Jelly Belly Successfully Drives Consumer Website Traffic To Stores With Purchase Intent By Managing 10,000 Distributor Locations With Ease
“Our digital marketing strategy is specifically designed to drive consumers to the website with purchase intent. Marketing drives consumers to the website and the store locator powered by SOCi, and that helps us get people in-store to purchase our products.” – Brandon Finch, Vice President of Global eBusiness for Jelly Belly
SOCi Results
Jelly Belly’s two main localized digital marketing goals are: 1. Serve the consumer better by creating a straight line from the product to the store where it can be purchased, online or in person; and 2. Empower retailers to sell more products by funneling high-intent consumers to stores.
Since implementing SOCi’s store locator and product finder, Jelly Belly has observed several measurable benefits. It considers the number of visits to the store locator page, the number of searches conducted, and the number of “get direction” clicks as key indicators of success that consumers are actively seeking and finding Jelly Belly products through the store locator. For example, Q1 of 2023 saw a 30% increase in the number of locator searches compared to Q1 of 2022. The product finder also provides the company data it could not previously access, showing which regional areas purchase which products.
Looking ahead, Jelly Belly aims to further leverage its partnership with SOCi to build out its local pages. By continuing to optimize its localized marketing efforts, Jelly Belly strives to improve consumer satisfaction by making it easier to find and purchase its products while increasing exposure and foot traffic for its retail partners. SOCi’s toolset has been instrumental in achieving these goals, providing a reliable and effective solution that has positively impacted Jelly Belly’s digital marketing strategies and overall success as a manufacturing and distributor company.