How iPay Improved Its Exit Valuation With a Better Employee Experience

iPay Technologies
Image Credit: Leonardo.ai

Objective

Enable revenue growth. Privately held iPay was the first online bill payment company to achieve and maintain profitability.

Pivotal Insight
Client, provider, and deposit or motivations are different – and must align.

Essential Change
Build the employee experience before the customer experience.

Valued Outcome
66% sales CAGR from $13M to $58M.
44% subscriber CAGR from 1.0M to 1.8M


Approach

On a six-month timeline, the client supplied three part-time leadership team members and a $150k budget. Storyminers furnished consultants, illustrators, customer and employee experience designers, and writers.

To attract top talent from larger markets and accelerate onboarding while keeping iPay’s small-town feel during rapid growth, our small team conducted internal interviews, completed a competitor analysis, diagrammed the as-is operations, expanded the brand look and feel to interior design and UX/UI, workshoped future-state employee and customer experiences, and provided transition coaching to executives and operating teams. Deliverables included detailed experience designs, including key moments, scripts, and requirements; a leader’s guide to operating their new adaptive enterprise; campaign materials; a roles-and-accountabilities diagram; an updated reason for being; and facilitated orientation sessions for leaders and front-line employees.

We couldn’t have grown profitably and comfortably without Storyminers.”

Storyminers is honored to work with these contributors:

Site Design: 57South

Photography:
Cindy Brown, Green Media Works


Chief of Staff: Marcela Killin

Other Contributors:
Alan Bergstrom, Amanda Setilli, Barbara Deskey, Bob Westrop, Bryan Beard, Calendly, Cathy Gucker, Christopher Penn, Chuck Reaves, Cindy Brown, Daniel Wise, Darcy Bevelacqua, Dave Rifkin, David Ing, Dez Thornton, Emeka Rajis, Emmanuel Umoh (in memoriam), Greg Rutledge, Hannah Wittenstein, Isaac Wittenstein, Jackie Goldstein, Jakrey Myers, Jason Bernstein, Jon Ferrara, Jørn Nielsen, Julia Michaels, Karina Piva, Kathryn Smith, Keith Finger, Kelly Berdine, Lois Wittenstein, Lori Erlich, Lou Carbone, Marcia Piacentino, Maria Moraes Robinson, Marilena Amorim Ferreira Piva, Mark Cohen, Mark Michelson, Michael Bowers, Mikah Calingo, Mike Werner, Milt Thomas, Pedro Fernan, Peter Drucker (in memoriam), Rahul Singla, Ray Killebrew, Renee Himel, Saurel Quettan, Simon Robinson, Stefan Osthaus, Stephan Haeckel (in memoriam), Tami Puckett, Thom Milkovic, Tyrae S. Campbell, Valeria Farre (in memoriam), Vuthinann (Dan) Hay, Waya Seaparke (in memoriam).

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