Morningstar

Case Study

Morningstar

MarketPro’s ability to provide Morningstar with a seamless connection to the marketplace through its intelligence tool and MarketLink API helped guide them toward a deeper understanding of the market and the advisors that control distribution in the financial world. This allowed Morningstar to maintain an accurate and complete view of the advisor landscape, while creating new leads and significantly increasing their ROI.

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Morningstar unlocked new leads while enhancing its view of the advisor landscape

Since the beginning of the relationship, Morningstar was interested in finding more advisors. Over time, though, the organization’s needs expanded, and they became interested in having MarketPro help them service a wider territory base in a more efficient manner. To begin, they needed help segmenting their approach.

As a data company itself, Morningstar was quite familiar with the challenges of data aggregation, and its impact upon sales and marketing. They had knowledge of MarketPro’s high standards in the industry, especially surrounding processes and timeliness, and how those elements matched their own. Morningstar’s experience in the data market gave them unique insight into efficiently using data; it also allowed them to recognize when an organization was providing a superior data experience. MarketPro stood out to them because of their unique ability to populate details from a wide variety of sources across geographies and regulations to create a consistent, standardized language. Morningstar identified MarketPro as an exceptionally skilled data provider in a niche market and considered them the perfect partner to meet its needs.

Morningstar was interested in determining the most effective approach to targeting advisor prospects. They turned to MarketPro to execute rapid implementation of its territory planning, lead segmentation, and marketing efforts.

Investment Research Company

Established in 1984, Chicago-based Morningstar uses research to help investors make strong strategic decisions during their investment journey. The organization evaluates investments, relying on timely, high-quality data. It is also committed to simplifying the message behind the data for investors to understand. This is no small feat considering Morningstar has over 6,000 employees responsible for accounts in 27 countries. Morningstar partners with MarketPro to leverage its accurate and robust data and marketing consultancy services.

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SOLUTIONS ENGAGED

MarketLink API configured Morningstar's organization to regularly surface the products that best serve clients

The two-way relationship was anchored on MarketPro’s ability to provide a seamless connection to the marketplace through its intelligence tool and MarketLink API. With a direct connection to Salesforce, MarketPro has helped guide Morningstar toward a deeper understanding of the market and the advisors that control distribution in the financial world. This allowed Morningstar to maintain an accurate and complete view of the advisor landscape, while creating new leads.

The core of what the two companies have built is founded on the support that the MarketPro team offers. By always being available, personally connecting multiple times each year, and finding every opportunity to help Morningstar grow, the multi-faceted relationship blossomed over the years.

As the relationship has continue to grow, evolving across multiple departments within the Morningstar organization, MarketPro has taken steps to provide a more proactive approach to surfacing the products that will best serve the Results client. Offering full support, MarketPro reaches out regularly throughout the year to provide conference analytics and support with field events. Even when Morningstar is not the official host, MarketPro generates information about who will be in attendance and how best to reach them.

Overall, MarketPro’s data, reporting, and services allow Morningstar to get in front of important people quickly at the right times. This allows the Morningstar team to identify individuals at crucial moments when they are evaluating banking relationships. Typically, advisors tend to establish banking and product relationships that last for many years with little disruption unless they change firms. Visibility into these moments of transition allow Morningstar to outpace their competitors and bring in more business.

Seeking to identify their ideal customer targets, Morningstar has greatly benefited from the simplified processes, advanced technology, and analytical services provided by the MarketPro team.

BENEFITS EXPERIENCED

Efficient growth promoted through simplified data provided by MarketPro

As the relationship has matured, Morningstar has come to appreciate just how much the MarketPro team understands about the financial services industry. The company has benefitted from MarketPro’s ability to take data from a variety of sources and simplify it to promote efficient growth.

By relying on the MarketPro team for the right information, the relationship is growing exponentially. Proven to be the gold standard for data activation in the industry, MarketPro has enabled Morningstar to significantly increase their ROI.

ROI increase proves MarketPro as golden standard for data activation.