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Case Study: American Veterinary Group

An animal Medical Clinic at St. John’s Movers Campaign.
American Veterinary Group (AVG), owns and operates eight veterinary clinics in Florida. While each clinic under the AVG umbrella maintains their own brand and unique voice, AVG caters to local pet owners who are looking for local, reliable, and personal care for their fur babies.
American Veterinary Group
American Veterinary Group

How We Do It

The Challenge

AVG’s business is primarily hyperlocal, with patients typically located within a 3-5 mile radius from their clinics. Their new customers have come from one of three sources: either new movers, new pet owners, or people who have had a bad experience with another vet. Historically, AVG has relied on word of mouth, their physical location, and mailers to acquire new customers. After finding little success with mailers in the past, AVG was in search of a partner that could help bolster their acquisition efforts. When AVG approached Integrate to help attract new patients to their Animal Medical Clinic at St. Johns location in Florida, we knew a hyper-targeted movers campaign would be their best bet.

The Approach

Our strategy was to craft a direct mail movers campaign focused within a 10-mile radius of the clinic, as research showed pet owners don’t usually travel more than this for care when they live in the city.

From there, we developed a detailed list of attributes for our target audience, such as cat and dog enthusiasts, people who have bought pet food and pet supplies in the last year, pet-owners who moved in the last 12 months, and so forth.

We worked in tandem with the clinic to develop promotional offers for movers, designing mailers and creating content specific to pet-owners.

Over a four-month period, we did several different direct mail campaigns, A/B testing the design and content to continue serving the most relevant ad. We closely measured the results and tested our target audiences.

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The Results

Customer Acquisition

35% increase in patients (compared to the same period the previous year).

Direct Mail Marketing

Of the 115% increase in visits, 62% was directly attributable to direct mail campaign.

Overall Growth

Clinic saw more than 80% return on investment.

Takeaways

We’re digital marketers first and foremost, but we believe that the best strategy is always the one that speaks to the audience. Direct mail was the best option for this client, as demonstrated by the impressive results.