BNY Mellon's Aniko Delaney, Global Head of Corporate Marketing, on leveraging the bank's rich history and connection with Alexander Hamilton to launch a successful content marketing campaign.
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The Science of Storytelling: BNY Mellon
1. Invested in Our Legacy
232 Years of Innovation
Aniko DeLaney
Global Head, BNY Mellon Corporate Marketing
Bill Barrett
Head of Corporate Digital Marketing
May 2017
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Improving Lives Through Investing
Investments Company for the World
Our Founder Heritage of Firsts
232 Years of
Insight and
Innovation
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Social Media Results: Invested In Our Legacy
Engagement rate
above BNY Mellon average:
+34%
+40%
+818%
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BNY Mellon
Homepage
Innovation
Centers
Social Media
Employee
engageme
nt
AR/VR
Driving Culture Change
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Big Ideas Thought Leadership iPad App
2016 Silver Award
for Innovative Digital Solutions
.
2017 Webby Honoree
Mobile Sites & Apps
Financial Services / Banking
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Hamilton Quiz
Results:
• 28% Visits from Natural
Search
• 23% Visits from Direct
• 12% Visits from Social
Media promotions
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Career Quiz
Top personas:
22% Investment Ace
14% Tech Wizard
12% Client Connoisseur
12% People Person
11% Branding Champion
Thanks for inviting me to your class.
I look forward to sharing the BNY Mellon story with you today
I welcome questions as we go through the presentations – more interactive the better.
Alexander Hamilton founded The Bank of New York in 1784, making BNY Mellon the oldest continuously operating financial institution in the United States.
Hamilton’s vision structured a nation, created a financial system, and laid the foundation for a modern economy.
Hamilton The history of the United States Military Academy can be traced to fortifications constructed on the West Point of the Hudson River during the American Revolutionary War in 1778. Following the war, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing the United States Military Academy (USMA) on the site in 1802. In 1817 the Academy was transformed by the appointment of Sylvanus Thayer who drastically reformed the curriculum.
The original owner of the land at West Point was a General Stephen Moore of North Carolina. The Continental Army occupied his land for twelve years until Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton authorized the purchase of the land for $11,085 in 1790
Hamilton argued the need for a military academy in the Federalist papers.
He also outlined the curriculum for a military academy
Hamilton structured the Treasury Dept. as the first Treasury Secretary arranged for the Bank of NY to provide the country with the first loan – establishing the country's credit and econ independence and spurring nationwide development.
Lets watch the Buck Started Here video
Now let’s talk about our brand and our story
I have been at BNY Mellon for over 26 years.
As long as I have been here, we have always celebrated our legacy and our founder.
How many have seen Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Broadway show, listened to the soundtrack, read the Chernow book?
We are proud of the firsts:
Hamilton: founded BK, Coast Guard, New York Post, etc.
BNY Mellon: first stock traded on NYSE, first to make the loan to US government
We continue to live Hamilton’s pioneering spirit…. 232 years of insight and innovation
Corporate marketing focused on building, protecting and promoting the “Brand”
You will see a lot of use of the word “enhance”
A lot of work last year that will see fruition in 2015 – Website refresh, digital platform build, social presence, thought leadership, event strategy, metrics
All this means we are in a good position to me more effective at powering our brand presence despite lack of advertising $
Developing tools and platforms to help sales and RM’s better articulate and present the company
Modern, 21st C, flexible and dynamic approach to marketing that is metrics driven
Looking to increase client and prospect interaction – engage their interest – showcase our expertise – make them advocates
Launched campaign on June 9 – our 232 anniversary. Multi media, omni-channel campaign. Rang opening bell on NYSE. Then continued with social media campaign, sponsored PBS’s Hamilton’s America . The documentary shares Lin Manuel Miranda’s innovative and creative process to develop the Hamilton Broadway show. There are clips from the show, interviews with US Treasury Secretaries.
Changing tone of brand to be more human, approachable, social media friendly
Aim to emotionally connect with our constituents….mobilizer target
Hamilton’s Forward Thinking Spirit Drives our Legacy
Hamilton was first and foremost a visionary, he inspired and led others with a combination of ingenuity and a boundless energy to get things done.
He laid a foundation that allows BNY Mellon to be one of the most stable financial institutions in the world but also one that is constantly innovating to be at the forefront of the financial industry. This is seen in:
It’s this founding spirit that has propelled BNY Mellon forward over the last 232 years.
A spirit that makes us uniquely BNY Mellon
Its important to measure the effectiveness of content across our corporate channels – bnuymellon.com and our social media channels
A KPI in isolation rarely provides enough actionable information on its own. A "measurement framework" places KPIs and metrics together in logical interrelated groups.
The BNY Mellon measurement framework will:
Provide structure and areas of focus to KPIs
Ensure context for analysis and help prioritize optimization efforts
Link business objectives and critical success factors to measurable outcomes
Awareness: Audience exposed to our content
Attract: Audience driven to our content
Engage: Audience engaged with our message and our people
Convert: Audience takes a key action or completes our goal
Retain: Audience returns and continues to come back for more
Advocate: We aspire to advocate audience promotes our brand, message or people on our behalf
This post reflects our being in the conversation
This post outperformed the BNY Mellon average
Example of us getting on to a trending topic
#firstsevenjobs was trending and we jumped on it showing Hamilton’s first seven jobs
Was not planned but we could follow trending topic and gain awareness that adds personality and humanizes the brand
Through our digital first and social media strategies we’re working to drive cultural change at BNY Mellon internally and change the brand reputation to be more innovative
Examples of the different types of communications, moving toward digital tactics
We have launched 9 innovation centers around the globe. As we saw at the beginning we have the original general ledgers. Our Silicon Valley innovation center, month other projects, focuses on distributed ledges – also known as blockchain.
Our Innovation Centers all helped us celebrate Hamilton’s birthday on Jan 11 – encouraged selfies with Hamilton cutouts!!
Gamification follows our digital strategy in executing on the brand, driving engagement and giving people a chance to share their input. We don’t want to just push content. we want to hear from visitors.
23% via the homepage feature promotion, 56% Completion Rate
53% via Desktop, 70% Completion Rate
47% Visits from Mobile Devices, 70% Completion Rate
At the foundation of the Career Quiz project was the goal to create a candidate experience that not only delights, but also demonstrates that BNY Mellon is invested in helping people find the right role our company.
Leveraging our digital-first approach, we worked with the Global Talent & Development team to create a tool that helps to engage candidates and find the right fit through a simple and informative online experience.
Through a series of eight progressive questions, a candidate is asked to consider different workplace scenarios that tease out their strengths.
Upon completing the quiz, each candidate receives a branded badge that identifies them with one of 10 personas.
The personas show BNY Mellon as creative and playful, yet insightful, because they fit each individual. Sample personas include: Investment Ace, Tech Wizard, Prospecting Pro, Global Markets Maven, to name a few.
With badge in hand, quiz takers are then are presented a list of recommended roles that link to open positions aligned with that role.
After a soft launch of the quiz with the Summer Analyst Program, the Career Quiz went live on bnymellon.com on August 17th. Thus far:
51% Completion Rate (Tot. 795)
Top personas: 13% Branding Champion, 13% Investment Ace, 7% Tech Wizard, 7% People Person
Most viewed recommended roles: Analyst, strategist, sales/relationship manager
Careers Quiz page is a top 30 page (visits)
Gerald Hassell, our Chairman and CEO leads the digital first approach.
He was given the honor of being an influencer on LinkedIn.
How many of you follow influencers on Linked In – Richard Branson, Ariana Huffington – there re only 500 LinkedIn Influencers.
It takes just 1/10 of a second for someone to make a decision about you!
Both in-person and now in social media, we must be very aware what first impression we want to communicate.
We work with our client-facing team to determine what is the best way to share company related information on their personal profiles.
Do you follow your company’s social sites?
How do you engage with your company’s social media?
What content are you most likely to engage with?
What content enhances your personal brand?
We work with LinkedIn and they have shared a few tips:
Adding a profile photo makes your profile 7x more likely to be found in searches
Having your 2 most recent positions makes your profile 12x more likely to be found
Users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn
85% of all jobs are filled via networking & social networking
Not only for employment however, LinkedIn sees 85% of it's page view activity around content, therefore it is very important to represent yourself professionally, share relevant content, thought leadership, updates from your network, and begin to publish your own long-from posts on LinkedIn's publishing platform to elevate your professional brand!
With the popularity of the musical Hamilton and it’s nomination for 11 Tony Awards, we used the voice of Hamilton to humanize our brand and bring some “fun” to our voice
During the Tonys we were live tweeting in Hamilton’s voice from our corporate channel
Who could have asked for a more exciting tie to our brand – than one of the most-awarded Broadway musicals!