Impact

Preventing print usage decline

An iconic brand with a unrivalled business and consumer footprint. A rapidly fragmenting market and competitive market. Traditional channels and revenues were under threat from new competitors and technologies and new user behaviours need to be understood and utilised. Our client faced an unprecedented challenge not only in understanding and interpreting the change but defining a strategic direction for the future to grow revenue and build a robust and competitive value proposition...

What was the question?

What is the impact on the business of customer usage decline and what steps should be taken to develop and manage customer usage strategy to maximise advertising revenue into the future?

What was our approach?

As part of the project we undertook a series of tasks including:

  • Auditing and assessing the changes in the directories industry and the impact on the structure and competitiveness of the market to help develop a holistic view of the client's proposition and competitiveness
  • Defining the key triggers for customer usage decline and defection to define key areas for business improvement
  • Developing financial impact scenarios to frame the context for future strategy planning
  • Producing a suite of co-ordinated actions to undertake to rebuild revenue and strengthen the value proposition to users and customer

What was the outcome?

  • A reinvigoration of the brand by focusing on a single brand "message" across all channels - promoting and developing unique product and brand characteristics
  • A realignment of business marketing activities to support the proposition with activities defined by work-stream
  • The establishment of a GSG brand scorecard to monitor brand health
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