Case study · Insurance · Voluntary benefits

Three years of broker marketing, with the numbers to show for it.

BENADVANCE (Rye, NY) is a “Built By Brokers, For Brokers” voluntary health, dental and vision benefits platform sold through brokers and associations, with year-round enrollment. Parker Levi has run its marketing since September 2023, with a bi-weekly marketing meeting and an Asana request board.

Client
BENADVANCE
Industry
Insurance · Voluntary benefits
Services
Brand services, web, email & SMS, SEO, content
Engagement
Ongoing partnership since September 2023
28.9%
Broker open rate, up from 21.0%
The challenge

Where we started.

When Parker Levi started in August 2023 the collateral was dense and dated, the website went down more than once, and broker email lived on aging lists with poor deliverability. The brief that followed: a landing page, a functioning updated website, and an email cadence to reach current brokers twice a month and at least 500 new brokers every two weeks.

What we did

The work.

01

Collateral

The broker collateral library redesigned: the Broker Journey piece, Delta Dental, MetLife and VSP rate sheets, “Choose BENADVANCE,” “Rolling Enrollments,” association pieces and the Coverage 4 All landing page.

02

Web

benadvance.com rebuilt in WordPress (live February 2024), plus the Benefits Resource Center and 20+ per-association resource-center sites.

03

Email

Broker email moved to Mailchimp with an engaged-brokers segment and repaired sender reputation; roughly two sends a month covering QLE reminders, Open Enrollment, block-rate announcements, 1095 guidance and product education.

04

Growth

SEO, monthly blogs, LinkedIn content, video (“Why BENADVANCE,” Broker Exchange), an AI chatbot and per-association Google Analytics reporting.

05

Strategy

The 30-60-90 Day Growth Plan, the 2026 Proposed Marketing Strategies and the three-tier 2026 Marketing Expansion Proposal.

06

Portal

The gated Broker Marketing Center: a document library by category with preview, download and zip, email-based broker login, CSV bulk import and an admin dashboard for the BENADVANCE team.

Results

What moved.

Typical 2026 sends run 18–30% opens versus 14–21% a year earlier, with 0–4 unsubscribes per send. Resource-center traffic went from “very little” to 15,813 pageviews across the association sites, and December 2025 meeting notes record an increase in request forms and the effectiveness of SEO and blog content, including a lead that arrived via ChatGPT.

28.9%Best Q1 2026 open rate, up from 21.0% in Q1 2025
47–50%Engaged-broker segment open rate
15,813Resource-center pageviews, Jan 2025 – Apr 2026
606 → 737Current-broker list growth
5.15%Best 2026 click-through rate
0–0.6%Bounce rate per send
In their words

From the client.

First blush is very exciting.

Rob Siegel, President & Founder, BENADVANCE

This is very good.

Rob Siegel, on the newsletter template

Looks great! Thank you for taking care of it so quickly.

Nanette Anasco, Sales Manager, BENADVANCE
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