Back to all work

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
01

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.

02

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).

03

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.

04

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
05

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
View more cases