Financial Education / Banking · 2022–2025
Built to Scale
From Blog to Flywheel
A content and automation engine built over three years for Santander's financial-education program — turning a quiet blog into a 1.965M-session flywheel, and manual follow-ups into automated nurture flows.
Industry
Financial Education / Banking
Client
Santander
Year
2022–2025
Tools
RD Station, HubSpot (tested), Looker Studio, SEO tools, CMS
Skills gained
- Content strategy at scale
- Editorial calendar ownership
- Email marketing automation
- Lead nurturing
- CRM segmentation
- SEO content production
- Webinar planning
Overview
I owned content strategy, blog production and lifecycle email marketing for Programa Avançar, Santander's financial-education program for Brazilian small business owners and entrepreneurs. I joined as a writer and grew, functionally, into the program's content strategist.
Challenge
The program needed a content engine that could run continuously at volume — not a handful of campaigns, but a standing editorial and lifecycle operation — while replacing manual, one-off follow-ups with automated nurturing that could scale across its many sub-initiatives (Rota do Empreendedor, Abertura de Conta, Reengajamento, among others).
Approach
I built an always-on editorial operation sized to the program's volume (122 articles and 9 ebooks per year), paired with automated nurture workflows in RD Station segmented by funnel stage and sub-initiative, and a bimonthly newsletter to keep registered users engaged between campaigns. Webinars were added as a live layer on top of the written content. HubSpot was tested alongside RD Station to assess its fit for the program's CRM and automation needs. Results were shared internally through a newsletter I created for that purpose.
What I did
- 01Produced and oversaw 122 articles per year and 9 ebooks for the program's blog
- 02Built and launched automated lead-nurturing workflows in RD Station, segmented by funnel stage and sub-initiative
- 03Personally QA'd every campaign and newsletter — links, rendering, targeting and timing — before launch
- 04Planned and presented webinars as a complementary content format
- 05Managed content across the program's sub-initiatives (Rota do Empreendedor, Abertura de Conta, Reengajamento and others)
- 06Tested HubSpot alongside RD Station for CRM and automation fit
- 07Created an internal newsletter to share the program's results across the company
Results
1.965M
blog sessions, up from 851K over 3 years
101,737
new registrations in 2024 (+24% YoY)
23–29%
newsletter open rate, with ~7% CTR
+33%
enrollment increase from automated RD Station nurture flows
122 + 9
articles and ebooks published per year
Tags
- Content Strategy
- Email Automation
- SEO
- Lead Nurturing
- CRM
- Webinars