Background
Simple Green, the 25-year-old manufacturer of cleaning solution, needed to extend their brand onto the internet and the world. It decided to use a fully overhauled corporate website, and a global extranet, with a sharply focused marketing strategy to accomplish this task.
Insight:
The first step was a new online positioning, to be developed by ZINC.
We urged the company to look beyond its traditional focus, to emphasize what
the broad
product line has to offer: "Keeps Your World Clean." Next, we helped
the company create an integrated, brand-centered website strategy -- from site
architecture and navigation to corporate messaging -- to reinforce the positioning.
With these steps complete, Simple Green faced an equally complex challenge:
to motivate its employees, distributors and resellers in a global organization,
working in multiple supply channels, to communicate with a single corporate
Voice.
It's impossible to micro-manage how constituents worldwide communicate. But
it's entirely possible to teach them to communicate clearly and consistently
about who Simple Green is and what it does. How? By building a global brand-centric
program that fosters and rewards compliance with the corporate Voice. The global
extranet called "SunshineNet"
Actions
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Create a Internet brand strategy. Develop a user interface that
introduces the online world to company values, attributes, and
positioning.

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Craft an online marketing strategy that enrolls the diverse Simple
Green sales channels

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Create a marketing and messaging strategy that expressed the
company's focus on its international customers through the
positioning line, "Keeps Your World Clean"

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Craft a compelling corporate website. We supported the Simple Green
message with design that illustrates the pervasiveness of the
company's products. This customer-driven experience is clearly
represented on every page.

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Design a simple product interface. We worked closely with the SEI
development team to incorporate the product's powerful features
into an easy-to-use interface.

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Create a sophisticated e-business architecture. We developed a
public Web site to introduce the optimization product and initiate
the sales process. A set of product demos effectively conveyed the
product's high level of sophistication and ease of use. |
Results
The new brand strategy and global internet presence helped Simple Green to develop a unified corporate positioning, to strengthen its image in the industry, and to extend its reputation well beyond the domestic arena as a global player. As the industry undergoes further change, the Simple Green identity remains consistent - leading the cleaning products industry by focusing on environment intelligence, safety and innovation.
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