Combination creates new category of marketing firm: branded promotional products and brand-centric email and interactive marketing
Milwaukee and Denver, Sept. 10, 2003 – Wild Impact Marketing (previously Wild Promotions) announced today it has completed its acquisition of Blue Ink Solutions, an interactive marketing company based in Denver. The resulting entity creates a new category of marketing firm aimed at driving customer acquisition, retention and growth through branded promotional products and brand-centric email and interactive marketing.
Wild Impact CEO David Prokupek said the company is now uniquely able to provide brand- and revenue-building marketing solutions across a variety of channels, from promotional-merchandise and incentive-product eStores, to online and offline incentive, loyalty and direct-response programs. Prokupek said the company is also addressing the complete value chain surrounding these channels through high-level competencies in brand and marketing strategy and creative asset development, and through proven technologies for program implementation and results measurement.
“By adding Blue Ink’s strategic and tactical interactive marketing capabilities to our promotional products business, we’ve created a new category I call ‘Below The Line’ marketing. It’s the ‘heavy lifting’ of marketing, and we’re the first to bring these services together to benefit clients,” Prokupek said.
“Wild Impact has greatly simplified planning and executing our sales-incentive points program,” said Bob Atkins, president of Grohe America. “To my knowledge Wild is the only firm bundling all of the important core elements of the program—incentive products, eStore, email points statements, and special promos—and offering supporting services like design and list management.
“The program is not only easy, it’s effective: sales reps see the right Grohe image and the right messages that motivate them to sell.”
Grohe is the leading global manufacturer of faucets, showers, and other water technology products and systems.
Other Wild Impact clients include such notables as the Arthritis Foundation, BMW of North America, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Miller Brewing, and Harris Bank.
Two New Wild Impact eNewsletters
To educate businesses in effective, efficient “Below The Line” marketing, Wild Impact has launched two new email newsletters, both available on Wild Impact’s new website, www.wildimpact.com. There’s monthly Wild Impact eNews and a quarterly eNews Digital Edition. The newsletters offer ideas and information for marketing products, services and brands. The Digital Edition focuses on interactive marketing, such as email marketing, online advertising and wireless marketing.
About Wild Impact Marketing
Wild Impact Marketing is the premier integrated “Below The Line” marketing firm providing modern marketers the ability to grow revenues, build brands, improve customer loyalty, and grow firm value through targeted corporate identity, interactive marketing, loyalty, and direct-response programs. Wild Impact’s principals are senior marketing professionals experienced in solving marketing problems in the financial services, consumer, healthcare, branded industrial, and technology industries. Wild Impact’s integrated approach leverages its industry expertise and in-house strategy, creative and technology capabilities to design and execute custom innovative marketing programs that deliver results.
Founded in 1991 as Wild Promotions, Wild Impact Marketing is a fast-growing national firm with over 85 professionals and offices in Denver, Milwaukee and New York. Clients include the Arthritis Foundation, BMW of North America, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Miller Brewing, Harris Bank, Walgreens, The Plaza Hotel, Snap-on, Mutual of Omaha, and World Wrestling Entertainment. For more information, email info@wildimpact.com or visit www.wildimpact.com.
Vincent Dipas
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