seasons pizza franchisor
How to effectively leverage marketing support for franchise locations without geographic concentration.
Challenge
Seasons Pizza is a fast-casual brand with 35 mid-Atlantic locations. Like many franchise groups, their locations are too spread out to justify traditional mass media.
Strategy
- Strong creative concepts, clever promotions – From our initial positioning “So Fresh We Should be Slapped,” to new, edgy ideas for each seasonal, daypart or product promotion – creative that commands attention is key to our success.
- While discount offers are important in this space, we are careful not to cheapen the brand and let customers become overly dependent on deals.
- Smart, cost-effective media strategies that are both digital and well-integrated at the point-of-sale.
- Robust Facebook and Twitter campaigns – fresh, highly engaging content, highly targeted Facebook ads and boosted posts.
- Email marketing – we leverage their extensive online ordering database to increase frequency and loyalty.
- Programmatic marketing – we apply cutting edge digital ad networks that target each local audience across devices, connecting relevant offers with them at the right time and place.
- Additional tailored campaigns boost activity for underperforming units.
- Point-of-Sale follow-through helps drive purchase decisions: banners, bandit signs, table tents, POS handouts, pizza box stickers.
Results
- Year over year sales have been up 15% each of the last two years. Results are even better for most underperforming stores who received further customized support.
- Overall marketing spend is down 20% from the mass media buys that were attempted before Cyphers guided the marketing effort.