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Outsell and DSplus 2018 Toyota Campaign Helps Drive $1M+ in Sales; Honored With Top Industry Awards

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Outsell & DSplus Win Industry Awards / Finalist for Another

Outsell announced today with agency partner DSplus that its 2018 Toyota CH-R Launch Campaign won the Interactive Media Best in Class Award from the Interactive Media Council and Web Marketing Association’s Internet Advertising Competition. The CH-R campaign is also named a finalist for the coveted Digiday Content Marketing Award.

Outsell and DSplus 2018 Toyota CH-R Campaign Award Highlights:

  • Won the Interactive Media Best in Class Award in the Automobile category. Best in Class is the highest honor bestowed by the Interactive Media Council and represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism.
  • Won Web Marketing Association’s 2018 Internet Advertising Competition Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internet Advertising in the category Best Automobile Integrated Advertising Campaign.
  • Finalist for the Digiday Content Marketing Award in the category Most Original Email Campaign. Winners will be announced at the Digiday Content Marketing Awards Gala in New York City on the evening of May 9.

The 2018 Toyota CH-R Launch Campaign Overview

In 2017, the all-new 2018 Toyota CH-R was about to launch and DSplus and Outsell were tasked to create awareness, encourage test drives and drive sales for 200+ participating Toyota dealerships across North America. For several months prior to the launch, each dealer sent teaser emails regarding CH-R in order to gather behavioral data and measure interest in the new 2018 model. The subsequent launch campaign consisted of three main elements. First, a targeted initial trigger email to spread awareness and send traffic to a second element – a custom Toyota CH-R microsite. Consumers were encouraged to schedule a test drive and browse local dealers’ inventory via the exclusive microsite. The third launch element was a targeted follow-up drip email to consumers who engaged in the initial email and microsite.

The overall goal was to drum up excitement, create new dialog with interested consumers and close the deal on a new Toyota CH-R. The results were impressive: more than 200,000 consumers interacted with the CH-R launch emails and microsite, moving thousands of CH-Rs off the lot for participating dealers, resulting in close to a million in sales. To view examples of the award-winning campaign emails and microsite, visit 2018 Toyota CH-R Launch Campaign. Outsell provided the technology behind the campaign, a marketing automation platform that increases customer engagement and drives more revenue by transforming how dealers engage with customers and prospects throughout their individual lifecycles.

“We are extremely pleased to see the Toyota CH-R launch campaign recognized with top honors and recognition from Interactive Media Council, Web Marketing Association and Digiday. I also want to acknowledge the teams at Outsell and DSplus that produced this amazing campaign and microsite,” said Michael Wethington, President and CEO, Outsell. “This well-executed campaign is a great example of how dealers can use integrated digital marketing to generate customer interaction and test drives which ultimately leads to an increase in sales.”

The Interactive Media Award
This competition is open to individuals and organizations involved in designing, developing, managing, supporting and promoting websites and microsites. Nominations are accepted from around the world from web design firms, advertising agencies and corporate marketing departments, as well as individual web designers and graphic artists. Details about the Interactive Media Award and the list of winners in all categories are available at http://interactivemediaawards.com/winners/.

The Web Marketing Association’s Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award
The Web Marketing Association’s Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) awards honor excellence in online advertising and recognize the individuals and organizations responsible for the best in Internet marketing. The IAC Awards are industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. A complete list of winners in 96 industries is located at www.IACAward.org

Digiday Content Marketing Award
The Digiday Content Marketing awards recognize content that connects brands to audiences across channels including mobile, social, video and beyond. A complete list of all the finalists for this award is available at https://digiday.com/event/content-marketing-awards/#awards_cats

About DSplus
DSplus connects brands, retailers and customers to help sell more cars. Using sharp insights and spot-on analysis, we put the right offers in front of the right people at the right time, so dealerships can turn shoppers into buyers – and buyers into loyalists. With our team of steadfast, hands-on account managers, award-winning creative whizzes and ultra-analytical social strategists, DSplus is ready to work with any Toyota and Lexus dealership to start driving sales. Check out our website or contact us at supprt@dsplus.co to learn more.

OUTSELL AND DSPLUS EARN FINALIST SPOT FOR DIGIDAY AWARD ‘MOST ORIGINAL EMAIL CAMPAIGN’ WITH 2018 TOYOTA C-HR LAUNCH CAMPAIGN

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Toyota Campaign Finalist for Digiday Award

Outsell announced today that in partnership with DSPlus, the 2018 TOYOTA C-HR LAUNCH CAMPAIGN is a finalist in the Most Original Email Campaign category.

“I’m extremely proud of the creative teams from Outsell and DSplus that produced the 2018 TOYOTA C-HR LAUNCH CAMPAIGN with such success,” said Mike Wethington, CEO of Outsell. “I want to thank the Digiday judging committee for the acknowledgement, and both teams for their dedication to creating a truly powerful launch for Toyota.”

2018 Toyota C-HR Launch Campaign
The ride with many sides.

The all-new 2018 Toyota C-HR was poised to launch in a formidably competitive market where brand disloyalty was rife, with entry-level SUVS gnawing at the style space. 55% of the competition touted All-Wheel Drive, which the C-HR lacked. What it did deliver was a sleek silhouette with precision-cut lines, a cushy ride and agile handling—as well as edgy standouts such as hidden rear-door handles, available puddle lights and segment-leading standard safety.

Business Objectives

  • Drum up excitement and capture a considerable chunk of the entry-SUV market.
  • Woo young multicultural first-time buyers—and fold them into the Toyota
  • Emphasize the C-HR’s sharp styling, crisp handling and standard safety.
  • Offset the SUV’s lack of All-Wheel Drive with segment-leading standard safety firsts.

The Strategy

A cross-tier strategy was developed to offer marketing support for multiple TDAs and hundreds of dealers across the country.

Our target perceived themselves a stylish band of doers, ringleaders and trendsetters—much like this expressive SUV. So the creative strategy reached out to them in the evocative and universal language of Emojis—communicating versatility across varied contexts and cultures. Particularly relevant was the fact that Emojis taking center stage in pop culture as the future form of expression.

An engaging lead piece heralded the multifaceted ride, featuring an iconic medley of quirky characters that mirrored our multifaceted target. Every other layer of communication took the cue—and said it all with this unique emotional discriminator.

The Results:

  • 238 dealerships participated in this program
  • 6 Toyota Dealer Associations (TDAs)
  • 65 new C-HR Sales
  • $979,836 in revenue
  • 2,344 total new Toyota Sales
  • 195,254 opens by new & existing customers
  • 46,722 unique clicks on the C-HR microsite
  • 1,612 engagers looked to schedule a test drive
  • 496 intenders searched inventory

SEE MORE with this walkthrough of the campaign.

The Digiday Content Marketing Awards recognize the content that connects brands to audiences across channels including mobile, social, video and more. Over the years, the awards have honored leading work from companies like Casper, CNN, and Dove. This year’s winners will be announced and finalists honored at the awards gala on May 9 at Sony Hall, located in NYC.

PCG Names Outsell a Top Marketing Solution for Automotive Dealers

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Company wins 2018 AWA Marketing Solution Award at NADA

Outsell announced recently that it has won a coveted 2018 Automotive Website Award (AWA) in the Marketing Automation category. The awards were bestowed during a ceremony at the NADA 2018 conference, taking place on March 22 in Las Vegas.

The Automotive Website Awards, created by PCG Companies, showcase the top marketing solutions for automotive dealers across several categories. This is the second consecutive year that Outsell has been honored. The company’s new Inventory Mover solution, which helps automatically match prospects with specific inventory, was cited as a key reason for its being named a winner for 2018.

Outsell was the first marketing automation provider in automotive to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to help improve relevancy and targeting. Its AI brain tracks the behavior of individual consumers (both customers and prospects), forming a predictive model of their future behavior, and fueling Outsell capabilities such as buyer detection for identifying in-market shoppers, and Inventory Mover.

At NADA, Outsell launched its newest platform, Outsell 5.0 [link], enhanced with even more artificial intelligence capabilities, providing automotive dealers with unprecedented insight into buying behavior and the ability to take individualized content to the next level, with automated, multi-channel communications that are customized to each person’s exact preferences.

“Dealers now expect AI features in their marketing automation platforms, and Outsell offers the first such platform that enables dealers to cover both customers and prospects at once,” said Brian Pasch, CEO of PCG Companies. “It’s no longer necessary for dealers to have different tools for each audience – it’s a major step forward.”

“We are thrilled to have been recognized by PCG Companies as a top marketing solution for the second year in a row,” said Mike Wethington, Outsell’s founder and CEO. “We believe that Outsell’s AI-driven approach to helping automotive dealers sell smarter represents the future of consumer marketing.”

To learn more about the Outsell platform, visit https://www.outsell.com/dealers

Outsell named one of the 10 Best Small Companies to work for in Minneapolis

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Outsell’s number one value is Customer – Customer First—which includes our customers, end-user consumers, and Outsell Associates. This value as well as the other values important to how Outsell has shaped itself since its founding in 2004 is part of what we attribute to our successful growth and positive company culture.

Recently, career consultants Zippia named Outsell one of The 10 Best Small Companies to Work For in Minneapolis.

Outsell is a company that helps automotive dealers keep their products in front of their customers throughout a product’s lifecycle. Employees of Outsell love the way that the CEO and company’s values are reflected in company culture, as well as the excellent technology used by the company.

Thank you, Zippia, for recognizing that Outsell’s consistent track record of growth and profitable innovation is a result of our ability to attract and retain outstanding individuals that want to make a difference.

Learn more about the Outsell Team HERE.

Outsell Delivers What Dealers Want at #NADA100

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#NADA100 was an event to remember for Outsell

Outsell attended the New Orleans convention with a brand new booth to greet dealers and received remarkable reception on the design. Several convention-goers stopped by just so they could take photos of the booth.

We couldn’t be more pleased with how the booth represents Outsell and how we engage customers, being inviting from all sides for continual traffic that helped build some fantastic relationships for the new year.

It was especially rewarding to have dealers and other vendors come up to us, remembering when we were a smaller presence with a more subdued booth along the back wall, and remark on how clear it is that we’ve grown as a successful solution for dealers and have become a major player in their digital marketing efforts.

old versus new outsell nada booth
NADA 2016 vs NADA 2017

We convened our first-ever Customer Advisory Board (CAB) the Thursday of the convention to start the event on a high note, gaining great feedback on the Outsell platform, guidance on product direction, and how we can better serve our clients.

One CAB participant, Kristy Elliott, Executive Manager at Sunshine Chevrolet, said:

“The Outsell platform has become an integral part of our overall marketing process. I welcomed the opportunity to participate in Outsell’s Customer Advisory Board, because it gives me a chance to network with peers from other dealerships, and to have an impact on Outsell’s product direction.”

outsell customer advisory board

NADA continued to be a win for Outsell when we were announced as a top marketing solution for auto dealers at the Automotive Website Awards, created by PCG Companies. The AWAs provide car dealers with an independent review of automotive technology, and we were honored to be counted among the select few recognized.

“Winning products in the marketing solutions category are those that we believe can help dealers to sell more cars in a digital age, as they are designed to increase the sales opportunities that dealers can have with in-market shoppers,” said Brian Pasch, Founder, PCG Companies.

awa award with pcg companies

We’ve also seen some great momentum surrounding the new features and products launched at NADA.

Outsell Social Ads integrates with a dealer’s campaigns to:

  • Reach the unreachable in their database
  • Keep active shoppers engaged
  • Acquire and engage net-new prospects
  • Entice lapsed service customers back to their service bays

Additionally, Outsell launched:

  • Single Consumer View: for dealers to view everything they know about a customer in one place including current vehicle, service and sales history, and engagement with past marketing campaigns.
  • Automated Review Solicitation: giving dealers the ability to automatically request reviews from customers and guide them through the process of posting those reviews.
  • CDK Integration: as a CDK integration partner working toward certification to ensure quick, simple and secure connections and data sharing.

“All these new enhancements are designed to help simplify the process of engaging consumers across channels and individualizing offers and content for auto dealers’ customers, including reaching customers via their preferred channel,” said Bryan Harwood, Outsell’s CTO.

It was an exciting way to kick off 2017 and we are carrying the momentum from the show throughout the organization.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth! We hope you enjoyed learning more about Outsell and how automating your marketing efforts utilizing technology featuring artificial intelligence increases consumer engagement.

We’re also happy to see that our Outsell branded socks were a huge hit. We’re a fan of them too.

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Outsell BuyerScout® a Finalist for 2016 DrivingSales Innovation Cup

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Outsell, which drives more revenue for auto dealers by transforming how they engage customers and prospects throughout their lifecycle, announced that the company’s proprietary buyer detection software BuyerScout® was a runner-up for the 2016 DrivingSales Innovation Cup Award as one of the Most Innovative Dealership Solutions of 2016.

Outsell competed on stage with four other finalists at the 2016 DrivingSales Executive Summit (DSES), and was judged by a panel of auto dealers.

BuyerScout predicts who’s in market and provides dealers with a scored list and competitive information on what shoppers are doing to identify hot prospects before the competition. Dealers using BuyerScout see an average of 87 additional in-market buyers identified, and a conversion rate increase as much as 4X.

Outsell BuyerScout is also the first Machine Learning-powered predictive analytics solution for the automotive industry, arming dealer sales teams with the information they need to focus their efforts on who’s ready to engage, service, or buy.

  • BuyerScout alerts dealers to consumers who are 2-2.5X more likely than the national average to buy.
  • 8% of prospects identified by BuyerScout purchased within 90 days.
  • 1% of owners that buy choose not to come back to the same dealership for their next purchase.
  • 13% of them are buying that very same brand at another dealership.

“It was a great honor to be nominated among such an esteemed group of peers,” said Outsell CTO, Bryan Harwood, who presented at the event. “Being recognized as a top innovator in the automotive industry reminds us why we strive so hard to make life easier for dealers. It goes back to one of Outsell’s core company values – Customer. Congratulations to Clarivoy who took home the winner’s trophy, and thank you again to DrivingSales for counting Outsell BuyerScout as one of the industry’s Most Innovative Solutions of the Year!”

For more information, or to sign up for a demo, visit: https://www.outsell.com/buyerscout/

Automotive Industry Marketing Awards – Outsell & DSplus Honored

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Outsell and DSplus Win Industry Marketing Awards

Outsell announced today that in partnership with DSplus, the 2015 Toyota Camry Launch campaign won the 2016 Communicator Award and the 2016 Summit Creative Award. To date, the 2015 Toyota Camry Launch campaign has earned a total of eleven international marketing and advertising awards and honors.

Outsell and DSplus’ 2015 Toyota Camry Launch recently earned the following recognition:

“The 2015 Toyota Camry campaign demonstrates the power of a well-crafted integrated marketing launch and I want to congratulate the creative teams at Outsell and DSplus that worked on this project,” said Mike Wethington, President and CEO, Outsell. “I want to thank the judging committees at the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts and Summit International for the acknowledgement.”

“The work entered in the 22nd Annual Communicator Awards serves as a benchmark in gauging the innovative ideas and capabilities of communications and marketing professionals around the world. Each year, our entrants continue to amaze by reinventing the ways we communicate and market in an ever-changing industry,” noted Linda Day, executive director of the Academy Interactive and Visual Arts.  She added, “On behalf of the entire Academy, we want to congratulate this year’s Communicator Award Entrants and Winners for their passion and dedication. We are honored to be given the opportunity to recognize such outstanding work.”

2015 Toyota Camry Launch
Outsell and DSplus developed an integrated media campaign to help Toyota dealers sell down the 2014 Camry inventory before the 2015 models arrived on dealer lots. The campaign kicked off by connecting to 207 dealer databases nationwide to send dealer-branded campaigns via email, which led them to a microsite, using sophisticated data-driven behavioral targeting in order to find potential Camry buyers.

Each phase, from sell-down to post-launch, generated unprecedented level of consumer engagement. 150,000 people nationwide interacted with the campaign, and 11,600 of these people clicked to “Schedule Test Drive.” Most importantly, consumers who interacted with this campaign generated approximately $21,277,537 in Camry sales revenue for participating dealers.*

To view examples of the award-winning campaign, please visit: http://www.outsellauto.com/files/saatchi/CamryAward2015/

*To calculate linked sales revenue, we looked at individuals who interacted with the campaign and subsequently purchased a new Toyota Camry from a participating dealer. Revenue was calculated based on price paid to dealers for each Camry sale.

 

About Communicator Award
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. This year’s Communicator Awards received thousands of entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Please visit www.communicatorawards.com for more information.

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit aiva.org for a full member list and more information.

About Summit Creative Award
Since 1994, the Summit Creative Award has enabled creative firms to receive the recognition they have long deserved. This international advertising competition offers participants a unique opportunity to showcase their talents alongside similarly positioned agencies, and to have their work judged by experts in the advertising field. Companies and individuals from more than 50 countries and across five continents have participated in this prestigious 22-year competition – the first and best of its kind.

Star Tribune Names Outsell a 2016 Top Workplace

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Honored for a second time as a progressive company in Minnesota

Outsell announced today that the Star Tribune has named Outsell one of the Top Workplaces in Minnesota. The 2016 Top Workplaces special section was published in the Star Tribune on Sunday, June 26. The report can also be found at www.StarTribune.com/topworkplaces2016.

Produced by the same team that compiles the 25-year-old Star Tribune 100 report of the best-performing public companies in Minnesota, Top Workplaces recognizes the most progressive companies in Minnesota based on employee opinions measuring engagement, organizational health and satisfaction. The analysis included responses from over 73,870 employees at Minnesota public, private and nonprofit organizations.

The results of the Star Tribune 2016 Top Workplaces are based on survey information collected by WorkplaceDynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention.

“This recognition is an honor and a testament to the talented group of employees at Outsell. We are extremely pleased to be listed among the other top workplaces in Minnesota,” said Mike Wethington, President and CEO, Outsell. “Our goal is to create a culture that brings out the best in our employees that continue to develop the best customer engagement solution for our customers in the automotive industry.”

Star Tribune Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith said, “The companies in the Star Tribune Top Workplaces deserve high praise for creating the very best work environments in the state of Minnesota. My congratulations to each of these exceptional companies.”

About 2016 Top Workplaces Award
To qualify for the Star Tribune Top Workplaces, a company must have more than 50 employees in Minnesota. Over 1,555 companies were invited to participate. Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses.

Minnesota’s Star Tribune Names Outsell a 2014 Top Workplace

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Outsell has been named one of the Top Workplaces in Minnesota by the Star Tribune. The Top Workplaces special section was published in the Star Tribune on Sunday, June 15, 2014.

Produced by the same team that compiles the 23-year-old Star Tribune 100 report of the best-performing public companies in Minnesota, Top Workplaces recognizes the most progressive companies in Minnesota based on employee opinions measuring engagement, organizational health and satisfaction. The analysis included responses from over 58,600 employees at Minnesota public, private and nonprofit organizations.

The results of the Star Tribune Top Workplaces are based on survey information collected by WorkplaceDynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention. To qualify for the Star Tribune Top Workplaces, a company must have more than 50 employees in Minnesota. Over 2,000 companies were invited to participate. Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses. The report can also be found at www.StarTribune.com/topworkplaces2014.

“We are honored to receive this recognition from the Star Tribune and thrilled to be listed among the many other inspiring companies located throughout this state. Outsell is comprised of smart and talented people that are re-defining customer engagement for the automotive industry, while also making time to give back to their local communities and charities,” said Michael Wethington, CEO, Outsell LLC.

“The companies in the Star Tribune Top Workplaces deserve high praise for creating the very best work environments in the state of Minnesota. My congratulations to each of these exceptional companies,” said Star Tribune Publisher Michael J. Klingensmith.

Outsell and Saatchi & Saatchi Win Silver Stevie Award

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Natalia Melendez and Jon Petron Accept Silver Outbound Marketing Program of the Year Award
Natalia Melendez and Jon Petron Accept Silver Outbound Marketing Program of the Year Award

See all of the Stevie winners from this year here.