Coherent Marketing was contracted to develop a site for the life sciences management and commercialization startup, Bellwether Lifesciences. The company's specialties cover the fields of life sciences commercialization, technology transfer for both start ups and large companies, training, consulting, higher education - industry alliances, investments and private equity.
Turnaround on the 100+ page site from start to completion was four weeks. Services provided by Coherent Marketing included working closely with the company on developing a site plan. This ensured site navigation to the broad array of expertise they provide was kept simple, while simultaneously ensuring key areas of business were front and center.
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North Carolina's biotechnology industry is a success story, built on 30 years of steady support for its development. It is ranked as the third-largest cluster of biotech, pharma and life sciences companies in the U.S., following only California and Massachusetts. It generates almost $60 billion a year. But in the early 2000's, biomanufacturing and biopharmaceutical companies in the state were facing difficulties. The state's capability to train sufficient numbers of workers with the specialized skills and knowledge needed to work in complex, highly-regulated biopharmaceutical manufacturing environments was limited. Companies were poaching each other's workers, driving up the cost of business and limiting the companies' ability to expand. This also negatively impacted companies that had a patent clock ticking down. These workforce challenges were costing billions. The post below outlines how the team at Coherent Marketing played a key role in addressing this challenge and helping North Carolina to grow its economy.
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NC BioImpact was originally a $76 million Golden LEAF grant-funded initiative called the Biomanufacturing and Pharmaceutical Training Consortium, or BPTC. The consortium comprised industry, the NC University System (UNC), and the NC Community College System BioNetwork. Other partners included the NC Biotech Center, and the NC Department of Commerce. Its goal was to develop the infrastructure and programs to provide the specialized workforce for North Carolina's biotech industry. The principal at Coherent Marketing led BioNetwork's marketing and recruitment, growing student recruitment in life sciences programs from several hundred a year to several thousand. He also chaired the BPTC's marketing committee which developed a strategy to market the state's life sciences workforce programs as a way to give companies locating in North Carolina a strategic competitive advantage.
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The challenge was simple - create positive sentiment to counter 100 million dollars of negative advertising, misinformation and PR from the petroleum industry and develop support for an advanced biofuels industry that didn't yet exist. On a budget. In 2010, the principal at Coherent Marketing planned, developed and implemented an integrated media campaign with a new website, digital and social media, participation by the general public, and public service announcements on TV. By the end of the campaign, the campaign had achieved some impressive results:
- More than 100,000 people visited the booth where the campaign was launched during the 2010 State Fair
- 550 unpaid green-screen video endorsements by the general public in three thematic areas - biofuels are good for the economy, environment, and strategic security
- Twelve 30 second PSAs were created from the video endorsements that were seen by more than 80% of North Carolina residents. Airing them during March Madness helped, too.
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The principal at Coherent Marketing launched and branded the Biofuels Center of North Carolina and as part of the organization's communications goals obtained and led a federally funded American Recovery & Reinvestment Act public education campaign about cellulosic biofuels in North Carolina. He drafted the campaign plan and led a small team of contractors to implement the plan between the end of October 2010 and April 2011 and despite a highly compressed timeline, successfully managed an integrated media campaign that generated millions of positive interactions about advanced biofuels.
The campaign began with a green-screen booth at the NC State Fair that solicited unpaid endorsements about biofuels from the public. Using talking points, more than 550 videos were generated over the 10 days of the show at an average of one every 10 minutes from the approximately 100,000 people who visited the booth. Within 24 hours of being shot, the greenscreen videos were edited and uploaded with appropriate metadata to a new dedicated biofuels Youtube Channel and embedded on searchable pages on the NC Biofuels campaign website.
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We have assisted the Advanced Manufacturing Alliance develop and implement a strategic approach to its communications infrastructure, branding, and develop common messaging among the partner organizations. This is a key element for consortiums where members have disparate brands, strengths and priorities. We developed a website with partitioned user access for the 10 community colleges, file storage and transfer capabilities for curricula and video, and a built-in browser-based video conferencing capability to ease interactions among colleges widely dispersed across North Carolina. Already, searching for "advanced manufacturing, NC" shows the Alliance at #1 in Google. Coherent Marketing was selected for this project, which is the larget single grant to a community college in the 50-year history of the North Carolina Community College System. We have provided guidance on how to effectively post updates on progress, thereby positively impacting student recruitment, economic development positioning, Google ranking, search visibility and transparency with the grant funders, the US DOL.
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