ABOUT AFFINITIV
Affinitiv is a highly-focused Martech company that has managed owner lifecycle management and retention for luxury automobile makers, including Lexus, BMW, and Porsche, for over 20 years.
THE CHALLENGE
Affinitiv watched their industry rapidly change
It was transitioning away from manual, legacy-driven, service-based processes, and towards an automated, digital-driven, product-based future. Affinitiv knew they needed to get ahead of this transformation. However, they knew that doing so would not be simple.
After all, Affinitiv could not just stop their current marketing methods. They would need to continue their traditional print-based marketing, and layer in a new cadence of digital marketing content that would be distributed through channels like email, social media, and online advertising. At the same time, they would need to sell this new digital marketing initiative to each of their thousands of OEMsand ask them to absorb its additional costs.
This would not be an easy sell. Most of the OEMs did not understand digital. Affinitiv would need to educate their clients on why they had to evolve their marketing. Furthermore, once they did, Affinitiv would have to regularly prove the ROI of these new digital initiatives so their clients would continue to consider their monthly fees a worthwhile investment.
To drive adoption and retention for this initiative, Affinitiv decided to deploy a custom analytics and reporting solutionone that produced a data-driven view of ROI across an omnichannel marketing campaign.
Affinitiv began to develop this solution in-house. However, soon, they realized they needed a partner. Even though they had over 150 technical team members, they lacked the specialized knowledge required to design and build their reporting platform. Even if they did hire, the project would be cost-prohibitive to complete and maintain on their own.
THE SOLUTION
TapClicks surveyed Affinitiv's requirements and began to map a solution.
To start, TapClicks knew their solution would have to serve Affinitiv's large, dispersed sales force. This team required intuitive tools that told the story behind Affinitiv's new digital initiatives and was part of the larger digital transformation effort of an organization that works with hundreds of auto dealers. They needed this data at all times, ready to present during visits to their accounts' locations.
Also, TapClicks had to share this data with Affinitiv's OEMs directly. Affinitiv generated data from 100+ services, and TapClicks would need to develop a way to pull it all, aggregate it, package it up, and make it available in near real-time to Affinitiv's 7-10 downstream partners in custom reports.
TapClicks also needed to develop a solution that plugged into Affinitiv's existing in-house marketing automation platform, as well as Affinitiv's ecosystem of other third-party vendors.
Finally to make the solution even more challenging Affinitiv needed its new solution designed, deployed, and driving results within 90 days.
To meet these requirements, TapClicks worked hand-in-hand with Affinitiv to develop a robust reporting solution, based on their core product: TapReports. TapClicks and Affinitiv shared long calls every day to design and build the right dashboards for each of Affinitiv's sales teams and OEMs. Upon on-boarding, TapClicks spent additional time providing intimate instruction to Affinitiv's legacy-minded internal marketing team to rapidly onboard them to this next-generation platform.
Ultimately, TapClicks and Affinitiv developed a suite of custom dashboards through a single-sign-on reporting tool. Users would need to sign in and plug in their dashboard's ID, and they would receive their unique report, generated from real-time data, allowing them to review their complete marketing campaign performance as a whole and in granular detail at any time.
BUSINESS VALUE DELIVERED
AFFINITIV HAS DEPLOYED TAPCLICKS FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS. DURING THAT TIME, THEY HAVE:
SAVED $30,000 PER MONTH IN OVERHEAD
Without TapClicks, Affinitiv would need to host, compute, and process all of the raw data generated by running digital marketing campaigns for thousands of dealers. By partnering with TapClicks, Affinitiv can hand off responsibility for purchasing and maintaining this infrastructure.
SAVED PRECIOUS TIME AND MONEY
Affinitiv saved precious time and money by not having to manage the API changes of hundreds of data sources. They chose to focus on delivering exceptional service and marketing campaigns.
PASSED COST SAVINGS ON TO THEIR CLIENTS
Developing this system internally would have been very expensive, forcing Affinitiv to recoup their costs by charging higher fees. By running TapClicks, Affinitiv can bring their clients a much better price point, increasing both their competitive advantage and client loyalty.
FREED 80+ HOURS PER WEEK
Freed 80+ hours per week in development time. Before choosing TapClicks, Affinitiv had assigned approximately 8-10 members of their digital team to work part-time on developing a similar system. By deploying TapClicks, Affinitiv can reassign these team members and funnel 80+ additional person-hours per week towards reinventing their product suite.
OFFERED CUSTOMIZED PACKAGES
Some of Affinitiv's clients are groups of dealers whose team members sell from multiple OEMs. By leveraging TapClick's flexibility, Affinitiv can give them single sign-in reports that aggregate data from multiple OEMs and present a holistic view of group performance all from one dashboard
"We need to look competent in front of our clients when we discuss the digital space. With TapClicks, we know what we are talking about, and we can demonstrate key ROI metrics for our digital campaigns all without having to write a single line of code ourselves."
