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NEWS: London, Ink Direct Mail Campaign for McKinley Marketing Partners Wins Third Consecutive Award

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

NEWS ADVISORY:

London, Ink Direct Mail Campaign for McKinley Marketing Partners Wins Award for Third Consecutive Year

Awards don’t make a campaign successful, but winning an award for a successful campaign can increase awareness of the client’s product or service—especially when the client is McKinley Marketing Partners. McKinley Marketing Partners is the leading provider of Interim Marketing ManagersSM (IMMs®) to Fortune 2000 companies and government agencies.

McKinley 2004 direct mail campaign, created by its agency of record, London, Ink LLC, was named by the Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) as one of the best in its class. Other winners included industry and category leaders such as Verizon Wireless, JetBlue Airlines, Ritz Carlton Hotels, the National Football League and MetLife.
While awards don’t increase revenue, this one helped increase McKinley’s visibility among its core target audience: senior marketing decision-makers who need interim marketing expertise for a wide range of marketing projects, from strategy and product management to public relations and lead generation.

“Bob London’s understanding of McKinley’s business goals and our marketplace, plus fantastic creativity, resulted in a campaign that directly supported our growth last year.” said Marcia Call, McKinley’s President and Chief Marketing Officer. “We’re pleased to have London, Ink as our agency of record—and the subsequent direct mail campaign for McKinley has only reinforced our satisfaction.”

Bob London is president of London, Ink, a Maryland-based marketing and communications consulting firm, and serves as a Virtual VP of Marketing for growth stage companies that need an injection of marketing experience and leadership to drive key initiatives and results.

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London, Ink Develops Award-Winning, 3-Year Direct Mail Program for McKinley Marketing Partners

Monday, January 30th, 2006

COMPANY PROFILE: McKinley Marketing Partners, Inc.

Leading National Provider of Interim Marketing ManagersSM to Fortune 2000 companies.

SITUATION:

McKinley’s crack business development/sales managers are responsible for the target businesses in their respective geographic territories.

To raise awareness among the target audience prior to follow up calls by the sales team, McKinley has been doing a successful quarterly direct mail campaign.

SOLUTION:

For 2005 we took a step back and spoke to prospects about how they make decisions regarding interim marketing resources.

We found that, since their needs are event-driven (new launch, key manager on maternity leave), McKinley needed to increase mindshare, thus increasing the odds that they will contact the prospect when the need is active.

Since the business development managers cannot physically call each prospect every month, London, Ink recommended increasing the frequency of direct mail from four to ten per year.

Additionally while awareness of McKinley’s overall value proposition was high, there are many benefits that were not as well known. The increased frequency of mailings was an opportunity to showcase different key benefits and support points.

RESULTS:

The increased frequency of the direct mail campaign has been a better fit for the McKinley sales team, since they no longer have to contact each mailed prospect each quarter. The mailings do the work for them by keeping the McKinley name and benefits in front of the prospects.

Bob London is president of London, Ink, a Maryland-based marketing and communications consulting firm, and serves as a Virtual VP of Marketing for growth stage companies that need an injection of marketing experience and leadership to drive key initiatives and results.

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