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url: 'https://www.openmedium.biz/customer-stories/zodiac-generates-leads-cross-media-marketing-platform/'
title: Zodiac Generates Leads with Cross-Media Marketing Platform
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date: '2010-09-15T17:03:26-06:00'
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# Zodiac Generates Leads with Cross-Media Marketing Platform

#### Key Performance Indicators

**200% Increase**  

in Rebate Downloads

**400% Decrease**  

in Cost per Conversion

#### Business Objectives

Zodiac Pool Systems required a cost effective and easy to implement marketing platform that could improve efficiency, track results and increase return on investment on their existing marketing mix without adding complexity.

Support from multiple departments needed to be kept to an absolute minimum during implementation of the solution. Additional budget for new projects was limited, IT and other internal technical support was not readily available, and the marketing department did not have additional manpower resources.

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#### Goals for the campaign came in three categories:

**[Grow](https://www.openmedium.biz/grow/) revenue by  

**Increasing campaign impressions/reach  

Simplifying lead nurture & follow-up  

Increasing survey submissions  

Increasing consumer list size with opt-ins

**Increase efficiency by  

**Tracking the rebate cycle  

Improving campaign reporting  

Managing consumer profiles & opt-outs  

Improving data management

**Decrease cost by**  

Lowering total cost & decreasing cost per conversion  

Reach 15,000 rebate downloads and have a cost per conversion of less than $100

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#### Results

Zodiac Pool Systems selected JFM Concepts and their VDP Web marketing platform to develop and coordinate their cross-media strategy. With the new solution Zodiac saw a dramatic improvement in results.

]More than 200% improvement in rebate downloads without an increase in marketing budget  

400% decrease in cost per conversion for PPC advertising  

Personalized URLs allowed direct mail tracking campaign-wide and on a prospect-by-prospect basis for the first time  

Response rates (visiting the Personalized URL) ranging from 4% to 12%

Working with VDP Web allowed us to quickly deploy and track large scale campaigns. The consolidated reporting dashboard provided us with performance insights from across all of our direct mail and digital marketing campaigns.  

– Eric Hill, Online Marketing Manager, Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc.

*Source:  

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