Key Results & Highlights
- Significant Cost Savings: Successfully migrated the charity's email marketing away from Mailchimp, completely eliminating expensive, escalating monthly subscription tiers.
- Unified Stakeholder CRM: Deployed a fully integrated CRM to seamlessly manage, track, and nurture relationships with sponsors, donors, and volunteers from a single platform.
- Scalable Communication: Future-proofed their marketing efforts with a system capable of handling a continuously growing contact database without prohibitive cost penalties.
- Streamlined Administration: Reduced the unwieldy management of fragmented data, freeing up valuable time and resources for the charity to focus on their core mission of supporting vulnerable youth.
- Consolidated Workflows: Centralized both external communications and internal relationship management, creating a single source of truth for the organization.Consolidated Workflows: Centralized both external communications and internal relationship management, creating a single source of truth for the organization.
The Company
Established in 1984, Streetlife is a youth work charity providing emergency shelter and support to vulnerable and homeless young people aged 16-25 in Blackpool and surrounding area.
Their Night Shelter at St Johns Square has 8 bedrooms and provides emergency overnight accommodation, food and support 365 days a year. The Base on Buchanan St is a drop-in centre which provides emotional & practical support to young people in the area.
The Challenge
The Solution
Once approved Octic assisted with the sign up process for Odoo Online.
Octic cleaned & merged the existing 9000+ MailChimp contacts and imported them into the Odoo Email marketing app, configuring tags and setting up the default newsletter .
Octic also ensured the existing Newsletter sign-up form in Wordpress was seamlessly integrated with Odoo Email Marketing - automatically creating a new mailing list contact in Odoo for each sign up.
Furthermore to improve the efficiency and scalability of Odoo Email Marketing Octic set up a dedicated mailing domain integrated with MailJet as the external mass mailing server.
The Impact
Streetlife now has an integrated solution which they can use to effectively manage Email Marketing which easily integrates with their sponsorship and social media campaigns.
There are no extra monthly costs to store any number of increasing contacts in Odoo.
Streetlife are also able to use other apps like Surveys, Social Media, Employees to further streamline and improve their communication with volunteers, sponsors and donors.
The Final Word
“The team at Octic were so helpful in assessing our needs as an organisation and fitting our Odoo experience to what we wanted to achieve.Kim Hughes - Communications Manager, The Streetlife Trust
The result being that we now have a robust CRM with a valuable mailing list, all at a much lower cost than Mailchimp. By far the best part of the experience has been the customer service and expertise that the team at Octic have provided, this alone would normally come at a high financial premium, which as a third sector organisation we could not afford. They are always available and quick to respond if we have any questions or need assistance.
As we are now integrated into Odoo we have a world of possibilities at our fingertips should we want to maximise on its other features and benefits in the future, safe in the knowledge we have the support to match.”
