INVESTMENTS & WEALTH INSTITUTE
Automox | Corporate | Storyblok
Centralizing Website Content Management with Storyblok
Challenge
At a Technology Crossroads
The marketing team at Investments & Wealth Institute needed a tiebreaker. Should they manage their marketing communications using the technology platform their website was built in—or consider a different solution?
Their Kentico EMS, in theory, could have provided a structure for marketing communications. But some team members hesitated. The site had been developed with a dated, template-based model that limited content editors’ ability to directly manage content. So before pushing ahead, Jamie Lewis, their Director of Business Application Solutions, came to Refactored, a recommended Kentico solutions provider, for confirmation of their plan.
They thought the response would be a no-brainer. However, the answer they got was a bit of a surprise. We told them HubSpot would be a better choice for their needs.
We explained that although Kentico’s solution was comprehensive, it would require considerable, ongoing developer work, from configuring the platform structure to managing templates, which would increase their costs and reduce the ability of their marketing team to execute initiatives in a timely way. In contrast, once a HubSpot instance was properly configured, their marketing and sales teams would be able to directly manage their programs and communications, saving time, expense, and frustration.
Deliverables
Managed Technology Services
Ongoing Website Maintenance
Service Offerings
Web Development
Technology Consulting
Website Maintenance
Site Performance & Analytics
SEO
Solution
Unlocking a Legacy Site
Recommending the solution that would make the Institute’s teams successful—rather than the solution that would land us the project—created a foundation for trust. Jamie began asking other questions as they came up. Soon we had established a highly supportive and productive relationship.
Because of their previous partner’s approach to building the website, every page change required a developer to create a new, unique page template. Their team wanted a way to unlock that site access for content editors.
Tools That Work for Teams
Our team created a widget library that empowered editors to create pages on their own—with any layout that they needed—so they could communicate their most important messages to their highest value visitors.
This new access was a starting point for the Institute’s teams to transform their interaction with the site—and a point of leverage for us to help them rebuild additional site elements over time.
Building Momentum a Step at a Time
Within the predictable, defined structure of a monthly retainer, Refactored’s tech experts and developers helped the Institute’s teams better use the site and tools they had, tackling a wide-ranging series of projects including:
Completing a site audit and implementing SEO and performance updates
Revising blog content structure
Adding banners and rotating heroes to empower promotions
Revising site programming to improve usability for their editors
Addressing bugs in the site and integrations
Changing page elements that were locked in templates
Updating styles for text, images, and page graphic elements
Leveraging HotJar to give their marketers visibility into site use by members and prospects
In addition, we became a bridge builder between the Institute and other tech vendors. For example, their AMS platform is a massive software solution in which customer service is typically defined only through isolated work tickets. We were able to help the Institute fill gaps in troubleshooting and communication, providing direction to the vendor when needed to move forward requests that had previously stalled.
“Refactored has been able to do more for us in 2 months than our other partners were able to do in a year. Their pragmatic approach, responsiveness to our requests, and guidance on marketing strategy has made them an invaluable resource for Investments & Wealth Institute.”
Jamie Lewis, Director of Business Application Solutions, Investments & Wealth Institute
Results
Jump-Starting a Bigger Transformation
With each month, the Institute saw their day-to-day technology needs addressed. And they began to see opportunities for greater improvements in their tech usability.
The work we did demonstrated that an agency technology partner can bring a strategic perspective. And we helped their teams understand that the way a website is built can improve performance for site administrators, site visitors, and search engines. That realization has enabled the Institute’s leadership to think about building and maintaining the site in a modern way.
Now, they are empowered to make the decision to take on a bigger website replacement project—a step they might not have taken without the guidance of a partner with their best interests at heart.
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