MobileTech Solutions

Line of Business

Mobile communications software for route accounting

Bottom Line


New corporate image extended company's position beyond market-specific reseller to software provider

Target Audiences

  • Intermec Value Added Resellers (VARs) across the US selling route accounting solutions to beverage, dairy, bakery, utility, laundry and snack distribution companies
  • New industries using route-delivery of products or services

 

 

 


 

 

Market Challenges

  • Build brand equity in MobileTech Solutions to generate demand for its premier software used to sell, deliver and service in-store merchandise
  • Communicate the availability of this direct store delivery software to all VARs reselling Intermec mobile computing hardware systems, the largest provider of turn key solutions to the distribution industry
  • Reposition MobileTech Solutions to other VARs as a software vendor and source of increased revenue
  • Expand MobileTech Solutions' existing VAR business by reaching into emerging markets

Strategic Approach

  • Develop customer success stories emphasizing the unique capabilities of MobileTech Solutions software products
  • Build visibility for company's software products in industry magazines through editorial story placements and product mentions
  • Emphasize in direct communications to customers and potential customers the added value proposition specific to MobileTech Solutions software products
  • Use declining hardware profit margins and falling price points as impetus to encourage VARs to turn to MobileTech Solutions software as source of replacement income.

Marketing Services

  • Design new company logo to better communicate professional image and corporate expertise
  • Create, design and produce new marketing collateral
  • Develop customer success stories for placement in trade magazines, and for use in sell sheets and website copy

Outcomes

  • Company has realized 25% growth in sales to new markets
  • Sales of its software products by other VARs has added 15% to corporate annual revenues