Samsonite had a CRM database of customers but had not sent an email in over 6 months. They were looking for a fresh approach for its email marketing program to re-engage and nurture current and new customers. The challenge was to establish a new strategy and approach that would improve email open rates and click through rates to ultimately increase its ecommerce sales for its travel bags, luggage and accessories. 

As a U.S. based company WardJet was looking to increase their sales of large, production grade, industrial waterjet cutting machines across Canada. Though they were scaling a significant budget to their campaigns, the conversion rates remained less than 1% and inbound MQL’s (marketing qualified leads) were not increasing proportionately.

They had good results with ads but wanted to scale with more consistency

Given too much variance in ability of product marketing teams throughout the company, Wiley wanted to build and in-house agency of marketing specialists, who would partner with product marketers on all high revenue earning products (ranging from $250K annual to $50M+) to ensure successful outcomes.

I was brought in to build and lead this global team, and my challenge was to build out the proper processes, communication, measurement, and reporting, as well as get buy-in from global product teams who were not all thrilled with having some of their autonomy taken away.