Implementation & Creativity

Landing Pages

Our implementation consisted of creating 3 separate lead generation landing pages that we could test to see which converted best. (One of which is pictured.) These landing pages each had a different focus:

• One covered the technology features
• One targeted parents and grandparents, with a focus on the virtues of getting kids outside and playing,
• One honed in on the ability to earn a free Gameball.

Each landing page had multiple signup points to encourage signup. Once converted, the user was taken to a landing page that explained the rules of the promotion. There were four prize tiers:

1. A discount at signup
2. A free t-shirt at 5 signups
3. A free Gameball at 10 signups
4. 2 free Gameballs at 25 signups

Thank You Pages

Our thank you page described the referral process. Users could simply share their personalized link with friends and family and for every signup they referred, they would earn points toward a prize.

Social Advertising Campaigns

The next phase of the campaign was the social ad campaign creation. We designated a half-dozen different audience groups utilizing demographic data from our client, as well as hypothesized potential targets then created 3-5 variants of image or video, headline, and content for each ad, and began testing them across each of our audience types. We quickly identified the high performers, culled the low-performers, and made iterative changes and improvements to our winning ads, driving significant click through to our landing pages, conversions and driving down the CPL with more refinement.

Email Workflow

When users signed up, they were placed into an email workflow that encouraged the sharing of their personalized link by including quick share links and scripts within the email. As each user neared the next tier, they’d receive an automated encouragement email. When users met each tier, they were sent congratulations and the next tier was teased. Users could share their links directly from these emails and through their own social media profiles. Over the course of the campaign, we saw a significant increase in brand impressions for Play Impossible on social media and an increase in followers on Facebook and Instagram as a result.

The Results

We estimated that the campaign would take 4 weeks to drive 10,000 leads. At the end of the campaign, we were excited to report that we drove 34% more leads than expected in just 2 weeks, in half the time, for less than 1/3 of our projected CPL! Our huge time and cost savings were the result of campaign virality. Nearly 85% of our leads came as the result of users sharing their links!

One user referred 10 users on her own, just enough to win a free Gameball, but her sharing link resulted in more than 4,300 referrals!

Play Impossible was enthusiastic with the results and we immediately set to work on maintaining the happiness of these users by sending out an FAQ email with campaign-related information, followed by a 7-email drip series to span the time between the campaign and the product launch on Amazon. This helped to drive more customer interest by showing the development of the Gameball from concept to design, production and market, answering common questions and sharing user-generated content from excited beta testers.

When the product launched on Amazon Launchpad, Wheelhouse DMG segmented the email list by users who had achieved free Gameballs and those who earned discounts on the product launch, sending the latter their coupon codes for purchase. For our Gameball winners, we sent a compelling email urging recipients to help us spread the word about the Gameball by uploading reviews, images, and videos to Amazon and social media.

The Gameball hit Amazon Launchpad hot, driving an initial round of sales and reviews, allowing the client to pivot next-stage focus to building out site e-commerce for direct sales and wholesale fulfillment.