--- title: MerchantE Case Study description: Marsden Marketing was hired to help MerchantE relaunch their brand and services as well as fill their sales pipeline. --- [![MM-Logo-Final-06](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/MM-Logo-Final-06.png?width=299&height=40&name=MM-Logo-Final-06.png "MM-Logo-Final-06")](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/) [![MM-Logo-Final-Logo Mark](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/MM-Logo-Final-Logo%20Mark.png?width=1310&name=MM-Logo-Final-Logo%20Mark.png "MM-Logo-Final-Logo Mark")](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/) # **MERCHANTE CASE STUDY** **Brand and Service Relaunch Fills the Sales Pipeline** [ Download PDF ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/Case%20Study%20PDFs/MM_CaseStudy_MerchantE.pdf) ![logo Me](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/logo%20Me.png "logo Me") ## OVERVIEW The business world is full of companies that have reinvented themselves successfully (Amazon, Netflix, Apple) and those that haven’t, and suffered the consequences. With two decades in the payment processing industry, MerchantE was a well-established business, but, like other companies faced with change, decided that an evolution of its brand and services was in order to take even better advantage of the transforming financial technology market. That decision resulted in a shift in target market, a rethinking of service offerings, and a relaunch of the company with a revised name and entirely new digital presence and marketing. MerchantE has successfully morphed into a fintech provider with a full suite of services that still includes payment processing, but also far more. Far more engagement with its customers and prospects has resulted in significantly greater lead generation and conversion. Throughout this evolution, Marsden Marketing was instrumental in getting the word out about MerchantE, bringing prospects in, and giving the sales force knowledge and tools to sell the company’s new and redefined services. > *“Marsden Marketing has been an incredible partner in both guiding development and managing execution of our brand relaunch. Their team has been a critical driver of our recent sales success.**”* > > *-  Chief Product Officer* > > *“Our new market position and services meant a shift in thinking for our sales organization. Marsden created tools to educate our team and helped them handle the increased number of leads generated by our new, comprehensive marketing program.**”* > > *-  Director, Product Marketing* ## APPROACH | **• ** | **Research and Discovery**: With new leadership and a new focus on bringing a wide range of financial services to small and mid-sized businesses, MerchantE set out to significantly revise and add to its offerings and improve its market position. The company shifted its focus from retail B2C to B2B and developed a full complement of online payment processing and money management services to serve B2B customers. Marsden needed to do significant research to better understand a different type of buyer for MerchantE’s services – a single individual or small group as opposed to a larger, cross-functional corporate purchasing group. Through in-depth buyer persona interviews, competitive analysis, and client and market research, Marsden refined MerchantE’s value proposition and messaging. This focused and data-driven process allowed Marsden to take an informed and strategic approach to creating MerchantE’s new brand, website, and digital presence. | | --- | --- | | **•** | **Integrated Marketing Program**: Before the evolution of its brand and marketing, MerchantE’s communications focused on contacting customers when the company had compliance information to pass along. To reintroduce the company and its new brand and services, Marsden developed and implemented a comprehensive, integrated marketing program for MerchantE. **Website:** One foundational element of the marketing program is a new website created to reflect the brand and service evolution. The interactive website features strong, modern visuals, compelling content offers, and thought leadership blogs to spark engagement. It centers on the Money IN, Money OUT, and Money MAX services, introducing and expanding on them in custom illustrations aligned with the brand’s core attributes – simple, friendly, smart, and sincere. The result is a website that makes the brand story easy to grasp, compelling, and impactful. **Video: **Marsden also created a video series to introduce MerchantE’s new name, look, and services. The introductory video, “A Suite of Innovative Services,” is visually engaging and clearly conveys the range of services the company is bringing to market. Brief videos developed after launch cover specific services ranging from web commerce to mobile payment acceptance to same-day access to credit card funds. In addition to being posted on the MerchantE website, the videos are the centerpiece of email campaigns and social media and are the main contributor to improved response to MerchantE’s email campaigns. They also serve as valuable sales enablement tools for the company’s sales team. |   | **•** | **Branding and Go-to-Market Strategy**: An important element of the MerchantE launch was determining how to position and go to market with its redefined services. The company needed a way to describe its products to reinforce the shift from payment processing to sophisticated financial technology services. After considering how their targeted businesses typically handle their funds, Marsden collaborated with MerchantE to group its services into three buckets: Money IN™, Money OUT™, and Money MAX™, which reflect how their customers take payments, pay invoices and employees, and manage their funds through data. Rather than suggesting that the company rename itself entirely, Marsden helped MerchantE evolve its name (from Merchant e-Solutions) to modernize and connect it more firmly to ecommerce and the fintech marketplace. | | --- | --- | | **•** | **Marketing Campaigns**: Building on the new web presence, Marsden developed multi-channel digital marketing tactics that included email campaigns, advertising (pay-per-click, Google, Facebook and Bing ads, retargeting), content syndication, and social media. A public relations program amplifies the company’s services and expertise. *Marketing technology and measurement *Underlying the integrated marketing program is marketing technology to automate campaigns, gain visibility into their results, and gather and analyze data to inform subsequent marketing decisions. Marsden is a Hubspot Platinum Solutions Partner and employs its Marketing Hub for MerchantE email campaigns and CMS Hub for website development and management. MerchantE’s sales team is testing the Sales Hub, a CRM solution to help them get deeper insights into prospects and close deals faster. Marsden tracks campaigns by product via Hubspot to measure their effectiveness and improve every metric, from number of clicks, conversions, and sales-qualified leads to the cost involved in generating them. This is the first time MerchantE has been able to attribute the results of marketing campaigns to specific products and better gauge the success of the company’s marketing efforts. Evaluation includes the use of CallRail, which provides call tracking software to attribute phone calls to the specific marketing channels that sparked interest in the business. Buyers for MerchantE’s services often are individuals who will pick up the phone, rather than contact the company via the web, so call tracking was important for accurate evaluation of campaigns. | ## RESULTS ![Icon_Email_Orng](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/Icon_Email_Orng.png?width=100&height=99&name=Icon_Email_Orng.png "Icon_Email_Orng") **127% Increase in Open Rates** Increase in email open rates ![computer-circle-icon_orange](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/computer-circle-icon_orange.png?width=100&height=100&name=computer-circle-icon_orange.png "computer-circle-icon_orange") **1,004% Increase in Leads ****Increase in lead generation** ![Icon_Email_Orng](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/Icon_Email_Orng.png?width=100&height=99&name=Icon_Email_Orng.png "Icon_Email_Orng") **609% Increase in Click Rates Increase in email click rates** ![rocket-icon-orange](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/rocket-icon-orange.png?width=100&height=100&name=rocket-icon-orange.png "rocket-icon-orange") **82% of MQLs Converted to SQLs ****Marketing qualified leads that became sales qualified** ![Icon_People-Increase_Orange](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/Icon_People-Increase_Orange.png?width=100&height=99&name=Icon_People-Increase_Orange.png "Icon_People-Increase_Orange") **> 1,000% Increase in Social Engagement Increase in Facebook and LinkedIn interactions** ![Icon_Award_Orange](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/Icon_Award_Orange.png?width=100&height=100&name=Icon_Award_Orange.png "Icon_Award_Orange") **7-Time Award Winning for Web and Video ****Website redesign and video received four DotCOMM awards and three Videographer Excellence Awards** ![Icon_People_Orange](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Our%20Work/Icon_People_Orange.png?width=100&height=99&name=Icon_People_Orange.png "Icon_People_Orange") **> 2,000% Increase LinkedIn Shares ****Increase in LinkedIn shares across all content** ## CONCLUSION Marsden Marketing’s collaboration with MerchantE resulted in a successful brand relaunch with a new name, an expanded suite of services, an interactive and highly visual website, and a reinvigorated digital presence. All work together to generate far more engagement and create a solid B2B sales pipeline for the organization. Using digital advertising and email best practices to drive website traffic, strong visuals and offers on the website, and compelling content and blog posts to spark engagement, MerchantE’s relaunch got off to an impressive start and continues successfully to this day. [![DOWNLOAD PDF](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/112657/fc014ad6-76bd-4e98-b507-1b05b5c1bd8a.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/112657/fc014ad6-76bd-4e98-b507-1b05b5c1bd8a) ## INTEGRATED MARKETING ELEMENTS: | **• ** | **Go-to-Market Strategy & Planning** | | --- | --- | | **•** | **Website**** Design** | | **•** | **Demand Generation Programs** | | **•** | ****HubSpot Automation Platform**** | | **• ** | **Video Production** | | --- | --- | | **•** | **Multi-Channel Marketing** | | **•** | **Social Media Strategy** | | **•** | **Testing and Optimizing** | #### Need Help Strengthening your sales pipeline? We Can Help. [![Let's Talk](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/112657/e85c5687-b982-49d3-b9dd-f3aa9e907806.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/112657/e85c5687-b982-49d3-b9dd-f3aa9e907806) ## Check out Some of our other Case Studies [![Integrated Marketing Pays Off](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/Thumbs4.png) ### Integrated Marketing Pays Off ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/case-study-integrated-marketing-pays-off) [![Generating Demand with an Online Event](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/Thumbs5.png) ### Generating Demand with an Online Event ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/case-study-generating-demand-with-an-online-event) [![Interactive Content Turns Into Lead Gen Machine](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/Thumbs.png) ### Interactive Content Turns Into Lead Gen Machine ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/case-study-interactive-content-turns-into-lead-generation-machine) [![Inbound Strategy Strengthens Sales Pipeline](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hubfs/Our%20Work/Thumbs2.png) ### Inbound Strategy Strengthens Sales Pipeline ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/case-study-inbound-strategy-strenthens-sales-pipeline) What super power does your business need? [Let’s chat](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/request-a-marketing-consult/) Put your marketing on track from your inbox. Get our blog. [Yes, please ](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/blog/subscribe) B2B growth marketing+pr agency Trevelino/Keller acquired Marsden Marketing in 2024, including its industry-leading MM Growth Marketing solution, powered by a data-forward approach rich in technologies including HubSpot, Salesforce and Pardot. - Most Popular Pages 1042 Northside Drive NW Suite 960 Atlanta, GA 30318 [(404) 214-0722](tel:4042140722) [info@marsdenmarketing.co](mailto:info@marsdenmarketing.com)m [![Read our Reviews on HubSpot’s Agency Directory](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/53/hubfs/Agency-Directory-Colour-Small.png?width=150&height=150&name=Agency-Directory-Colour-Small.png)](https://www.hubspot.com/agencies/marsden-marketing?badge=agency-directory) [![Twitter](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2018/resource-images/social/twt.jpg?width=55&height=55&name=twt.jpg)](https://x.com/TrevelinoKeller) [![LinkedIn](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2018/resource-images/social/lindin.jpg?width=55&height=55&name=lindin.jpg)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/marsdenmarketing) [![Instagram](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2018/resource-images/social/insta.jpg?width=55&height=55&name=insta.jpg)](https://www.instagram.com/trevelino.keller/) © 2025 Trevelino/Keller | [Privacy Policy](https://connect.marsdenmarketing.com/privacy-policy/) | [Sitemap](https://www.marsdenmarketing.com/sitemap.xml) **Menu