A Commercial Campaign to kick off the heating season

This Awareness Campaign for Ferroli ran Sept – Nov for Ferroli last year. We’ve chosen to feature it to demonstrate our HVAC knowledge and encourage those in the industry that are thinking about how to kick off the heating season to think about working with us for an effective campaign. Knowledge is everything and with over 30 years working for Heating and Ventilating customers we know we can help.

This campaign was to build customer awareness around the fact that Ferroli Commercial have a solution for every commercial application, “:Think you know Ferroli? Thing again”! To show this our concept included include images of all the boilers, boiler outputs and applications. We also differentiated the “Light commercial products” of the boiler range

Ferroli Commercial Range consist of 4 Categories: –

1. Wall Mounted Gas Boilers (60kw to 600kw Cascaded) – Force W Boiler
2. Floor Standing Condensing Oil and Gas Boilers (65kw to 1MW) – TP3 COND Boiler
3. Cast Iron Boilers (32kw to 650kw) – Atlas A, GN2N & GN4N
4. Pressurised Steel Boilers (92kw to 6MW) – RSW Boiler

The Marketing campaign included on the page advertising with Trade Press, Print & Online advertising, including E-shots to databases as well as Linkedin, Instagram and Facebook paid Ads as well as Organic posts. The Trade Press selected were all verified, with audited figures and substantial audience and databases included the market-leading building services magazines trusted by building services professionals for their technical, news and feature content. The official magazine of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers The perfect marketing vehicles to reach the manufacturers, buyers, and specifiers at the centre of the HVAC industry, M & E Contractors and Building Service Design consultants.

Activity planned ran over Sept, October and November. We created a new look for Ferroli Commercial that we applied to a set of fresh assets for Ferroli’s Commercial boiler range, including:

Assets
• A4 Advert
• DPS Advert (Ad and advertorial)
• Front Cover – Key Visual (KV) Image
• Eshot headers for Product Range & Force
• Web banners for Ferroli.co.uk & Ferroli.com
• Social Media Assets

Ferroli Eshot
Using the copy and images from the creative concept we created Eshots to go to each publications database.
Set up and Design for one Commercial Range and one Force specific.
Featuring
1. A large product portfolio
2. A boiler for every job
3. Available in stock
4. Next Day Delivery

If you’re looking for a HVAC campaign or agency this year, please get in touch.

A great Facebook campaign for Athenry Opticians

For just £600 media spend over a 4 week period our latest campaign for Athenry Opticians, based in Ireland resulted in a total of 242,000 impressions, over 4,111 Link clicks to their website, 62,689 People Reached and the cost per thousand people reached of just £9.57. We certainly got the message across and lots of interest in their dry eye clinic. The success of the campaign speaks for itself. Athenry Opticians have now booked a further 8 weeks of Facebook Paid for activity 😊

If you would be interested in Facebook Advertising for your business please get in touch.

WordPress’s Network Functionality offers the perfect solution for multi site development

www.wardoptician.co.uk

We have just finished our forth website using WordPress Network Functionality (formerly known as Multisite) – it’s the perfect solution for multisite development for businesses offering customers franchise type websites or websites with similar attributes.

For franchises WordPress’s Network Functionality offers the perfect solution for syncing branding across customers individual sites.

The sites we have been developing have been built on the industry leading WordPress Platform along with a page builder called Elementor. This handles all of the page designs and is really user friendly.

The Network contains one Master Template Site. This is the one that all future sites are created from and is based on the first site built. This method ensures that every site starts from the same baseline and keeps them all consistent throughout. Each site shares the same installation and key elements are managed from the Network Dashboard – things like plugins and themes. It makes the process of adding a new site incredibly simple and is ideal for this customer as they manage so many websites for different customers. Plus all plugin maintenance and updates can be handled from the Network Admin Dashboard.

At Sans Frontiere we provide everything from state of the art multi-site platforms to affordable website packages – so there’s something for every kind of business. With a track record of building successful websites and as experts in digital media, you can rely on us to help you get your digital marketing in shape.

Our dedicated team of experts have helped 100’s of UK businesses reach millions of potential customers.

If you have this kind of project in your pipeline please get in touch, email audrey@sansfrontiere.com to schedule a call.

Haier – building the brand in Europe

Haier Europe came to us to develop the visual and verbal tools they needed to bring the Haier brand to life in communications across their HVAC products and services in Europe.

We soon realised that building partner relationships was at the centre of Haier’s value proposition in Europe so we set about asking Haier customers what they thought of Haier and what they would like to see the brand doing in Europe. The survey was well received;

“The survey has really helped to better understand our customers and our brand perception at that level. This is a process that we will continue in the future as it has huge value and will help us to develop our service levels & marketing plan for the future”

We went on to deliver a final messaging document that researched brand and product messaging and presented a research portfolio of inspired creative and content to kick start Haier Europes marketing efforts. We’re now working together on developing cross border product promotions and lead generation campaigns building audiences.

Business Owners & Marketing Managers – we deliver well crafted, well managed digital marketing solutions for your business.

Business Owners & Marketing Managers looking for well crafted, well managed digital marketing solutions are working with us to develop the perfect digital strategy for their businesses. Our website builder packages have proved hugely popular and are designed with all types of businesses in mind. They come with full backend CMS so you are in control from the start. We design paid social campaigns that match your goals, manage your social media assets and create SEO content for your website and social. We have worked with hundreds of businesses of all kinds from opticians to yacht clubs, race courses to global heating and ventilating manufacturers!

From the start we could see that, for almost any company of any size, whilst a strategy is an end-to-end plan, the elements that comprise it can be viewed as modular. Indeed, many companies are not looking for the end-to-end strategy – as they already have some things in place. They are looking for guidance and particular modules of digital activity. To this end, we spent some time developing these digital strategy modules and creating simple, clear pricing structures around them. We have created a set of digital packages that can be adopted stand-alone or integrated into a wider strategy – so that businesses can build solutions that perfectly suits their needs.

Our approach:

In short, we want businesses that work with us, to have the freedom to bring their own contributions into a strategy, whatever they may be, to be able to pick and choose from a transparently priced set of digital packages and to have the option to connect with a wider range of bespoke marketing services as they require.

It sounds like an ambitious goal, but we realised we had the infrastructure in place to offer this. We just had to organise it.

Our offering:

We now offer these packages with clear, fixed, transparent prices.

Website builder:
A complete website package designed to give a small to medium business everything it needs for a professional website presence, with the analytics, backup, security and support that is integral to being online.

Paid social media advertising:
We work with you to design campaigns that match your goals. We provide easy to understand reports when a campaign finishes.
Custom landing pages optional for each campaign.

Organic social media management:
Your social media asset managed for you (example: Facebook page)
Providing:
Regular content posting to drive your engagement
Office hours responses to your customers

SEO:
We will carry out a full SEO audit of your website and provide a report
We will edit your key pages for SEO optimisation
We can create new SEO content for your website and social platforms

To compliment this suite, we developed a range of agency service add-ons in the same fashion. These give optional access to a wider range of Sans Frontiere agency services, from copy-writing to photography, PR, branding and more.The point of this add-on approach is that, for any business working with us, using a set of pre-costed and pre-defined digital packages does not preclude gaining access to a wide range of marketing services and connecting it all together.

Contact us today to find out more: sansfrontiere.co.uk | 01273 487 800

Cola Stoves: Showroom Transformed!

ECO FRIENDLY ENERGY EFFICIENT PELLET STOVES

We were asked by Italian manufacturer Cola Stoves to launch the brand to the UK market, beginning with the design and production of graphics for their visitor showroom.

Our primary objective was to create a space that would be welcoming, stylish and visually impressive to accurately reflect the superior design and build quality of the stoves. We came up with the idea of creating room sets for the walls that would sit behind the working stoves installed in the showroom and give visitors a very real feeling of what it would be like to be in a room with that stove.

More recently we have launched Cola Stoves YouTube channel and worked with them to create three superb case study videos.

Video brings the product to life for the customer and is an easy way of explaining the benefits it offers. Our experience of producing videos, radio adverts and TV commercials means we can pre-script and storyboard your project before production begins and work with you to get your message across in the best possible way.

YouTube channel set up and production of superb case study videos for Cola Stoves

Set up a You Tube channel for Cola Stoves and host the new videos on the Cola website

From its origins in 1963 as a metalworking company for the construction of heating systems, Italian company Cola is now one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of energy efficient pellet stoves and boilers.

Cola came to Sans Frontiere to help them set up the look and feel of their You Tube channel and we worked together to produce three superb case study channel videos.

Cola had the vision to recognise the potential of wood as a fuel and developed the idea of transforming the stove from a simple heat source into an object of beauty and decoration. Following the invention in the USA in 1973 of wood pellets as an environmentally-friendly alternative fuel for industry, it became clear that pellets could be used for boilers and stoves for private homes. As a result, Cola worked to develop specific products in the field of pellets

If your looking for video production for your product or brand please contact audrey@sansfrontiere.com

Brand Assets, Web Development and Video for a range of Disruptive Technologies that set a new standard

INNOVATORS IN DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Canetis Technologies Ltd is a British innovator of disruptive technology that delivers significant savings for consumers and businesses by improving heating and hot water efficiency. The Canetis group is focused on developing and investing in low carbon technologies that will deliver attainable and realistic reductions in energy usage and set new standards in energy efficiency.

Canetis Technologies chose Sans Frontiere Marketing to bring its brand to market and develop product branding for its range of disruptive technologies.

Our work to date has been focused on the creation, design and development of the website www.canetis.io; the creation of a series of Homeowner, Installer and Building Services videos; email marketing; PR; social media management and exhibition material for a presentation at Energy Innovation Exhibition, Looking to the Future at Portcullis House, Westminster.

If you have been working on developing a new product and are looking for a creative partner to work with you to bring it to market we would love to hear from you.

Cambridge Homecare – Help us to help the NHS

Sans Frontiere’s website team were proud to be of service to Cambridge Homecare, a specialist nurse led division of Eaton Homecare, working exclusively for the NHS assisting with patient discharge and hospital avoidance across Cambridge City and the East Cambridgeshire areas. Our team helped with a quick turnaround on the development of a recruitment site in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to urgently recruit additional health care assistants and discharge planners to support Cambridge NHS, to work in the community, caring for medically optimised patients being discharged from hospital in to their own homes.Sans Frontiere have been working with Eaton Homecare delivering search engine optimisation and website design, Google PPC and Display increasing conversions for live-in care & NHS support services.

Over 7 million views achieved on social media for Essilor, the world leader in prescription lenses

Sans Frontiere Marketing helps 100s of UK opticians reach new local customers through a partnership with worldwide lens manufacturer, Essilor

The Objective
Sans Frontiere Marketing was commissioned by Essilor (the world’s leading provider of prescription lenses) to run digital campaigns for independent opticians all over the UK who are members of the Essilor loyalty programme scheme.

The Campaigns
Sans Frontiere worked on 89 campaigns for 70 independent opticians. These campaigns typically ran for a duration of one to 8 months within a location of 3, 5 or 8km radius of each practice. The campaigns looked to raise the awareness of each practice within the local area and promote Essilor products to the correct target demographic.

Targeting
The generic parameters of the campaigns were to target potential local customers within the age demographic and location of the ideal customer who has a known interest in glasses, optics or eyewear. However, each campaign was bespoke to the individual optician, with some targeting audiences with specific interests including bi-focal lenses, family eye care or difficulty with vision in certain environments such as playing sport or driving.

Channels
The campaigns predominantly featured on Facebook as many of the target audience were active on this channel and a number of opticians already had established Facebook pages. Where relevant, Instagram was also explored and used as channel for the adverts, including Instagram Stories & Facebook Stories; this proved to be a popular channel for the younger demographic, particularly those interested in the digital lenses (Eyezen).

The Results
The campaign generated over 7,000,000 views on the content whilst reaching an audience 1,500,000 highly targeted people. The campaign operated on an 11% CTR (click through rate), significantly higher than the benchmark for this industry of 1.01% (Wordstream 2019 https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/02/28/facebook-advertising-benchmarks). The campaigns also produced plenty of engagements and people who were interested in booking appointments with the opticians. These leads were recorded individually with each practice’s bespoke campaign.

If you would like any further information regarding our work in the optics industry or support with your marketing, please contact audrey@sansfrontiere.com or call on 01273 487800.

Reaching out to existing and potential new patients through social media.

Eyesite is an independent optical group with practices throughout the South. They wanted to reach out to existing and potential new patients through social media. We created a Business Page on Facebook and an @Eyesite Twitter account.

When creating the pages we wanted to ensure that the brand values of innovation, design and clinical excellence were clearly represented.  Our design concepts for the Facebook and Twitter pages were considered, so that they looked excellent on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. While the creative was unique to each platform, they were still consistent with Eyesite’s brand and the overall tone we would be using. We also created social media avatars so that their logo was optimised, not compromised.

We began posting regular updates on both social platforms, a mix of local news, tips for optimal eye health, and reasons to book appointments for eye exams and patron Eyesite. Closely monitored, we performed all the day-to-day administrative duties on both social platforms, and were able to respond quickly and effectively to patient queries with very positive results.

As engagement levels increased, Eyesite increased their social investment and doubled their Twitter activity, which had grown exponentially in a short period of time.

Social activity has become a neatly integrated collaboration between Eyesite and Sans Frontiere, with regular contact ensuring that we are kept up-to-speed on everything that is happening within Eyesite practices, all the while maintaining the strength of the Eyesite voice.

 

Sans Frontiere help visitor numbers reach over 65,000 at the South of England Show!

 

 

Saturday gave us the perfect weather and resulted in just over 30,000 visitors! In fact just over 65,000 over the three days!

Thanks for all you help and support in putting together a compelling creative and media campaign, which I’m sure helped our numbers this year.

The media coverage was exceptional this year, which kept us all extremely busy at the show, and we got some excellent national and regional TV, print media and radio coverage.

No doubt, we will undertake a fuller review of what went well and what could be better so we can build on the success of this year.  But for now, it is good to celebrate in a successful show!

Iain Nicol

CEO

South of England Agricultural Society

Trusted by corporate businesses, technology companies, event organisations and charities across Europe & the UK

INNOVATORS IN TECHNOLOGY

Emergesecure chose Sans Frontiere to work with them to develop the Emergesecure brand and associated product brands.

Emergesecure is a global business that makes it easier and simpler to create and distribute secure and sensitive documents in print and digital formats that are protected against forgery and counterfeiting.

Our designers worked with Emergesecure to develop their brand both online and offline. Emergesecure offers a number of different products which we have built up as brands in their own right, each with a dedicated website.

Whilst browsing the Emergesecure website you might find yourself on: https://www.epayslipsecure.co.uk/electronic-payslip-generation/ or https://www.ecertsecure.co.uk or https://www.ekeepersecure.co.uk

And so on. We are currently working on several new products.

Our complex website structuring means you can move seamlessly around website domains without having to leave the main site or even realise you are doing so.

Emergesecure is an innovator and as such needs to work with like-minded people to get the job done. If you feel that you have a complex brand and need an agency with the ability to grasp innovative thinking quickly, you may have just found your match.

Sans Frontiere Marketing is trusted by corporate businesses, technology companies, event organisations and charities across Europe & the UK.

Discover how our expertise can empower your business.

South of England Agricultural Society

A CHARITY FOR AGRICULTURE & COUNTRYSIDE LEARNING

Whether it’s creative to promote their flagship event the South of England Show or the branding for the Shows throughout the year, the South of England Agricultural Society relies on us to deliver on all counts. We provide the Society with branding and high impact cross channel marketing campaigns that work across all platforms on a quick and efficient turn around.

This year we have developed new branding for each of the Society’s four Shows, developed the creative for the relaunched Spring Live! event and the very exciting new creative for this year’s South of England Show with the tag line ‘You’ll LOVE our Country Show’. There’s been a lot to do already this year along with pay per click campaigns, Facebook and Twitter activity @SouthofEngShows, eshots, videos, billboards, radio advertising and much more. We are all working hard to deliver day visitor numbers in excess of 70,000 for the South of England Show 2018.

With over 21 years experience of working with Day Visitor Venues we are proud to be now working with one of the South’s biggest and best. We would be delighted to add more venues to our list of happy clients. Please do get in touch to find out how we can help you to boost your visitor numbers.

South of England Agricultural Society: Facebook Competition

To promote their flagship event, the South of England Show, the Agricultural Society wanted to run a competition on their Facebook page. SEAS has a very active social media presence that can already boast high engagement levels, but they wanted to spread word to a wider audience rather than only those that already liked their page.

Having recently produced a video for SEAS using footage from the previous Show, we decided to run a video competition to maximise ROI on the video and earn as many views as possible to build excitement around the Show.

Sans Frontiere created a SEAS Youtube account and uploaded the video to their channel. We uploaded the video to their Facebook page and asked users to answer a question and tag a friend in the video post – spreading the video further on the social network. The winner won a pair of tickets to the South of England Show.

The competition was a huge success – with a very small budget the video earned over 8,000 views and had hundreds of interactions.

As part of our digital strategy, the competition was an integral part of the build-up in the weeks prior to the Show. SEAS more than doubled their online ticket sales and increased their ticket revenue by 14% from the previous year.

Ecertsecure: Website, Video & Brochure

With the huge rise in online university courses, the potential for forgery and theft of education certificates has also grown and this means that increasingly sophisticated technology and strategies are required to keep the awarding bodies one step ahead. Security print company Smith & Ouzman’s innovative new web portal Ecertsecure, which offers awarding bodies flexible ways of personalising, proofing, printing and distributing certificates, provides precisely the protection needed. To communicate this clever product to awarding bodies all over the world Sans Frontiere delivered a four-minute ‘how to use’ video, a landing page and a four-page brochure.

Before embarking on this project, the most important thing was to acquire a full understanding of how Ecertsecure works. No matter how complex the subject is , we always ensure that we know what we’re talking about!

Ecertsecure is actually easy to use when you know how so we used our design and copywriting skills to produce a succinct A4 four-page brochure and a dedicated landing page branded with an eye-catching image that made it clearly definable against Smith & Ouzman’s other products.

The key to the success of the campaign was the production of a four-minute ‘how to use’ video that could be viewed both on the landing page and on YouTube. Armed with our thorough understanding of how Ecertsecure works, we produced a storyboard and commissioned the production of the video from a trusted supplier. Very close liaison throughout the process ensured that the final cut perfectly summarised everything potential customers needed to know about the product and how it could protect both their students and their reputation.

Passione Bags choose Sans Frontiere marketing for thier UK launch

Passione Bags is based in Italy, where they create handmade, genuine leather bags and accessories.

They wanted to start selling their products in the UK and enlisted Sans Frontiere as their agency to assist their digital strategy.

Sans Frontiere reviewed their English language website by providing effective copy and optimising product pages, improving their navigation and user experience.

Working with Passione Bags, we created profiles on Facebook and Twitter and delivered their social media strategy to a UK audience and began promoting Passione Bags through a digital display campaign.