When the Covid Pandemic restrictions forced Children’s Learning Centres of Fairfield County to close the doors of all 8 of their schools to over 950 students and 250 educators - they came to 9Packets to move their operations online.
“Unfortunately, our digital infrastructure, built primarily to support in-class learning, was not up to the task of supporting distance learning.”
“Through Joe’s heroic efforts we were able to stand-up a Blended Pre-K Learning Platform to partner with our parents as co-educators to provide both an in-class and at-home learning experience.”
Understood is dedicated to serving millions of families with kids who learn and think differently. Understood engaged us as a young organization with a wealth of value to offer - but unable to impact as many lives as they’d hoped.
Having a breadth of experience in growing nonprofits, we quickly implement strategies that helped Understood acquire more active visitors with a minimal budget. Understood now enjoys millions of active monthly users. At the same time, we helped increase their reach by cost-effectively taking their organic traffic from 50% to 80%.
Conceptualized and ran digital media consumer marketing campaigns across multiple magazine properties in conjunction with Vogue’s Fashion Night Out events. This included research, strategy, software development, operations, customer acquisition, and lifetime value analysis.
A private equity digital transformation project that included a deep analysis of people and digital infrastructure assets against company financial objectives. Once management approved the overall strategy and plan we brought in operational teams (ERP, CMS, Customer acquisition, etc.) to execute.
Recruited by the new CEO to help the company with its digital transformation project, we evaluated digital platforms, created RFPs, negotiated & hired third party technology teams, and coordinated agency resources (brand, design, strategy, etc.)
Hired to evaluate and monetize paid acquisition channels (search, social, display, etc.) against cost per acquisition metrics for Britannica Kids.
Prior to their acquisition we oversaw the research, strategy, and operations to build-out a local service deals extension to their successful core daily deals (widgets) business.
We managed all research, strategy, and operational plans to build a significant direct to consumer culinary business.
Responsible to analyze and drive cross-channel paid customer acquisition into a newly-launched Apple IOS word game called Puku.
Leading a site rebuilding project that includes deep analytics, competitive analysis, primary research, UX design, development, and operational deployment/management.
9Packets evaluated the current paid acquisition activities and identified missed performance opportunities. Setup paid social and SEM (Adwords/Bing) campaigns to maximize customer acquisition performance.
9Packets helped Rodale build a seven-figure digital subscription business across several properties including Men’s Health, Prevention, Runner’s World, etc. We led research, strategy, and operations to build-out a mobile content distribution business for Rodale brands, including mobile carrier negotiations and integration activities.
9Packets was hired by an investment group, co-wrote the business plan, hired the team, created the strategy, built the technology, and partnered with Diapers.com to capitalize on the vertical (parents) daily deals service business. Business was sold to Plum District (backed by Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst.)