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MARKETING CHALLENGE
  • Increase preference/awareness for the St. John Health Weight Loss in an increasingly competitive market segment
• Drive traffic via free seminars, consultations and referrals that result in increased number of patients
• Generate calls/inquires for 1-866-823-4458 (answered by “weight loss specialists”) and confidential Web profiles to www.stjohnweightloss.com
• Communicate “Center of Excellence” message

RESPONSE
  • Execute via a direct response strategy (targeted dayparts) along with optimizing online media strategies (i.e. keyword search engines)
• Create interaction and viral experiences driving consumers to another touchpoint (specifically Web as this audience indexes high for Web usage)
• Leverage “A Passion for Healing” brand promise/tagline
• Deliver real patient/real experience stories to create an emotional connection with potential patients as well as utilize word-of-mouth marketing
• Utilize before/after photos

RESULT
  • Monthly number of unique visitors to www.stjohnweightloss.com has grown substantially: January, 2008 (no mass media) averaged 536 vs. January, 2009 = 1711 (319% increase)
• Time spent on www.stjohnweightloss.com has increased, as has the number of pages visited.
• More even distribution of visits throughout the day:
• Heavier traffic on weekdays, when most TV ads air. In past, weekends produced higher traffic.
• Also seeing spikes during dayparts when ads air (early morning and early evening)
• Increases in calls and seminar attendance:
• New patient calls increase 270%.
• Three times as many people attended seminars.
• Web banner ads on Google and Clickondetroit.com (most visited website for target audience). February month-to-date searches on Google is 399 and hits from Clickondetroit is 350 (increase of 400 % and 100% respectively).

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