Digital Bootcamp Labs

Are you in the process of building your online presence and facing challenges? Would you like to make  the most of existing online marketing opportunities?

Join our hands-on-experience Bootcamp Labs!

For Microfinance Professionals

The Bootcamp Labs are designed for Microfinance Professionals that are undertaking a challenge of building a solid online presence of their organizations and who would like to further develop their practical know-how in online marketing.

For MFIs, that want to be in the forefront of digital marketing and offer clients outstanding online and digital channel experience. They have already invested time and resources into digital marketing and elements of loan process happen online.

Interested MFIs should nominate internal staff from the marketing and/or operations department to participate in the hands-on digital labs.

Online outreach and onboarding for MFIs

We are focused on helping MFIs to build:

MFI’s outreach to clients through Internet MFI’s onboarding of clients through Internet
  • How to apply Search Engine Marketing?
  • How to use effectively Google ads?
  • How to do social media advertising?
  • How to use advertising banners effectively?
  • How to set up effective online advertising campaigns?
  • How to monitor the effectiveness and return on investment of online campaigns?

 
  • How to manage the traffic of clients between your online advertising and your web page?
  • How to build your online branch – your web page?
  • How to re-attract potential clients, who have visited your web page and dropped off?
  • How to measure the cost-effectiveness of your online onboarding?
  • How to manage relations with clients at all steps of onboarding? How to build effective Client Relationship Management system?

Bootcamp Labs format

Hands on experience practical 2h online sessions will be hosted on Zoom platform. The participants learn from the experience of an expert by presenting their digital presence system.

The interested MFIs need to submit their applications.

MFC staff together with an expert will review the applications, select the participating MFIs based on common problems and level of digital readiness, and propose the series of relevant sessions. These online sessions will be hosted always on Tuesdays, every 2-3 weeks in May, June and early July. The detailed plan will be developed based on problem statements submitted by MFIs.

More than one person per MFI can participate.

In order to fill in the application, you will be asked to assess your readiness for digital presence, in line with the following levels:

  • Level 1
  • Level 2
  • Level 3
  • Level 4
“I think I should start building my online presence”

• No online presence – passive and simple website present

• No CRM, no marketing automation

• No experience in online advertising campaigns

• Client interactions focused on Loan Officers personal contact, phone calls and visits in branches

• No budget or strategy dedicated to online presence

• No mobile applications offered to clients

• No dedicated team to deal with digital marketing

“I have launched simple online presence channels and started to build the traction”

• Website and simple content already in place (description of products and services)

• First simple campaigns tested and launched (i.e. social media, Search Engine Marketing, banners, mailings)

• Simple tracking of leads / no conversion engine measurements in place

• No digital outreach strategy in place

• Minimal budgets available to build online presence

• Issues with online interactions with potential clients

• No CRM/marketing automation in place

• At least 1 dedicated person in place to work on digital presence

“My digital presence channels are up and running and I need to boost the effects and introduce learning culture”

• Complex website in place: landing pages, built-in apps like loan calculators, deliberate user experience design

• Mobile app in place or in process of planning / developing

• CRM is widely used (together with marketing automation)

• Digital presence strategy is in place

• KPIs are defined and tracked

• Conversion engine and lead workflow is well tracked

• Online advertising campaigns are in place and well monitored

• Strong support on the executive level

• Significant budget for digital work

• Team in place

“I represent market best practices in digital presence though I feel a need for innovation”

• Complex website and mobile app in place

• Complex reporting on digital outreach in place. Key indicators tracked daily

• Optimization and testing tactics/culture in place

• Digital presence strategy, operational plans in place and well executed

• Strong support on the executive level

• Processes, conversion engine, attribution measured and reported

• Significant budget for digital work

• Team of experts in place

• No disruption discovery process in place

Schedule

Tuesday June 15th, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo)

Measuring effectiveness and gaining arguments for marketing budget increase – part 2

REGISTER

This is the kick-off workshop for the series of BootcampLabs, which will lay fundaments for the process of improving online onboarding of clients. We aim at improving the online targeting of clients and optimizing the investment into online campaigns and advertisements.

We will start reviewing and improving the practices of online outreach effectiveness measurement. We will discuss the set-up of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), as a fundament for campaigns planning, budgeting, discussing with partners and suppliers, reporting and, foremost – searching for best strategies to reach out to potential clients, which will convert into loyal clients.

Tuesday June 29th, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo)

Building online presence: effective marketing funnel

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

Gaps in marketing funnel seem to be the key reason for failure of online marketing in MFIs. In this online workshop we will continue to learn how to seal the online pathway of potential clients, so that they have outstanding customer experience, that turns into satisfied clients.

We will review various online channels of outreach to clients and get into details of effective marketing funnel. We will analyze the developed by participants metrics used to measure the effectiveness and define effective reporting. We will discuss the marriage between marketing and operations, as well as online and offline channels attribution.

Tuesday July 13th, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo)

Online onboarding of clients: earned and owned

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

We will discussing how to collect information about potential clients and utilize own database of clients for online outreach to clients. We will review CRM applications and marketing automation uses. We will analyze how we optimize Search Engine and diagnose the appropriateness of content created in online channels. We will tackle clients’ attrition and building retention.

Tuesday TBC, 11:00 – 13:00 CET (Berlin / Warsaw / Sarajevo)

Optimization and partners’ effective management

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

Green or blue button? As the small things make huge impact in online marketing, we will review the processes of online communication testing and optimization of what we do online. We will also examine our approach to defining the scope of work of partners (suppliers and agency) and monitoring them, which should help us establish more effective partnerships: both budget and results wise.

Our experts

The sessions will be delivered by tech experts, well-known from Digital Literacy Bootcamp Series.

Bernard Golko, e-commerce expert

Bernard is an executive with a proven ability to develop and implement Digital Strategies. He have led key online initiatives for several major international financial organizations in Poland. He is recognized on the market as expert in aspects of Digitisation and Process Reengineering. In 2009 he created first on the polish market holistic tool for ROI based on-line acquisition optimization (currently used in several companies). He serves as independent advisor on Business Digitisation, Marketing Strategy, Fintech and Profitability Development. Creator of ‘Reversed Performance Marketing Model’.

You may also be interested in our two linked seires of webinars: Digital Literacy Bootcamp and Leaders in Digital Era – click and check the topics!

Project description /  background

The digitalisation of the MFC members has started. MFC undertakes steps to support members in this process: the BootcampLabs are a platform for practitioners to develop in practice their digtal solutions, be it digital marketing or digital service delivery. The BootcampLabs are the advanced edition of Digital Literacy Bootcamp.

Project status: active

Project duration: 2021

Project regional focus: ECA

Partners and Founders:

The Bootcamp Labs series are free of charge due to kind support of our donors:

 

European Investment Bank Institute

European Fund for South East Europe Development Facility

Project Objectives

The project Digital Bootcamp Labs aims at providing microfinance practitioners with opportunity to test and develop their digital solutions. The participants of online sessions work hands-on-experience – they deal with practical examples of what they do on daily basis and share experience between peers. The digital expert provides the missing know-how and experience.

Key Activities

Bootcamp Labs cover analysis of digital solustion submitted by MFIs, a series of 8 online sessions with inputs from expert(s), and a write up of lessones learnt and mini case studies, based on the experienced collected in the process.