“We wanted to get rich content out there to showcase our brand and even the individual personal brands of our dancers. Working with the Adage team brought another level of discussion that was eye, and ear-opening for people who haven’t worked with web design before.” – Christian Brown, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, Houston Ballet
Engaging Design and
Powerful Ecommerce to
Build Brand Excitement and Increase Ticket Sales
Founded in 1969, the Houston Ballet, has grown to be the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States. They produce more than 75 performances each year with a primary company of 51 dancers.
The Houston Ballet’s outdated website was not reflective of The Balet’s mission and made it difficult to sell tickets or build a new generation of brand advocates.
Adage worked with the Houston Ballet to give their site a complete overhaul featuring an engaging design and powerful ecommerce to build excitement about the brand and increase ticket sales.
Increase in Pageviews
10
Decrease in Bounce Rate
5
The Difference
Dramatic increase in average time spent on page.
Web Strategy
The project began with an extensive discovery phase called AdageAlign. A process that helps provide a better understanding of an organization’s brand to allow for KPI driven digital goals. The Ballet’s Adage Align engagement kicked off with onsite workshops including a variety of exercises lead by an Adage discovery team. The team includes design, development and user experience experts who conduct stakeholder interviews, competitive analysis, semantic profiling and other activities that encourage stakeholders to uncover unique needs of The Ballet and its patrons.
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Enhanced User Experience
The user experience and design team at Adage used the organizing idea from the Adage Align engagement to layout and design the various page templates that make up the website. Flexibility was also a key factor in order to better represent the Ballet’s sub entities, The Academy and Nutcracker Market.
Easy-to-Edit Content Management System
The content blocks and back-end editing interface are features of the site’s foundation on the Optimizely content management system. Optimizely also provides easy-to-configure user permissions and publishing workflows, a key feature for enabling Houston’s large marketing team.
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Custom Ecommerce
The ecommerce portion of the website is powered by Adage’s ACE Platform fully-customizable ecommerce solution for Tessitura, which seamlessly integrates the Ballet’s Tessitura database with Optimizely for advanced ticket functionality.
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