Interlace Communications

Tag: Email Marketing

  • McGinns School Apparel Retrospective

    McGinns School Apparel Retrospective

    McGinns School Apparel

    Private School Clothes Eshop

    Providing an array of private school uniform options at a competitive price.

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    Solutions | Monthly Optimization | Search Engine Optimization | Website Design

    Business Type : Clothing Shop

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    how they came to us

    Established and family-owned

    Peter and Dena Kowalchik came to us with McGinns School Apparel and its website already established, but showing some age. They wanted an updated website that could effectively sell their inventory to their audience of private school parents. They had a brick-and-mortar location where they frequently allowed customers to order online and pick up in store, and the serious parents ordering these uniforms needed a seamless experience whether in person or digital.

     

    what we provided

    Simple and clear shopping experience

    They wanted a cohesive theme of bright and simple green and white, as well as a simple way of adding announcements themselves. We ensured they understood how to update the home page to include announcements or seasonal greetings. We also kept the theme of bright green clovers around the site.

    As an e-commerce website, they required frequent adjustments and fixes to ensure the shop and customer experience ran smoothly. They held frequent sales, specials, and seasonal product focuses that we set up, monitored, and improved to help them make more sales. We established a system to ensure sales started and ended cleanly and customers received notice about them.

    To improve search result performance, we included meta-data in all products that helped make the item look more appealing to parents without confusing or frustrating them.

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    how they’re ending

    Clearing out stock and aiming for retirement

    Partway through 2023, Peter and Dena Kowalchik made the decision to officially retire and close the store. However, they had inventory left over from the previous year and wanted to sell as much as possible before closing. We aided in updating their inventory manually to only include items they still had, and adjusting features on the website to align with the sunsetting.

     

    Pete and Dena are now happily entering retirement

    The team at ICI would love to help you with your next project too!

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  • How to Handle a Business Merger Online with RIS

    How to Handle a Business Merger Online with RIS

    CASE STUDY

    How to handle a business merger online

    helping Rothenburger Insurance unify their online presence after a merger.

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    Solutions | Blog Management | Email Marketing | Monthly Optimization | Print Marketing | Search Engine Optimization | Social Media Marketing | Website Design

    Business Type : Insurance Agency

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    the client

    The process of merging two companies to one, updating the homepage, and all around marketing assistance.

    Rothenberger Insurance Services has worked with us for a long time, as well as another business Advocate Insurance. The two businesses were loosely connected until there came a time when the man in charge of Advocate was ready to retire. And so, Advocate merged with RIS! To ensure their online presence reflected this change, we helped handle the transition from two separate online presences to one.

    Some time after the merge, RIS also wanted to update the look of their website, since their old look was beginning to appear outdated.

    Maintenance and Merger
    Redesign of Home Page

    our approach

    Tax day reminders, online presence & advertising.

    The process of merging the Advocate website into the RIS website was a three step process. First, changes needed to be made to the Advocate site to warn visitors that they were moving. In the mean-time, we built a page on the RIS website that included information from the Advocate website. After waiting some time, we redirected the Advocate website to the new Advocate page and ensured there was mention of the merge. Finally after waiting a period of time, we removed the old website entirely. This process ensures customers and search engines learn about the changes and move over to RIS.

    The Rothenberger Insurance Services redesign was primarily about changing from an outdated, static look, to something more animated and elegant. For the overall look, we went for silvers and greys, with plenty of bright photos that popped due to the contrast. We also made structural changes that would better appeal to search engines by including keywords in better locations, adding positive reviews, and setting up the team bios to include additional content. These changes to the home page were then reflected on all other pages with minor structural changes to each of them as well.

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    the results

    Strong team and growing

    Rothenberger Insurance Services has settled into the merge very well and still has many satisfied customers every year. The RIS team even grew after the merge with Brady joining them with more insurance skills and a new secondary location.

    The team at ICI would love to help you with your next project too!

    Here’s how you can start the conversation:

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