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		<title>Terri Clark</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A platinum-selling artist, a hard-charging performer, a CMA Female Vocalist of the Year nominee, and 8-time Canadian Country Music Association Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year.  2009 was the year Terri took full control of her career.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terri came to Strategic Blend after a long relationship with a &#8220;fan club&#8221; company.  She was taking control of her career, launching her own record label, releasing two new albums and launching a fall tour of Canada.  She needed a strategic partner for all online business needs.</p>
<p>Our work with Terri has covered several disciplines:</p>
<h3>creating the online vehicle</h3>
<p>The first step of any Strategic Blend project is to create the online vehicle or the &#8220;hub of the brand.&#8221;  In Terri&#8217;s case that meant building a totally new website around a new and improved content management system (CMS).  We then connected her social networks so she could present <strong>unified messaging</strong> across multiple channels.</p>
<h3>social media integration</h3>
<p>One of our primary goals was to create as many touch-points to the Terri Clark brand as possible.  Instead of hosting all of Terri&#8217;s media content internally, we placed photos, video and audio content across multiple media networks.  Then we streamed that content back into TerriClark.com.  Leaving a trail of detailed <strong>metadata</strong> allowed music fans searching for photos on flickr or videos on youtube to discover Terri&#8217;s content.  Additionally, any views/streams of this content on her website fed back into the overall views/streams on the networks, raising the overall visibility of the content and the brand.</p>
<h3>community development</h3>
<p>The paid subscription model allows Terri to sell unique items to fans, keep them interacting with one another, and set up exclusive <strong>experience</strong>-based items like meet and greets and pre-sale ticketing.</p>
<h3>marketing strategy</h3>
<p>Not only did we build the vehicle for Terri&#8217;s online brand, but we also help drive it.  Each month we develop strategies and promotions to engage Terri&#8217;s fans and continue creating new ways to discover and interact with Terri online.</p>
<p>And every step of the way, we collect and monitor the data &#8211; using every stream, every comment and every page view to better understand who Terri&#8217;s fans are and how to serve them.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.terriclark.com" target="_blank">launch project</a></h3>
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