Wilshire

Brand transformation & doubled sales opportunities, dynamic branding and a structured martech stack design

Brand Strategy
Creative & Design
CRM, Marketing & Sales Automation
Digital Marketing Strategies
Paid Media Strategy & Management
Video Production
Websites, Web Applications & Apps

Brand Transformation & Growth Strategies

Wilshire is an Los Angeles-based global financial data firm, allowing investors and servicers to quickly and easily acquire, extract and analyse investment data. They are scaling up at lightning speed.

Wilshire engaged SmallGiants in 2022 to update and elevate their brand identity. Based on research and data, SmallGiants collaborated closely with Wilshire to outline an exciting new value proposition and visual identity, craft growth strategies for exponential expansion, and developed a new website and online applications to convey how the company’s investment management services help to create order out of chaos.

Outcomes

Highlights in numbers
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CTR 15x

above the industry benchmark for display ads, and a 600% uplift from prior campaigns

3 Months

to halve the cost of CPC through automatisation.

3x lower CPC

Of search ads, compared the industry benchmarks

CTR 4x higher

than prior campaigns. Optimised over a period of 9 months.

73%

the advantage our best-performing campaigns achieved over the industry benchmark.

CTR 15x

Above the industry benchmark and a 600% uplift from prior campaigns

Lowest cost

per conversion and converted, opportunity, per channel.

Our approach

360º Comprehensive Audit

The team conducted a thorough review to identify challenges and prioritize improvement areas, which informed the recommendations to transform the current state.

Analyse

Situation analysis, including paid media accounts and Google Tag Manager mapping.

Design

Develop new approaches to consolidate into campaign planning and workflows.

Implement

Activate strategic solutions to optimize efficiency. Includes new account architecture, consolidated briefing and planning practices with a view to enhance efficiency and shorten SLAs.

Test & Refine

Launch campaigns within the new digital marketing ecosystem, regularly monitor and adapt.

Our approach

Strategic Overhaul of Operational  Protocols

This unique challenge emerged from Florence's intricate customer platform implementation. SmallGiants skillfully interrogated the system to create a roadmap for seamlessly connecting internal teams, data, and customers on a unified platform, allowing Florence to focus on scaling their business.

Discovery & Assessment

Understand existing systems, data flows, integrations and overall technology landscape.

Requirements Analysis

Identify the specific needs, challenges and desired outcomes aligned to the operational landscape.

Technical 
Evaluation

Assess the effectiveness of existing processes, data quality, API integration and other technical components.

Recommendation Development

Formulate strategic recommendations for a detailed roadmap towards  simplified and enhanced CRM processes.

Our approach

One size does not fit all

SmallGiants' seasoned CRM specialists successfully implemented  CPQ software and introduced a 'Recurring Revenue Tracker'  enhancing capabilities for renewals, upsells, and amendments.

Discovery Phase

Audit current systems’ setup to inform project scope

Architecture & optimisation

Design architecture and  repository solution

Implementation & testing

Agile implementation  through 
iterative development stages

Dashboards & reporting

Design dashboard and reporting capability for key marketing metrics

Test, go live & aftercare

Post-implementation client engagement

Our approach

Replatforming with marketing purposes in mind

SmallGiants' seasoned CRM specialists successfully implemented CPQ software and introduced a 'Recurring Revenue Tracker'  enhancing capabilities for renewals, upsells, and amendments.

Analyse

Architecture, content and marketing needs analysis to identify the best information architecture and tools.

Design

Information architecture for consolidated content, sitemap and Hubspot processes to support marketing objectives.

Implement

Build new website, migrate content and connect Hubspot integration.

Test & launch

In-depth testing of website functions and integrations to ensure a successful launch.
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Website design and development

Complete redesign and re-architecture of the existing website to reflect the new brand, the needs of different audience segments and provide relevant information across the user journey.

Award-winning video

Animated video to promote Wilshire’s efforts to promote sustainable investing, from storyboarding to full animation and production. Winner of two Web Excellence awards for "Video design and creation in Sustainability" and "Video creation in Banking & Finance".

Supporting materials

A range of cohesive brand assets supported sales and marketing efforts, from printed collateral to video animations.

Digital marketing strategy & campaigns

After SmallGiant's seasoned B2B marketing team conducted holistic research and designed an integrated strategy going forward, utilising SEO, paid media campaigns and CRM integrations for improved ROI.

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SalesForce integration

Salesforce audit and restructuring ensured clean and relevant data and clearer visibility along the entire pipeline.

The SmallGiants Salesforce experts consolidated multiple instances across different departments into one to help create a seamless customer experience and develop new processes for sales and marketing workflows.

Marketing automation was designed, implemented, integrated and rolled out: a brand new Pardot instance now ensures end-to-end automation across marketing and sales.

Lead flow, lead management, MQL process for scoring, grading and nurturing has been established as well as extensive reporting to serve data visibility. 

01.

Research

Research prior ad campaign performance, market trends, audience mapping and competition.

02.

Develop

Develop ad campaign messaging and creatives.

03.

Iterate

Crafting and testing the right audiences, segmenting specific approaches, messaging and campaigns based on the market and personas.

04.

Explore

Exploring novel-to-brand ad formats, including document ads and message ads.

Paid Media Management

Our paid ad experts collaborate with Delinian brands to constantly optimise advertising efficiency and explore new avenues of growth matching the pace of shifting business objectives. Monthly reporting, analises and strategy realignment enables constant advances.

Creatve & Branding

Creative advertising concepts developed for the Insider Group brands to elevate the value proposition and present the contemporary look and feel of the recent rebrand 
and modernisation.

Consistency is key for any brand: our designers transformed the social media presence of all 5 brands to reflect continuity and attract followers with visually dependability.

See how far we've come

Before

After

“The SmallGiants team exceeded our expectations on their professionalism, forward looking view and strong project delivery. They were a natural choice in helping us translate our value clearly in the marketplace."

Chief Executive Officer

Wilshire

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