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Lawline

Heavy leather-bound books and Ionic columns may at one time have represented what it means to be a successful attorney, but today’s law professionals have evolved along with the modern world. Lawline is an online continuing legal education (CLE) provider with a robust library of content that helps attorneys stay ahead of the curve and practice at the top of their specializations. We worked with Lawline to create a new logo that conveys the passion for learning that connects its team and the customers they serve, using a flame-inspired shape that we then extrapolated to serve as a recognizable visual motif for the brand.

Objective

To update the company image and bring it in alignment with its focus on digital CLE that attorneys can access on their terms, any time, from anywhere

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Architecting Future Growth

Positioning a Locally-Based Engineering Firm to Compete on a National Level

David Mason & Associates is an architectural and engineering firm that focuses on designing and improving the essential infrastructure that makes our everyday lives possible. The firm was founded in 1989 in St. Louis, MO, offering architecture, civil engineering, and surveying services. Since its founding, it has expanded its expertise in structural engineering along with serving aviation, transportation, parks & recreation, power & utility, and municipal markets. David Mason & Associates has four regional offices in St. Louis, MO, Chicago, IL, and Philadelphia, PA.

Looking Toward Expansion

David Mason & Associates had established a solid reputation in their local markets over the past nearly 30 years by completing thousands of prestigious projects. As the next generation of leadership in the company prepared to take the helm, they approached goBRANDgo! for guidance on how David Mason & Associates could best position itself for growth. In the initial research phase, it was clear that the firm had amazing potential to become a major national player in its industry, but an outdated brand and website was standing in the way. So, goBRANDgo! set out to create an updated logo, brand identity, and website that would reflect the company’s prestige and expertise, as well as help propel David Mason & Associates to national prominence.

Thoughtful Execution

At goBRANDgo!, we employ a defined process of discovery when we are engaged in rebranding and website efforts. In our research, we discovered that David Mason & Associates was commonly known as “DMA” in the engineering community and industries they serve. In developing the new company logo, we created a mark that blended the company initials and engineered structures, with the goal of creating something that could eventually stand alone and would be instantly recognizable within the field. We also wanted to respect the proud history of the company while creating something simple and clean that would convey modernity and structure. 

In the website, the grid imagery present in the original logo was used as a design element throughout in order to visually communicate expertise in engineering. The color palette was updated, and the new site leveraged white space to show purpose-driven and clean as design values. The sitemap was reorganized to appeal to each of their target markets and make it easy to access information. 

In copy, David Mason & Associates’ engineering expertise was clear—however, with heavy use of industry verbiage, the value proposition of the company was lost on the reader. By simplifying the language and clearly communicating to each industry served, the company’s goal of improving essential infrastructure was pulled through as a theme of the entire site.

Finally, the website was mapped out and built in a way that guided the user down a series of defined paths based on personas developed by goBRANDgo!. Thanks to this mindful restructuring, the new website functioned in a way that fueled the growth of the business, instead of being a placeholder online.

Revealing DMA’s Competitive Clout

To mark the unveiling of the new company branding and website, David Mason & Associates hosted a launch party for all employees across St. Louis, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The celebration created buzz and energy among David Mason & Associates’ internal team, bolstering its already high morale and motivating team members to advocate for the business to potential clients and new talent. In addition, new leads began to stream through the website via contact forms, and David Mason & Associates received several multi-million dollar requests for proposals through the new online form.

David Mason & Associates also received recognition at the STL SMPS Marketing Excellence Awards in June 2018, an annual event that recognizes outstanding achievement in marketing communications by professional service firms in the design and building industry. David Mason & Associates was recognized with an Award of Excellence for its refreshed corporate identity, an Award of Merit for the newly launched website, and was named overall Best in Show by the panel of judges.

Through the rebranding efforts for David Mason & Associates, goBRANDgo! helped remove barriers to growth. By updating the look and feel of the brand, the innovation and expertise that were obvious to the company’s past clients and its team members were revealed to the outside world. Now, David Mason & Associates is receiving the attention it deserves from a wider, national market, and is continuing to accelerate revenue growth each year.

“goBRANDgo! did an exceptional job at developing a focused approach to our Brand Refresh which aligned with our strategic focus. From website content to sales and presentation collateral, the GoBrandGo team was professional and responsive to our needs. Ultimately, they made an intimidating process fun and collaborative.”

-Taylor Mason, Principal at David Mason & Associates

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Igniting Momentum: ÅirIQ Product Launch

About Cosasco

INDUSTRY: Atmospheric Corrosion Monitoring

Cosasco has been exclusively dedicated to corrosion management for over 70 years. They have a strong history of proven product and service solutions as well as a commitment to continue advancing the corrosion industry through innovation and expertise.

Results

Messaging, design, and strategic product launch of the ÅirIQ product

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What is ÅirIQ?

One type of corrosion that affects pulp and paper mill and data center environments specifically is atmospheric corrosion. Cosasco created ÅirIQ to help customers in these industries make better decisions about their corrosion management activities. What sets ÅirIQ apart is the hypersensitive electrical resistance technology (which indicates a corrosive environment before damage to assets can occur) coupled with the system’s ability to display real-time data.

This real-time monitoring helps ÅirIQ users stay ahead of corrosion, instead of spending time and resources fixing a problem after it has already occurred. This type of technology and information is game-changing for directors and engineers responsible for controlled environments.

Positioning and Launching ÅirIQ

Every project at goBRANDgo! starts with learning. We met with subject matter experts at Cosasco to learn the features and benefits of the product and gain a better understanding of the target audiences we were trying to reach. We were especially eager to learn about the audience for ÅirIQ because it represented an opportunity for Cosasco to penetrate new markets. Prior to launching ÅirIQ and a few other recent products, they had worked primarily in the oil and gas industry. We needed to ask a lot of questions to gain insight into the audiences of pulp and paper mills and data centers.

To get inside our prospects’ heads, we led a live rapid persona exercise with Cosasco where we delved into the problems, motivations, and desired outcomes for the different audiences they served. 

Once we had a good grasp on the differentiators of the product and the challenges of the audience, we brainstormed how copy and design could work together to create a compelling message. We presented three creative approaches and painted the picture for Cosasco about how each of them could come to life in the launch campaign and future messaging for ÅirIQ. We created sample ads with differing visuals and copy to illustrate what each idea could look like out in the wild.

Once we decided on the messaging and creative direction for the launch, our creative, strategy, and client success teams worked together to create a series of a deliverables and a plan for deployment. We decided that a mixture of traditional sales enablement tools and digital marketing tactics would give Cosasco the multi-channel support they needed to make the launch a success.

Deliverables we executed included:

  • Website Landing Page
  • Website Pop-Up
  • Sales Sheet
  • Digital Ads

The creative approach we landed on used both dark and light backgrounds to bring contrast with Cosasco’s existing visuals for other corrosion monitoring products, which featured mostly dark backgrounds. Since the launch had to appeal to markets outside of Cosasco’s core oil and gas audience, the visual differentiation helped solidify the uniqueness of the ÅirIQ product.

The visuals also incorporated an angular, all-caps sans serif typeface that lent a technological feel, along with other design elements reminiscent of data, which reflect both the capabilities of the ÅirIQ system and the data center environment that it is well suited for (among others). 

We began creating copy inspired by the idea of “invisible monsters,” threats lurking in the atmosphere just waiting to take down critical assets. We wove this concept into the content of the entire campaign, speaking to the way that ÅirIQ’s real-time data replaces uncertainty with confidence in controlled environments—making the unse

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Results

Cosasco secured the first purchase order for ÅirIQ on the date of the product launch. In the three weeks that followed, they had sold 15 units, quoted over 40 units and had secured leads for 120 units. Three customers signed up for trials, and they were invited to speak at a few industry conferences about the product and its capabilities.

Protecting critical infrastructure from the harmful effects of corrosion keeps modern life as we know it up and running. After the momentum gained by this product launch, we’re continuing to work with Cosasco to refine their brand identity and reclaim their position as the go-to provider for corrosion monitoring solutions worldwide.

“Bringing a Cutting-Edge Corrosion Monitoring System to New Markets”

Cosasco

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Maneuvering for Growth: Innovating and Launching New Products with a Leading Domestic Chain Manufacturer

The customer is an industrial chain manufacturer that traces its roots back to 1854, when it began as a small blacksmith’s shop in St. Louis, MO. Its first products included the chain that hooked oxen to Conestoga wagons as pioneers began their journey west along the Oregon Trail. Today, the company has four facilities across North America that house over 250,000 square feet of manufacturing and distribution space. It produces chain for a variety of applications including overhead lifting, tow & binding, traction, and marine, among others. 

Facing Heavy Competition

The customer engaged goBRANDgo! to provide strategic guidance in honing its competitive advantage as the company prepared for a leadership transition. With competition from foreign-produced chain steadily on the rise, it was becoming urgent for the customer to differentiate themselves in an increasingly commoditized market. This challenge left us two choices: overpower the competition, or outmaneuver it. 

Despite the customer’s strong position as a highly reliable and well-respected manufacturer, we knew that attempting to overpower the competition with a big advertising budget or other conventional tactics would not be effective in differentiating it from its competitors. We began to brainstorm with their team about creating a new product that could fulfill customer needs that weren’t being met at the time. 

The Insight

We began our relationship with the customer (as we do with every one of our clients) with our immersion phase, in which we deployed our proven process that helped goBRANDgo! understand their business and industry through “day in the life” shadowing, competitor research, and customer interviews. The moment we stepped foot into the customer’s Fenton, MO facility, we understood instantly that safety is the first priority of both their operation and the products they produce, and every bit of information we learned after that supported this focus on safety.

Through our research, we also discovered that construction workers comprise only 4% of the labor force, but account for 21% of work-related fatalities. Also, between 2011 and 2015, half of all fatal crane-related injuries resulted from the worker being struck by an object, and 24% of all crane-related fatalities occurred in manufacturing and industrial settings. So, as we continued to brainstorm with the customer’s team, we sparked an idea: what if there was a way to make industrial chain easier to see?

A Chain Like No One Had Seen Before

The customer’s team got to work developing this new product, and as a result of their expertise and ingenuity, produced a chain that was 20% stronger and lighter than any other U.S.-made chain, as well as featuring a brightly-colored powder coated finish. Two finish colors were developed, a bright yellow and a bright green, in order to visually indicate the grade of the chain. 

goBRANDgo! was tasked with naming this innovative new product, and our team conducted a series of structured brainstorms to create a name that would communicate the benefits and quality of the new chain. Thus, Hi-Viz was born. As a result of the collaboration of the customer’s and goBRANDgo!’s teams, they were able to go to market with a product unlike any other in the industry. 

For the launch of Hi-Viz chain, goBRANDgo! created a marketing campaign to educate customers and create excitement for the new product. The campaign included direct mail, an email drip campaign, a website landing page, and other supporting materials to help the customer’s sales team and distributor partners demonstrate the value of Hi-Viz chain.

Safety, Strength, and Profitability: A Win-Win-Win

Hi-Viz chain increases the safety of the environments in which it is applied by making the chain stand out from the environment—whether in a manufacturing plant or outdoor construction setting. With loads weighing as much as 100,000 tons being lifted overhead regularly, the greater the visibility of the equipment being used, the safer the site becomes. Not only does Hi-Viz chain help address safety concerns, but its lighter weight and stronger capacity also make it a more effective product for consumers and increases margins for the customer.

In a highly commoditized industry, the ability to think strategically and differentiate yourself from the market is paramount. It spells the difference between growth and decline. Waging a war of attrition in such an environment is risky—it’s unlikely to work, but is sure to be expensive. At goBRANDgo!, we prefer to help our clients develop a maneuver strategy, which leverages innovation and agility to help them occupy new spaces in their industry that create competitive advantages in ever redder oceans.

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Equipping Success: Banner Fire Web Updates Case Study

About Banner Fire Equipment

INDUSTRY: Fire Equipment Distribution

Banner Fire has been equipping firefighters and emergency responders across the midwest with best-in-class fire and rescue apparatus, gear, and tools for nearly four decades. Their modern 39,000 square foot facility ensures they have what emergency responders need to protect their communities.

Results

Updated website and e-commerce experience that helps emergency responders get what they need quickly.

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Banner Fire: Equipped for Success

Banner Fire has been equipping first responders and firefighters with the tools they need to protect their communities for nearly four decades. Their 39,000 square foot facility houses everything an emergency responder needs to get the job done safely, from parts and service to testing and inspections.

Banner Fire wanted to update their website to provide a more satisfying customer experience and reduce manual labor for the team. With their large inventory and newly expanded product offerings, they needed an e-commerce solution that would provide a better all-around user experience.

The Project

A Better Process was Needed

Banner Fire houses approximately 8,000 products in their warehouse on any given day. Their e-commerce functionality didn’t work well with their Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) and required their team to do a lot of manual work to keep the stock updated. Team members worked daily with the ERP to pull any information that had changed (prices, descriptions, titles, SKU numbers, manufacturer updates, etc.), and manually enter changes into the e-commerce system. This took a lot of valuable man-hours that could be better served elsewhere and left room for human error.

Seeking an Exceptional Experience

User experience matters. A well-designed site with easy access to products and information is paramount when a new potential customer pays a visit. If a visitor can’t find what they’re looking for, they will go elsewhere, and someone else will get that sale. Banner Fire hadn’t updated their site in nearly half a decade, and it showed. They were ready for a design refresh that complimented their brand, and services with strong UX and scalability for future growth.

Understanding the Fire Industry

Before we can build a proper strategy and begin developing, we have to understand the industry. To fully understand our customer’s business, we must first immerse ourselves in their business, and the larger industry they serve.

Through independent research about their industry, their competitors, and their customers’ challenges, along with (numerous) conversations with Banner Fire, we learned how decision-makers in the fire industry shop for equipment. We worked to understand their journey and shopping habits so we could help Banner Fire be their guide.

Other pieces our team completed included bringing light to the parts and services aspect of the brand. This branch was formerly viewed as being an external arm of the company. The team made sure that with the website redesign this was now viewed internally. The team also condensed the content they had. While they wanted to include as much as they could, they wanted to keep the site focused on being user centric.

Automating Processes for Accurate Lead Times

A critical aspect of this project was to provide a solution that removes the manual updates required by their ERP to give the Banner Fire team the time to focus their time and energy on what they do best–helping emergency responders protect their communities.

Working directly with their ERP provider, we set up a system that would check for updates every night, then push those changes to the e-commerce portion of the site. Now, any time a price, product description, SKU, or other product information changes, the site automatically shows the most up-to-date information for more accurate lead times. This is crucial in today’s market where current supply chains make the timely delivery of products a challenge. It’s especially important in the fire industry, where customers have to wait upwards of a year for supplies they need to protect their communities. Accurate lead times on the site help customers make informed decisions and set expectations for when products will arrive.

Untangling Product Variations

When our team was learning about the equipment Banner Fire sells, we noticed that many of the products had slight variations (sizes, colors, etc).

Creating separate products for each variation would muddy up the customer experience, creating an overwhelming number of products, and making it more difficult to find items need quickly. With this in mind, we developed a solution that allows the site to have multiple variations on the same product.

Updating the Look and Feel

Automated processes? Check. An easier, more navigable user experience? Check. From a back-end perspective, Banner Fire’s site saw an elevated presence that not only streamlined processes but presented information in a way that makes sense. But first impressions count, and we wanted to ensure their site’s look and feel complimented the functionality.

We wanted to relate to Banner’s target market, firefighters, so we chose imagery that depicted them as the heroes they are, using bold colors and design elements where they made sense.

Typographically, we chose a font that had some character, deliberately avoiding typefaces that felt too simplistic or corporate. Beyond the web, Banner Fire is undergoing a larger rebranding process, which we have kept in mind as we developed their new site, keeping new elements, and messaging in mind.

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Smooth Customer Transition

Customer service is very important to the Banner Fire team, so before making the site live, our teams worked together to figure out how to make the transition to the new site seamless for current customers. An email was sent after the launch asking them to visit the site and reset their password.

We also added a message on the login page. Customer information was transferred to the new site including name, address, billing information, tax-exempt status, and previous order history.

Results

Creating or updating a single product can take as long as 10 minutes–create a product, add a description, add a price. With more than 8,000 products, that’s essentially over 1,300 hours of manual entry from the Banner Fire team. By creating an automated inventory process, Banner Fire’s website has provided approximately $200k in cost savings, with that number growing exponentially as new products are added and updated.

Since the launch of the site, we’ve seen more meaningful user engagement. Pages per Session has increased by 4.08% and the Bounce Rate has declined by 10.53%. That’s a fancy way of saying that users are staying longer and viewing more pages on the site during their visits.

“We want to be the Amazon of fire equipment.”

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A Brand Electrified

About Holt Electrical Supplies

INDUSTRY: Full-line electrical distribution

Founded in 1960 in a drugstore basement, HOLT has grown into a regional powerhouse with seven locations and over 200,000 square feet of distribution space.

Results

Refreshed branding and a cohesive go-to-market messaging celebrating the “middle man”

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A Brand Electrified

HOLT has always done things a little bit differently than their competitors in the industry. In a sea of giant competitors with about as much of a personal touch as Amazon.com, HOLT has managed to grow and go the extra mile to help their customers win.

We met Ryan Holtzman (CEO) and Shane McCorkle (VP of Business Development) at a leadership training event, and in getting to know them, it became clear that HOLT’s brand image wasn’t doing justice to the passion and capabilities of the company. And with more and more potential customers in the industry buying products directly from manufacturers, we needed to demonstrate the value of a distributor—a middle man—that cares about its customers.

Not only did we want to take Ryan and Shane out for beers immediately, but we wanted to help their business even more—we knew that our team could help refresh HOLT’s brand and get the message out with a marketing and communications strategy to match.

Shedding Light on HOLT’s Competitive Advantage

Our goal was to capture and communicate the energy that HOLT’s team and customers knew and turn it into a results-generating asset. We began by constructing the strategic building blocks of HOLT’s brand platform—conducting research on their competitors, interviewing customers, and learning their business inside and out. While the fuller picture was coming together, we dove right into tactical deliverables like press releases and promotional communications.

Logo, Visual Identity, & Brand Voice Overhaul

With a firm grip on HOLT’s value proposition, target audience, and brand personality, we created a new logo that conveyed the energy of the company and signaled the launch of a new phase of growth. We then developed an entirely new visual system and brand voice that did what Ryan, Shane, and the whole organization had done so well from the beginning—cut the B.S. and make a real difference.

Website Launch

A keystone of the new brand launch was a completely new website, featuring more robust services and careers sections and the HOLT Toolbox—a collection of resources including a new blog, videos, and more.

Ongoing Content Strategy & Email Marketing

We also launched a regular company email newsletter that keeps subscribers informed of new product promotions, learning content, and industry news, in addition to activating social media channels to broaden HOLT’s reach. Finally, our team consistently supports HOLT’s sales outreach efforts with highly targeted email campaigns to engage various customer segments.

Measures of Success

At every level, team members at HOLT have embraced the new brand by proudly sporting new swag and speaking the language of the middle man who cuts the B.S. The HOLT website has garnered significantly more attention since the refresh, more than doubling organic traffic and total website sessions. HOLT has also seen terrific results in attracting qualified candidates for career opportunities in the company. Prior to the new website launch, the company had faced challenges in garnering applications for open positions. Since launch, Ryan and his team have told us that they now struggle to keep up with the interest!

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“They’re adaptable. There’s been a lot of changes…and they’ve kept up with it. goBRANDgo! not only keeps up…they stay out in front of it.”

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Plastic Distribution and Fabrication Company

About Cope Plastics

INDUSTRY: Plastic Distribution and Fabrication

In the era of Big Data, it’s often cost prohibitive for mid-market companies to make good use of that data, particularly for marketing teams

Results

an increase in web sessions of 19%, and that leads increased to 58% and sales-qualified leads were up 67%

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The Challenge: Plenty of Data…But How Do We Know What’s Working?

Marketing professionals are tasked with brand messaging and increasing traffic across numerous platforms (social, web, media, etc.), as well as sales enablement (drip campaigns, online content, lead generation).

This particular client has a collaborative marketing team that works closely with sales. Keeping those teams on the same page is critical, especially when it comes to sales conversion. Marketing was increasing web traffic, but it wasn’t necessarily clear as to how that traffic was translating into sales and conversions.

Marketing always involves a fair amount of experimentation. The only real way to know which creative campaigns are working is by measuring each individual data point. Often, those data points sit on different third-party apps; bringing them together is time consuming, and there are plenty of opportunities for good information (and leads) to fall through the cracks.

Monitoring and measuring all of that data is a challenge for everyone, both sales and marketing, and nothing is more important to building successful sales metrics than alignment.

Because we have a close relationship with this client, we were able to educate them about the advantages of a customized marketing dashboard, and how it improves collaboration between sales and marketing. By keeping those teams on the same page, it’s far easier for the company to reach its overall sales goals and objectives. Dashboards are critical, but aggregating data and leveraging it to make tangible insights and recommendations can sometimes prove to be a major challenge for a large company.

goBRANDgo! Client Dashboard: Visual Data Tracking

The goBRANDgo! team and the client collaborated closely to determine the most important metrics to capture, and then worked backward to streamline reporting in an easy-to-manage, digestible digital dashboard.

We customized a marketing dashboard that visualized and tracked data to measure the efficacy of each marketing and sales effort as part of goBRANDgo! Market Intelligence services.

The client dashboard view makes it easy to read and process every click, request, and web visit pulled from various plugins and programs (search, email campaigns, targeted ads, etc.). The client’s sales and marketing leadership team then uses the data culled from the website, CRM, and other sources to display all of these data sets, and uses these metrics to measure the health of marketing/sales efforts.

Results: Confident, Metric-Led Budgets and Tactics

The company now has more confidence about where to focus their marketing efforts. The resulting increase in ROI helps them attain their goals and measure success throughout the sales funnel. Once more, goBRANDgo! generates this high value tool at a price point that makes it accessible for mid-market manufacturing and distribution companies, enabling better sales and messaging for privately owned businesses throughout our region.

By marrying all of this data together, our client was able to track specific upticks in new clients, sales, targeted leads, and improved accuracy in measuring ROI. The dashboard tracked:

Definitive Sales Improvements

The dashboard itself tracks not just leads, but qualified leads and how they relate to the overall sales process. By combing through key metrics like measuring leads compared to sessions, leads to qualified leads, and new opportunities, the marketing team could reveal the results of specific activities.

After the dashboard was implemented, the client was able to confirm that web activity generated:

  • 19 New Customers
  • 5 Reactivated New Customers generated from Web Forms
  • An increase in web sales of 66% and profits of 71% YOY
  • Online Marketing Insights

While it’s often relatively straightforward to measure increased web traffic, it’s usually difficult to narrow down how that traffic is generated, let alone if it led to sales.

Our client confirmed an increase in web sessions of 19%, and that leads increased to 58% and sales-qualified leads were up 67%.

Effective Campaign Capturing and Measurement

As advisors to our client’s web marketing strategies, we were also able to capture relevant data about the success of those various promotional campaigns. Together, we learned that an effective Woodpecker email drip campaign resulted in seven new leads. LinkedIn postings generated 28 new applications from only three posts.

Using competitive keyword targeting and email form requests led to 106 form completions.

Finally, with all of this intelligence managed in a single source, they were able to calculate an extremely cost-effective CPL.

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This knowledge set presents immediate insights into not just where to spend, but how and when to spend. We never thought we’d have a tool like this with our resources.

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Sodick Rebrand: A New Age

Sodick is a manufacturer specializing in EDM machines and linear motor driven EDMs. EDMs, also known as electrical discharge machining systems, have razor sharp edges which cut through metal and other materials to produce complex curves. Sodick customers use these machines in the production of dies, molds and other practices that cannot be completed by typical machines. 

As an industry leader since being founded in 1976, Sodick has manufactured over 60,000 EDM machines and over 45,000 Linear Motor Driven EDMs. The company is driven to create the highest quality in sales, services and production. In wanting to be the best and serve the best to their customers, Sodick thought it was time for a rebrand. 

 The Sodick U.S. division had identified a need to amplify their market messaging and visuals. They were concerned that at the time, their brand wasn’t being reflected precisely in the EDM space. Other than increasing brand awareness, Sodick also wanted to develop a new marketing strategy to support new product developments. One of the largest challenges Sodick wanted to overcome was a complete website redesign that would align with the new branding. Their website wasn’t providing a user experience that reflected the brand’s character and growth due to a lack of categorization and representation. 

After much communication and collaboration our team was ready to tackle this rebrand. The Sodick client team first began with focusing on curating new messaging that would incorporate more emotion and provide answers and education to the challenges and questions that Sodick customers wouldn’t have to ask. It also wouldn’t be a rebrand without designing a new brand identity, would it?

As customers will see on the new website, social content and print pieces, our team dedicated a new color strategy and typography. The goal of this new identity is to give off an elegant yet simplistic feel. In correlation with the new typography and color scheme we wanted to ensure the direction of photography was parallel. In doing so customers will see that the photography showcasing the machines is done so in a detail oriented way with a modern and new age vibe. 

The website redesign was undoubtedly one of the largest pieces of this project with Sodick. The top priorities when it came to creating the website were the user’s experience and keeping purchasing decisions at the customer’s top of mind. In doing so our team updated the user experience using analytics and internal goals to customize the structure of the site to work as another arm of the sales team. We also updated the UI to reflect the updated branding and digital appearance. 

With user experience at the core of the strategy, our team also added a customer portal with training videos to the site. These videos are easy to use and provide extended value to customers and employees to seek out in depth information on specific Sodick machines. The team also added advanced categorization and tagging to ensure that the right type of content was being served to the relevance of the customer’s needs. 

One of the final pieces of the project was finally launching the rebrand at IMTS. IMTS is the International Manufacturing Technology Show held every other year in Chicago. With it being the largest and longest run industry trade show, our team couldn’t think of a better opportunity to launch. We worked on curating the pre, during and post show strategy. The main goal was to not only showcase Sodick’s new branding, print pieces and machines but to do so in an inviting atmosphere. 

While we couldn’t all be there for the brand’s official launch at IMTS we encourage you to check out the newly launched Sodick website!