
We’ll systematically measure your company’s performance against recognized industry leaders. And we’ll work with established third-party advisors —and retain research firms that are beyond your purview — to tailor data parameters exactly to your needs. With our help, you can determine best practices, and adapt and use them for your own business, so you can watch your performance — and your bottom line — flourish.
Adapt To GrowCrankworks is dedicated to knowing about—and helping you apply—industry best practices that are applicable in more than one setting, and that demonstrably help you achieve your objectives.
Our evidence-based approach consistently yields faster, better, and more cost-conscious results, and our process enables you to set high-performance targets and overcome staff resistance to achieving them. Focusing on best practices will allow you to inspire positive cultural change in your company because you are looking outward, rather than focusing inward. Plus, the quality of your marketing will continuously improve because it’s constantly being measured against the best in the business.
Measure To GrowWith our assistance, your marketing will become a strategic growth driver. We will guide you towards leveraging technology in a way that seamlessly bridges the digital and physical worlds of your customer relationships. And we’ll help you develop a more collaborative relationship between your sales staff and your customers. Using data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning, we’ll also provide you with new insights that will help boost your bottom line.
In short, we will help you and your company’s culture to develop a digital, agile, insight-led and creative marketing solution that will get you the results you’re looking for.
Create ContextA marketing framework paints a picture of the flow of all your marketing efforts, and it includes your insights, strategy, plan, tactical execution and measures. It shows how these components all work together to bring your business vision into reality.
Unlike a one-size-fits-all framework that doesn’t consider your unique business parameters, we will look at your situation and:
We love innovation. But we aren’t blinded by its appeal. We take what we already know works, look at what’s new, and then blend the best of both to meet your needs. Our goal is strategically to integrate your marketing and advertising to maximize its impact and reduce overall costs.
At Crankworks, we are big believers in customizing clearly-defined dashboards that match your goals. We’ll work with you to get the key performance indicators (KPIs) right — across multiple media channels — so we can determine what kind of return on investment you’re getting for your marketing spend.
With our team, you’ll be able to easily access soft metrics like engagement and awareness, hard metrics like the internal rate of return and net present values, and, of course, online metrics like bounce rates, total visits and click-through rates.
Target Market LiftCrankworks can develop a competitive assessment to help you identify the strengths of your rivals so you can emulate them, where that makes sense. We’ll also point out their weaknesses so your team can take advantage of them. And we’ll pinpoint areas where the competition is especially strong, and that you’re better off avoiding.
Knowing, in detail, how the competition works will mean you can make better business decisions, attract more customers, and enjoy greater success in the marketplace.
Position CompetitivelyAs a business, you know the importance of measuring things like the number of followers you have on social media, the number of press release impressions you’ve generated, and the number of site visitors you have. But how does that data relate to your business’s bottom line?
The experts at Crankworks will determine what metrics you actually need to be following, and where possible provide you with diagnostic tools that will help you strengthen your marketing strategy. We’ll also help you understand exactly how this contributes to your company’s profitability.
We can help you get a firm grip on how your marketing efforts are doing and how they’re helping your business prosper.
Measure For ResultsCrankworks works hard to deliver reports that contain the most robust marketing data—think visits per page, bounce rates and cost per click—and that are presented in the clearest way possible. With our reports, you will be able to identify and quantify big trends, while uncovering the smallest details that explain how they contribute to your marketing return on investment.
The end goal of many companies and organizations is to offer customers the most personalized experience possible. At Crankworks, we deliver data-driven marketing reports that will also help you attract new customers and ensure your insights are clearly understood by everyone involved in business decision-making and campaign planning.
Most businesses have a tough time predicting promotional and marketing costs and they often set their marketing budget as a percentage of sales or profit. Decades of experience allow Crankworks to cost out a fully-developed plan based on a careful assessment of your marketing. We’ll meticulously include everything from advertising and public relations to salaries for necessary staff and office costs.
We’re dedicated to getting the marketing budget right because it’s crucial to ensuring your products and services are properly promoted while not breaking the bank.
Now Your SpendScoring aligns marketing activities to business strategies. It allows companies to monitor their progress towards their goals, and improve their marketing efforts over time. The experts at Crankworks, are information-obsessed, so our scoring process is data-driven. We’ll help you become more effective at agile marketing to ensure your efforts are as productive and responsive to change.
Where appropriate, we implement a dashboard element in addition to your scorecard; it shows trends over time. We also may set your team up for “sprints” that tracks their results over a set period of time. This allows your teams to stay on top of their progress towards your goal.
Stay Vigilant & Informed
Getting found online is a moving target as technology, algorithms, consumer behaviour—and more—change. Our passion for getting extraordinary results for our clients keeps us on a path of continuous learning and our years of experience mean we have the perspective—and the chops—to be able to separate the ideas that are new and flashy from the ones that are new but powerful.
Our long experience and knowledge of the process, skills, tools, techniques and deliverables involved in coordinating project activities ensure we’ll meet all of your requirements. Every project, from web development to ongoing digital media campaigns, needs the right matrix of people with a range of talents. If you don’t have those staff members on hand already, we can help. We are driven to bring your project in on time and under budget, having met all goals. With Crankworks at the helm, you, your team and your project will reduce miscommunication, missed deadlines, scope creep, and other challenges that plague campaigns run by other marketing companies.
Increase Your CapacityWhether you’re interested in how your customers are reacting to your latest product offering, or how people will respond to a new branded look, we find that surveys are often the best way— and sometimes the only reliable way—to discover what people think and want.
Our surveys will give you hard numbers from which you can make decisions. And they provide essential benchmarks against which you can measure the success of your efforts as a business. In addition to standard demographic information, our surveys can uncover the “why” of consumer behaviour. They allow you to connect with your customer in a way that shows them your brand is evolving to meet their needs.
Grow Into Their NeedsIf you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know when you get there?
Your marketing goals state what results you want to achieve. They should fit into and support your overall business goals while providing a clear vision of what needs to be accomplished now and into the future. The experts at Crankworks can help you develop goals that are measurable, specific and realistic – ones that can be used to build a solid foundation for a successful marketing plan.
Setup SuccessWe’ll help you become more effective at agile marketing to ensure your efforts are as productive and responsive to change. We’ll work with your team members to determine which criteria should be used in prioritizing projects. This way, everyone is following the same parameters when organizing their work, reducing the potential for conflict or confusion.
Whether you’re more comfortable with hard copy, an excel spreadsheet or would like to work in an agile-friendly work management environment like Google Drive, our prioritization criteria tools will make your projects run like clockwork.
Consider Your ApproachCrankworks will help you develop marketing calendars that outline your marketing activities on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis. This ensures a steady stream of promotion, keeping you in the minds of your established customers while catching the attention—and dollars—of new ones. The more you talk about your company, the more likely people will listen and become curious.
Like most aspects of a business plan, marketing calendars require some initial investment in time and resources, but they definitely pay off down the road. Having calendars that set out what you’re doing and when you’re doing it keeps you on track and relieves you of trying to play catch-up with your marketing activities.
Plan AdvancementAt Crankworks, it is our privilege to build trust and secure leads for our clients. We hold ourselves accountable for generating inspired creative that will produce memorable hallmarks and persuade your audience members with emotional and notable triggers. Furthermore, we measure the results and make them tangible. Moreover, we improve measurable outcomes from increased Click-Through Rates, Email Capture, Page Traffic, Phone Traffic, Customized Conversion Rates, and Effective Retargeting while lowering Bounce Rates.
Build On ValueOur work is just like our team: unique, smart, & memorable. When you need results for your marketing dollar? We will build you the strategy, produce inspired creative, roll out informed tactics, and measure the results!
Our long-term periodic support, monthly maintenance and ongoing security monitoring ensure that we respond to online issues within the briefest of delays, if and when they present themselves.
We estimate projects thoroughly, comprehensively, and we walk our clients through all aspects of an upcoming project to ensure we set the right expectations. We honour our pricing. Unless otherwise agreed upon up front, we document and discuss all variances, overages, project creep other costs before initiating any out-of-scope changes.
