Case Studies: Retail Services

Global Social Media Strategy, International Franchisor

A major business and consumer services franchisor was confronted with the rise of Social Media as a potential marketing vehicle. In fact, upon review, the company found that it had, in fact, a wide range of social media efforts underway, do solely to the initiative of motivated employees and franchisees around the world. Thus, there was no coherent message and a significant amount of misleading or mis-directional information in the marketplace.

Approach:

MCAworks surveyed the range of competitive and analogous social media strategies and developed a three-year plan to consolidate efforts into a proactive, leaderships role in social media to utilize the tools of the emerging media to rapidly grow friends, loyal customers, and seasonal employees.

Results:

The company remains an acknowledged leader in its business category and continues its above-industry growth, while its social media efforts are, for their industry, state-of-the-art.