Getting More New Zealanders to Invest-Now

InvestNow is an online platform that makes investing easy. InvestNow focuses on removing all obstacles and creating an effortless experience for their clients.

They experienced excellent growth over their first two years of business - and wanted to move the needle even further. After a number of in-depth discussions, we discovered a number of digital strategies that could take their business to the next level.

In a highly competitive environment, we knew that to drive growth, we needed to actively adapt our campaign and messaging techniques to ensure that our budget was spent in the most potent areas.

Our Impact

544%
Increase in Leads Generated through the LikeMe tool
46%
Increase in Total Platform Sign Ups
54%
Decrease in CPA across all Conversions
544%
Increase in Leads Generated through the LikeMe tool
46%
Increase in Total Platform Sign Ups
54%
Decrease in CPA across all Conversions

The Strategy

Strategy

InvestNow gives Kiwis loads of flexibility when it comes to how and where they invest their money. Offering low minimum investment amounts as well as a select range of managed funds, we had to be diverse with our targeting and messaging.


Google

To break through the highly competitive and expensive search environment, we needed to ensure that not only could we capitalise on potential consumers who were looking to invest, but also cater unique experiences directly to those who were ready to invest now. 

To do this we created a two-prong campaign to maximise our impact.

  1. We targeted consumers in the early stages of the conversion funnel with specific ads targeting search terms such as “how to invest” & “where to buy shares online”.
  2. We then also targeted high intent consumers by bidding on specific brand names and fund types. This allowed us to serve highly personalised ads to those looking to invest into specific fund types such as Fisher or AMP funds. For these consumers, they were offered a personalized experience, with ads that directly suited and satisfied their need. 

By splitting up our efforts, we were able to maximise our efficiency and reduce our CPA. The more specific brand terms were less competitive and usually were attributed to higher intent searches. 


Social

We used a two-stage funnel to capture and convert potential customers who either show interest in starting an investing portfolio, or to people who are aware of and have interacted with InvestNow. 

  • The first stage of our funnel targeted broad, interest-based, and lookalike investor audiences with content-qualifying ads that drove them to a ‘LikeMe’ survey on the InvestNow website, where they could find Kiwi investors, like themselves, and see what they were investing in. 
  • After sending a large portion of users to the site from our stage one ads, we then set up the second stage of the funnel, which retargeted site visitors and ‘LikeMe’ survey completions. These users were delivered specialised ads that communicated the USP’s of InvestNow as an investing platform, and were driven towards the sign up portal to complete their conversion journey. 


Our Impact

  • Achieved a 191% month on month increase in platform sign ups across all channels
  • 235% increase in new users year on year (june 2018 vs 2019)


Overall

By utilising multiple digital channels and crafting unique experiences, we saw a massive increase in platform signups, and boosted total website traffic by more than 200%.

Together, we’ve started to grow the InvestNow platform and the pockets of many Kiwis.

The result

We achieved success through the development of a full scale strategy that gave us maximum flexibility in growing each channel and honing our approach in real time. We increased sign ups by 46% boosted leads by 544%.

544%
Increase in Leads Generated through the LikeMe tool
46%
Increase in Total Platform Sign Ups
54%
Decrease in CPA across all Conversions

Our first two years, since launch, had delivered the growth targets we had expected but it also showed us there was significant upside potential - we needed someone to help us realise the opportunity.  Aro Digital gave us the solution - a team of digital marketing experts with a proven and highly-respected track record.  We are only a few months into working with Tim, Jonty & Lucy and the numbers don’t lie … we are seeing record growth in our business

Mike Heath
General Manager
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Invest Now
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