Southern Cross Partners

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Southern Cross Partners (SCP) recruited Pead in 2021 to create, publish and promote engaging content to grow its client base of mortgage advisers and investors, and in turn increase profitable revenue growth.

Demonstrating Pead’s talent for delivering creative execution with a strategic lens.

The brief

Working together with the client we developed a two-pronged approach intended to generate new leads for their sales team and nurture existing customers and improve repeat investments.

Pead built a digital marketing and reputation management strategy centred on engaging owned channel content distributed via direct marketing channels, all managed through HubSpot CRM. This included the production of:

  • Thought leadership and commentary blogs

  • Educational articles

  • .pdf lead magnets

  • Monthly newsletters and automated email workflows

  • Quarterly webinars

We refined the search engine optimisation efforts, reducing the number of targeted keywords whilst improving the relevance of the content to our audience.

At the same time, we developed digital advertising and search strategies that would build out their audience lists.

The result

Within the first year, these combined efforts resulted in:

28%

Increase in paid advertising click through rate

10%

Increase in conversion rate

50%

Increase in customer reply rate

Aerial view of a neighborhood with various houses, trees, and greenery, taken from a hillside.
Smiling woman hiking in a wooded area with a backpack, promoting Southern Cross Partners' retirement investment guide.
Screenshot of Southern Cross Partners Loans & Investments website homepage featuring a banner with two women outdoors, text about over 25 years of partnership with Kiwis, a quote from clients, icons with investment info, and sections about property-backed investments and peer-to-peer investing.
Southern Cross Partners website homepage with a book titled 'Investing in Your Retirement' and text asking 'How are you funding your retirement?'

Need a hand?

info@pead.co.nz

09 918 5555

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Auckland, 1010

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