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FROM OUR BLOG

- Cracking the code on the GreenWorks conundrum

How do we get more Americans to buy greener products? The answer lies in aligning your product’s value proposition with the right audience segment based on their worldview.

- Can gaming save the world?

Is it possible to save the world by playing games? You bet. Find out why all those hours you spent playing Pac-Man were worth it.

- Alas, packaging’s not the Holy Grail

We’ve just tested several greener packaging innovations on focus groups. The results weren’t what we expected.

Portfolio: Shelton Group Client Case Studies

This is where Listen. Speak. comes to life. Today, the mainstream consumer is tougher than ever to reach. The trick is to deliver a green message without forcing a green message. This is how we do it.

Vectren

LISTEN

Client Objective: Become known as "The Conservation Company" and move J.D. Power score from the third quartile to the first quartile.

Mainstream Consumer Insight: Overwhelmingly, Vectren's customer base cares more about reducing their monthly energy bills than they do about learning how Vectren's becoming more environmentally sustainable. Interestingly, one of the items J.D. Power tests on is "they have lots of programs and services to save me money."

SPEAK

Solution: In an honest, real and humorous way, we’re talking to Vectren customers and promising a benefit of empowerment. They do, in fact, have the power to reduce their bills and avoid that awful feeling in the pit of their stomachs every month when they get their bills.

Results: Thanks to this campaign and our sister Conservation Connection campaign, Vectren customers have avoided over $2 million in natural gas costs. And Vectren’s J.D. Power score jumped 25 points from #12 in the Midwest to #8.