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Eliminate Unwanted Business Data with Data Profiling Tools

A marketing list is an important component in email marketing. Often times, we collect email addresses to execute a campaign. However, that has been a huge headache nowadays as (ESP) Email Service Providers simply assumes you’re a spammer. So before you start a marketing campaign, make sure to have a clean list that is free from duplicates, incorrect and obsolete data.

Here are some of the tools that you can use to eliminate unwanted data on your marketing list.

Clean and Match Data Cleansing and Matching Software Suite by Winpure.

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This software is used for finding, cleaning and removing duplicate records from a list. The good news is, you don’t need to buy it to test it. They offer 21-day free trial for you to test it with your own data.

Related: Customer Profiling: Should you Verify Business Contacts Through Calls?

Atomic List Manager by AtomPark Software.

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They do mass mailing and manage email address list. One of its features is to split and merge lists. It can exclude invalid and duplicate emails at the same time repairs them and checks the validity of “repaired” version. It also purge list of suspicious emails.

Having a good data doesn’t only mean your list doesn’t include any duplicates and incorrect data. It also means that freeing individuals who wish to “unsubscribe”, opt out and don’t want to receive unsolicited product or service information.

The following tools let’s you automate your email marketing but at the same time remove individuals who wishes to unsubscribe or opt out from your mailing list.

Related: Better Leads? Two Words: Customer Segmentation

Streamsend.

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Choose from a variety of solutions that suits your marketing needs and sign up for a free trial.

Mailchimp.

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An email marketing service who manage subscribers, send out emails and track results of your email marketing campaign.

And here’s more option for you to choose from:

  • Talend’s open source data quality tools are embedded in Talend Open Studio for Data Quality, a popular open source data quality application.
  • Blazent’s 5-step data evolution process begins with data atomization, which breaks down IT data, regardless of its source, to its most granular level.
  • AB Initio provides significant data quality tools as part of a broader suite of products for building, running and integrating enterprise applications.
  • Data Manager is a program which allows you to process and manipulate your data in a easy and logical manner using a graphical interface.
  • Datamartist is a fast, easy to use, visual data profiling and transformation tool. It includes a data profiling tool for analyzing format, types, completeness and value counts.

Get access to advance data profiling technologies and an expert marketing team!

  • DataPreparator is a free software tool designed to assist with common tasks of data preparation(or data preprocessing) in data analysis and data mining.
  • DQGlobal provides a suite of data quality software including deduplication, data migration, an API with a set of data quality improvement functions, and specific utilities (e.g. formatting addresses).
  • OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases like Freebase.
  • Paxata is an enterprise platform providing the tools to significantly speed up data cleansing, and offers a contemporary solution that employs a big data infrastructure and automated techniques which exploit machine learning methods.

(Source: 10+ Data Quality Tools)

Data quality is crucial for the effectiveness of your marketing campaign. It has a direct impact in converting leads to sales. Don’t just automate your email marketing. Try these tools and have a clean data that will help maintain high email deliverables which will help in nurturing leads better.

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Callbox Seamlessly Pivots Campaign as HR Software Firm Rebrands

Callbox Seamlessly Pivots Campaign as HR Software Firm Rebrands

The Client

The Client is the Asia-Pacific arm of a UK-based business services and software company that offers cloud-enabled solutions for recruitment and talent acquisition. The company primarily sells to mid and large-sized US and UK businesses across different industries, and is looking to increase its presence in the APAC market after carrying out a recent business pivot.

The Challenge

With over 20 years’ experience providing award-winning recruitment software to the likes of Morgan Stanley, NBC Universal, and other high-profile customers, the Client recently underwent a major strategic pivot. The shift in focus sought to realign the Client’s various offerings in its US, UK, and APAC divisions under a single global identity.

As part of its new business direction, the company also unveiled a new suite of enhanced talent acquisition tools. This move aimed to further strengthen the Client’s position as a key technology partner for modern HR and recruitment teams.

To support its recent refocus and product rollout, the Client planned a series of marketing initiatives designed to:

  • Increase awareness of its new value proposition through live events, especially in markets that still offered room for growth
  • Generate opportunities with companies that show a clear need and fit for the Client’s offerings through targeted marketing campaigns

The plan started out with Southeast Asia as its main priority. The company decided to look for a third-party agency that can help it quickly gain a foothold in all three markets.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox partnered with the Client and put together a campaign plan jointly with the company. The plan originally consisted of an event marketing phase and an appointment setting phase. The event marketing part of the campaign was intended to boost signups for the Client’s series of webinars scheduled for the second and third quarters.

But the company’s ongoing business pivot meant the campaign requirements could change at any time. Prior to the start of the event marketing phase, the Client decided to prioritize targeted opportunity generation through direct outreach instead of live events.

As a result, both Callbox and the Client agreed to replace event marketing with a thorough database profiling program for the campaign’s first stage. Without altering the campaign timeline or incurring delays, the Callbox team put together a revised campaign plan which the Client reviewed and approved well before the original starting date.

Database Profiling

  1. The Client submitted a list of 300 companies (100 from each target country) for Callbox to profile.
  2. Callbox then identified all relevant decision makers (persons in charge of HR, recruitment, and talent acquisition) from each company, using records from Callbox’s in-house database and through desk research.
  3. Callbox also provided additional contacts from other organizations that matched the Client’s target customer profile.

Appointment Setting

  1. Callbox carried out integrated appointment setting that combined email and phone calls to connect with and screen prospects for fit and purchase intent.
  2. The Callbox team prepared all campaign materials in close collaboration with the Client.
  3. During the first month of appointment setting activities, the Client rebranded under a new name and identity. Callbox seamlessly pivoted the whole campaign without any disruptions to the project timeline.

Results

The two-part campaign has already completed the Database Profiling phase and is currently in the second month of the Appointment Setting stage. The profiling activities (which ran for one month) resulted in 565 contacts profiled and 147 potential accounts identified.

The campaign’s appointment setting leg has so far delivered 12 qualified appointments after one month of activities. Most of the appointments were generated near the end of the third week as the initial outreach and lead nurturing efforts done at the start of the program began converting.

Global Media Runs On Accurate Market Data [CASE STUDY]

Global Media Runs On Accurate Market Data

The Client

The Client is a global media company providing more than 30,000 marketing programs from the Fortune 50 to emerging start-ups for 17 long years now. Their core services include targeted content, active audiences and innovative capabilities that run via a platform, to assist their clients in engaging with revenue-driven technology marketing programs.

The Challenge

To profile the data and conduct a survey among the Client’s existing customers.

The Callbox Solution

First Campaign – Data Profiling

The Client provided Callbox a list of their existing customers to be updated and profiled. The data profiling campaign wasn’t run generically as merely updating wrong information, but rather implemented based on the Client’s specific process that required further research and data recording to complete the action.

The Process

  1. To call all the contacts in the list
  2. Verify all the details: name of pic, company name, job title, email address and direct line
  3. In case of “no answer”, the caller will have to look up the phone number for the company’s main switchboard, and attempt to verify the contact’s details; while for contacts who have left the company, the caller must use publicly available sources like Google and LinkedIn
  4. All information gathered shall be saved and sent to Client every 2 days
Note: The caller must not find/replace a contact and email address other than what’s in the list.

Second Campaign – Data Profiling

The second campaign worked on profiling more databases but delved more into the sources from which and how the information was verified which required accuracy in call disposals. The leads were classified as:
  • Profiled by phone
  • Profiled by online sources
  • Employment validated
  • Employment invalidated
  • Unreachable/No updates
Aside from updating and cleansing the list, a step-by-step Question-&-Answer form was to be filled out by the caller in a spreadsheet that will detail how the data verification was done for each call. Below are just 5 of the 11 questions and possible answers:
  • Did the phone number we provided work? Yes/No (Yes=the phone rang; No=the phone number was invalid or has been disconnected)
  • If yes, Did someone answer the phone? Yes, the lead him/ herself; Yes, someone other than the lead; No, nobody answered the phone)
  • If yes: Were you able to speak to the lead? Yes/No
  • If yes: Did the lead confirm the job profile and contact information we have on file for them? Yes/No
  • Did the lead give you updated information that is reflected in the spreadsheet? Yes/No

Third Campaign – Survey, White Paper

In the third campaign period, both types were divided into four technology segments. Each had a corresponding question:
  1. Big Data Question: Does the business plan to purchase or upgrade big data technologies in the next 12 months?
  2. Cloud Infrastructure Question: How does the business deploy server resources in the next 12 months?
  3. Desktop Virtualization Question: Does the business plan to upgrade or invest in desktop virtualization solutions within the next 12 months?
  4. Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Question: Will the business be implementing or undertaking a DR related project in the next 12 months?
Answers to the survey were uploaded via links provided by the Client.

Results

Campaign results breakdown
The results of all the three concluded campaigns were precedent to the upcoming campaign which the Client will be launching the following year, with the same Callbox team.
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Callbox Locked Up Leads for Global Insurance Broker

The Client

The Client is the world’s largest privately held insurance brokerage firm, providing insurance, risk management, employee benefits and retirement services.

The Challenge

The Client has an in-house team in Hong Kong which acts as its core marketing support in APAC, and is responsible for engaging fortune companies in the region. It’s a strong resource for building a huge stack of global customers and the company’s annual growth. Despite its market strength, the Client continues to create innovative solutions to scale up the business. With a new project to launch in Asia, the Client decided to outsource to fill in the gaps in building intelligent marketing campaigns.

The Callbox Solution

Looking at the campaign objectives, Callbox planned out an Account-Based Marketing campaign which consisted of:

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management via Voice, Email, Chat, Web, Webinar, and Social Media
  • Sales Enablement & Support which included Team Training, Account Setup, and Back Office Sales Support
  • Tools & Subscriptions utilization of Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRM
  • Account Management including Strategy Building, Reporting, and Product Knowledge

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to build a well profiled database of the Client’s prospects in Singapore
  • To market the Client’s Corporate Risk and Employee Benefit insurance programs

The campaign involved two key steps:

Account Research and Selection

  1. The Client specified target industries, locations and relevant contacts
  2. Callbox worked out the Client’s ideal customer profile (ICP) which served as a basis for identifying qualified accounts
  3. Callbox then compiled a list of potential contacts to target, which was reviewed and approved by the Client

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach, which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were  HR and Finance Managers.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

Overall, the Account-Based Marketing Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign produced a total of 186 Sales Qualified Leads and 12,749 Profiled Contacts.

The campaign kicked off with only one agent in the first quarter. Based on the impressive performance that the Callbox team showed in the first three months, the Client added another seat in the second quarter, and renewed for another six months.

Callbox Successful Partnership with IT Heavyweight [CASE STUDY]

Callbox: Successful Partnership with IT Heavyweight

The Client

The Client is a progressive internet and information technology company whose aim is to provide customers with the best range of products at the most competitive price. They offer domain name registration, web hosting, computer hardware, web design, computer networks and many more products to a large and diverse client base. They have clients from Global Fortune 50 companies to home users each getting the product and support they need to run their businesses. The Client also offers telecom services and SEO (search engine optimization). Their general offices are based in Dublin, Ireland. For this marketing project, the Client targeted companies in the market for an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate all data and processes of the organization into a unified system. The Client engaged the services of Callbox for the duration of 10 months.

The Challenge

The Client needed research on companies that had either current or future plans of ERP implementation. ERP system implementation is a complex process. Evaluation of the current company system and the actual tuning or upgrading takes a significant amount of time and depends on the size of the business, the scope of the change and willingness of the customer to take ownership of the project. A small project (e.g., a company of less than 100 staff) may be planned and delivered within 3 months; however, a large, multi-site or multi-country implementation may take years. Due to the complexity involved in the implementation, ERP is, without a doubt, expensive. While the benefits it provides to a particular business, especially large scale ones, spark interest in improving or changing their current system, it is the length of time involved that often discourages companies from proceeding with ERP implementation, and this is the most common reason for the Client’s lost sales. The Client therefore needed their current as well as prospect companies to understand that despite the fact that it is costly and involves a certain length of time, the benefits and advantages from the system will do much for their business in the medium and long term. With Callbox, the Client needed to generate and maintain the loyalty of existing customers but more importantly, find new ones. The Client needed to identify companies that needed any of the following:
  • Upgrading
  • Systems performance tuning
  • Entire change of current software system

The Callbox Solution

Callbox’s team went to work:

Profiled prospects for Client’s software services, specifically ERP

Significant business intelligence was gathered via phone research. After discussing the goals of the campaign and obtaining a list of prospects or existing clients, this list was surveyed using questions developed jointly by the Client and Callbox’s experienced researchers. Responses were then analyzed and presented along with the raw data.

Implemented a lead generation program

  • Cold calling companies that needed upgrading, systems performance tuning or entire system overhaul
  • Callbox agents adeptly setting phone or office appointments with C-Level executives, accounting managers, IT managers, and controllers assuring Client of a steady stream of business opportunities.
  • Providing Client with Pipeline CRM, a private online customer relationship management calendar including lead tracking and sales pipeline

Results

For the 10-month duration of the campaign, the Callbox team generated a total of 456 leads for the Client. The Client expressed satisfaction with Callbox by deciding to continue the campaigns after a one quarter break to digest their full pipeline.

Callbox ABM: A Quantum Success for Global Data Solutions Provider

The Client

The Client is a global leader in data backup, data recovery, and archiving solutions, providing expert advice and integrated solutions for reliable and cost-effective data storage management to customers worldwide.

The Challenge

The Client previously hired a lead generation company, but needed additional support for other marketing initiatives that they wanted to work out for the current year. So they looked for a reliable telemarketing provider with significant regional experience and robust resources to augment their current activities. After searching and comparing several service providers online, the Client was impressed by Callbox’s long track record in the B2B lead generation industry, and immediately penned a deal.

The Callbox Solution

Being a data expert itself, the Client did a thorough analysis of which marketing tools and strategies would best work for their needs.

Callbox designed an Account-Based Marketing Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign which consisted of:

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management via Voice, Email, Chat, Web, and Social Media.
  • Sales Enablement & Support done via Staff Training, Account Setup, and Back Office Sales Support.
  • Tools & Subscriptions to the Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRM.
  • Account Management with Strategy Building, Reporting, and Product Knowledge.

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to invite participants to its open house events in Australia
  • Profile its database and generate market feedback to improve its sales lead generation campaign
  • Connect with prospects via social media

Below is the two-step campaign process:

Account Research and Selection

  1. The Client specified their target industries, locations, and decision makers.
  2. Callbox refined the Client’s ideal customer profile (ICP) which served as a basis for identifying qualified accounts.
  3. Callbox came up with a list of potential contacts to target which was reviewed and approved by the Client.

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided buyer persona profiles of the prospects that they wanted the outbound campaign to target. The profiles consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. Both the Client and the Callbox team Identified two sets of target personas for the campaign.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

The Events Marketing campaign gathered a total of 61 RSVPs. The ABM campaign which ran for a total of 9 months produced a total of 165 Sales Qualified Leads, 291 Marketing Qualified Leads, and 468 Social Media Connections.

IT Firm Uses Callbox to Divide and Conquer Market [CASE STUDY]

IT Firm Uses Callbox to Divide and Conquer Market

The Client

The Client is a renowned IT consulting firm based in the US. It provides IT solutions used by well-known commercial organizations and government institutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce telecom costs.

The Challenge

The Client hired a North American telemarketing firm to promote its products. While the telemarketing company was able to deliver good numbers, the Client recognized that much of its time was spent meeting and dealing with people who were not ready to engage or ultimately unqualified.

To make best use of its in-house resources, the Client saw the need to refine its appointment setting process by segmenting its market and creating definitive profiles of its potential customers.

The Client’s main objectives were:

  1. To identify more narrowly defined potential customers and how to best reach them.
  2. To allocate more accurately its sales resources to meeting sales-qualified prospects.

The Callbox Solution

The Client signed up with Callbox for a profiling campaign aimed at gathering information on the Client’s market. With the Client’s help, Callbox outlined a set of survey questions designed to evaluate each company’s communications set-up and existing voice and data contracts. Callbox then used this data to map the expiration dates of contracts and identify prospects with near-term requirement for a new voice and data provider.

While Callbox did not engage in actual selling, it gathered valuable insights to help the Client delve deeper into its market, focus on the right people, and determine the best time to follow up and set appointments with qualified sales leads. Callbox segmented prospects taking into account their location relative to the purchase decision process, budget, purchase history, and urgency of need. The Client worked closely with Callbox throughout the campaign, being particularly conscientious in following up leads on time.

Results

The success of this campaign is best shown by the Client’s decision to re-sign with Callbox for an extension of the campaign period. Additionally, the Client included three additional states to its target market resulting in increased sales activity. Using the data generated from this campaign, the Client defined the best approach and the most relevant message for each prospect in each segment. This significantly reduced the number of wasted calls, increased efficiency, and improved overall sales output.

Callbox Providing Sales Support to One of the Largest Business Software Companies [CASE STUDY]

Callbox: Providing Sales Support to One of the Largest Business Software Companies

The Client

The Client is the world’s third largest business software company. It has branches in over 30 countries and offers a full range of enterprise business software including:
  • Customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Enterprise asset management
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  • Financial management
  • Human capital management
  • Performance management
  • Product lifecycle management (PLM)
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Supply chain management, including business specific inventory management, transportation logistics and warehouse management software
The Client’s goal is to provide the best software experience and a lower total cost of ownership for their customers. To meet customers’ long-term needs, they provide an evolutionary path to support continuing business and technology innovation.

The Challenge

The Client didn’t have the in-house expertise to run a lead generation and lead management campaign, nor did they have the database tools to support one. To achieve their objectives, they needed a partner to develop and execute a comprehensive lead generation, qualification and appointment-setting program to capture greater market share for their business software solutions. While the company had a dominant market share in the industry, it lacked the support for their sales people to handle leads and prospect profiling. With the rapidly increasing number of individuals from various companies across all industries downloading information from the Client’s website, it was crucial for them to:
  • Profile and qualify all individuals using their website
  • Strengthen their sales force capabilities in handling the profiling and qualification
Calls had to be made across the Asia Pacific Region to verify the records of individuals and companies that downloaded files from the Client’s website. Qualification was necessary, as the Client wanted to ensure that their website visitors/prospects could be considered warm leads before their sales team pursued them. Aside from verification and qualification, the Client also needed a support team to call and invite prospects and customers to various company-sponsored events throughout Asia.

The Callbox Solution

The Client teamed up with Callbox to carry out:

Lead Generation

Lead Generation through outbound cold calling to generate leads and appointments for the Client’s sales force. The Client’s target market consisted of prospects who were looking for business-specific solutions to address their challenges and produce tangible results. Callbox’s sales force used cold calling to identify and qualify prospects for the Client. Qualifying questions determined:
  • Determine whether the prospects wanted to evaluate a new software solution.
  • Determine business pains and/or areas of interest to find a fit between prospects’ needs and Client’s solution offerings.
  • Identify the type of software prospects were using and for how long they’ve been using it.
  • Find out if prospects would be interested if presented with a new solution.
Callbox executed the cold-calling campaign using the list of target contacts provided by the Client. Agents who were assigned to this campaign used a customized spreadsheet to keep track of all call results. Calls were categorized as lead completed, not interested, competitor, invalid, duplicate, no action needed, etc., and were assigned to each respective column on the spreadsheet for easy reporting and evaluation. Leads generated from the calling campaign were posted on the Pipeline CRM to be reviewed by the Client and feedbacks were discussed. Callbox provided daily and monthly reports on pipeline activity and campaign status.

Customer Profiling

Profiling and updating the client’s prospect data base with up-to-date business and contact information. The Client provided Callbox with their list of prospects and clients. The Callbox Team verified and updated all possible contact information by phone, including email addresses.

Call-to-Invite

Callbox provided total sales and marketing support by carrying out several call-to-invite campaigns, inviting the Client’s customers and prospects to attend company-sponsored events in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The Callbox Team then followed up every call with an email. Aside from company sponsored events, the Client also held webinars. Callbox callers invited guests to these webinars and also confirmed attendance for the Client.

Campaign Reporting

Online, web-based reporting across all aspects of the project, its progress, and statistics which included lead distribution and appointments set. The Callbox solution provided the Client with a steady, predictable flow of qualified sales opportunities as well as a systematic methodology for tracking every opportunity and evaluating sales force effectiveness. The Client has a very accurate and predictable sales pipeline. By the time the prospect was ready to truly engage with them, they already had complete information about their prospects and their companies.

Results

With the Callbox Team averaging 2000 calls monthly, verifying contact information of current customers, qualifying prospective clients, and setting appointments for the Client’s sales team, the Client experienced a significant increase in conversion rates. Backed by Callbox’s own Pipeline CRM, the Client enjoyed easy tracking and monitoring of all leads. The Client was also able to consistently improve service offerings through call recordings made available by Callbox. Since then, the Client has been renewing on a month-to-month basis with new campaigns — lead generation, call-to-invite and profiling for different types of products. Pleased with the overall performance of Callbox, the Client provides sales training for the team, conducted at the start of every campaign. The smooth integration of sales and marketing with disciplined lead management resulted in increased sales and also provided total control over the customer acquisition process.