Ciclón Energy Drink - Case
Study
Alfred Rothensteiner of Santo Domingo founded Ciclón Energy
Drink in 1996. Originally from Austria, the Ciclón Energy Drink
brand was introduced to the Caribbean and Central America the
same year. In Q4 2001, Ciclón was considered one of the the
largest producers of energy drinks in the world.
Ciclón has saturated Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico,
United States and many other countries. And is fast becoming one of the most popular non-alcoholic
drinks throughout the entire Central and Latin American, and
Caribbean markets.
Adoption rates in the United
States are also exceptionally promising.
Due to its die-hard guerrilla marketing, street branding, and
unique product sales and distribution methods, Ciclón has
achieved huge marketing success in Puerto Rico's intricate
market and is the #1 energy drink brand in Puerto Rico.
Considering other enormous adoption rates where Ciclón has been
introduced, Ciclón continually exhibits promise in maintaining
it's course as the leading international
energy drink brand.
Situation
The Ciclón Energy Drink requires (1) global presence in order
to dominate the energy drink market, which requires the (2)
strength of the latest and greatest marketing and design
concepts, including the (3)
dominating Internet marketing strategies.
Marketing requirements included segmentation and exclusion,
date-collection, identity brand building,
international brand leadership, with a strong regional presence
in the Caribbean and the Americas.
Regionally Segmented Marketing - The site development was
required to assert regionally coordinated traditional and
digital marketing efforts as a competitive advantage. For this
to happen, the site must be customizable on a per-region basis
to permit regional content and campaign management to be
synchronized with traditional street efforts.
Additionally, Ciclón required the ability to delegate control
of content features, thus regionally distributing workload.
Centralized Management - The Site development was required to
have an expandable and centralized site management system,
providing Ciclón with
unrivaled control over regionally promoted content, campaigns,
corporate data, language options, and other important features.
Data Reporting - The site development was required to collect
specific site traffic information, and display reports compiled
in real-time. These reports
included overall regional traffic, promotional response rates,
media and feature utilization, and membership distribution.
Package Development - The site development was required to be
developed in package format to remove initial and
post-development overlap, subsequently reducing the overall
project investment.
Specific technical requirements included regionally segmented
marketing, centralized global and regional content, campaign,
and statistics management. This entire concept was required in a
planned, packaged, and phase-based development.
Solution:
Tulla Media investigated, planned, and recommended a lucrative
approach to a customized site management system. The analysis
included priority items and an investment breakdown overall and
per region.
Additionally, we included a quantitative and qualitative
comparison of the costs incurred by using per-region development
companies.
The proposal was incremented by phases to allow the client to
customize its marketing strategy and meet the challenging
demands of today's highly competitive
beverage industry.
The first and most important phase was to produce the digital
platform for regional expansion. This included brand
standardization guidelines, the centralized administration
system, a master template design, and a pre-configured region.
The centralized administration system includes the global and
regional managers, a template manager, user manager, and a
statistics console. Additional modules for the system included
global and regional managers for Ciclón campaigns, media
surveys, and site membership, among others.
Benefits & Results:
The new website has provided many important advantages to Ciclón,
including a standard method of managing website content and
promotional materials, and the ability to support and maintain a
synchronized branding strategy with a consolidated
investment.
Because Tulla Media invested its own time to understand both the
client and consumer's requirements, the branding and management
aspects of the system have been implemented in an extremely
powerful and flexible way.
Ciclón Energy Drink now has the ability to install regions at a
fixed time and financial resource investments, thus establishing
financial stability, and budget and schedule planning. With the
customized site management system, the client can install a
region in less than two weeks.
Additionally, Tulla Media has enabled the client to take a
highly active role in its' global branding strategy by giving
Ciclón the power of creativity, effectiveness, and definite
results.
Additional to the administrative system, Tulla Media's elegant
and trend-setting designs have set the direction for Ciclón to
continue strengthening and enriching its brand image, all of
which demonstrate Tulla Media a smart and durable investment.
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