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Customer Lifecycle Marketing curriculum proves to be a game changer in Frederick

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Since launching Leap's customized CLM program in February 2013, the 2,013 start, restart and renewal transactions captured through the LMS web form solution, has resulted in $155,531 in revenues for an average of $77.26 per transaction.  Additionally, average monthly subscriber losses have dropped from 400 to 75, a dramatic statement to the efficiency and impact of Leap's intelligent marketing services.

Leap's curriculum is an integrated course of action, based on a schedule of rigid and standard communications founded on proven programs, processes and best practices.  For The Frederick (Md.) News-Post, this includes utilizing email and direct mail campaigns to communicate with subscribers on a regular basis, rather than after they opt out or when a subscription expires.  With Leap's automated program, web form initiatives, weekly reporting and targeted messaging campaigns, the paper has a richer, more successful retention program.  In the program's first year, the paper has processed 10,717 total transactions, with 1,214 EZ Pay subscription renewals, 799 new and/or reacquired EZ Pay subscriptions and 8,704 service requests, including vacation starts and stops.
 
Kerry Turner, circulation director explains: "Leap has made our marketing efforts more intelligent.  We know a lot more about who our customers are, and how to communicate with them.  The richness of the demographic information allows us to target households with similar profiles of our current readers, which helps streamline our direct mail and telemarketing efforts.  In all, we now have a database that will grow more each year." 
 
The CLM curriculum has given the paper preemptive power in keeping subscribers with an automated email marketing campaign, managed and executed by the team at Leap.  Turner now has access to data that flags subscribers in advance of their subscription and/or credit card expiring, and can engage with them proactively through scheduled, targeted campaigns, minimizing attrition by keeping loyal subscribers. Leap has delivered 43,428 email executions to "at-risk" subscribers resulting in 38.7 percent open rates and 24.7 percent click-to-open rates, and 47.9 percent conversion rates (renewals), a testament to the intelligent marketing dynamic of the CLM curriculum.

Leap's automated marketing approach not only leverages customer relationships to drive profitability, but provides a new level of efficiency for Turner and her team. "Once we completed the initial setup for our marketing campaigns with Leap, our email and direct mail campaigns now just run," explains Turner.  "I can spend as much or as little time revising them as I have."  She continues, "This has enabled me to focus on other programs, and operational challenges, while still being confident that we are generating the new starts that are needed.  The reporting that Leap provides on a weekly basis is also a time-saver. I know right away what's working and what's not, and can tweak it.  That's time saved running reports that I now have for strategic projects."
 
"We're much more intelligent as marketers now," Turner says.

For more information: Tom Ratkovich, (303) 886-0202 or tom.ratkovich@leapmediasolutions.com.

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