About the Client
The Godrej Group is one of India’s most respected business conglomerates. Revenues of over USD 4.1 billion and a global consumer base of 1.1 billion make the Group a high-performing business organisation. From aerospace and defence, appliances, food and agriculture, chemicals, to financial services, engineering, home & personal care, security solutions and real estate, the Group’s business spans a wide spectrum of industries.
The Client Need
The Godrej Group started hosting a blog called ‘Vikhroli Cucina’ in 2015 to establish the brand’s association with the world of food. The platform was successful in attracting a lot of relevant traffic to it. Food influencers, bloggers, food enthusiasts, chefs, home chefs, media, and hospitality students flocked to consume the content published by Vikhroli Cucina.
Five years down the line, the team at Godrej, felt the need to transform Vikhroli Cucina from a one-way publishing blog to a more expansive publishing platform, where the blog’s content consumers would also become active content contributors and the website would attract a larger audience.
The target audience would remain the same: food influencers, bloggers, food enthusiasts, chefs, home chefs, media, and hospitality students.
The intent was to take Vikhroli Cucina to the next level and in doing so, the brand would achieve the following strategic objectives:
To achieve the brand’s communication objectives, the team at Godrej, engaged their long-time content partner, TIC, to transform Vikhroli Cucina from a blog to a publishing platform.
The TIC Approach and Solution
TIC used its strategic 4D approach to discover client and audience needs, define personas and user journeys, draw up the content strategy, design and develop the site and finally measure the impact of the transformation. Here are some key highlights of our solution:
The tell-all UI/UX study: A comprehensive UI/UX study was conducted. The study involved focus group discussions with a cohort from the target audience. The real-world study was complemented with simulation studies done on the existing site. The results revealed the exact user journeys and their content needs that helped in creating personalised user experiences for each segment.
A fool-proof, smart content strategy: Content was the fuel that would keep the Vikhroli Cucina site alive and kicking. It was critical to develop a strategy to make sure that the content pipeline never dried up. Also, the content needed to be fresh, topical, interesting to all the visitors of the site with the ability to position Godrej as a thoughtleader in the food space.
Team TIC came up with an editorial strategy that included the following content pillars:
The content ideas were then mapped to the various interests/sections developed from the UX/UI study and the user-generated content would be added to the calendar of ideas. Additionally, team TIC managed the bulk of content creation for the site.
Implementation Challenges
The transformation of a blog to a publishing site had its fair share of challenges:
The Results and Impact
After a rigorous two-month process of developing the strategy, creating the content, creating the designs and developing the technology, www.vikhrolicucina.com was launched in February 2020 at an event that had the who's who of the food world in attendance.
Within a year of its launch, Vikhroli Cucina has provided a thriving space for food brands, influencers, chefs, home chefs, bloggers and food lovers to engage and collaborate. Celebrated people from the food world who have associated with Vikhroli Cucina include Tara Deshpande, Chef Vicky Ratnani, Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi, Chef Ranveer Brar, Kalyan Karmakar, Chef Varun Inamdar, Rakhee Vaswani, etc.
Here’s a quick glance at some of the content that visitors have loved:
The website performance numbers have soared after the transformation validating the content and UI/UX strategy that was developed by TIC. Here’s a look at the numbers:
After the transformation, the platform has won two prestigious awards under Best UI/UX website categories at Afaqs Digies awards 2020 and Afaqs Marketers Excellence Awards 2021.
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