Macrobond

Complete brand and marketing transformation supporting acquisition ambitions

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

Brand Transformation & Growth Strategies

Macrobond is financial data firm, providing access to a world of macroeconomic and financial data, analytics tools, and collaboration features that help investors instantly share or publish content.

Macrobond engaged SmallGiants to completely overhaul the company’s brand. Informed by research and data insights, SmallGiants worked closely with Macrobond to craft a fresh value proposition, visual identity and website. Our collaboration with Macrobond spans marketing and sales support, business and product development, and CRM enhancement, paying outstanding dividends and leading to the 2023 acquisition of the firm by Francisco partners at 20x the company's valuation at the start of our work together.

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 redesign & development

Restructure of multiple existing websites to align with the new brand identity and cater to diverse audience segments, ensuring seamless user flows through the portal.

Supporting materials

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

Digital marketing strategy & campaigns

In-depth digital market & competitor research lead to the design of an integrated strategy supporting growth via SEO, paid media campaigns and CRM integrations for improved ROI.

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+100%

increase in unique visitors

+100%

increase in website ranking

End-to-end marketing & sales automation

The audit and restructuring of Salesforce resulted in streamlined and accurate data, providing enhanced visibility throughout the pipeline.

SmallGiants' Salesforce specialists consolidated disparate instances across departments to optimize the customer journey and implement new workflows for sales and marketing.

Additionally, marketing automation was meticulously planned, executed, integrated, and launched. A Pardot instance now facilitates comprehensive automation across marketing and sales channels. Lead flow, management, MQL scoring, grading, and nurturing processes have been established, accompanied by robust reporting capabilities to deliver actionable insights.

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

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