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Rock Solid Leads for AU and NZ's Top Technology Consulting Firm [CASE STUDY]

Rock Solid Leads for AU and NZ’s Top Technology Consulting Firm

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The Client

The Client is the largest independent Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards consulting organization in Australia and New Zealand as well as the largest Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Microsoft SQL Server support organization in Australia and New Zealand.

The Client is a specialized technology consulting organization focused on building and supporting long-term relationships with enterprise and government customers.

The Client is an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner, the highest level of partnership with Oracle, only achieved by a few companies globally. They provide a complete service continuum of Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and SQL Server including: sales, planning, design, implementation, project management and support. Their offices are based in Australia and New Zealand and their support centre services a large diverse client-base located across five countries.

The Challenge

  • Increase sales and generate awareness about the benefits of the Client’s products and services.
  • Promote the Client’s event entitled “Oracle Leadership Forum”, gather attendees and confirm their attendance

The Callbox Solution

Callbox launched two campaigns Lead Generation through Telemarketing, and a Call-to-Invite Campaign.

Lead Generation

Callbox agents made calls to CIOs of companies from a list of prospects provided by the Client. Every call began with the introduction of the Client’s company, followed by an invitation to an introductory chat about the benefits of the Client’s support services with the Client’s Business Development Manager. Once a positive response was received, Callbox callers emailed information about the Client’s services and collected the prospect’s mobile number and preferred time of meeting. This information was entered into Pipeline CRM, Callbox’s customer relationship management system, for the Client to review and follow-up.

Call-to-Invite

The Client had previously sent email invitations to a list of prospects for the Oracle Leadership Forum. The Callbox Team’s task was to:

  • Call those prospects and confirm receipt of the invite from the Client
  • Confirm attendance to the leadership forum

The Callbox callers collected contact information from prospects who signified their intention to attend the free leadership forum. They collected the attendees’ names, company names and email addresses for the Client’s registration files. Prospects who informed Callbox that they failed to receive invites to the event were sent invitations through email and received a confirmation call 48 hours later.

Results

Both campaigns were executed quickly and immediately, giving the Client enough warm leads to follow-up right away, and a good number of attendees to their event.

The Client especially enjoyed working with the Callbox team, citing the team’s excellent communications skills and efficiency. The Client was also pleased with the convenience and flexibility of lead tracking and management with the use of Callbox’s Pipeline CRM. Having received good quality leads following a successful company event, the Client plans to use Callbox’s services for future lead generation campaigns as well as promotional and invitational campaigns for company-sponsored events.

Integrated Campaign for UK's Leading Workflow Automation Solution [CASE STUDY]

Integrated Campaign for UK’s Leading Workflow Automation Solution

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The Client

The Client is a leading provider of enterprise workflow applications software and automation solutions that help increase efficiency and simplify business processes through process-driven applications. Based in London, UK, the Client serves a stable of more than 1500 corporate clients in 40 countries, with over 1 million users worldwide.

The Challenge

The Client was seeking to drive attendees to its Microsoft SharePoint Seminar in London. Its immediate goal was to produce high quality sign-ups. However, the overall objective was to generate and deliver to its inside sales team sales resources that are fully-qualified and with near-term requirement for the products it offers. The Client had no experience in outsourcing its marketing function, and the result of this campaign would determine whether or not it would consider similar projects in the future.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox had an excellent campaign with the Client’s main branch in the US, and was recommended by the latter to its UK office. The Client hired Callbox to make outbound calls inviting prospects to its Microsoft SharePoint Seminar in London. After making thorough preparations, Callbox then started the campaign, targeting CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and Finance, and Operations Managers outside London. This project was a huge challenge for the team as it involved inviting prospects to an event that would require them to travel for several hours mostly by land.

With two weeks left in the project, Callbox proposed an integrated two-phase campaign to make a shift from event invitation to lead generation marketing to which the client agreed. The Callbox team proceeded with the lead generation campaign right away, focusing on promoting the client’s workflow application for the police and fire services around London, UK area. Callbox was able to mine the Client’s existing contacts database to identify hundreds of potential customers. This campaign targeted IT Managers, ICT, CIOs, HOD ITs, and IT Directors.

Throughout the campaign, Callbox communicated regularly with the Client through PipelineCRM, which allowed the Client to monitor campaign progress in real-time.

Results

Despite the difficulties encountered during the campaign, Callbox was able to produce significant results for the Client.

  • 15 qualified leads in 22 calling days
  • 412 positive contacts out of 1912 (22% contact rate)
  • 38 contacts scheduled for follow-up
  • 55 requested for additional information

Additional benefits of this campaign include enhanced brand and product awareness, and acquisition of business intelligence and other significant data about the Client’s market. Most notably, this campaign inspired the Client to consider a change in marketing practices with outsourcing.

Needing more time to close the leads, the Client decided to put the campaign on hold, but expressed willingness to run another lead generating project with Callbox in the near future.

Software Company Won Thousands of Registrations Thru Callbox Webinar Event Campaign

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The Client

The Client is a provider of remote monitoring and management software products and services for managed service providers, IT service providers and value added resellers that offer IT support services to small to medium businesses.

The Challenge

The Client was to launch a series of webinars in US and Canada, and needed a marketing partner to help generate registrations. The campaign required hundreds of calling activities everyday which they saw to be a major challenge for their in-house marketing staff. 

Trying to outsource for the first time, the Client took careful steps in searching for the right telemarketing partner, and eventually chose Callbox from a list of B2B firms because of the latter’s extensive experience in running lead generation campaigns.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox designed an end-to-end Multi-Touch, Multi-Channel Webinar & Virtual Event Marketing campaign which utilized Voice, Email, Mobile, Web, and Social Media to target attendees from the US and Canada.

The Callbox team was to manage the whole webinar campaign starting from promotion, actual or live event, and onto post-event tasks which consisted of: 

Pre-Webinar Promotion:

  • Email Templates
  • Call Scripts
  • Landing Pages Form
  • Promotional Materials

Webinar Facilitation: 

  • Practice Session
  • Speaker(s) Introduction
  • Attendee Engagement
  • Q&A Moderation

Webinar Report:

  • Video Recording
  • Audience Feedback
  • Q&A Reports
  • Pre & Post Event Metrics

The Campaign Goals

The webinar campaign focused on contacting key prospects to introduce them to the potentials of increased sales and lowered business costs through managed services. 

Prospects who expressed interest in the Client’s services were booked for appointments with the Client’s lead development team, and were registered for the webinar.

Results

The US and Canada webinar events did very well which brought the Client to decide on signing another contract with Callbox for a 20-seat campaign to target the UK and New Zealand markets.

Overall, the Webinar Event campaigns ran for 3 years, and generated a total of 35,793 registrations.

Client Feedback

I am pleased to recommend Callbox. They have consistently worked with a collaborative attitude to ensure all processes are current and achieve all set key performance indicators. Whenever an issue did arise we worked through the issue in a timely and efficient manner so goals remained on target. They have a positive, easy to work with demeanor and strive to exceed performance expectations. I highly recommend their services.

Giant Software Company Finds Callbox at the End of Quest for Sustainable Marketing Solution [CASE STUDY]

Giant Software Company Finds Callbox at the End of Quest for Sustainable Marketing Solution

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The Client

The Client is a well-known software company in Australia which develops and distributes practice management and tracking software for large companies. Its clients include Ingram Micro, The University of Sydney, Accenture, CitiStreet, and Acumen Alliance.

The Challenge

The Client has excellent brand recognition in Australia and its products have strong market potential. However, it had difficulty penetrating foreign markets often dominated by large global competitors. The Client did not invest significantly in marketing aside from the irregular cold calling efforts by its sales staff. The primary source of new clients was word of mouth. To boost its capability to compete squarely in the international market, the Client looked for an appointment setting company to carry out its objectives methodically:
  • To educate prospects on the benefits of practice management software
  • To schedule product demos with interested prospects
This campaign required technically sound telemarketers with firsthand experience in selling software systems. Having campaigned on behalf of several IT and software companies for many years, Callbox was qualified for the challenge.

The Callbox Solution

Following a campaign brief, Callbox set up an outbound telemarketing team. The Client specified potential customers: IT Directors, CIOs, Managers, and C-level Executives. Callbox prepared a customized telemarketing list and created personalized scripts based on typical market response and various selling scenarios. Callbox implemented stringent QA monitoring to ensure that every lead and appointment generation effort supported the Client’s requirements. Callbox encouraged the Client’s active participation in each campaign process – from script development to new product trainings and lead qualification. This allowed to Client to provide inputs and feedback as the campaign progressed. Callbox maintained an impressive momentum throughout the 18-month calling campaign, contacting 4,887 companies at an average of 222 calls per day. The Client witnessed the action in real-time via Callbox’s Pipeline CRM, which also allowed it to respond promptly to appointments and other actionable results.

Results

  1. Out of 88,000 calls, 17% resulted in positive contacts. Of those spoken to, 31% agreed to a demo and 28% requested additional info.
  2. Callbox delivered a total of 357 qualified appointments at an average of one appointment per day. From that, 44 (12.3%) resulted in sales.
  3. Simply put, the Client got a sale for every 2000 calls made by Callbox; about 2.5 sales per month.
Greatly impressed by its performance, the Client continues to rely on Callbox for its outbound marketing campaigns, as it continues to grow its market share, not only in Australia, but now in the expanded markets of New Zealand, Brunei, and India. It also intends to hire additional agents to keep up with the influx of new leads and further increase its marketing activities.