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PTC is one of the world's leading B2B technology companies that work with more than 27,000 businesses around the world, including a substantial sales force with teams based throughout PTC's global divisions. However, the sales teams lacked a proper tool to disseminate information about product updates and new launches, and educate members, resulting in missed sales opportunities.
In partnership with Genuine, PTC launched an enterprise mobile sales tool that is actively educating and monitoring sales around the world.
To address PTC's main challenge of ensuring the PTC sales force is equipped with the proper tools and information, Genuine worked with PTC to create a digital strategy that provided solutions to better educate its sales team, which will ultimately improve sales leads. Based on the size of PTC's sales force and its global presence, Genuine devised a plan to launch an offline mobile sales application that gave access to all its product demo networks.
Functionalities of the PTC app includes, educating members of the sales team through videos and content uploads of all demos, information of all new products and updates once available. Since Genuine developed the app to be accessible offline, the sales teams are still able to showcase products. Once a data connection is established, updates are automatically made to the app.
The app also gives team leaders the ability to monitor its teams and track individual engagements on the app, including which contents were viewed and how long. With this capability, lead sales managers can easily adjust and improve its team based on data acquired.
The PTC application was built on Adobe AIR and is accessible on desktop, IOS, and all Android devices. The app has been translated into nine different languages for its divisions around the world. Since launching the app, the PTC sales teams are now better educated on all its products and armed with the tools needed to generate more leads.
Many golf pro-shops are faced with one common problem: limited inventory space. This problem extends to the brands on display in stores, but FootJoy has implemented an interactive solution with Genuine Interactive for pro-shops around the nation.
FootJoy is an Acushnet Company brand that develops golf shoes, gloves, outerwear, socks, and accessories for amateur and pro-golfers alike. FootJoy enlisted Genuine's digital expertise to create a strategy that would increase product sales and brand engagement with an in-store native mobile application. The app was implemented in Summer 2013 and is now on the sales floors of 100 pro-shops around the country.
Genuine saw an opportunity to reinvent the purchasing routine for consumers with FootJoy. With limited inventory space, pro-shops are stocked with physical catalogs that are quickly lost or forgotten in drawers and back rooms, hindering potential sales. FootJoy wanted to provide a unique and tailored experience for its customers and a consistent sales tool for pro-shops selling FootJoy products. Together, Genuine and FootJoy is augmenting the traditional customer experience at pro-shops with the FootJoy In-Store App. This native mobile app was created to help FootJoy improve sales in pro-shops around the country by enabling customers to view the entire season's product line.
The FootJoy In-Store App addresses the challenge of properly showcasing its products and targeting the right products to the appropriate consumer. The app was designed with the customer in mind to create an efficiency that improves the overall purchasing experience. Consumers can quickly and easily find the best shoe products to review through the app's "Shoe Selector," which asks five main questions to establish consumers' game style, fitting, and lifestyle preferences. Once the right product is found, customers can place an order directly from the app and the order is sent to the pro-shop staff who can fulfill the order.
Since the app launched in Summer 2013, pro-shops are seeing customers engage with the FootJoy In-Store App for nearly three minutes and an increase in sales engagement between staff and customers. This app is changing how consumers engage with products in brick and mortar stores by providing a richer experience through a digital tool.
Rocket Software is a leading global developer of software products that help corporations, government agencies, and other organizations reach their technology and business goals. In 2013, the company was undergoing a shift in its marketing and sales strategies and sought Genuine's expertise to re-launch RocketSoftware.com.
Rocket Software's corporate objective for its new site was two-fold. First, Rocket needed to streamline the administrative experience of the site, allowing content owners to manage the presence for all of Rocket's 14 product families through a single interface. Second, in terms of user experience, the site needed to be more product-focused in order to help increase leads and improve cross-selling opportunities for its sales force. Historically, each Product Family and Business Unit was managed separately, living in a subdomain with a completely different look and feel from the corporate brand website, which created a major disconnect between products and customers, generating lost opportunities for the sales team to cross-sell.
Genuine devised a digital strategy and site architecture that complemented the sales team's efforts to realign its Product Families and Business Units under the overall Rocket Software brand.
By building the new corporate website on Drupal 7, Genuine utilized the taxonomy system for products and related content throughout the site that improved visitor's time spent on site and allowed for user self-education. These features significantly enhanced visitor engagement rates across the site with a 50% boost in average time spent on site and a 30% increase in pageviews per visit, suggesting that site architecture is essential to user experience and performance. In addition, strategically placed call-to-actions, readily accessible product information, and free trials on the site delivered a conversion rate of 192% greater than the industry average.
Genuine also built a unified administration system with modular site management functionality that allowed administrators to maintain consistent structure and aesthetic across all Product Families, and control unique messaging for branding and SEO purposes (maintained ranking/boost in organic visits) on a Product Family by Product Family basis. These controls, along with preliminary search engine optimization have provided a seamless transition, maintained top search rankings and delivered a 12% post-launch increase in highly engaged search traffic.
RocketSoftware.com also includes Google Analytics integration with Product Family-specific segmentation, providing both high-level overview of all site visitors, as well as, in-depth analysis of user behavior and interactions focused around specific product families.
The new RocketSoftware.com is a shining example of how a digital strategy and well-executed website can complement and support corporate initiatives handled offline, whether sales strategies or even corporate restructuring. By carefully planning both the brand messaging components and the information architecture, Genuine helped Rocket to create a digital presence that will help them meet corporate objectives now and well into the future.
Following the launch of the new site, Genuine is continuing to work with Rocket on SEO/SEM traffic strategies to further bolster the lead-generation performance of the new site.
Together, Genuine and Novartis, one of the leaders in the pharmaceutical industry, is taking Twitter to a new level. More than 400 million tweets are sent on a daily basis from Twitter's 200+million users. Of those tweets, many reveal information about a person's health status. Genuine and Novartis saw this as an opportunity to harness real-time data direct from the source to track and monitor the flu.
For the last 40 years, flu vaccine production technology was unchanged, until now. Novartis developed Flucelvax that was the first influenza virus vaccine approved by the FDA, which eliminated the need for antibiotics. The technology used to create Flucelvax was also the same technology used by scientists who developed the cure for mumps and measles. Novartis is one of the leaders in the pharmaceutical industry and needed a website that educated the public about Flucelvax, the new influenza virus vaccine alternative that is free of antibiotics and preservatives.
Genuine recognized Novartis as a leader in the pharmaceutical industry and wanted to design and develop a website that would set it apart from its competitors. Genuine's strategy team worked closely with Novartis to create a website for Flucelvax that provided more than just information about the influenza virus vaccine. Flucelvax.com gives visitors a unique experience that is unlike any other FDA-approved pharmaceutical website currently available. Using a parallax design, visitors transition seamlessly through the site by scrolling down the single page. Also available for visitors is the world's first Social Flu Tracker, the history of the influenza virus and vaccination through an interactive timeline, an Influenza Intelligence quiz, an online training program and information to administer the vaccine for pharmacists and physicians, and much more.
As more people rely on Twitter to get the most up-to-date news, Genuine saw this as an opportunity to translate available data into flu outbreak predictions. By incorporating data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Genuine's development team built a tool that monitor Twitter for tweets that includes flu-related hashtags, such as #flu, #influenza, #flushot, etc., to predict flu outbreaks.
Visitors can track the flu by looking at the heat-map to gauge how impacted a certain area is by the flu and by looking at a color bar chart that details the severity of the flu outbreak in the nation's top 25 cities. The heat-map gathers tweets that are tagged with flu-related hashtags and available location data. This data is converted to latitude and longitude points that are plotted on a grid over the map of the country. As more points are plotted in certain regions, the heat-map changes its colors accordingly with a canvas tag.
"People who are taking preventative measures to stay healthy this flu season will definitely want to check Flucelvax.com often," said Chris Pape, executive creative director of Genuine.
Lysol, the leading health and hygiene brand is dedicated to promoting a healthy home and life beyond its products on store shelves. The Lysol Healthy Habits Program currently works with 65,000 schools across the country to teach young children about healthy habits to keep germs at bay. Lysol reached out to Genuine to increase the number of schools involved in the program by providing an interactive experience that engages children around the country through technology.
The goal of the Lysol Healthy Habits Program is to educate young students about good hygiene behavior. Lysol wanted to make this year's program bigger and more fun, and enlisted the help of Genuine and its partner agency, HAVAS Impact to create the Lysol Healthy Habits Tour Bus. This bus is actually a repurposed school bus that is a mobile learning machine equipped with state of the art touch screens that provide an educational, fun, and interactive experience. On the Lysol Healthy Habits Tour Bus, students go through a series of games to learn about the science of a sneeze and how far germs can spread, where germs can hide, and when and how to wash their hands properly. At the end of their experience, students earn a Lysol Healthy Habits Hero badge and can choose an avatar to print out, and parents can share the custom avatar through a microsite custom built by Genuine.
Genuine tapped into the mindset of children and their love of games to transform a static learning area into a gamified educational experience. Through a series of custom games built with Adobe AIR for touch screens, Genuine developed an engaging and fully interactive experience that truly transformed the Lysol Healthy Habits Tour Bus into a mobile learning exhibit for the nation.
Each mini-game was carefully designed with the children in mind, playing off their love of fun colors and visually engaging characters. "Germ-O-Scope" teaches children the proper way to wash their hands; "Science of a Sneeze" shows students the science of a sneeze and how to properly cough and sneeze so they do not spread germs; "Classroom Defender" is a fun-filled quiz that points out the most important times that students need to wash their hands; and "Defeat the Germs" is a discovery game that shows the children where germs may be hiding in the home. These games incorporated technology that transformed the experience into a highly interactive activity. Specifically, the game "Science of a Sneeze," which was built using Arduino hardware with an air compressor to simulate a sneeze, which was actually a puff of air. This game was a huge success among the children as they never expected to actually feel a "sneeze!"
After all four stations are completed, the students can achieve their Lysol Healthy Habits Hero badge at the "Transformation Station" and take a photo with a custom avatar. This program was built with an augmented reality experience with face tracking capabilities to capture a personalized, sharable photo to print or be promoted through a microsite that parents can access.
The Lysol Healthy Habits Tour Bus began its tour around the country to select schools in September 2013. The Lysol Healthy Habits Program featuring the exhibits and more information about healthy habits can be found on its iPad app.
According to BraveCommunity.com, between one in 10,000 to one in 50,000 people are affected by hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and painful genetic disease characterized by sudden recurrent attacks of swelling commonly affecting the hands, feet, arms, legs, face, abdomen, tongue, and larynx. Unfortunately, many healthcare professionals are unfamiliar with HAE. This leads to a delay in a correct diagnosis and a subsequent referral to a physician familiar with treating and managing HAE. Shire Human Genetic Therapies (HGT) approached Genuine seeking an interactive and innovative application that can simulate HAE symptoms to better educate healthcare providers in diagnosing this rare disease.
The strategy behind designing and developing the Shire HAE experiential kiosk was to take a very impactful approach to teach healthcare providers about the condition. They see a variety of patients every day, but everyone is different. By putting the physician in the patient's shoes, they can see firsthand the severity of what the common symptom, facial swelling, truly looks like.
Through an external web cam, Genuine built a Flash/AIR based app that uses facial recognition to capture the user's image. The app then recreates the effects of the HAE attack, thus creating the illusion of a facial swelling attack of HAE. Once completed, the app can email the user's simulated photo, including information about the disease and diagnostic testing information, or print it on a pocket card takeaway. The entire process from taking the doctor's photo to emailing or printing the final product takes less than three minutes, allowing this digital out-of-home
Shire HAE App was revealed at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology annual meeting event in San Antonio, Texas from February 22 to 26, 2013.
The leading health and hygiene brand, Lysol tapped Genuine to launch its newest product, Lysol Touch of Foam hand soap, and create a buzz to entice its target audience to try the product and share with their social circle through a Facebook contest.
Lysol's goal was to differentiate the Lysol Touch of Foam hand soap from its competition by playing to women's emotional side of wanting to feel pampered and luxurious. Additionally, Lysol wanted to drive awareness and social conversation about its newest product and the dual benefits it provides of being tough on germs, yet gentle on hands. Genuine's challenge was to educate consumers about the product benefits while engaging them through their social channels.
In collaboration with Lysol's PR agency, Tonic, Genuine leveraged Lysol Touch of Foam spokeswoman and New York City fashion designer, Cynthia Rowley to promote the story of the product and its benefits through the "Lysol Touch of Foam Label Design Challenge," a Facebook contest using Facebook's open graph (OG) functionality. Genuine tapped into Lysol target audience's key social habits and engaged them by allowing consumers to "design" their own Touch of Foam labels by simple dragging and dropping color patterns inspired by Rowley. Completed consumer designs are then entered into the contest and the Facebook OG functionality made the experience easily shareable; allowing users to see which of their Facebook friends had also participated. The variety of color swatches represented the "gentle and tough" benefits of Lysol Touch of Foam. Rowley selected the winning design and the Grand Prize winner received a trip to NYC Fashion Week Fall 2013, a shopping spree, and her label design released in-store for purchase.
New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH) is a local Boston hospital built on more than a century of experience that offers nationally recognized expertise in orthopedic surgery. Genuine's mission was to showcase their exceptional blend of superb patient care and advanced medical knowledge through a dynamic, authentic new site.
NEBH's dated web site had developed various cracks in its foundation from the functionality to the site architecture, resulting in a highly inaccurate portrayal of their nationally acclaimed work. In other words, the old site had flatlined and needed an overhaul to reflect the esteemed hospital they had become.
To emphasize a more personal approach, we prominently featured authentic patient testimonials on the home page (with real patient photos shot at Genuine's studio) for new visitors to explore along with and clear calls to action. The "Find a Doctor" experience allows patients to quickly locate a doctor that matches their needs, while a custom designed infographic walks users through every step of the Baptist journey – making the new patient experience accessible and painless. Lastly, a slick and fast-loading new content management system allowed the NEBH team to manage its own content without IT support.
Finlandia Cheese, maker of the finest all-natural deli cheeses, wanted to augment an upcoming OOH campaign with a new website to raise brand awareness and close the gap between Finlandia prospects and consumers.
Genuine was tasked with leveraging existing creative for Finlandia's Out of Home campaign (set to launch at the same time as the website) to develop an interactive web presence that encourages user engagement and amplifies sales.
By creating an elevated cheese exploration experience packaged in a well-rounded campaign, we conveyed Finlandia's passion and expertise when it came to cheese making. Users can explore recipes (filtered by cheese type) as well as submit their own favorites. The website is also home to a Cheese Locator that allows users to track down Finlandia products nationwide, Finlandia's newsletter, and opportunities to share and connect on Facebook.
Launching simultaneously with the website and OOH campaign, we ran a six week Facebook and Paid Search campaign to drive additional traffic to the site and increase Finlandia's Facebook following. Facebook posts aimed at driving awareness coupled with special-offer coupons worked to strengthen brand equity and grow their consumer base.
The Tufts University Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration needed a web presence that not only reflects the passion, hardwork, and collaboration that occurs at their offices, but also reinforces Tufts' reputation as an innovation engine and leader in the market.
The primary objective of the Tufts Tech Transfer redesign was to introduce a new online experience for the Tufts Office of Technology Licensing in order to establish Tufts' reputation as an innovation engine and leader in the market to both internal and external audiences. The Tech Transfer Office is among the upper echelon within the industry and their web presence needed to show just that. Investors and inventors alike use Tufts Tech Transfer as a platform to connect, so this new redesign needed to allow these audiences to find what they need to get started.
Tufts Tech Transfer's (TTT) passion for innovation, breakthrough inventions and successes combined with Genuine's digital strategy redefined its web presence. Genuine and the TTT team met face to face through a series of in-house brainstorming sessions to rework the user experience and hierarchy of content across the site. Genuine was able to help breathe new life into TTT by exploring a modern magazine inspired layout which allowed the site to create a sense of story emphasis and visual flow.
Genuine's approach to building mobile websites and applications is to drive the user to action. Simply optimizing an existing website and replicating its content for mobile devices are not enough – in fact it often times is just too much.
Many of Sullivan Tire's customers need auto service or tire repair at a moment's notice; when they're on the road and in a pinch. To cater to this audience, which relies more and more on their smartphone, Sullivan was looking to create an easy-to-use experience for users needing to quickly access geo-targeted contact information for Sullivan Tire's growing line of stores.
With quick access to pertinent store info paramount, Genuine created a mobile website that allows users to get from the home page to on the phone with a Sullivan Tire store location in just two clicks. A user can also easily get driving directions to any store, contact Sullivan's call center, and access exclusive sales available only on the mobile website. This Specials section has laid the foundation for mobile advertising campaigns that enables the user to receive discounts using e-coupons that can be redeemed in store at the point of purchase.
Sullivan Tire saw a 20 percent increase in calls to specific locations after the mobile site launched.
A Collections Catalogue Worthy of the 21st Century
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) taps Genuine with its new Collections initiative, the end goal being the creation of an intelligent, iPad friendly application that would showcase the Museum's American Painting Catalogue.
The MFA not only wanted to feature its American Paintings Catalogue, but any future catalogues to come. Genuine was tasked with the challenge of developing a flexible system shell that could handle future collections while integrating seamlessly with The Museum System (TMS), an external database of Collection's Image and Information Storage.
The final product needed to work flawlessly on the iPad in both vertical and horizontal design, so Genuine set out to build the most elegant, forward-compatible Javascript-powered front end the museum world has ever seen. We chose Drupal 7 to integrate with The Museum System's rich resource of Collections data, making it easy for non-technical users to administrate the website while ensuring the system had room for growth. In the end, MFA's American Paintings Catalogue was launched as the first ever interactive collections catalogue to conform to the model proposed by the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, and the first in the museum community built to integrate with the TMS.
Cleaning product megabrand Lysol taps Genuine to put emphasis on their new product, the No-Touch Kitchen System, and complement the homepage design we built for them with a creative reveal to an interactive gaming experience.
Lysol's goal was to shift the focus on brand's home page to their product line given the debut of their No-Touch Kitchen System, a gadget that lets Lysol customers wash their dishes and kitchen surfaces without spreading dirty fingerprints throughout the kitchen. Genuine's challenge was to showcase the new product on the homepage and create an interactive experience that would inform new customers.
To make the No-Touch Kitchen System front and center, Genuine devised "The Lysol Undercover Challenge," an immersive Flash-based game that lets visitors play hide-and-seek with dirty fingerprints after watching videos of family members from the related Lysol commercial clean the kitchen using Lysol's new product. To access the Flash game, visitors literally peel away the Lysol homepage to enter the audiovisual experience, using the mouse-as-magnifying glass to spot hidden fingerprints.
Imprivata, a worldwide leader in enhancing care delivery with fast, secure access to patient information, tapped Genuine to re-ignite their web presence so that it better matched the company's personality, customer service, and technical know-how.
Imprivata wanted to stand out against the staid look and feel of other B2B websites and attract new inbound traffic through a compelling design that was easy to update without technical expertise. The company wanted to get across its central selling point–"No Click Access" to secure information—in such a way that the design and implementation of the site embodied Imprivata's core offering.
Drupal 7 served as our CMS of choice, powering the administration of content-managed customer spotlights, news, and awards. To make "No Click Access" a digital reality on Imprivata.com, we employed a single-page scroll technique called parallax, which allows for multiple layers of information to move independently in the two-dimensional browser space. With the fullscreen parallax effect, we laid out Imprivata's process using infographics, slideshows, and an interactive map.
Taking the Admissions department's vision of the video to the bleeding edge of the Web-video convergence, Genuine delivers a final product that Andover students dub "totally legit."
The goal for the Andover admissions video was straightforward: Tell real stories to attract smart, community-conscious prospective students while helping accepted students with the transition process. What Genuine brought to the table was an expounding on Andover's vision that the prep school never anticipated: a fully interactive video documentary called Andover Walkabout.
Our interactive ventilator simulator is not only training doctors and nurses around the world, it's saving lives. Users can be trained on how to use life-saving ventilators by diagnosing patient symptoms, interacting with a virtual ventilator and collaborating with other medical professionals around the world.
Around the world, doctors and nurses in remote areas were facing a very serious problem: children were dying due to the improper use, or lack thereof, of breathing ventilators. Needless to say, this was one of the most serious and time sensitive client challenges Genuine had ever faced.
Genuine's interactive ventilator simulator is the perfect balance of information and engagement. In addition to providing users with a comprehensive overview of the ventilator's functionality, the simulator also provides them with actionable scenarios that provide the opportunity to learn from mistakes without serious consequences. By connecting users in dozens of different countries with one gamified application, we are speaking the universal language of hands-on experience and helping save the lives of countless children.
Combining animation, video, images, sound and an overflow of creativity, our disruptively fun website provides experiences that appeal to Millennials. Getunreal.com is structured with modular interactive experiences that encourage users to share multiple chapters of Unreal's story.
Unreal came to us with a challenging proposition: help launch a brand new product without the aid of paid media, while simultaneously winning the hearts of one of the most cynical demographics out there (Millennials).
Genuine's Unreal website employs a modular style that is conducive to the high-sharing tendencies of our young and nimble target audience. We also leverage a handful of celebrity partnerships to create shareable videos that generate both awareness and credibility for Unreal's fledgling status. It's only appropriate that an unconventional candy company should get an unconventional web design, and that's exactly what Genuine has delivered.
Titleist taps Genuine to deliver a bigger, more valuable mobile experience that showcases the ultimate golfer toolkit for its brand loyalists.
Titleist's goal was simple: Deliver a powerful iOS app for iPhones and iPads rich with interactive features that provide brand fans an engaging experience. Keeping the primary aim of the app—utility—in mind, we set out to design an array of features that encompasses everything from social media to interactive product selection.
The Titleist mobile app is loaded with features including an interactive Titleist Golf Ball Selection guide, a "My Game" experience that allows users to track key stats of their own golf games, PGA Tour player pages with up-to-date statistics, an expansive video library, and a weather widget. Another key feature is the Swing Comparison Tool, which allows users to compare their swing to that of a Titleist Brand Ambassador through iOS's AVFoundation. Pages about equipment allowed users to learn more about the family of Titleist products while a built-in Golf Shop and Fitter Locator powered by CoreLocation and MapKit provided handheld support for finding all of Titleist's products and services.
Finally, the social component of the app enables users to create a personalized feed and stay connected with all Titleist social channels to get the latest news and updates.
Shire was tired of everyday, uninspired brochureware; instead, our pharma client was interested in opening a dialogue with its audience to create a very niche community for people who genuinely need the attention. Genuine's challenge was to introduce these rare diseases to the lay reader with helpful resources while providing specialized education to healthcare professionals.
Shire was tired of everyday, uninspired brochureware; instead, our pharma client was interested in opening a dialogue with its audience to create a very niche community for people who genuinely need the attention. Genuine's challenge was to introduce these rare diseases to the lay reader with helpful resources while providing specialized education to healthcare professionals.
The focus of the new Brave Community was to provide comprehensive information and resources for all audiences on each disease condition. By customizing an instance of content-management platform, we enabled registered users to filter news feeds, share stories with each other, and sign up for an email newsletter with monthly updates about each of the conditions from behind the Brave Community login.
On the public-facing end of the website, visitors can read complete overviews of each disease, with in-depth information on everything from symptoms and day-to-day management of the disease to the genetics of the condition. For healthcare professionals, a wealth of specialized resources available on the website include disease modules, slide decks, case studies, and downloadable content to help providers better identify and provide care for each rare disease.
Fancy trappings and whiz-bang functionality are all well and good, but if you can't get your consumers to identify with your product, no amount of digital posturing can save you. Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan (BMCHP) hired Genuine Interactive to deliver a new look that creates a perfect correlation between the uninsured and the not-for-profit's product line.
Not-for-profit managed care organization BMCHP had two main goals for their redesign: they needed to make it easier for the uninsured to self-select the best subsidized health insurance plan for themselves and their families and debut a new, commercial insurance product aimed at small businesses and brokers.
Genuine biggest challenge in drafting BMCHP's new look would be to clearly articulate differences between the not-for-profit's three health insurance product lines—MassHealth, Commonwealth Care, and Employer Choice. The new look is friendly, clean, and straightforward and uses human photography to help users identify with each product, making the integration of BMCHP's new Employer Choice / Commonwealth Choice insurance for small businesses seamless.
Central to managing the user's clickstream was the development of the BMCHP Eligibility Quiz, which serves as a virtual guide for the uninsured who want to become educated about the complexities of subsidized health insurance. Instead of trekking to the BMCHP medical center or sifting through the state's lengthy eligibility requirements on paper, users can click through the Eligibility Quiz and determine which of BMCHP's insurance products meets their needs by simply answering a few questions.
When it comes to driving sales on the social Web, the run-of-the-mill contest giveaway isn't going to cut it. And even with a stellar prize like the NFL Sunday Ticket to award, DirecTV wants to hedge its bets. Genuine takes the reins of their Ultimate Displaced Fan platform to deliver an engagement environment like no other.
Always on the lookout for new sales drivers, DirecTV wanted to improve its annual NFL Sunday Ticket giveaway platform, Ultimate Displaced Fan (UDF). The satellite TV provider caters to existing and prospective out-of-market subscribers through its exclusive NFL Football Package, which provides a plethora of enhanced football content in a device-agnostic framework. Genuine's challenge was to boost sales for the NFL Football Package via the reinvented UDF platform.
The Ultimate Displaced Fan platform is a highly modular, PHP-based custom CMS that allows out-of-market NFL fans to sign up as contestants for the NFL Sunday Ticket contest. For the 2010 and 2011 iterations of UDF, we wanted to bring new life to the site's look by making the platform more exciting for NFL fans. UDF's administrative interface enables DirecTV and its PR affiliates to moderate and evaluate entries without leaving the site, while an array of voting features and Facebook integration tools on the front end enable contestants to rate entries based on quality and other criteria. From a systems perspective, we ensured that the UDF platform was built in such a way that DirecTV can reuse the CMS for campaigns from year to year by simply styling the front end.
Above and beyond UDF's lead capture functionality, the platform is littered with analytics markers that enable Genuine's Digital Media team to monitor performance and inform the strategy for future social media campaigns, such as DirecTV's Quarterback Challenge and Snowballs of Flurry Facebook games.
SurveySpot, already a player in the online market research industry, collects data from thousands of users to serve big businesses across multiple verticals. But SurveySpot needed a way to slice up their demographic on the fly, so Genuine got to work on building a system that could do just that.
SurveySpot wanted to refresh the outdated look of their outdated survey website, as well as expand its functionality so that the website could function as a multi-instance application. Extracting value from SurveySpot's audience involves seeking out and engaging with more and more narrow markets, so SurveySpot needed Genuine to extend their system so that it could deploy entirely new, consumer-facing instances of its front end all the while interfacing with a third party subscription database that stored consumer data.
By working with the Sitecore CMS in the .NET programming language and the VODCA framework, Genuine drafted a sophisticated integrations plan that involved hooking up the SurveySpot registration system with the brand's existing third party repository for subscriptions. We designed the back end to rapidly sync with outside data sources while building multiple layers of system performance redundancy to handle the thousands of users whose interaction with the site could create crippling stresses on the entire system. Finally, we created an automated system deployment framework that allowed SurveySpot administrators to create new instances of the SurveySpot parent.
The end result was a two-click interface that made slicing up their consumer demographic a painless process. SurveySpot administrators can now deploy new instances of their survey collection website while sending all their data to the same centralized repository.
One of the dangers major corporations face, especially in consumer packaged goods, is "brand sprawl" on the Web. Just like uncontrolled city growth in analog urban sprawl, the presentation of product lines gets out of control, and cross-promotion and conversation rates suffer as a result. Ahead of the game, Reckitt-Benckiser Foods (RB Foods) tasks Genuine with redesigning French's Food Service for smart growth.
Consumer packaged goods superpower RB Foods needed to restructure French's Food Service, the umbrella website for its condiment brands. In addition to clearly delineating the benefits of each brand's product line to restaurant operators while keeping navigation between brands simple, RB Foods sought to dynamically cross-promote its products and improve overall conversion rate.
Genuine started the French's Food Service makeover by unifying the three brands' separate websites under a single visual design that preserved the defining characteristics of each product line. We wanted to communicate the family friendly atmosphere of French's Foods, the cheeky personality of Frank's Red Hot, and the Western appeal of Cattlemen's while keeping the user anchored in French's Food Service's overarching interface.
In the "Culinary Center," we transformed the output of multiple existing recipe databases to suit the French's Food Service restaurant operator audience, which included indicating values for bulk quantities and increased serving sizes, as well as adding the ability to filter by brand, menu type or type of protein. We made sure the product sample request forms were always one click away. In addition to information about front of house solutions and mixology, the new Merchandising and Rebates sections of the website allow operators to find multi-brand offers. Finally, we created a sales rep finder that enables restaurant operators to locate contact information local to their area.
Putting a face to biopharmaceutical giant Shire's VPRIV drug means developing an intimate understanding of both the VPRIV treatment options and healthcare providers. Up to the task, Genuine signs on to develop Shire's public-facing VPRIV web presence as a starting point for the patients and their families.
VPRIV is an enzyme replacement therapy prescription medicine designed for patients of Type 1 Gaucher disease. The complexity of the treatment option posed a challenge unto itself for Genuine to get across clearly and in an attractive format.
Key goals for the VPRIV desktop website included creating a welcoming, easy-to-navigate interface that uses photography of real Gaucher patients to outline the therapy process, providing resources and support for the drug. We chose .NET-based platform Sitecore as our content management system.
"Dressing up" highly technical information for the lay reader isn't just about designing an attractive look and feel. Our UX experts broke down the wealth of data into discreet linear chunks which enable users to self-identify as either healthcare providers or patients and drill down to exactly the information they need. And accessing the third-party VPRIV Dosing Calculator is a cinch as the app resides in the iTunes app store with full prescribing information and sharing capabilities.
Biopharmaceutical giant Shire maintains a family of websites devoted to the community of caregivers, healthcare providers, and patients for a host of genetic disorders. For the full scope redesign of Shire's website devoted to the Hunter syndrome, Genuine puts a human face and the power of the community behind scientific research.
Hunter syndrome is a genetically inherited lysosomal storage disorder that primarily affects males. Shire wanted to refreshthe look and feel of their web presence for the disease where patients and parents can connect, gather resources about managing the condition, find healthcare providers, and share their experiences.
Shire's existing website featured content tailored to help families cope with Hunter syndrome, so Genuine redesigned several sections of the site to better showcase actual Hunter syndrome patients and parents. We also created a special section of the site devoted to all types of healthcare providers who may deal with the disease that provides introductory data about diagnosis and numerous case studies illustrating common signs and symptoms to recognize in a patient with Hunter syndrome.
Educating an audience can and should be entertaining. DIRECTV takes this approach to learning with their sales reps to improve their key selling tactics, and Genuine provides the edutainment tool to make the experience possible.
DIRECTV wanted a new way to train its 20,000 sales reps across the country. Historically, DIRECTV's training sessions were just that—boring training sessions. Genuine knew that better-educated reps make for a better-educated consumer audience, especially since DIRECTV's sales reps sell directly to consumers. Genuine had something entirely different in mind for spicing things up.
Traditional training is not entertaining. What DIRECTV needed was edutainment. Genuine's mission was to create active participants out of bored, passive listeners: Our experience would get reps out of their seats with excitement and at the same time educate them about the best way to sell DIRECTV.
Live marketing specialist and Genuine partner IMG LIVE planned to conduct hundreds of these training sessions in person at DIRECTV training centers across the country. Each training session needed to change based on the audience makeup, the time available for the session, and the needs of the center. To that end, Genuine created an entertainment center for the emcee—a touch screen kiosk served up video vignettes of HBO and Showtime synopses and digital emcee counterparts who answered the real reps' questions.
EF Foundation for Foreign Study hires Genuine to help strengthen the bonds of friendship and trust between its student and host family clientele through a redesign of its website. Our thoroughly usable new infrastructure extends their reach.
Because student-exchange nonprofit EF Foundation for Foreign Study established a solid reputation by pairing over 90,000 students with host families around the world, they wanted their new web presence to reflect the expansiveness of their efforts. Genuine set out to renew the site with a powerful pay-per-click campaign and educational videos that delve into the eclectic background of their multilingual staff.
Central to the redesign was our emphasis on organization and conciseness with respect to IA. We wanted to create an easy-to-use overview of students available in the system. To that end, we developed a dynamic search filter that allows users to search by student demographics and personal interests.
Each country page provides a wealth of regional data and a selection of subtitled videos presenting EF employees speaking in multiple languages. We also launched an extensive pay-per-click campaign to drive traffic to the new site.
Genuine's comprehensive redesign of Boston Children's Hospital helps bring its world class researchers and their discoveries to the forefront to show the world the innovation that comes out of the hospital.
Boston Children's Hospital wanted to showcase its science-driven care in a way that was more welcoming to parents and prospective employees. But this simple trajectory for the redesign meant a serious undertaking for Genuine Interactive. Boston Children's Hospital is not just one of the world's leading pediatric hospitals, it's one of the world's leading research institutions producing inventions, drugs, instruments, and research that extend outside of the world of pediatrics, and so Genuine needed to capture the full scope of the hospital's efforts in digital form.
Rather than focusing on building an online brand around the institution itself, Genuine turned its focus on the people within the organization who make it special. We created a home page that features world-changing Boston Children's Hospital inventors as well as their inventions in an XML-powered Flash carousel. Our goal was to think about the site more as the cover of Time rather than the front page of your average website.
We also created the TIDO Invention Database to help Boston Children's Hospital keep its inventors and researchers fresh in the minds of venture capitalists. The database opens a continuous line of communication between Children's TIDO office and potential partners. This custom-developed application is designed to let partners easily search for inventions and researchers through a number of criteria. The active filtering allows the partner to change criteria and change results in real time.
When visitors come to Plimoth Plantation to learn about Plymouth Colony's living history, the visit takes place in a highly experiential learning environment. Plimoth Plantation hires Genuine to recapture that experience in Plimoth's new website.
Plimoth Plantation had an array of objectives when it came to the redesign of their museum's website, chief among them to motivate micro-donations from younger donors, provide an educational resource for students and teachers, and enable visitors to plan their visit to the museum. To that end, Genuine's strategy was to build a new appeal and interactivity into the micro-donation process.
Genuine selected Drupal as the CMS of choice for Plimoth's new website. We wanted to immerse visitors in full-screen, panoramic photos and videos that would reflect the immersive experience that the museum's theater of the past offered.
The Flash-based interactive donations page focused on illustrating ways visitors could help, from helping students "time travel to the 1600s" to keeping the "Mayflower II sailing into history." Overall, the website's clean new look and our slimmed-down IA allowed for a breadth of content that made it easier for visitors to find the information they needed quickly and without losing depth. By carrying over the site's design into the museum's Magento-powered shopping cart, we made eCommerce a seamless experience for visitors.
Genuine brings InZone Brand's kid-friendly products to life in Flash-powered animation and WordPress as a CMS, meeting moms at the "intersection of healthy and fun."
InZone Brands wanted Genuine to create a visual representation of the company's motto: "Meet us at the intersection of healthy and fun" for its three kid-friendly consumer product lines: BellyWashers, TummyTicklers, and TummyTickler Tots. With a splash of color and a set of powerful Flash animations, Genuine painted the picture for moms and kids alike.
InZone had a number of value propositions it needed to make clear to its consumers: that its products were designed to be exciting for kids, to make life easier for moms, and to provide a healthful alternative to high fructose corn syrup drinks with many artificial additives.
All of the brand's websites were built on top of WordPress, making it easy for InZone to update content after the sites were launched. The opening Flash animation prominently featured InZone's products in a fun animation that emphasized the products' key features. To open a dialogue with the brand's target audience—moms—we created video testimonials from real consumers, called attention to the products' nutrition facts, and set up a photo gallery for moms to submit photos of their kids to the brand. In the "For Kids" section, InZone included coloring sheets and an archive of all its product toppers.
If we've learned anything from Google, it's that search should be simple. So when Genuine approached designing the mobile version of Camden's website, we focused on making Camden's site search even simpler, while enhancing the user experience with GPS technology.
Genuine helps Camden go mobile by creating iPhone-specific and WAP versions of its tightly integrated search, as well as a convenient portal for current residents to make maintenance requests and pay rent via their phone.
We knew in the mobile design we'd need to maximize space for the properties' visuals while preserving the brand aesthetic of the desktop website. We decided to use color and subtle navigational elements to help alleviate confusion for users and guide them through the app.
By utilizing GPS technology, Genuine was able to quickly deliver location-relevant apartment listings in a slim user interface. We focused on streamlining the search submission process by limiting search fields to only absolutely necessary items. Within the results listing, we provided users with efficient sorting options and reduced listing attributes to streamline comparison shopping.
Our new look for the MFA opens the doors for engagement with the museum's complete art collection. Visitors can browse recent acquisitions, curate their own collection, tweet about the new Art of the Americas wing, and much more.
In redesigning the MFA website, Genuine wanted to capture the sheer size of the museum and its extensive collections in the user experience. The MFA wanted their new website to reflect the very personal, awe-inspiring experience visitors of the museum share when interacting with its collections. We did this through powerful photography, engaging full-screen video, and a clean, navigable user interface that encouraged exploration.
The museum experience is an interactive experience, so user interaction was a big part of the redesign. On top of implementing a comprehensive search that enables visitors to access all the museum's artwork online, we carefully categorized all the museum's collections to make it easy for visitors to find artwork. We also empowered visitors to tag individual pieces, store collections in their My MFA Account, and share artwork with the social web.
Genuine brings Aircuity's air quality monitoring product to life through immersive 3D infrastructure, capturing the awe of visitors who make their way through the virtual environment's video-powered city.
Indoor air-quality monitoring company Aircuity sought an agency who could translate the technical language in their product messaging into an unforgettable experience that visually demonstrated what their technology was all about. Genuine had a few tall-order ideas in mind.
Instead of laying out the effect of Aircuity's technologies on infrastructure in two dimensions (as you'd expect from a two-dimensional website), we thought it'd make more sense to build Aircuity's virtual infrastructure in three dimensions just like the real thing.
To that end, we deployed an interactive, 3D virtual city full of video testimonials that explained the benefits of Aircuity's technology through a completely audiovisual experience. Add to this that all of the website's content is fully customizable by Aircuity in WordPress, an easy-to-use content-management system for non-technical users.
LYSOL® set out to clean up its image by building a community of health-conscious moms around its brand. With Genuine's help, the popular cleaning product innovator launched a comprehensive redesign of its web property.
LYSOL® wanted a new user experience that would reach beyond its product line and soften its harsh, germ-destroying messaging. Genuine's rebranding effort would also need to interface with LYSOL's® other marketing agencies in order to ensure the cohesiveness of its campaign. In our rebranding effort, we created a community of health-conscious moms to make it easier for consumers to connect with the brand.
In the redesign, Genuine used softer whites and blues and a flowing ribbon element in the header to make the site appear more welcoming. We incorporated lots of visual feedback in the site's search functionality, a geographical cold and flu tracker so consumers could stay ahead of the cold and flu season, and a wealth of health, cleaning, and disinfecting tips in the site's Healthy Families section.
The intended persona for the website was new and expectant health-conscious moms, so we had LYSOL® partner with well-credentialed health professionals to provide a forum-based community where visitors could ask cold and flu-related questions and receive real answers. LYSOL® also started its "Mission for Health" initiative, a philanthropic front which promotes healthy habits in schools, provides child-rearing advice for new moms, and works with Save the Children to create safe havens for children in disaster situations.
We all know a really effective shopping cart can only take you 50% of the way, because customers still have to find you. Walpole Woodworkers sheds its yesteryear platform and taps Genuine's Online Marketing team to make its cart a shining beacon for home goods on the Web.
Walpole Woodworkers prided itself on its fine degree of control over the consumer lifecycle of its products, from manufacturing to point of sale to delivery. Genuine's challenge was to provide the home goods supplier with a website that afforded the same level of control over online orders.
Genuine migrated Walpole off its old ColdFusion installation and installed popular eCommerce software zNode to interface with a third party database of over 2,000 of the company's products. Our redesign featured a wealth of product photos and a faceted on-site search that enabled visitors to apply very specific filters to get targeted results.
Our Online Marketing team worked closely with development to set up a paid search marketing campaign that would take advantage of the site's new search-engine friendly architecture.
Genuine reinvents Tribe's look by speaking to the hummus-loving passion of its senior staff while showcasing a wholesome community of friends of organic food.
Massachusetts-based Tribe® Hummus needed a new look and new messaging to get across the value of its all natural hummus product. Genuine timed the launch of the site (which we built in popular open source platform Drupal) to follow up the release of their newest product, the Tribe Origins™ organic line, and chief among the goals in the redesign was to represent the product's wholesome authenticity.
To establish a strong foundation for the brand's digital presence, first Genuine needed to anchor the company's social media properties in the website and build a community around its recipes.
We told the story of Tribe in vibrant summer colors, high quality product photography, and animations of the fresh ingredients that go into Tribe's hummus. Tribe also wanted to showcase the passion of its senior management, who have extensive backgrounds in food prep and distribution. To this end, Genuine created an attractive Ask the Tribe Q&A that featured the staff's stories.
Smart ideas often start small and germinate into greatness. Tharpe Robbins hires Genuine to breathe new life into the corporate awards and recognition space.
Tharpe Robbins' unique position as the company for "managed recognition"—a business-to-business service that establishes programs for employee recognition—required a very unique creative approach, and Genuine was up to the challenge. We started with a single idea—that one act of appreciation can lead to a chain of positive results—and took off running.
TharpeRobbins didn't want to be another boring B2B bloated with stock photos. Instead, they wanted a vibrant web presence with an uplifting image that matched the positive attitude with which they approached driving employee performance in their client's businesses.
To that end, Genuine developed a Flash-powered 3D animation that opened with butterflies lifting their messaging into the skies. This butterfly effect became a powerful image behind the site's messaging, which was reinforced by video of employee interviews and clean copy.
Genuine edutains MassMutual's sales prospects in an immersive, 3D "virtual visit" environment, which we film in the rotunda of the company's headquarters.
Often, the end result of the convergence of the Web and video is edutainment, one of Genuine's specialties. MassMutual enjoys a nationwide reach, but when it comes to flying over their prospects to experience a sales presentation in person, the reach can hurt with massive travel budgets. Enter Genuine and a 3D "Rotunda" project.
The Retirement Services team at MassMutual wanted to save money in travel expenses by creating a virtual visit microsite that contained an interactive, video-powered sales presentation. We headed on over to MassMutual's headquarters, and filmed their staff in the company's beautiful rotunda, which became the 360 centerpiece of the tool.
By clicking through the three-dimensional space, prospects can visit different halls in MassMutual and engage with virtual sales agents, who provide chaptered video presentations one-on-one with the user. The end result is a face-to-face experience with personalities from MassMutual from the privacy and security of your own office, without the bad airplane food or hassle of checked bags.
In search of a new digital foundation to position its development enterprise, Gilbane Co. hires Genuine to add a human element to the mix.
Development titan Gilbane wanted to give a human face to its corporate infrastructure that went beyond a simple showcase of its development projects. Genuine's challenge was to build a portfolio with a breadth of content without losing Gilbane's focus on prospects, current customers, and potential employees.
Genuine's Motion team set the tone for Gilbane's new look by engineering a radically dynamic, full-page flipbook experience in Flash. Each panel of the opening animation features stories from Gilbane employees on important corporate values, from client advocacy and sustainability to safety.
We wanted Gilbane's new website to not only enrich the brand's image with a bold visual design, but provide a consistent, easy-to-navigate user experience that put the emphasis on content. Users can browse Gilbane's extensive project portfolio, which illustrates each project in an attractive photography-driven case study format.
Every brand wants to be in its consumers' pockets, but without providing utility at their consumers' fingertips, they'll just be gathering lint. That's why when Frank's® RedHot® turned to Genuine to come up with an iPhone app for their beloved hot sauce, we created a tool their consumers couldn't put down.
Frank's® RedHot® wanted to drive product sales during its key seasons and saw an opportunity to provide utility to its fans. Frank's® also needed to build its consumer database to enhance its reach to more specific niches within its market while providing a fun, interactive way to interact with the brand via mobile devices.
Genuine decided to build an iPhone app that would allow users to tag wing restaurants and bars that use Frank's® RedHot®.Fans could invite friends from the app for wings, browse reviews about the locations, and use various filters to search. We also focused on providing sharable hot sauce recipes (18 wing recipes and 32 classic recipes) for key tailgating and sports seasons through the app.
The Frank's® RedHot® website is a killer combination of video, mobile, and social media sharing.
King of hot sauces Frank's® RedHot® was due for a complete re-envisioning of its web presence, and the company's reputation as a beloved national supplier preceded it. Genuine's task was to transform the brand's aging web property into a shiny new hub for its social media efforts, mobile content, and engagement with its loyal fans. We created a new site from the ground up on top of the Zend framework, with integrations from Twitter, Facebook, and a custom database containing a wealth of RedHot® recipes.
Genuine's lively new look captured the feeling of the brand's "I put that sh*t on everything campaign" in front-and-center Flash video, which featured as its mascot the spunky (albeit fictional) septuagenarian "Ethel Herbert." At the center of the redesign, we created an extensive database of Frank's® RedHot® recipes from the brand's celebrated product line that visitors can share with friends and family.
To open a more focused conversation with RedHot® fans, we engineered Twitter contests onsite and delivered an editorial calendar of Facebook conversations to drive leads. We also created a tailgaiting section devoted to usage tips for seasonal sports, and then tied that focus into our mobile efforts through a powerful Wing Finder App that enables visitors to locate wing restaurants across the country.
Genuine gives Boston Children's Hospital the tools to educate the world about stem cell research, highlight Boston Children's Hospital's contributions to science, and position the hospital and its researchers as thought leaders while encouraging donations to fund future projects.
The Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital had a mission unlike any institution in the world: Educate the public about the nature of stem cells while encouraging donations from visitors to fund research. Genuine sat down with Children's stakeholders to design a content strategy that would corral the hospital's library of data into web-ready chunks of content.
Genuine developed a content strategy to sieve out of a mountain of heavily technical articles a set of documents that would serve as an educational guide to laymen, concerning science of stem cells. Using WordPress as a CMS, we created a site that incorporates both emotional testimonials of stem cell patients in text and informative explanations of the nature of stem cell research by doctors in Flash-based video presentations. An XML-driven front page Flash carousel houses an engaging video introduction to the program.
In addition to the educational purpose of the website, the website was designed with strong "Give Today" calls-to-action to attract philanthropists to become benefactors of the project.
This international travel company needs a boost, so Genuine jets in and rockets GCT into the twenty-first century. Here's how we helped grow the company's platform.
Grand Circle Travel had attracted a large base of repeat customers with huge brand loyalty, but their existing website was not attractive, provided no way for customers to search for specific trips, and was difficult to navigate. Genuine's challenge was to rebuild GCT from the ground up and to help travelers explore GCT's amazing tours with ease.
Genuine's first step was to zero in on GCT's older demographic with usable IA and a powerful, comprehensive, site-wide search. Our extensive work on IA helped direct users to valuable information quickly, which increased sales and client engagement. As a result of the new website, GCT saw improvements in overall visits, an increase in time spent on the site, and an increase in returning visitors.
Genuine launches a cute iPhone App on Valentine's Day to bring NECCO's viral campaign to life: Users share boxes of virtual sweethearts containing custom messages, and post their creations on Twitter. A Genuine crowd pleaser.
As part of their 2009 Valentine's Day campaign, NECCO refreshed their Sweethearts candies with new flavors and colors, and wanted to showcase their updated product in an exciting new way. Genuine's challenge was to create a fun iPhone app out of the convergence of social media, Web, and mobile.
NECCO's new iPhone app was one of the first on the iPhone market to directly integrate Twitter into its functionality. We enabled users to share a custom box of virtual sweethearts with their special someone, and then tweet the box to their friends.
The deceptively simple app had far-reaching effects and the campaign went viral. Twitter showcased NECCO Sweethearts in their App Store, celebrities like Ashley Judd and Vince Gill were tweeting their custom boxes, and the resulting usage metrics largely exceeded NECCO's expectations.
When you have lots of audiences and only one home page, how do you decrease bounce rates and avoid the dreaded "Who are you?" approach to home page IA? Genuine spearheads ASA's web redesign effort to develop a unique approach to home page persona segmentation.
Serving multiple audiences with very different goals can create a home page "turf war," where different segments of companies engage in mortal combat for that valuable front-page real estate. Genuine didn't want the outcome of this struggle to result in a home page jammed with irrelevant content, busy call outs, and house ads, because the impact on usability would be a high bounce rate due to the confused user's divided attention.
Careful research was central in redesigning ASA's website. In order to rebrand ASA, Genuine had to fully understand ASA's audience, their fears, and their motivations. We knew this would involve cultivating deep insights about ASA's audience through user testing and persona development.
Genuine partnered with Bentley University to survey 100,000+ students with educational loans while conducting focus groups and running usability tests in order to develop new, user-friendly IA. In order to help the user self-select and dig deeper into the site, we created an innovative quiz that immediately seized control of that coveted first-click. In a few seconds, the user self identifies in an engaging fashion and is delivered to the internal page based on their user goals and persona. We transformed ASA into a warm, helpful guide for students struggling with loan debt by directing the site's content strategy and reorganization. The end result was a comprehensive wealth of well-organized information architecture.
Sullivan Tire's bold new interface underscores their ever-present, ready-to-go attitude. But Genuine wanted to back up the look with a powerful new tire search driven by the needs of Sullivan Tire's consumers.
Sullivan Tire needed two key features to succeed on the Web: a powerful online pricing and lead generation tool, and a more robust method for searching for tires online. Genuine also saw an opportunity to strengthen the tire company's web presence through enhanced online marketing.
Just as Sullivan Tire's needs were twofold, Genuine's approach was two-pronged: We provided an engaging and creative new interface for the end user while building powerful integrations in the back end. We featured an interactive, Flash-based, behind-the-wheel front page design and streamlined navigation to guide the user seamlessly from point of origin to intended destination.
Behind the scenes, we optimized Sullivan's tire search functionality to improve speed and efficiency, while creating an online tool that provides a tire diagnosis in real time. Our back-end developers created a LINQ-based searching and filtering module that queried a cached dataset in .NET which we parsed nightly into an XML dataset. Our goal was to cater to users' needs by minimizing distractions and maximizing usability through carefully designed site architecture.
Genuine helps CamdenLiving's web property personify its "Living Excellence" messaging by offering a powerful site search for apartment hunters and an attractive careers showcase for prospective employees.
Camden had two goals in launching CamdenLiving: to showcase their property portfolio and to attract prospective employees to join a company culture Camden prides itself on. Genuine saw the two aims as not only congruent, but complementary.
Camden's deep appreciation for its employees and its emphasis on a strong company culture were key values around which the company wanted to build its web presence. But Camden also had to serve its primary audience at the same time: apartment hunters looking for a place to live.
To balance these goals, Genuine created a friendly, easy-to-navigate site powered by Flash-based maps and the Bing search engine. The simple, yet powerful apartment search feature makes drilling down to individual listings a matter of three clicks. We enhanced each listing with photo galleries, neighborhood overviews powered by RentWiki, and extensive floorplans, leaving nothing to be desired. And to top it all off, Camden is 508 compliant, making surfing the website for visitors with accessibility needs a breeze.
Luxury real estate means more than just searching for the best place to live: it means investing in a lifestyle that gives you comfort and makes you feel welcomed. So Compass hires Genuine to give their website new life and capture the enjoyable experience their company provides to prospective tenants.
Compass wanted to come across to renters as welcoming, easy-to-navigate, and friendly; as a small luxury apartment company with a good customer relationships, Compass already had the track record but lacked the web presence to showcase it. Genuine's goal in redesigning the company's website was to tease out Compass' true nature through a digital makeover.
Genuine made Compass stand out from its competition in several key ways: We built the apartment search feature so that prospective tenants could find properties in only a few clicks, we chose autumnal colors for the visual design to suggest an inviting environment, and we incorporated a wealth of useful information at the property level that answered questions before they were asked.
Chief among these property-level features were extensive photo galleries for each property and Bing Maps-powered neighborhood amenities. We wanted users to feel at home just by visiting Compass' properties, the information contained within which were each carefully tailored by the company to maximize utility for the end user.
Genuine helps Boston-area music school New England Conservatory create a virtual orchestra where anyone can participate. The digital showcase houses student talent in a living library of YouTube videos.
The New England Conservatory wanted to generate buzz for the university's brand by defying its image as a strictly conservative and traditional school of music. NEC's target audience included current and prospective students, alumni, and NEC concert-goers who share an intimate relationship with the culture of the university.
To showcase student talent, Genuine created NEC# ("NEC Sharp"), a virtual orchestra that displayed a curated collection of YouTube clips featuring students playing their favorite musical instruments. The site was developed in open source CMS Drupal so that NEC administrators could easily manage user-generated content. Visitors are able to play the videos in the collection in any order, creating a unique experience for every visit.
FRENCH'S® Mustard sells its product on an all-American narrative about happy, shared moments between family members. Genuine brings this narrative to life by converging the video and Web in an all-new website.
During its "The Skinny on Mustard" marketing campaign, FRENCH'S® opened a dialogue with its consumers that required a central hub on the Web to facilitate the conversation. FRENCH'S® teamed up with Genuine to commit a big chunk of its media budget to online search and display advertising over two years. Genuine's challenge was to make the most out of the massive traffic directed to the dotcom. Everything we did in the social media sphere needed to support the brand's #1 objective: Get consumers to buy more product.
Through market research, we learned that 85% of moms who came to the site—a market that made up the largest slice of FRENCH'S® audience—were looking for recipes. So Genuine created a community around the new recipe database with real-time search filtering capabilities and an emphasis on social sharing.
To support the concept of the all-American "FRENCH'S® kitchen," we filmed FRENCH'S® own chefs cooking recipes and encouraged visitors to participate in the FRENCH'S® Cook-Off Recipe Contest, which gave away $25,000 to the first-prize winner. We also sought to improve recipe dissemination by drastically improving search results on Google for recipe entries and non-FRENCH'S® related searches. Because organic SEO was a main strategy that guided site development and content creation, we created an SEO optimization plan that involved optimizing each of FRENCH'S® 2,000+ recipes individually.
Genuine helps Creat Studios showcase their collection of video games with a stunning Flash-powered 3D portfolio, opening the doors to more clients, more consumers, and more employees.
Creat Studios wanted to revamp their brand with a portfolio that showcased their creativity and passion for creating digitally immersive games. They also wanted to foster social networking and video-sharing to enhance the experience for clients and extend their reach to potential employees.
Genuine created a powerful 3D wheel of games through a combination of Flash wizardry and Papervision3D as the initial front page experience. Visitors could select titles from this 3D wall of games to dive directly into Creat's portfolio.
Individual titles in the portfolio have sharable widescreen video and interrelated title recommendations, which encourages users to further explore the site. Genuine also devoted a good portion of the website's infrastructure to detailed team profiles and an in-depth company overview, so as to attract prospective hires to consider working at Creat Studios.
There's no better example of the video/Web convergence than the Find Your Fast microsite. 3DVIA hires Genuine to drive leads for their game developer conference through an immersive video experience.
3DVIA needed a way to build leads to promote their 3D rendering software as a fast new tool for developers attending an upcoming gaming conference. Your everyday contact form wasn't going to suffice for 3DVIA's tech-savvy audience, so they called on Genuine to design an engaging microsite.
Genuine helped the brand signify "fast." So fast—in fact—that the two actors build the site right before your eyes. The Find Your Fast microsite constructs itself around a green-screened video subject to reinforce the central concept of speed and performance specific to the brand's product.
Genuine overcame a number of production challenges during the filming, but the end result showcases the lifelike 3D performance of 3DVIA's product in a fluid, Flash-based environment. Due to the high level of interaction encouraged by the immersive environment, we captured over six times as many leads than anticipated.
Samuel & Associates calls on Genuine to build an immersive digital video experience that captures the essence of eclectic upscale apartment community Fenway Triangle: the speed of life in motion.
New England developer Samuel & Associates describes Fenway Triangle as a "stylish, energetic neighborhood" with an eclectic array of hip must-haves for Boston urbanites. Genuine's challenge was to capture the energy and excitement of the neighborhood's fast-paced lifestyle and translate that into an engaging Web-based experience.
One of Genuine's trademark approaches to rendering lifelike digital experiences is rooted in the convergence of the Web and video. Genuine's Motion team used Flash to generate a fully immersive digital environment rich with video footage from the Fenway Triangle community.
We also incorporated frenetic, asymmetrical geometries into the website's visual design to simulate a sense of excitement. And central to the experience is the website's neighborhood video tour, which features the wide variety of personalities residents may encounter at Fenway Triangle, from doctors to hair stylists to Red Sox all-star pitcher Jonathan Papelbon.
Uniquely poised to conquer the sightseeing cruise market in New England, Boston Harbor Cruises hires Genuine to build a website that personifies its thrill-seeking character. With a little help from our Online Marketing team, Genuine delivers a boatload of ROI and the site pays for itself in a little over a month's time.
Boston Harbor Cruises had a lot of value to offer its customers, but zero visibility on the web and no way to drive ticket sales online. BHC's colorful selection of sightseeing cruises needed powerful illustrations and a simple solution for customers to buy tickets. And above and beyond the scaffolding, the company needed a way to consistently drive traffic to the platform.
Genuine built a custom CMS based in .NET as a foundation for the agency's comprehensive performance marketing campaign, which would ultimately cause BHC to rank in the top three for searches in its industry. We also put together a WordPress-powered mobile site to capture mobile leads, which accounted for 10% of all traffic. Our attractive design featured Flash-powered visuals of visitors on sightseeing cruises. We provided a wealth of information, such as schedule rates, concierge, and candid photo galleries of cruises.
At the same time, Genuine helped Boston Harbor Cruises establish a fan database so it could reap deep insights about its audience to further drive ticket sales.
MassMutual taps Genuine to create a powerful careers microsite built on the genuine personal experiences of its employees.
MassMutual wanted to drive new applicants to a careers microsite, which it commissioned Genuine to build. But with the insurance giant's nationwide reach, driving quality traffic was central to the campaign's success, so Genuine decided to add a personal touch to the experience that would captivate many different audiences pursuing different careers in financial services.
Genuine's Online Marketing team created an extensive, geographically targeted marketing campaign across all major search engines, which included paid search and banner ads.
In order to funnel quality leads into submitting their resumes through the careers site, we filmed real financial services professionals telling their story, and then integrated the video into an interactive carousel of agents on the microsite. The dimension of sincerity added to the campaign by these unscripted personal experiences in the field contribute hugely to the campaign's success, which ultimately increased total quarterly resume submissions while reducing the cost per resume acquisition.


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El barco de 'Piratas del Caribe' vuelve al Museo Volvo Ocean Race
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
10:58 PM Wed 16 Apr 2014
El barco de 'Piratas del Caribe' vuelve al Museo Volvo Ocean Race ...[more]
Maersk Line, socio de transporte de Volvo Ocean Race
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
8:24 PM Tue 15 Apr 2014
Maersk Line, socio de transporte de Volvo Ocean Race ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race - Maersk Line named shipping partner
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
8:15 PM Tue 15 Apr 2014
The world's largest shipping company, Maersk Line, has been revealed as the Volvo Ocean Race's shipping partner for the 2014-15 edition starting in October with the challenge of keeping offshore sailing's toughest global event on track in over 10 countries, four continents and five oceans. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race - Team Alvimedica launch new boat
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
9:33 PM Fri 11 Apr 2014
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - In Southampton, UK Team Alvimedica launched their new Volvo Ocean 65 boat on Friday to herald six months of crew selections and hard training before the start of the race in October. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - New skipper for Dongfeng Team
By Volvo Ocean Race, Sanya, China ,
5:14 PM Wed 26 Feb 2014
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 - Caudrelier is no stranger to the round-the-world 38,739-mile marathon as a key figure of the winning French team Groupama in 2011-12. Announced as skipper of Dongfeng Race Team at the official christening this Wednesday in Sanya, he understands what it means to guide a team through the next edition. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Sam Davies realises her childhood dream
By Sail-World,
10:34 PM Thu 10 Oct 2013
Taking the start line in the Volvo Ocean Race will surpass the wildest childhood dreams of Sam Davies, who was so in awe of the race she didn't dare imagine that one day she might get the chance to compete in it herself.
When Davies was a child she used to watch the starts and finishes of what was then the Whitbread Round the World Race from her parents' boat on the Solent. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Team SCA sea trials heading for Lanzarote
By Team SCA,
10:13 PM Thu 10 Oct 2013
Today was another milestone for Team SCA, after nearly two weeks of preparation the crew un-tied the lines and headed off for the delivery trip from the UK to their team base in Lanzarote. This will be first offshore trip the new Volvo Ocean 65 has taken, and they look set to take on a range of conditions over the course of the 1500 nm delivery trip south. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: One year out from race start
By Volvo Ocean Race,
7:38 PM Wed 9 Oct 2013
There is exactly one year to go before the start of the Volvo Ocean Race on 4 October 2014 in Alicante. It's going to be a groundbreaking edition in more ways than one, as the race's CEO Knut Frostad explains.
'Building a whole fleet was always going to be a challenge when developing a new class, but we have seven boats in construction now' - Knut Frostad ...[more]
El primer Volvo Ocean 65 supera examen estructural
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
2:54 AM Fri 27 Sep 2013
El primer barco de los nuevos monotipo Volvo Ocean 65 ha superado una serie de rigurosas pruebas, incluido el examen estructural de seguridad que escora el barco hasta 50 grados, y estará 'listo para navegar' a finales de esta semana. ...[more]
America's Cup Down Under - Yes, please!
By Jeni Bone,
4:25 PM Sun 22 Sep 2013
Another day's racing is scheduled for Sunday (US time), day 16, Race 14, and the 34th America's Cup is on the brink of becoming the longest in its history. And before even clutching the Cup, the Kiwis are celebrating. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race veteran McDonald signs with Abu Dhabi for 2014/15
By Volvo ocean race,
7:52 PM Mon 5 Aug 2013
Top round the World sailor and former British Olympian Neal McDonald, will be Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's Performance Director in the team's second bid for Volvo Ocean Race glory next year Emirati star, 24-year-old Adil Khalid, has re-signed as an Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crew member under the leadership of skipper Ian Walker ...[more]
Volvo Sailing Speed Challenge - 'Fantastic 4' showdown set for Cowes
By Team Volvo, ,
9:26 PM Thu 1 Aug 2013
Come Monday 5th August, three of sailing's most talented, competitive, fun personalities, together with a kitesurfing world record breaker, will put their speed to the test and go head to head in the 'Volvo Sailing Speed Challenge', a never-before-seen charity showdown held in the Solent during Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Womens crew at Boot Camp in Lanzarote
By Volvo Ocean Race,
6:21 AM Tue 11 Jun 2013
The women of Team SCA are not taking it easy at their Lanzarote training base. The physical strength and sailing skills of the all-female entry for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 are being put to the test and crewmember Sam Davies confesses she has sore muscles – and is having a lot of fun. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Musto selected as official supplier for 2014/15
By Volvo Ocean Race,
6:56 PM Mon 10 Jun 2013
Musto, the market-leading sailing clothing brand with links to the Volvo Ocean Race dating back over 30 years, has been chosen as official supplier of sailing apparel and footwear for the next edition. 'The Volvo Ocean Race has always been part of the Musto DNA. Since 1981 it's been our test track' - Nigel Musto ...[more]
North Sails to provide one-design sails for VOR Teams in 2014-15 Race
By Sail-World,
9:16 PM Mon 20 May 2013
North Sails have been selected to provide one design sails for the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race, complementing the one design hulls and one design rigs being supplied by North's sister company Southern Spars.
In keeping with the multi-national supplier theme of the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race, the sails have been designed and tested in New Zealand, built in USA and finished in France ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Tribute from Simon Le Bon to Magnus Olsson
By Sail-World,
12:59 PM Wed 24 Apr 2013
Simon Le Bon sailed with Magnus Olsson on board Drum in the 1985-86 edition of the race. Le Bon has sent The Volvo Ocean race website a personal tribute to his smiling Swedish friend, who died on April 20 at the age of 64.
A musician and the owner of the maxi yacht Drum, Le Bon was participating in the Fastnet with skipper Skip Novak when the boat lost her keel and capsized. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race: Magnus Olsson, Six times race veteran dies at 64
By Volvo Ocean Race,
8:10 AM Sun 21 Apr 2013
The world of sailing was in mourning on Saturday following the death of Sweden's Magnus Olsson at the age of 64.
A tired Magnus Olsson on deck on Ericsson 3 during leg 8 from Galway to Marstrand. Gustav Morin/Ericsson 3/Volvo Ocean Race
Olsson competed in the Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Race in six editions from 1985-86 to 2008-09, tasting victory with EF Language in 1997-98. He was named a Volvo Oc ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race : Full route for 2014/15 race is announced
By Volvo Ocean Race,
7:04 PM Mon 8 Apr 2013
The French city of Lorient will return as the penultimate stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race for the 12th edition in 2014-15, completing a route that will test the world's best professional sailors to the limit in a race around the world lasting almost nine months and 40,000 nautical miles. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race - SCA reveal quintet for all-female team
By Volvo Ocean Race, Great Britain ,
3:39 PM Mon 8 Apr 2013
Volvo Ocean Race. British pair Sam Davies and Annie Lush, Australians Sophie Ciszek and Liz Wardley and Carolijn Brouwer of the Netherlands are the first sailors selected by Team SCA to be part of the all-female team for the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. ...[more]
Volvo Ocean Race – It's getting hot and sticky in southern England
By Volvo Ocean Race, ,
7:57 PM Sat 23 Mar 2013
As the clock continues to wind to the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, the nights are hotting up at the Green Marine boatyard in chilly southern England as the very first One Design Volvo Ocean 65 is stuck together ...[more]
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Ezekiel Stoddard's head pops up only just above the lectern as he stands to deliver his sermon.
He turns the pages of his notes with a flick of the hand and a flourish, and speaks quickly and insistently, punctuating his words with a regular "Amen" or "Hallelujah", as he hops from verse to verse.
He's 11 years old, but dressed like a gentleman.
"Are you ready?" he says a few minutes in, looking up at the crowd of eager faces. "I said 'Are you ready?'"
He repeats the question five times, before booming: "Are you ready for the resurrection of Christ?"
And with that his whirlwind of a sermon is over.
But the show goes on. Ezekiel moves over to join his older sister Corrine, 15, and brothers Hezekiah, 13, and Micah, seven, who - together with 10-year-old Jasmine - form the gospel group, God's Blessings, No Chains Holding Me Down.
Standing in line, in order of height, they sing, swing, and click their fingers.
It's fun, catchy, foot-tapping stuff, and the congregation at Christ Centered Missionary Baptist Church, in the east of Washington, DC, sway and clap to the beat.
Ezekiel is the frontman and, from time to time, breaks into a little rap.
Then the blessings begin.
One by one, members of the congregation - anything up to seven times Ezekiel's age - bend down to his height, and whisper into his ear. Ezekiel commands the devil to leave, or calls for healing.
One woman hunches down and begins to sob for a few minutes, before clenching her fist and summoning the strength to get back up.
"He's a remarkable young man," says Rev Hercules S Jones, who invited Ezekiel to his church to preach. "When he delivers the gospel, it's inspiring."


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Spring is finally here and Woodlawn needs your help getting ready for its busy season.
Dress appropriately to work outside and bring work gloves.
This is your chance to try PMC (Precious Metal Clay®) and make a beautiful pendant, just in time for mother's day. Led by artist Lisa Salsbury,...
Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 - 3:00 pm
Enjoy a traditional high tea in an enchanting setting. Voted "Best Garden Tea" by Yankee Magazine, it is an experience not to be missed. The cost is $22 for members/$25 for non-members. As space is limited, reservations are required by calling Woodlawn at 667-8671.
Woodlawn Museum, Gardens & Park
P.O. Box 1478 • Rte. 172 • Ellsworth, Maine 04605 • (207) 667-8671


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|Some Forthcoming Otter Events
|Sat 26th Apr
|Pond Sailing Starts
|Sat 26th Apr
|2014 Easter Egg Regatta
|Sat 26th Jul
|Otter Week begins
Click here for the full Otter programme
Main Otter Contact - General Email
Event - 2014 Easter Egg Regatta
Saturday 26th April 2014
If you are a chocoholic then the Corinthian Otters' Easter Egg Regatta is definitely an event for you! It is open to all Corinthian Otter sailors, with races and fun organised for all abilities, whether you have just started on the river or have been sailing for years. So come along and join in the fun. There will be an Easter egg for every participant at the Prize Giving at the end of the Day, so don't miss out.Read More...
Event - Otters and the RYA RIB Championship
Sunday 21st September 2014
The Otters are proposing to take part for the first time in the RYA RIB Driving Championship by entering a RIB driver in the 13-16 age group. Anyone over 13 and under the age of 17 on 21 September 2014 can take part. The National Final is always held at Southampton on the last day of the Southampton Boat Show.Read More...
The Otters are Fundraising...
The Otters need to replace one of their RIBs and have hit upon a healthy way to raise funds - The Big Otter Slim. Carl Anderson, Marc Ellis, Steve Rands and Justin Waples have already made a start and are trying both to lose some weight as well as raise funds for a new Otter Spotter. The day of reckoning is Friday, May 9th, when there will be an official 'weigh-in' at the Otter Race Night.Read more about The Otters are Fundraising......


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Nutty Creations War of the Roses Shawlette
Sorry, this is not currently available.
Previously $6.00 each.
- Pattern Type
- All Knitted
- Shawls and Wraps
This shawlette has a garter stitch body with roses and a knitted on leafy edging. While not difficult, some basic lace experience is helpful.
Size: Small 48" wide and 22" from top to point Large (56" wide and 26" from top to point)
Yarn: 400 -500 yards of fingering weight yarn
Needles: US 3 (3.25mm) 40" circular needle (or size needed to obtain gauge)
Gauge: 24 sts and 28 rows = 4" in garter stitcg
We do not currently have this available — we first started selling this in March 2010.