ZF Friedrichshafen is a world leader in the manufacture and supply of components to the automotive industry. The company employs 147,000+ people and has an annual turnover of 36.52 billion Euro's.

As an agency our role was to target the aftermarket (mechanics, installers and distributors) through multiple B2B campaigns across YouTube and Google Ads, as well as SEO over a period of at least five years.

Existing challenges within the account limited their ability to test new prospecting strategies and limited their growth potential. For example, prior to our involvement, the majority of the budget was dedicated toward branded search campaigns, as many competitors were bidding on their branded terms in hopes to capture away TaxJar's most valuable traffic. Unfortunately, this fierce competition resulted in higher-than-expected costs and required much of the focus, energy, and budget.

Even after successfully freeing up budget from the branded search issues, profitably acquiring new business was no easy feat. Tax services are consumed on an as-needed basis. A brand awareness effort would only be effective if the messaging was powerful and the timing was perfect. That is, even if a business owner hears about TaxJar and thinks they should sign up for the services, it’s typically something that is pushed on the back-burner.

More than ever, if would be crucial to meet their potential customers when they are actively in the market for tax services and in the medium in which they would best respond to our messaging.

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They offer a unique product that the world isn't familiar with. Explaining the science behind the product in addition to providing competitive differntiators were very important.