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WE ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND WE MEAN A LOT OF QUESTIONS. OUR DISCOVERY PHASE IS SOMETIMES LONGER THAN THE PROTOTYPE BUILDING ITSELF. IT'S BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET IT RIGHT AND LEARN ABOUT BOTH THE SAID AND UNSAID IN YOUR DATA, YOUR ORGANIZATION, YOUR GOALS AND BRAND POSITIONING.

WE HAVE A VERY ROBUST DISCOVERY, TESTING, AND MEASUREMENT PROCESS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT ONCE WE UNDERSTAND THE DATA AND THE WHY, WE WILL ARRIVE AT THE WHAT AND THE HOW WILL WITH GREATER EASE AND ALLOW US TO BUILD MORE PREDICTABLE OUTCOMES.

"Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do." - Michael Porter

Services

STRATEGY

Our digital marketing strategy is proven to drive not only traffic but overall business performance for brands across the globe. We produce results-driven strategies and campaigns that expand your business and reach. By uniting data, competitor analysis, developed consumer personas and against a strategic plan, we are able to produce a measurable marketing strategy that continually informs our plan throughout the project's life-cycle. It's a little bit and a little bit magic.

ENGAGEMENT

We create goal-based, strategic marketing plans that outline details strategies and tactics to achieve desired business performance. We help you develop, deploy and measure targeted messaging, content and communications laddering back to your overall business goals. Through our measured learning process. We also identify the white space and gaps in your current approach to help you address additional opportunities and address them driving additional business performance efforts.

MEASUREMENT

We unapologetically and ferociously measure every aspect of your brands business performance because we know that it's not what you think you know that changes the game, it's what you don't know that is keeping you from reaching your best brand performance. We dig in and leverage every bit of your data to better inform your marketing and strategic brand plans. We then make sure to align this with your overall strategy and make every single effort measurable, ripe for testing and optimization.

CONTENT

All brands are storytellers and you control the narrative through the engaging content you share. Creating content that supports your business performance metrics and consumer needs are crucial to the success of both you're on and offline marketing initiatives. Whether is a beautiful brand focused video, an eye-opening info-graphic or a suite of branded collaterals, we help bring your story to life. This content becomes even more powerful when strategically deployed leveraging a co-created content calendar.

DEVELOPMENT

Yes, our sites are attractive and intuitive - but they're also extremely well engineered. We meticulously develop adaptable, responsive websites that are customized for each client's specific needs. We seamlessly integrate everything from robust content management systems to third-party APIs. These sites are so well planned out that they are not only intuitive but they allow you to keep your online presence refreshed and current 24/7 with the greatest of ease.

SOCIAL

All brands are digital and social and engage with consumers through social platforms 24/7. We lead our clients in building robust and active online communities driving business performance, increasing brand affinity, increasing search results and driving revenue. Through organic and paid search strategies, detailed editorial content calendars, messaging frameworks, we help brands establish voice and tone and create communities allowing clients to form connections with customers boosting their transparency building brand love.

DATA

Data is the fuel to your brand's fire and the key to unlocking the most meaningful and high performing relationships with your consumers, partners, sponsors, ticket holders and fans. Your data is also the ultimate truth and litmus test for the health of your brand. Developing a data strategy is a foundational piece to the success of your brand. Our strategic approach allows you to fundamentally break down your data into meaningful ways driving business performance.

DESIGN

Intuitive and compelling design doesn't just magically happen. Our content architects use insights uncovered by our marketing strategy to refine site-maps build platforms from intuitive user experiences to beautiful full-length content. Our design and editorial producers then work to craft an ideal, content-driven experience for your brand. Rather than forcing the design to constrain the content, we allow the content to inform our designs. As a result, our work is focused on engaging your target consumers.

OPTIMIZATION

The brand marketing landscape is constantly evolving and brands can't afford NOT continually check in on your brand's owned, earned and paid media platforms. We keep an eye on your strategy, campaigns, activations, and tactics so they continue to operate like a well-oiled measured machine. Our team of industry thought leaders and client services team are industry experts and keeping your business performance exceeding expectations.

Experience

We work with some of the leading, best in class leagues, teams, brands, entertainment properties and agencies in the world.

Whether it's a short-term project or long-term partnership, we integrate into the fabric of our client teams as if we are a part of their organization. We are in the trenches with these leaders day in and day out. It's the only way we know how to do it and our clients wouldn't have it any other way.

These thoughtful and strategic relationships continue to allow us to drive business performance and remarkable work for our clients and partner agencies. It may be a non-traditional model but we think it's time to break the mold.

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About

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market against any competition, at any time. - Patrick Lencioni

  • WHO THE HECK ARE WE?

    We are great utility players. With more than 20 years of experience working with Fortune 1000 companies, sports leagues, teams, professional athletes, entertainment properties and the brands that sponsor these organizations. We have built game-changing experiences and business performance for some of the best of the best. Even, better, we've seen it all so we can help you scale quickly and learn from our successes and teachable moments.

    Strategic Playground connects brands with the right consumers by using your data to tell your brand story, creating powerful and revenue generating connections with your consumer targets and personas.

  • WE DO THIS IN A MULTITUDE OF WAYS

    • Solid and robust strategic planning
    • Powerful engagement campaigns,
    • Building brand communities
    • Engaging and leveraging the power of brand influencers
    • Integrated traffic driving activations
    • Sponsorship and partnership strategies
    • Digital Engagement (seo, sem, email, re-targeting)
    • Traditional Marketing (media placement, design, collateral)

    At our core, we are a delightfully disruptive agency. We offer creative, high-performing, strategic and measurable work, transparent pricing, accountable management and rock-solid application development supported by digital and traditional marketing expertise.

    Our detailed, intelligent process provides an efficient, focused framework for every phase, from brand brainstorming, execution, measurement, and optimization.

    And it's a true statement to say that we are obsessed with and think #CoffeeIsALifeStyle. Power to the bean.

  • BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US

    We are more interested in hearing all about you: your business objectives, your dreams, what keeps you up at night and where you would like to take your company in the next five years.

    We'd love to chat about your creative strategy, branding, and marketing plan. Heck, we'll even listen to you mourn the painful breakup you just experienced with your last creative agency, web developer, or internet marketing company and move past that and embrace your brand's best non-agency agency experience yet.

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Our Amazing Team

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Kay Garland

Lead Designer

Larry Parker

Lead Marketer

Diana Pertersen

Lead Developer

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Contact Us

THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

Ready to start a project or really curious about our process? Let's talk about your idea. We like to come prepared for our first conversation, so for starters, please fill out our project inquiry form in as much detail as possible.

If you are a client in need of updates, changes, or immediate support please email Client Services at: hello@strategicplayground.com.