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Case Study: ReelAbilities 1

A film and arts festival celebrating people with disabilities.
ReelAbilities: Houston Film & Arts Festival is a free city-wide film and arts festival dedicated to presenting films, art exhibitions, performances, and speakers that celebrate the lives, stories, and talents of people with disabilities. The non-profit’s work has had an enormous impact on Houston’s culture, diversity, and inclusion efforts.
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How We Do It

The Challenge

The organizers sought across-the-board increases for the entire event – from attendance and participants to the public relations and social media efforts used to bring new attention to the festival. But more than anything, they wanted to improve how they communicated with their active and committed fanbase through e-mail marketing.

The Approach

Integrate Agency overhauled their old e-mail efforts by developing a completely new e-mail program that included drip campaigns and brand-new design templates. With a goal of featuring a more personalized customer experience, the e-mail team implemented the following enhancements and improvements:

  • Content – Strengthened copy to emphasize the essentials and drive people to buy tickets to the event.
  • Visuals – Included eye-catching and engaging images that encouraged scrolling and clicking.
  • Layout – Refreshed formatting and displays in accordance with contemporary design trends and conversion best practices.
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The Results

Email Marketing

71% open rate increase and 467% click-through rate increase.

Takeaways

Thanks to open communication and clear presentation of the recommended tactics, the new e-mail template proved to be a smashing success. ReelAbilities experienced its first-ever sellout of every single event at the festival.