Track 2: Executing TransPromo

Session 2: Organizational Alignment: The Decision-Making Process
Before deciding to launch a TransPromo initiative, you will need the support of several key resources throughout your organization. Two departments that don’t always have much interaction with each other– marketing and information technology – will need to work together. In addition, TransPromo touches data analytics, design, operations, production, and certainly your company’s executive team. This session will outline who to engage, how to approach them, and ultimately, best practices for achieving organizational alignment.

Session 4: Defining Business Objectives
Once you have made the decision to move forward with TransPromo, it is important to define your company’s business objectives. Often, a leading justification for migrating to TransPromo communications is an overall reduction in cost with a simultaneous increase in the campaign effectiveness. Other times, higher customer satisfaction levels are the primary objective, and cost savings are secondary. This session will introduce and discuss strategies for defining TransPromo business objectives for companies with varying needs.

Session 6: Data Protection and Privacy Considerations
Data is essential to making TransPromo communications personalized and relevant for the recipient, but what are key considerations when using customer data? What information should be used for relevant messaging and when does it go to far and make consumers uncomfortable? This session will highlight an organization with expertise on effectively using sensitive customer data for TransPromo communications while adhering to important data protection and privacy guidelines.

Session 8: Analysis of Current Communications: Building a Message Matrix
Marketers strive to remain in constant communication with their customers using both direct and mass marketing, but typical marketing campaigns don’t always work. Because 95% of transaction documents are opened and reviewed, TransPromo communications offer an opportunity to reach your customers on established intervals. For instance, as a telecommunications company, you know when your customer’s service contract is due for renewal, so you can begin the customer retention messaging through on-statement promotions. This session will demonstrate how to build a message matrix to optimize relevance through intelligent timing of TransPromo messaging.

Session 10: An Offer Strategy that Works
Traditional inserts are more easily dismissed as advertising than a message printed beside personal information from a trusted source. Because of this, marketers need to adjust their offer strategies appropriately. This session will focus on building targeted messages that will make TransPromo messaging effective as an educational, informational, and promotional delivery form.

Session 12: Design Considerations for TransPromo
The success of TransPromo is as much about the document design as anything. The critical information needs to be easy to find, with an appropriate balance between statement messaging and white space management. This session will focus on key design considerations to optimize the effectiveness of TransPromo documents.

Session 14: Managing TransPromo
Good project management is an integral part of the success of any campaign launch, and implementing TransPromo is no different. The project manager will need to work with all related facets of the effort to keep the implementation running smoothly. This session will focus on how to effective management of a single TransPromo effort, as well as management of an ongoing campaign.

Session 16: TransPromo Pricing Strategies
TransPromo adds an enormous amount of value to customer communication and enables marketers to have more direct control over messaging and promotions that recipients are seeing. There are many different pricing strategies that can be implemented for this value-added service, but which one is right for you? This session will focus on a variety of pricing strategies that have been successful when implementing TransPromo.

Session 18: Tools and Technologies for the Future
Now that we have an understanding of what technology is here today, and how to implement it, let’s look at some of the tools and technologies that will bring us to the next level of TransPromo. This session will focus on how to augment your TransPromo campaigns with technologies that are just taking off.

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