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A relationship worth recognizing — Portrait · Case-study cover

Case study · Product Marketing

From premium status to relationship recognition.

Making seven balance levels and a long benefits list easier to understand and sell.

Client
Oriental Bank, via Yonder Consulting
My role
Strategy lead
Year
2024
Scope
Positioning, benefit hierarchy, tier structure, messaging, creative brief, partner management
01

The problem

Business context

The challenge

Seven balance levels and a long benefits list made the premium relationship account difficult to explain. Status alone did not tell customers what they would get.

02

The strategy

Positioning · Benefit hierarchy

The insight

Insight card for Cuenta Elite

The shift

I reframed the offer around recognition. I organized combined balances into a clear progression of value and grouped messaging around advice, acceleration and assurance.

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Different priorities. A clearer promise. — Strategy slide
Different priorities. A clearer promise.Strategy slide
One relationship, recognized. — Strategy slide
One relationship, recognized.Strategy slide
Make the offer easy to understand. — Strategy slide
Make the offer easy to understand.Strategy slide
03

The campaign

Campaign · 2024

The idea

Maximize your finances.

I made the relationship’s practical value the story, with benefits customers could recognize and use.

Maximize your finances. — Campaign master · adapted visual
Maximize your finances.Campaign master · adapted visual

Execution

I developed the positioning, messaging architecture, benefit hierarchy and sales narrative. I connected awareness, consideration, conversion and deepening in English and Spanish, and managed the creative brief and partners.

Channels
Awareness, consideration, conversion and deepening
Flight
2024 campaign
Market
Puerto Rico
Assets
Print, campaign adaptations and sales materials
04

The result

Q1 2025

Outcome

Elite contributed to the bank’s high-net-worth and small-business deposit result. The available figure combines Elite and My Biz; it is not an Elite-only result.

  • $57M+

    in combined deposits across Elite and My Biz · Q1 2025 · shared program result

05

Concept exploration

Not in market

Concept idea

Everything counts.

I turn the combined relationship into a visible signal of recognition, then explain what it unlocks.

Everything counts — Key visual · Concept · not in market
Everything countsKey visual · Concept · not in market

The rollout

The recognition idea extends from one key visual into a grouped set of mobile Stories and outdoor applications.

Takeaway

Making premium banking feel earned.