Discover how we've supported healthcare provider Health Shield with their inbound marketing strategy...
What we did: Inbound marketing
In a year that changed the world – where healthcare and wellbeing has been front and centre of the media headlines and public conscience, many businesses have sought to reconnect with their audience and build more meaningful connections.
For award-winning healthcare provider Health Shield, their members have always been at the heart of what they do. They’re dedicated to providing innovative health and wellbeing solutions that keep both employees and businesses in the best of health.
Right back from when they were first established in 1877 to help railway workers keep healthy, they’ve continued full steam ahead to offer affordable and relevant benefits. The fact they are owned by their members and operate as a not-for-profit friendly society means everything they do is always in the sole interests of their customers.
So for them, the past year has been about really being there for their members in a challenging and unique situation whilst also reaching new audiences keen to explore their options. To do this successfully, they knew they needed to have the right operations and marketing strategies in place to connect with their target market on a deeper level.
Health Shield is undergoing a period of growth, so one of their key challenges is growing their market share and educating businesses around the benefits of preventative healthcare and employee wellbeing, as well as what their core services mean – things like healthcare cash plans and occupational health screenings.
Traditionally, employee health and wellbeing is a topic that businesses shy away from – Health Shield wants to be able to clearly demonstrate the benefits and ROI of implementing their solutions and how they can boost productivity, morale and more.
Their subject matter can be complicated and restricted with red tape, sometimes making it difficult to clearly communicate to their prospects what Health Shield can offer them. But they’ve got a whole lot to offer! Their long-term objective is to become a leader in the healthcare sector.
Underpinning their core marketing challenge is their internal systems and operational tech in house. Health Shield was very aware that they needed a platform that could support their growth plans for the foreseeable future and power up their marketing strategy.
Prodo began working with Health Shield in 2018. Since then, we’ve formed a strong digital partnership. Together, we’ve ironed out the challenges they were facing and created a strategic epic plan utilising the full HubSpot suite of tools and features to help achieve and exceed their marketing goals.
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Our main objective with Health Shield was to raise brand awareness, drive more leads, implement the HubSpot platform and engage customers. We knew inbound marketing was the perfect fit for their needs so quickly set to work pinpointing topics and themes we wanted to cover.
Since the beginning of our partnership, we’ve created eight individual, evergreen inbound marketing campaigns, targeted to their B2B audience featuring a number of their main services and products. These campaigns cover the full buyer journey with content at every stage; from interactive quizzes and surveys to attract and engage to videos, infographics and FAQs to convert prospects into sales qualified leads.
To support the inbound campaigns, we’ve helped Health Shield to fully activate the HubSpot platform in ways they hadn’t previously considered. To start, every quarterly campaign is supported by landing pages, email campaigns, lead gen tools such as pop up forms & exit intents and automated workflows for ongoing nurturing and engagement.
Prodo worked closely with Health Shield to build out a comprehensive lead scoring strategy to further qualify the right prospects and support the sales team. This formed a large part of building the strategy around launching their Breeze product, using workflows for internal task notifications for the telemarketing team to follow up on leads alongside the marketing campaigns.
Prodo also provides contact lists to segment the database to ensure Health Shield provides relevant content to the right audiences, as well as utilising smart content. Health Shield now makes full use of the reporting features, with dashboards custom built by Prodo, allowing both us and them to monitor the marketing and sales activity for ongoing iterations and improvements.
An example of our inbound strategies working alongside PPC include the occupational health campaign. With the Coronavirus pandemic encouraging businesses to change the way they work, Health Shield came to us noticing an appetite for occupational health services. After thorough SEO research we launched the occupational health campaign alongside a PPC campaign which improved occupational health lead performance by 800%.
Across the board, we’ve seen an increase in total website traffic year-on-year, alongside ongoing session growth specifically towards our campaigns.
The launch of their new product, Breeze, via HubSpot has seen an increase in more tangible, targeted leads of which they’ve already seen conversions from.
Through fully implementing the HubSpot platform and creating genuinely useful and targeted content, Health Shield are now in a powerful position to further strengthen their relationships with both new and existing customers. They’ve been able to unlock the full potential of what HubSpot can do for their business, utilising the marketing tools across the customer journey to reinforce their core purpose: putting their members at the heart of what they do.
Health Shield has been able to centralise their marketing and sales efforts for better collaboration and alignment to work smarter, not harder. Internally, they’ve recruited a new telemarketing team off the back of the inbound marketing campaigns that can now further nurture the more qualified leads generated.
We’re beyond excited to continue working with Health Shield to evolve their digital strategy with HubSpot in the future. We have a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline, including a data management and integration project using Operations Hub, as well as a chatbot to further engage and convert customers.
Jennie Doyle, Head of Marketing at Health Shield