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    Marketing Campaign Conceptsfor Reaching an Agriculture

    Target Audience

    PRESENTED BY EARLY OWL ADVERTISINGNORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYSPRING 2014

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    Table of Contents

    Situational Analysis ...................................................................4-5

    Target-Market Prole ................................................................6-7

    Primary Research and Campaign Objective ..........................8-9

    Content Strategy & SEO ......................................................... 10-11

    Creative Strategy A: More Than Money ............................ 12-17

    Creative Strategy B: Time ....................................................18-21

    Sales Support Materials ........................................................22-23

    Heart of America Tractor Cruise ...........................................24-25

    Social Media ...........................................................................26-27

    Text Alerts .................................................................................... 28

    Usability ........................................................................................ 29

    Media Strategies .................................................................... 30-31

    Resources ......................................................................................32

    Budget ............................................................................................33

    Group Members and Acknowledgements ................................35

    Early Owl AdvertisingAdvanced Advertising Strategies is a senior-level course at Northwest

    Missouri State University that allows students to have a real grasp of

    the advertising agency atmosphere because the class is really run like

    a business, not a college class. And in the Spring 2014 term, our sole

    client was Citizens Bank & Trust. This plansbook, and accompanyingappendix, are the results of our semesterlong work.

    The class gathers students from a cross-section of majors to cover

    every job or department in an advertising agency. The rst day of

    class, we decided to name our agency Early Own Advertising, because as we tried to plot

    our schedules, we immediately realized that half of us are early birds and half night owls!

    Since then, weve worked day and night to fulll the clients needs and goals.

    For more information about this course, visit www.AdvAdv.blogspot.com

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    Situational Analysis

    Citizens Bank & Trust is a 125-year-old, com-

    munity-based, full-service nancial institu-

    tion that has grown to 24 branches located in

    Northern Missouri, Kansas City and St. Louis.

    Though Citizens provides services including

    commercial and private banking, wealth man-

    agement, trust services and insurance, our

    overall goal for this campaign is to focus on

    agricultural loan products.

    The business of farming has changed

    dramatically since Citizens rst opened its

    doors in Chilocothe, Missouri. Just in the

    past 30 years, farm income has grown almost

    150%. Farmers have good cash reserves, and

    especially now, a valuable commodity: realestate. These sources of wealth allow farm

    loans to remain steady and outperform other

    types of loans.

    Agricultural loans allow farmers to have a

    ghting chance when they are struggling,

    especially since farming equipment is so

    expensive, loans are often the only way to keep

    a farm aoat.

    Lenders are just as important to farmers

    as cooperative weather.

    This, coupled with the fact that cropland values

    in the Midwest have been rising dramatically,

    means that agricultural loans have been rising,

    as have the performance of these loans, putting

    agricultural banks in better position than some

    small banks.

    Lower interest rates on farm loans helped

    sustain farm lending during the third quarter

    of 2013. These lower rates can be contributed

    to competition between lenders, a strong farm

    economy, and solid loan repayment. The risein farmland values helped support farm real

    estate nancing, while the high production

    costs increased the demand for farm operating

    loans. These two conditions kept farm loans at

    a steady level during 2013.

    Banks would like to give out more farm loans

    since they have a high percentage of funds

    sitting around due to strict loan restrictions

    Longevity: 125 years as a rural bank High retention rate: 98% of their cus-tomers stay with them and only 2% oftheir clients switch banks or close theiraccounts. Community ties. Citizens is highlyinvolved in the communities where it

    operates. High email open rate percentage: 40%. Current state of the farm economy. Costof farmland is increasing and crop pricesare reaching the end of a ve-year boom. Building strong relationships withfarmers in the region through the ag loanocers.

    Strengths Weaknesses

    Misconception of Citizens not being anagricultural bank. e target audience doesnt change banksvery oen. e long process of getting a loan approved. Geographical dispersed target audience andfew ag loan ocers to reach those clients.

    Lack of a consistent selling strategy or ap-

    proach. All ag loan ocers are dierent. e main client prospecting pool is refer-ral-based. Can limit opportunities for secur-ing more ag loans. Website lacking of agricultural image, orga-nization, design, and URL structure. Mobile site is non-existent.

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    and the fact that agriculture has been so

    protable, diminishing loan demand.

    Though Citizens has a strong history in the

    Northwest region of Missouri, they also have a

    strong competitor when it comes to agriculturallending: Nodaway Valley Bank. Nodaway

    oers similar loan packages, but has been in

    business 146 years. They are currently running

    advertisements based on their time-honored

    values and trust, as well as running specic

    agricultural-focued billboards in the region.

    But, with Citizens recent focus on agricultural

    loans, several loan ocers have been able to

    pitch more loans to area farmers. Specically,

    Dave DeShon and Staci Baker are building

    Citizens trust with farmers as they meet with

    community members.

    Our goal for this campaign will be to

    build on the trust that DeShon and Baker

    have established.

    Farmers require that their bank lenders know

    the farming business. They are proud of their

    farms that their families have spent generations

    building. They are a loyal group, and rarely

    switch banks. But their choice of bank depends

    on relationships, not on interest rates.

    The nature of farmers as a target audience

    for a marketing campaign means they are

    geographically hard to reach. Theyre dispersed

    throughout the countryside where no single

    newspaper or magazine can reach them. Thats

    why within this report youll see we use the best

    means to reach farmers using the best possible

    media vehicles, and reaching them at the best

    possible times.

    Well be taking Citizens strongest assets,

    especially its community bonds, and ensure that

    farmers know not only that were there for them

    when they need us, but that weve been here for

    them for 125 years.

    To that end, weve developed two dierent

    advertising campaigns that will help position

    Citizens Bank & Trust as a rural bank with astrong presence in the farming communities of

    the northwest Missouri region.

    Throughout this report, we have summarized

    the key elements of our campaign that show

    how to deliver ag messages to the farmer.

    Threats

    Opportunities Building even stronger community ties.Brand Citizens image as a community-mind-ed ag bank. Sponsor farming-related events. 125th anniversary event as reminder of thelong presence of Citizens in farming com-

    munities. Build image as agricultural-focused. Place ag-focused messages in traditionalmedia, reaching farmers in media they arefamiliar with. Take advantage of social media to proveagricultural credentials of bank and loan of-cers.

    Direct competitors: Nodaway Valley Bankand Farm Credit Services.Nodaway Valley Bank is currently advertis-ing to farmers in Citizens territory. e negative feeling some farmers havetowards banks and loans. e constant change of the agriculturallandscape and the weather

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    Target Market Prole

    The target audience for this campaign is

    farmers who need agriculture-focused loans

    who live near Citizens Bank & Trust rural

    branch locations in Northern Missouri and

    Eastern Kansas. These farmers believe that

    their profession is a lifestyle and that it isnt foreveryone. Farming is in their blood and they are

    very proud of the fact that they provide the food

    for the rest of the country.

    The target lives in an area that is reachable by

    an agriculture loan sales representative from

    Citizens Bank and Trust and is close enough to

    a branch location where they can conveniently

    use Citizens banking services. In general,weve learned that, although there are several

    Citizens employees who can handle farm loans,

    most seem to fall to two lead ag loan ocers:

    David DeShon and Staci Baker. Their respective

    territory is indicated on the map shown here.

    Since the main

    responsibility

    of selling

    agricultural loansfalls to these

    two ocers, we

    have focused our

    entire campaign

    around the

    territories they cover. More detail on how we

    reach farmers in this area is covered in the

    Media Strategies section of this book, and in the

    Appendix.

    The typical farmer in our target area is male,older than 40 and operates a farm larger

    than 100 acres. They are very proud of their

    profession and appreciate anyone who

    understands it and wants to talk about it.

    When it comes to a banking relationship, these

    farmers tend to stay with the same bank for

    a very long time and they value a partnership

    with their loan representative. They wantto work with a bank that understands their

    situation and works with them, rather than one

    that just looks at the raw numbers and ends a

    relationship if prots are too low. Trust is a key

    factor in retaining the targets business.

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    Farmers tend to stick to traditional media sourceswhen searching for information on agriculutralproducts and services, including weather. esetraditional media sources include Television, Radio

    Buisness Magazines and Newspapers. In addition tothese traditional sources farmers rely on iphone andandroid apps to check the weather on their phoneswhile they are in the eld.

    Our Target

    Male Farmers, 45-64+

    Main Decision MakerKids in College and/or

    Son is Inuencing Decisions100-500 Average AcresLives in CB&T Region

    Farmers Prefer Traditional Media

    Sources: NAFB: National Association of Farm Broadcasters;Successful Farming

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    Primary Research

    Source: 2014 Early Owl Primary Research

    To eectively help position Citizens Bank andTrust as an agriculture bank, Early Owl neededto gain a better understanding of the clientsthat were being marketed towards. To do thisEarly Owl conducted primary research. For

    this primary research an anonymous survey ofabout 15 questions was constructed in hopesof learning the target audience and what isimportant to them in regards to banking. Thissurvey was then distributed to individualswho visited the Maryville Coop as well as at

    a Nodaway County AgriLeaders meeting. Inaddition the survey was available online and thelink to the survey was posted in several placesboth through the internet and around the city ofMaryville. By the end 53 individuals had given

    responses to the survey allowing Early Owl tohave a better grasp on the target audiencesprole as well as their feelings towards banks.This information was then used to help ensurethat the campaign was constructed with theclient in mind.

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    Campaign Objective

    Our overall goal for all elements presentedhere is to establish Citizens Bank & Trust asa rural bank that takes pride in the farmingcommunity, and to instill in farmers a sense

    of trust and security.

    Source: 2014 Early Owl Primary Research

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    Content Strategy and SEO

    To establish CB&T as an agricultural bank, we

    started with the ebankcbt.com website, where

    we recommend you build an entire content

    area dedicated to agriculture. We recommend

    you house this content at www.ebankcbt.com/

    farm, and in fact, our advertising messages willreference this address.

    The idea is to prove to farmers that Citizens

    is an ag bank. We cant just do this with

    advertising alone, we need to be sure that

    farmers see rst-hand that Citizens knows

    agriculture. Your loan ocers prove this every

    time they meet a potential customer, but your

    website needs to do the same.

    The screenshot below shows the home page of

    the Farm section of the website. We recommend

    contracting out content related to commodities,

    weather and farm news. And, of course,

    feature prominently Citizens agricultural loan

    oerings.

    A complete outline of our content strategy is

    located in the Appendix

    version of our campaign.

    This content actually serves dual

    purpose: First it establishes Citizens

    as an agricultural bank; and second, it

    serves to help the web site rank better in

    Google search results, which is a process

    called Search Engine Optimization.

    The more content thats focused on farming

    and agriculture, the more likely that Google will

    list ebankcbt.com/farm on results pages when

    farmers are looking for agricultural banking

    information. Good search engine results page

    ranking will allow farmers in the area to nd the

    Farm pages more easily and nd information

    regarding agriculture loans.

    In short, Google sends more trac to pages

    that have a lot of good content that is updated

    regularly. The best way to do this is to have

    a mix of news feeds, such as weather and

    commodities, as well as custom-written

    agriculture news.

    Te home page of

    a Farm content

    section that will

    feature news,

    weather and

    commodities

    updtes.

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    There are other ways to ensure that these Farm

    pages rank high on search engine results pages.

    For example, content that engages users is

    more likely to rank higher. For that reason,

    we recommend adding social sharing tools to

    the content. And, well be promoting the sitesagricultural content in our social media plan,

    which is coming up later in our campaign.

    Another important ingredient for ranking high

    in search engines is to put important words in

    imortant places on the new Farm web pages. We

    recommend that you focus on farm bank, farm

    credit and farm loans as the top three phrases

    to include in your new Farm section. Our research

    found that the word farm is searched far more

    frequently than the word agriculture, and thats

    why you see that word in many key locations

    in the mock-up here. Again, our full report in the

    Appendix provides much more detail on how to

    optimize your site for search engines.

    Our goal is to ensure when a farmer searches

    for farm loans in Google, that he nds Citizens

    Bank & Trust rst, and in the example below,before he nds Bank of America!

    Once the Farm pages are easy to nd and provide

    relevant content to its readers, CB&T will be one

    step closer to repositioning itself as an agriculture

    bank.

    Our goal is to have ebankcbt.com rank No. 1for the key phrase farm loan, ahead of Bank of

    Americas ranking.

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    Campaign: More Than Money

    More Than Money: Farmers do what they do for more

    than simply a paycheck, and Citizens Bank

    and Trust understands that farmers have

    much more to worry about than theirnances.

    This campaign uses empathy as

    a message strategy. It works to connect

    with farmers on their level. By positioning

    Citizens Bank and Trust as a bank that

    handles more than money, they can

    relate to farmers who do what they do for

    more than the paycheck. The campaign

    tag line also rings true in the sense

    that farmers have much more to worryabout in a typical day than just money.

    By emphasizing that Citizens ocers

    understand the busy schedule of farmers

    and realize that there is more than money,

    it makes them seem less like just a banker

    and more like a resource or tool.

    BranchSingage

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    Billboards

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    Campaign: More Than Money

    Print Campaign

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    More Than Money

    Mobile Banner Ads

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    Magazine Insert

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    Campaign: Time

    Time: Citizens Bank and Trust has been

    growing and evolving right alongside farms

    for 125 years. This rich history is unique and

    important to farmers when they look for a bank

    that understands the ever changing industry of

    farming.

    This campaign uses heritage as a

    message strategy by informing farmers of

    Citizen Bank and Trusts long history. In our

    campaign, we show that knowledge, innovation,

    and growth all take time. With its 125 year

    history, Citizens Bank and Trust has a strong

    understanding of these three qualities. The

    campaign uses antique imagery contrasted with

    new imagery of farm scenery and equipment to

    convey the sense of passed time. By highlighting

    the banks rich history, we are able to encourage

    trust between potential borrowers and the bank

    loan ocers.

    Billboards

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    Print Campaign:

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    Campaign: Time

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    Sales Support Materials

    Through our conversations with Staci

    and Dave we learned that personal interaction

    is key when it comes to perspective clients.Citizens Band and Trust currently uses a lovely

    box of cookies to help get their foot in the door

    when it comes to approaching people. Early

    Owl would like to expand on this by oering

    two other promotional tools that may have

    a greater chance of being kept around. First

    is a wicker basket that has a linin lining and

    has a Citizens Bank and Trust name plaque

    fashioned to the front. This basket will allow the

    agriculture ocers to put any items that would

    be benecial in it and the basket itself can be

    re-purposed by the client. The second tool is a gallon water jug with the company logo on

    the side. The jug can be lled with various items

    as well and then it is our hope that it will be

    reused several times by the farmers. With these

    two items it is our goal to give the loan ocers a

    way to approach prospective clients and provide

    items that have the potential to stay around for

    a longer duration.

    Promotional Materials

    These baskets would beused by loan ocers todeliver cookies, candy orany other items that mayhave been used in thecurrent cookie box.

    This water jug is analternative to the cookiebox and basket that can be

    used to bring to farmers. Itis designed to keep CitzensBank in the forefront ofthe targets mind.

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    After speaking with Dave and Staci it

    was obvious that the rst interaction with a

    perspective client is crucial and a business card

    is an essential part of this. We oer two newbusiness card alternatives.

    We have created two envelope style

    handouts that t into the all important shirt

    pocket. In both versions the envelope the

    client will nd a card with a scenic picture on

    one side and the loan ocers information on

    the back with room for the ocer to write a

    personal message. Also in the envelope the

    client will nd either a Citizens Bank and Trustair freshener or a customized Citizens Bank and

    Trust seed packet.

    These two items are intended to help the

    loan ocers grab/keep the attention client as

    well as have a longer duration.

    Expanded Business Card Concept

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    Heart of America Tractor Cruise

    We recommend that Citizens becomes moreinvolved in the rural and farming community

    by participating in certain community events

    that are popular with farmers. These events can

    include tractor cruises, county fairs and events

    with classic tractor shows. By donating time

    and money to these events Citizens will begin to

    position themselves as an ag bank and as a bank

    that is invested in the rural community.

    Annual Heart of America Tractor CruiseWe met with members of the Heart of America

    Tractor club and discussed ideas and have come

    up with a list of ideas of ways that Citizens

    could contribute to the event.

    The following is a list of things that both

    Early Owl and the Heart of America Tractor

    club believes would be an eective way of being

    involved with the event.

    Citizens would oer volunteers for all the promotional events like the pedal tractor rae,

    pre registration, pancake breakfast and help during the actual event at the morning

    breakfast, at the BBQ supper or even at the stops along the route. Citizens volunteers

    would be encouraged to wear Citizens branded shirts, and we recommend not dressing

    up too much.

    Citizens could donate a certain amount of money to the various charities that the Tractor

    Cruise supports.

    The Heart of America would allow Citizens to donate branded items to the event like

    water bottles, and hand fans as well as have items and handouts in the packet that goes

    out to all of the registered tractor cruisers.

    We recommend that Citizens bid on and purchase items at the auction at the end of the

    event. Specic items that are purchased, like a quilt, could then be displayed in various

    branch lobbies in the target area.

    EventSponsorship

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    To establish CB&T as a rural bank, we

    have decided the bank needs to sponsor the

    Heart of America Tractor Cruise. To promote

    this event, CB&T will have a Tractor Parking

    Only sign in the parking lot in the Maryville

    and St. Joseph locations with a small tractor

    parked there, starting the week before the event

    and ending the day after the event. Tractor

    Parking Only signs will be used at the Heart of

    America Tractor Cruise as well. We will give one

    to each of the tractor drivers as a gift.

    Branch Tractor Parking Promotion

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    Social Media Plan Based on the preceding analysis, along

    with our target market research, we believe

    the primary social media outlet for Citizens

    Bank & Trust should be Facebook. This seems

    to be the one social media site that is most

    common among farmers, and CB&T alreadyhas a presence there. The media team is

    recommending buying ads in Facebook to send

    messages to the hard-to-reach, rural farmers.

    Collectively, we can concentrate several

    marketing goals toward Facebook.

    Citizens Bank and Trusts existing Facebook

    page will be used to help establish it as

    an agriculture bank. We have prepared

    recommendations as to how best to approach

    this goal, starting with purely agriculture-

    related posts. Providing market prices and

    weather reports are essential to show that we

    understand farmers. By focusing solely on the

    agriculture aspect instead of the ag lending

    aspect, CB&T will build the trust-base they need

    to communicate with the farmers.

    Citizens Bank and Trust is already active

    in communities, but to ensure that it is reaching

    the agricultural communities in the targetarea, we recommend posting about events that

    pertain to farmers. The tractor cruise is an

    excellent way to reach farmers and by posting

    about it on the Facebook page, we can show that

    CB&T is an agricultural bank without plainly

    telling them that it is.

    We recommend getting Staci Baker

    involved in the process of establishing Citizens

    as an agricultural bank on Facebook. Baker

    would post on her personal Facebook page.Photos of her on a farm, and posts about her

    involvement in the tractor cruise would be

    a great way to show that she understands

    farmers. Baker is involved in several farming

    communities, and therefore knows a lot of

    people. Through her posts, Baker would not be

    seen as a loan ocer, but as a friend. A personal

    prole of the loan ocers would give a brief

    history of their knowledge of farming and would

    begin to build a trust with them as people rst

    and bankers second. Farmers need trust in the

    person they do business with, and this is a great

    way to lay a foundation for the loan ocers to

    make an impression that they do know more

    than just the banking side of the business.

    Primarily, Citizens Bank and Trust social

    media presence will focus on positioning the

    bank as an agricultural bank, and less about the

    actual loans it oers to farmers. The followingare examples of Facebook posts that could be

    incorperated into both the company account

    and the personal ag loan ocers accounts.

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    Social Media Plan

    Use personal posts to validateyour agriculture and farming

    background. Personal storiesare what farmers love to hear,and shows that you know what

    youre talking about.

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    Weather Alerts

    Theres not doubt about the fact that

    weather is the single most important factor

    that constantly aects a farmers operations.

    Weather showed up again and again in our

    research as information a farmer wants

    constant access to. Because of the importance of weather

    information to farmers, we recommend that

    Citizens sponsor a farm-specic text alert

    service that provides weather information daily

    to farmers. A sponsorship of this text service

    would include text at the bottom of an SMS

    weather alert that reads: This message was

    brought to you by Citizens Bank and Trust.

    This serves dual purpose for Citizens: 1) It

    proves to farmers that Citizens understands

    farmers needs; 2) It reminds farmers on a daily

    basis that Citizens is a partner in their farming

    business.

    Farm Journal Media is a agriculture

    specic media company that has several text

    alert oerings that can be sponsored. This

    service has an established subscriber base of

    farmers who have opted in to receive these

    messages. With this service they not onlyprovide the text pushing service, but they also

    provide the content as well. Sponsors of these

    texts are allowed a certain amount of characters

    at the end of each message.

    We recommend that Citizens Bank and

    Trust sponsor Farm Journal Medias weather

    text alert service. This service sends weather

    forecasts daily to 200 subscribers who are

    farmers only in counties where Citizens has a

    branch location. These alerts allow for sponsors

    to write 35 characters of text below each text.

    We also recommend that Citizens use

    another service of Farm Journal Media called

    Mobile-4-Media which is a service that wouldset up a method of obtaining new subscribers to

    the text alert service. These new subscriptions

    could be gained in a number of ways. First

    this service would create a text short code

    where the farmer would text a code to a phone

    number and automatically opt-in to receive

    weather alerts that way. This short code could

    be promoted on Citizens advertisements or used

    as a handout for loan salesmen. A second way

    this service could solicit subscriptions would be

    an online form on Citizens website, preferably

    on their ag loan page,

    where farmers would

    ll out a form with

    information like their

    name, their farm

    information, and

    contact information

    and they could selectspecically what

    kind of text alerts

    they would like to

    receive. This online

    form idea would also

    be a great way to

    build a customer and

    prospect database.

    The plantable seedcard is another greattool for the agricul-tural loan ofcers to

    utilize. This is a greathandout to give whilenetworking in thecommunity, and has areally unique twist.

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    Usability is the measure of how

    eectively a website is designed. Usability

    testing consists of developing a list of tasks for

    testers to complete. The usability team takesthorough notes as the tester goes through the

    tasks. Usability testing helps identify dicult

    parts of a website and can help with ideas for

    developing a smoother user experience on the

    website.

    The usability/user experience (UX)

    portion of our marketing campaign is intended

    to test the eectiveness of the clients website.

    We are testing members of the target audience

    so we can study how they use the Internet and

    how they browse a site. Once we identify these

    things, we can make suggestions to CB&T on

    how to more eectively design their website

    so farmers can nd information on agriculture

    loans more eciently. We will have members

    of the target audience and from the focus

    group we conducted, complete a series of tasks

    regarding the website and record everythingfrom what they click on, where they scroll,

    what they say during the tests, etc. We will also

    record the testees internet connection strength,

    what browser they use, what plugins they use

    on their browser, and the screen resolution of

    the computer they use.

    We found that the sign in bar on the

    website is easily mistaken for a search bar. We

    also found that the repetitive use of links in

    dierent locations on the page can be confusing

    and causes the users to spend an unnecessary

    amount of time looking for links and not nding

    them.

    User Experience

    Usability

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    Media Strategies

    The intended strategy for this media buyingcampaign is to give Citizens Bank and Trusta presence in media vehicles that our target

    audience uses throughout the year.

    To accomplish this, ads will be placed based

    on the media preferences of farmers,

    covered on page 7 of this book, geographic

    targeting, media vehicles with content related

    to agriculture and specic timing in the farming

    calendar. This will establish Citizens as a rural

    bank with a foothold in the farming community.

    All of our media buy recommendations

    are detailed in the chart to the right. Farm

    magazines and farm radio are the primarymedia types being used to reach farmers. All

    of our research pointed to these devices as still

    being the primary preference of farmers, and

    since our goal is to ensure that farmers think

    of Citizens as an agricultural bank, we want

    to be sure we have a presence in important

    agricultural media in the region.

    Both radio and billboards will run all year, and

    magazines are targeted seasonally. Through

    repetition in various media vehicles, the target

    will have constant contact with our intended

    message and eventually position Citizens as

    the trusted ag bank in the northwest Missouri

    region.

    The total cost of a full year cycle of this

    media plan will cost ----. This campaign cost is

    justiable because it reaches a specic target in

    just the region that Citizens has a presence in.

    Please refer to the Appendix for acomplete description of all of our media

    recommendations.

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    Resourcese following resources have been cited or recommended throughout our campaign.

    Fastline Rick Fowler [email protected] 888.681.2682

    KAAN-AM Denise Fritzel 660.425.6380

    KFEQ-AM 680 Gary Exline Senior Sales Associate 816.233.8881

    Heart of America Tractor Cruise Martin From, President Cell: 660.582.1453

    Lamar Advertising (Billboards) David Halpin Sales Manager/Kansas City [email protected] 877.550.3172

    Market Commodities Provider

    Bar Chart Marketing Data

    Missouri Farmer Today Jaclyn Korte 573.298.0120 [email protected]

    Rural Missouri Mary Davis 573.659.3400

    Successful Farming Heather Gieseke 515.371.75134

    Tractor Cruise Martin From HoA Tractor Cruise President Cell: 660.582.1453

    Text Messaging Provider:Farm Journal Media Steve Fink, National Acct. Mgr.

    913.544.4791 [email protected]

    Weather Content for Farm Landing Page Dark Sky Company, LLC Info on the weather app: https://developer.forecast.io/ Weather widget example: http://blog.fore-cast.io/forecast-embeds/

    Weather Channel Contact(for website ads and mobile) David Drake [email protected] 770.226.2489

    Promotional Materials:AirFreshener for Business Cards http://29cents.comNameplate for Basket http://www.plaquemaker.com/PlateOrder.html

    Parking Sign MyParkingSign.comText Alert Seed Cards http://www.printglobe.com

    Water Jugs/Instore Signage/TractorParking Sign Printing Rod [email protected] 660.582.4919

    Woven Basket https://watsontradingcompany.microform.com/shoppingcart.php

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    Budget

    Overall Budget

    Image Sources from Creative Campaign

    More Than Money

    Cows: iStock #13363910 (5 credits, $8.35)Crops:iStock #20642845 (4 credits, $6.68)

    Good Things Take TimeDirt: ShutterStock #62922298 ($29 for 2 downloads--includes this and corneld)Corneld: ShutterStock #125973053 ($29 for 2 downloads--includes this and dirt)Old Tractor:iStock #27509346 (4 credits, $6.68)New Tractor:iStock #17949264 (40 credits, $66.80)

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    AcknowledgementsGroup Members and Acknowledgements

    Randy BakerSr. VP Wealth ManagementCitizens Bank & Trust

    Were greatly appreciative of Randy Bakers

    time and involevement in this class. This

    learning opportunity is only possible due to his

    willingness to extend a helping hand to us by

    giving us real business problems to work on. We

    hope you are able to use some of the ideas and

    concepts in this book!

    Kevin FullertonFounder/CEOSpringboard Creative

    The reality of working wiht a client was buered

    by Kevin Fullertons guideance; he not only

    helped us with our creative concepting, but also

    helped ensure that our ideas were presented

    in a winning style. We cant than you enough,

    Kevin! Thanks for helping us through those CPY

    moments!

    Account Coordinator

    Camila Quesada

    Surveys & Infographics

    Rachel Kendall

    Jakob Kircher

    Social Media

    Lacey Heinrichs

    Breanna Nold

    Media Planning

    Camila Quesada

    Jakob Kircher

    Breanna Nold

    SEM & SEO

    Logan Compton

    Britt Parker

    Public Relations

    Lacey Heinrichs

    Promotional Materials

    Camila Quesada

    Jakob Kircher

    Rachel Kendall

    Logan Compton

    UX/Usability

    Logan Compton

    Britt Parker

    Plans Book

    Breanna Nold

    Creative

    Brittany Ehlers

    Cameron Ramaekers

    Rachel Kendall

    Early Owl Advertising

    Special Thanks

    Dave DeShon, St. Joe Market Prsident - Lending

    Staci Baker, VP Community Banking

    Jacquie Lamer, Course Instructor

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