NICE TO SEE YOU

Babcock & Jenkins is a creative B2B agency that gives special attention to building brands, creating content and driving demand. Twenty-three years young, we apply that wisdom in new ways every day as marketing techniques continuously evolve. It's a complex marketing world and there's one thing we know to always be true: the more human we make our work, the more relevant and effective it becomes.

Thank you for inviting us to share our story.

BNJ TEAM

Our Team is our greatest asset. We take great pride in having a team that is diverse, highly skilled, passionate and dedicated to B2B modern marketing. Here's a sampling of BNJ's highcaliber marketers fortunate enough to partner with American Express.

OUR VALUES

A lot like you, we are driven by our values. They are our guiding
principles that affect our work, culture and decisions.

THREE GREAT YEARS AND BEYOND

We're proud of our partnership with American Express and the milestones we've achieved together.

2013
The beginning of our relationship. We started with multi-channel creative execution for Large Market GCP.
2014
We expanded this year, adding strategy, media, analytics and data work for Large Market GCP within Travel and Healthcare verticals.
2015
2015 expanded our work further within American Express teams, including Large Market GCP, Travel, Healthcare, Partnerships, GMS as well as Middle Market strategic foundations.
2016
We look forward to continuing our relationship with American Express, setting new goals and achieving them together.
IT ALL STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION

Every great interaction and relationship begins and ends with a conversation. Conversations today come in the form of blog posts, content, likes, handshakes and transactions. The best conversations spark the ongoing dialogue that inspire customers to believe, engage them to buy and motivate them to belong.

HOW WE CRAFT A CONVERSATION

We know most purchase decisions are made before a prospect first meets with a salesperson-57%, in fact. Buyers are becoming increasingly self-serve when it comes to researching their suppliers and partners, diagnosing their own needs and bringing more assumptions about your brand and your competitors to the first contact. What they expect from a conversation is evolving, and we're keeping pace.

It's why we strive to intrigue and engage prospects with content and experiences that let them start a conversation on their terms. And it's why we take a holistic approach to crafting the conversation from brand awareness through the advocacy experience.

Awareness Chart
VOICE OF CUSTOMER

We start with the customer. Behind the scenes, we collect, analyze and summarize customer and market insights needed to understand targeted segments, your audience, and your marketplace. We use research tools, social listening platforms, qualitative and quantitative methods, industry and publisher research and behavioral data analytics (using your database). More importantly, we have conversations with your teams and your customers.

PERSONAS

It's always best to know the people you're talking with, as much as possible. What do they like? What drives them to make decisions? What's most relevant to them? What frustrates them? Our personas make our marketing personal.

Here's a recent post showing our POV on developing personas.

CONVERSATION MAPS

Always be clear. What you're saying, how you're saying it, and even when you're saying it all matter. This is how we map out our conversations.

We map out key drivers, questions, narratives, and participants along the buyers' journey (aware, consider, decide) and develop a conversation map. Simply put, a conversation map bridges the gap from buyer personas and messaging to themes, stories and topics of interests, directly informing the creation of highly relevant content for each buyer persona.

Enjoy our recent blog post showing our POV on conversation mapping and reaching B2B buyers.

ENGAGEMENT PLANS

Sometimes the conversation is already happening and your brand needs to be a part of it. Sometimes you need to start a new conversation. Either way, here's how we get you out there.

Here are a few examples of how we outline a multi-channel plan to engage the target buyer, including paid, owned, earned channels. Depending upon the objectives, our engagement planning includes awareness to acquisition, to nurture and retention, and sales and business partner enablement. Along the way, we are always looking for ways to test & optimize.

CASE STUDIES

Inspiring activation from end to end.

ADDITIONAL WORK SAMPLES
WORK IN DEVELOPMENT

The New Balance Sheet series for American Express is an acquisition and engagement program aimed at lower mid-market business owners. We're inviting these owners to take another look at business success and inspire Mason by inviting him to reconsider his assets and liabilities, share his perspective on what really matters to feeling successful-e.g. Work and Play, Dollars and Dreams, Firm and Family, Valuation and Values-and learn about how AMEX can help achieve that balance.

Example creative only. Not live content.

WHY BNJ?

We greatly value our partnership with American Express and have enjoyed becoming an extended part of your marketing team. Thanks again for the opportunity to participate in this RFP. We're excited to demonstrate our capabilities and share new ideas and thinking that will accelerate American Express GCP marketing and lead more provocative conversations in the marketplace.