Combining Clean IA, Dynamic Search, and Pay-Per-Click

Because student-exchange nonprofit EF Foundation for Foreign Study established a solid reputation by pairing over 90,000 students with host families around the world, they wanted their new web presence to reflect the expansiveness of their efforts. Genuine set out to renew the site with a powerful pay-per-click campaign and educational videos that delve into the eclectic background of their multilingual staff.

How We Helped

Central to the redesign was our emphasis on organization and conciseness with respect to IA. We wanted to create an easy-to-use overview of students available in the system. To that end, we developed a dynamic search filter that allows users to search by student demographics and personal interests.

Each country page provides a wealth of regional data and a selection of subtitled videos presenting EF employees speaking in multiple languages. We also launched an extensive pay-per-click campaign to drive traffic to the new site.

The Power of Science-Driven Care in Digital Formats

Children’s Hospital Boston wanted to showcase its science-driven care in a way that was more welcoming to parents and prospective employees. But this simple trajectory for the redesign meant a serious undertaking for Genuine Interactive. Children’s Hospital is not just one of the world’s leading pediatric hospitals, it’s one of the world’s leading research institutions producing inventions, drugs, instruments, and research that extend outside of the world of pediatrics, and so Genuine needed to capture the full scope of the hospital’s efforts in digital form.

How We Helped

Rather than focusing on building an online brand around the institution itself, Genuine turned its focus on the people within the organization who make it special.  We created a home page that features world-changing Children’s Hospital Boston inventors as well as their inventions in an XML-powered Flash carousel.  Our goal was to think about the site more as the cover of Time rather than the front page of your average website.

We also created the TIDO Invention Database to help Children’s Hospital keep its inventors and researchers fresh in the minds of venture capitalists.  The database opens a continuous line of communication between Children’s TIDO office and potential partners. This custom-developed application is designed to let partners easily search for inventions and researchers through a number of criteria. The active filtering allows the partner to change criteria and change results in real time.

Improved Sales Through iPhone App Development

Frank’s® RedHot® wanted to drive product sales during its key seasons and saw an opportunity to provide utility to its fans. Frank’s® also needed to build its consumer database to enhance its reach to more specific niches within its market while providing a fun, interactive way to interact with the brand via mobile devices.

How We Helped

Genuine decided to build an iPhone app that would allow users to tag wing restaurants and bars that use Frank’s® RedHot®.Fans could invite friends from the app for wings, browse reviews about the locations, and use various filters to search. We also focused on providing sharable hot sauce recipes (18 wing recipes and 32 classic recipes) for key tailgating and sports seasons through the app.

Zend Framework and Social Media Integrations
Help Frank’s® Own Tailgaiting

King of hot sauces Frank’s® RedHot® was due for a complete re-envisioning of its web presence, and the company’s reputation as a beloved national supplier preceded it. Genuine’s task was to transform the brand’s aging web property into a shiny new hub for its social media efforts, mobile content, and engagement with its loyal fans. We created a new site from the ground up on top of the Zend framework, with integrations from Twitter, Facebook, and a custom database containing a wealth of RedHot® recipes.

How We Helped

Genuine’s lively new look captured the feeling of the brand’s “I put that sh*t on everything campaign” in front-and-center Flash video, which featured as its mascot the spunky (albeit fictional) septuagenarian “Ethel Herbert.” At the center of the redesign, we created an extensive database of Frank’s® RedHot® recipes from the brand’s celebrated product line that visitors can share with friends and family.

To open a more focused conversation with RedHot® fans, we engineered Twitter contests onsite and delivered an editorial calendar of Facebook conversations to drive leads. We also created a tailgaiting section devoted to usage tips for seasonal sports, and then tied that focus into our mobile efforts through a powerful Wing Finder App that enables visitors to locate wing restaurants across the country.

Stem Cell Research Brought to Life through Engaging Stories

The Stem Cell Program at Children’s Hospital Boston had a mission unlike any institution in the world: Educate the public about the nature of stem cells while encouraging donations from visitors to fund research. Genuine sat down with Children’s stakeholders to design a content strategy that would corral the hospital’s library of data into web-ready chunks of content.

How We Helped

Genuine developed a content strategy to sieve out of a mountain of heavily technical articles a set of documents that would serve as an educational guide to laymen, concerning science of stem cells. Using WordPress as a CMS, we created a site that incorporates both emotional testimonials of stem cell patients in text and informative explanations of the nature of stem cell research by doctors in Flash-based video presentations. An XML-driven front page Flash carousel houses an engaging video introduction to the program.

In addition to the educational purpose of the website, the website was designed with strong “Give Today” calls-to-action to attract philanthropists to become benefactors of the project.

Driving Results with Comprehensive Search and Guided Navigation

Grand Circle Travel had attracted a large base of repeat customers with huge brand loyalty, but their existing website was not attractive, provided no way for customers to search for specific trips, and was difficult to navigate. Genuine’s challenge was to rebuild GCT from the ground up and to help travelers explore GCT’s amazing tours with ease.

How We Helped

Genuine’s first step was to zero in on GCT’s older demographic with usable IA and a powerful, comprehensive, site-wide search. Our extensive work on IA helped direct users to valuable information quickly, which increased sales and client engagement. As a result of the new website, GCT saw improvements in overall visits, an increase in time spent on the site, and an increase in returning visitors.

Immersive Video Experiences Through Flash-Based 3D Architecture

Creat Studios wanted to revamp their brand with a portfolio that showcased their creativity and passion for creating digitally immersive games. They also wanted to foster social networking and video-sharing to enhance the experience for clients and extend their reach to potential employees.

How We Helped

Genuine created a powerful 3D wheel of games through a combination of Flash wizardry and Papervision3D as the initial front page experience. Visitors could select titles from this 3D wall of games to dive directly into Creat’s portfolio.

Individual titles in the portfolio have sharable widescreen video and interrelated title recommendations, which encourages users to further explore the site. Genuine also devoted a good portion of the website’s infrastructure to detailed team profiles and an in-depth company overview, so as to attract prospective hires to consider working at Creat Studios.