ABOUT THE CUSTOMER
NAOS is an international company operating in the retail cosmetics and beauty industry and is a purpose-driven company with a mission, inspired by a claimed humanist utopia. Home to well-known and mainstream dermatological brand Bioderma and the luxury, niche professional brand Esthederm, as well as the personalized indie brand Etat Pur, they hold a status of a major international figure in Skincare and are found in over 130 countries.
CHALLENGES AND BUSINESS PAIN POINTS
NAOS North America is the corporate entity of two major brands; Bioderma and Esthederm. The Canadian subsidiary handles the North American market, hence Canada and the USA. Each market offers its own products, services and customer experience.
As an international company, there was a need to align with international guidelines, while staying true to its North American needs.
There was also a strong necessity to grow digitally, as the retail and beauty market is highly reliant on E-Commerce and E-Retail.
In 2018, we started the digital transformation and growth marketing project with NAOS by launching their Sugar Market project. Fast forward to today, with their growing success, our collaboration continues with the launch of their Salesforce (Marketing Cloud and Sales Cloud) project.
When we started the project, the main goal was to grow their 1st-party data, given that all client data was held by their retail partners, and they could not speak directly to their clients.
As their database grew, we also found the need to grow their communication and engagement.
We also flagged the need to digitalize internal processes to streamline activities, save time and better communicate with their clients.
As many of their systems were not integrated, it was impossible to have a single’s 360 view of their customers, their interest and preference.
SOLUTIONS
- Lead acquisition: through many types of acquisition initiatives relevant to their market, we were able to generate new leads and grow their database, and by doing so, increase their potential revenue streams.
- Client Nurturing: we automated key emailing activities to nurture existing customers through timely, standardized, yet personalized communications.
- Growth marketing: we designed and conducted A/B testing, optimizing and improving the results of key metrics to increase engagement and acquisition.
- Integrated tools: website analytics and social listening integration to their marketing tool enabled them to monitor their customers through multiple touch points.
- Increasing replenishment and AOV: with the launch of their e-Commerce in 2020, we realigned communications with the buyer’s journey in mind, to ensure perfect alignment along the different buying stages (awareness, consideration, decision, and post-purchase).
- Limiting team silos: as NAOS North America grew, so did their international teams, and it became paramount to align with them in order to create consistency across markets and increase ROI.
- Agility in growth: the digital transformation kicked off in 2018, with very specific acquisition goals, and as their digital growth continued, we realigned and even changed platforms to account for their growth.
CONCLUSION
Solutions Metrix applied its expertise in close collaboration with the NAOS team, ensuring the success of the marketing automation implementation.
Through this project, NAOS increased its database through many initiatives, allowing them to grow its 1-to-1 communication and better understand its consumers. With that growth, they were able to increase conversion and ultimately increase their D2C revenue.
As NAOS grew and its marketing objectives changed, our agile methodology allowed us to realign our implementation and deliver the highest value for them.