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CASE STUDY: YorkTest

From Testing Provider to Wellness Partner

Company profile

Founded:
1982
Business type:
Health and wellbeing, ecommerce
Engagement goals: ​
To enrich the customer proposition, evolving the logged-in customer portal to provide a richer and more engaging experience, with the goal of increasing customer lifetime value.
Collaborating with: ​
CEO and senior team
Service:
Customer journey design, feeding the delivery of a refreshed customer Wellness Hub. Follow-on fractional CMO services.
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The challenge

YorkTest is operating in a high growth market, with accelerating consumer demand driven by convenience, frustration with traditional healthcare and heightened awareness around owning your personal health. With growing competition, the company wanted to evolve from being a leading food intolerance testing provider into a broader health and wellbeing brand, extending its range of products and services, including offering ongoing nutritional support as a follow-on to testing.

A key objective was to build a customer journey that brought this extended proposition to life, driving repeat sales. A critical shift was needed: from a functional, product-centric portal to one that felt welcoming and added genuine value at every stage.

The process

  • End-to-end review of the existing post-sale customer journey, identifying opportunities and quick wins to improve the online experience.
  • Competitor journey review including pre and post-test online experience and communications, focusing on benchmarking how core competitors support customers after purchase.
  • Nutritional Therapist interviews to understand the challenges customers face post-testing and the ongoing support they would value.
  • Synthesis of the insight to inform the design of an ideal post-sales journey, workshopped with the team and developed into detailed user requirements and customer communication flows.
  • Breakdown of the ideal customer journey into bite-size improvements, working with the design and development teams to implement a refreshed customer Wellness Hub in a staged approach.
  • Review of post-sale customer communications to support the new journey, implementing a supportive and more human, less formal tone of voice, more aligned to a health and wellbeing partner.
  • Recommendations and example communications to leverage YorkTest’s first-party database, to develop a regular email programme with customers to increase engagement and cross-sales.

The results

  • A refreshed Wellness Hub that replaced a generic, functional and product-centric design with a welcoming experience, surfacing relevant next steps and easy-to-access support advice.
  • A structured programme of Wellness Hub prompts and communications, designed to cross-sell follow-on health tests and Nutritional Support to Food Intolerance Test customers post-testing, replacing ad hoc promotion.
  • A shift in tone and structure across post-sale communications, moving from transactional and functional to supportive and human, positioning YorkTest as an ongoing health and wellbeing partner rather than a one-off testing provider.

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