How Zero Eight Helped CSS Achieve Marketing Success

Introducing CSS

Corporate Settlement Solutions (CSS) is a settlement services company providing mid-sized lending institutions valuation and title solutions.

CSS was founded in 1992 in Traverse City, MI, with a production office located in Cleveland, OH, and an administrative office located in Austin, TX.

The problem

The goal

The goal was to transform the messaging of the brand and to prove that inbound marketing is a possibility. That is, if you connect the right person with the right message in a way that they connect with.

The strategy

We aren’t interested in a one-size-fits-all solution. We go a little further.

First, we understand not only the brand we’re working with, but also the people behind it. We interview the sales department, the customer support team and current customers.

We investigate how the brand has been trying to attract/retain new customers. We also look at what drives their client’s buying decision. After that, we develop, and implement, several different strategies to improve what’s working, and to let go of what’s holding them back.

Value Proposition – Identified

Through our discussions with the sales team and our customers, we discovered a key point – our customers were primarily focused on reducing costs and improving results.
This was often backed up by data and comparative analysis, which frequently formed the basis of our sales strategies. However, we identified a significant gap – this important selling point was missing from our website and marketing materials. This is where we stepped in. We made sure our marketing messages reflected the real reasons customers chose us, effectively aligning our outward communications with the true value of our services.

Our Solution WasData Driven

We compiled data and made sure to display it front and center. Showing prospect clients exactly what they were looking for.

Brand Hit Refresh

Previously, their homepage banner, ‘Your Partner for Improved Results’, was unclear, failing to define their services to visitors or SEO. Their focus, ‘real estate settlement solutions’, was only stated at the end of the intro
After collaboration, the homepage specifies ‘Real estate settlement solutions’. CSS highlights title and valuation options for home equity and first mortgages. Their four core products contrast the former ‘Your Partner for Improved Results

Final result

Even without a full redesign, we were still able to refresh the client’s visual identity. Creating new compositions and elements to populate their digital and printed assets. See below for examples.

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