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The Managing Director of indicater.com, a specialist hospitality management platform, asked Craig Thatcher to help her and the Head of Sales and Marketing, to develop a new marketing strategy for the company.
Founded in 2000, indicater.com operates independently with the support of the Volaris Group, a buy-and-hold acquirer of software businesses, who focus on the long term success of their companies.
simplifying operations and control costs
This cloud-based platforms helps hospitality operators to improve their business performance by simplifying their operations, controlling their costs and providing clear financial visibility, powerful insights, real-time reporting and to comply with food service regulations.
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Strategic communications review
A valuable piece of strategic background work had already been undertaken and provided some useful building blocks. Using this, Craig undertook a review of the way that the company communicated via its website, and analysed the strengths, weaknesses and relative market positions of its competitors.
TECHNICAL AND KEYWORDS ANALYSIS
He also commissioned a technical and keyword analysis of the company’s website and added the findings to his recommendations. Which included building a clearer business ecosystem for clients based on the indicater.com platform. This was in addition to the platform’s existing integrations and the powerful API (Applications Programming Interface) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) modules already in place.Â
He also proposed deeper relationships should be developed with third party organisations that also serve their market with complementary, non-competitive services.
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PurposE, brand promise & STRAP LiNE
Craig helped hone the company’s purpose, which had not been compelling enough and developed a new brand promise. Which was summed up by the phrase ‘The Hospitality Management Platform to power your performance’.
Developing a compelling Employee Value Proposition
Craig also clearly defined the brand values, which succinctly articulated the way that everyone employed by the company behaved towards each other and to clients. He achieved this by asking a number of existing employees the following questions:
What are your motivations and goals?
What are the benefits of working at indicater.com?
What is different about indicater.com to other places you have worked?
He was impressed by how engaged everyone was. The many reasons why they loved working for company were illuminating so he used these to draft the employee value proposition which could be used when recruiting new employees in the future.
fulfilling careers
The company offers employees a supportive environment, where they can build their careers and influence the world around them in a friendly and agile team.Â
Developing helpful content foR the client journey
Craig created useful and helpful ‘evergreen’ content for prospective clients to help them to select the best hospitality management platform for their business’. So he drafted the five killer questions that they should ask potential partners along with helpful answers. Neatly designed as a downloadable pdf with UTM codes added on all of the click-throughs to help analyse where traffic had been generated.
He interviewed various individuals and then drafted articles and LinkedIn posts, which were designed to improve organic search ranking on key landing pages for different vertical markets. Craig also updated the Head of Sales and Marketing's LinkedIn profile so it was more closely aligned with the company’s new and clearer position.
IMPROVING the WEBSITE
This project will lead to the development of a clearer website with improved messaging in the future.
Creating a presence at an important exhibition
Craig worked with a designer to create some graphic panels for a simple shell scheme stand at the Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Exhibition. He also drafted a news release to announce the launch of a new reporting and analytics module at the exhibition.
The results of this project have been well received by clients and parent company Volaris Group.Â
Services provided
Strategic branding and digital marketing advice
Technical and SEO website review
Copywriting
Design management
Ghost writing LinkedIn posts & updating website
Re-drafting a LinkedIn profile
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