Client Overview
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Employees: 11 - 50
Industry: Non Profit
Solution: Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
Go-Live Dates: On Going
The Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) was established in 2018. Its mission is to establish a community of independent mortgage experts by creating an association that empowers them with the tools, resources and support necessary to successfully advise consumers nationwide with their residential mortgage needs; cultivate ideas, provide exclusive benefits and impact legislative and social progress through advocacy and education.
Challenge
Membership Engagement sales process lacked structure and was not captured via Salesforce
Membership Engagement sales process lacked safeguards to ensure that sales are finalized before commission is earned
AIME lacked insights into membership KPI metrics
Monetary transactions captured by Stripe were not syncing to Salesforce records
Contact data in Marketing Cloud was beyond the purchased contact limits of Marketing Cloud and required data cleansing to stay within established limits
Deliverability issues for email sends that resulted in a lack of overall engagement with email content
Solution
Created a new app, record type, page layouts, custom fields and validation rules to formalize the Membership Engagement sales process and appropriately capture outcomes in Salesforce
Designed an approvals process for the Membership Engagement sales process to ensure validation of sales prior to commission being paid
Produced a series of Salesforce reports and dashboards to identify KPIs related to Membership
Integrated Stripe data with Salesforce using Zapier to pull transactions into Salesforce in real-time via Salesforce’s out of the box opportunity functionality
Automated a process for the removal of pre-identified Marketing Cloud contacts that met specific criteria for safe removal
Enhanced existing Marketing Cloud Journeys with enhanced personalization to allow for more targeted outreach to customers
Implemented SAP and an IP warming strategy for AIME’s existing Marketing Cloud instance to improve overall delivery rates and inbox placement
Result
Enhanced Membership Engagement sales process and approvals process used to standardize outreach, improve outcomes and reporting capabilities
Increased visibility into membership sales trends over time used to evaluate potential changes to the overall membership sales process
Marketing Cloud contact population reduced to a level to meet contractual obligations with additional space made available for continued contact growth
Increased email engagement through the use of greater personalization and enhanced inbox placement
Increased delivery rates for email sends
A decrease in manual client out-reach as a result of the creation of email customer journeys with multiple paths for specific customer use-cases