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Winona
How Winona’s Strategic Partnership With Outliant Resulted in 300% Year-Over-Year Growth
Women in menopausal transition are largely underserved by the traditional health care industry: One in three women aged 40-65 in the U.S. have not received a formal menopause diagnosis by a health care provider, and 20% say it took over a year to receive a diagnosis.
Launched in 2021, Winona is a telehealth company that aims to empower, educate, and treat women throughout the entirety of their menopause journey. And the strategic partner they trust to enable their rapid growth is Outliant.
Year-over-year growth in just three years
Monthly active subscribers
5-star reviews on Trustpilot
Members in Winona’s highly engaged online community
“Outliant is way more than a digital marketing agency. They’re an investor in our future and a true partner every step of the way. Competitors in our space have raised 100x more capital than we have and aren’t performing at the caliber we are. With Outliant at our side, we are growing at a rate we never thought possible.”
Because a high proportion of women in menopausal transition remain untreated, even when experiencing adverse symptoms, such as hot flashes and insomnia, Winona’s goal is to take the confusion out of menopause and help women get the solutions they need.
Winona offers doctor-prescribed, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (HRT) that is backed by science and shipped directly to patients’ doors. The company currently serves 150,000 happy patients in 35 states and counting.
Winona’s innovative, research-driven approach—combined with Outliant’s marketing and brand development expertise—has been critical to achieving its mission of redefining menopause care.
To change the menopause landscape, Winona’s first objective was to build an A-list team.
As the company focused on bringing in medical expertise, including more than 20 board-certified physicians and a customer care team of women who understood menopause firsthand, Outliant took on the task of recruiting Winona’s technology and lifecycle marketing teams.
Remaining lean and agile as they scaled was critical, so rather than hire highly expensive and unvetted consultants, Outliant recruited a global staff from a pool across 30+ countries and brought on executive-level talent at a fractional share.
Now Winona’s resource management is self-sustaining: Tenured team members are promoted internally, and Outliant staffs their replacements—ensuring that every single team member is hand-selected for excellence.
“A company’s culture is paramount, so we at Winona needed a partner we could trust to scale our staff and take us to the next level. We wouldn’t have been able to hire the best talent from all around the world—at the best price—if it weren’t for Outliant.”
Outliant led the charge on several key initiatives to create an impactful digital identity for Winona:
Many digital marketing agencies can give a brand a makeover, but Outliant’s touch at Winona was more than skin-deep. Outliant took on the responsibility of building the perfect tech stack from start to finish—from evaluating a host of solutions, recommending the right tools, and leading the implementation of each platform.
Notable selections included deploying Contentful’s headless content management system, Segment’s customer data platform, Optimizely’s A/B testing capabilities, and Intercom’s customer service solution.
By Outliant integrating this tech stack, Winona can take advantage of the most advanced technologies on the market and achieve their KPIs with the greatest return on investment.
Moreover, each component of this stack was developed to improve Winona’s customer experience and put patients first. Outliant’s web development and tech implementation made compliance easy, especially when managing protected health information (PHI).
A tech stack that improves the bottom line and keeps patients safe and secure is a win-win.
Quality, care, and convenience are at the heart of Winona’s mission, so the team’s marketing and communication strategies needed to reflect that.
By advising and implementing Winona’s entire marketing tech stack, Outliant can ensure relevancy and engagement across all channels: email, SMS, social media, online community, and more.
This is reflected across both organic and paid channels. Because prospective patients rely heavily on research before making health care decisions, Outliant managed both onsite and offsite SEO to optimize Winona’s education-based, peer-reviewed content.
As for performance advertising, Outliant manages all of Winona’s ad campaigns, across leading platforms, such as Meta, Google, Taboola, and Pinterest. Everything is handled by the Outliant team, from building landing pages and designing ad creative to testing variants and reporting metrics.
Outliant has not only aggressively scaled to $1.5 million in monthly ad spend, but also maintained Winona’s profitability with an outstanding 3.2X return on ad spend. With Outliant leading the charge on Winona’s marketing efforts, the company’s growth has been exponential.
One stellar example of Outliant’s growth marketing success was Winona’s abandoned checkout campaign. As a subscription service that handles sensitive, medical information, Winona’s checkout process is naturally more involved than the average e-commerce shopping experience.
To secure more signups and boost revenue, Outliant helped develop a personalized, cross-channel campaign across email and text, with key messages on how patients could meet physicians, alleviate their symptoms, and complete their onboarding.
The results of this abandoned checkout campaign speak for themselves. The Winona lifecycle marketing team was able to achieve up to 81% open rates and 10-13% conversion rates on average.
Most importantly, this campaign has improved Winona’s bottom line, contributing to the company’s growth of 25,000 monthly active subscribers.
Email Campaign
Symptom Relief Email
SMS Campaign
“Outliant’s industry knowledge and expertise allow us to stay on the cutting-edge of what’s next. Not only do our marketing campaigns hit our KPIs out of the ballpark, but more importantly, they make our patients feel heard and supported on their menopause journey.”
With their strategic partnership with Outliant, Winona is poised to rapidly accelerate its 300% year-over-year growth and expects to generate over 100 million in annual recurring revenue in the next year.
By remaining lean and agile as they scale and focusing on caring for their patients, Winona is set up for major success.
What resulted from Blend’s partnership with Outliant was nothing short of transformative. The marketing team is now enthusiastic about this brand reimagining and excited about running campaigns again.
They’re also more confident thanks to Outliant’s hands-on training and onboarding. No longer do they feel uneasy about making updates to their own site.
This strong sense of autonomy has created a ripple effect throughout Blend, which is now set up for success and ready to adapt as business needs evolve.
And despite its new motto to blend in, with its new brand and website, Blend can stand out to clients and prospects, while also providing the team with a personable approach to nurturing their day-to-day relationships.
