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B2C FinTech Startup All Set to Grow Active Users for Flagship App

B2C FinTech Startup All Set to Grow Active Users for Flagship App

The Client

The Client is a pre Series A FinTech startup based in Singapore that provides a P2p remittance platform developed primarily for migrant workers in Singapore and Hong Kong. Its flagship app processes an average of $1 million in users’ money transfers to their home countries in Southeast Asia each month. The startup has so far raised $2.2 million in funding after three seed rounds.

The Challenge

With more FinTech startups joining Southeast Asia’s growing P2P remittance market, players in this space are turning to more proactive customer acquisition strategies to sustain their growth momentum.

Having secured $2.2 million in seed funding and handling more than $1 million in monthly remittance transactions, the Client seeks to expand the number of active users of its flagship app. Currently, the company’s online P2P money transfer platform caters mainly to migrant workers sending money to Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia.

The company maintains an in-house database of prospects collected through its list-building initiatives and opt-in campaigns. But as the list steadily grew, the company’s sales team has only been able to convert only a small percentage of the prospects into sales opportunities.

The problem came down mainly to reps not being able to promptly follow up on enough leads, leaving a huge number of potential customers practically uncontacted. Plus, many of the prospects that got contacted turned out to be a poor fit with the company’s target customer profile.

It was clear the Client needed more manpower to handle the tasks of initially contacting and screening prospects. Accordingly, the company decided to outsource much of these activities to a third-party provider and let their reps focus on the final steps in the conversion process.

The Callbox Solution

The Client chose Callbox because of the latter’s experience in B2C financial services and its track record of implementing integrated phone and email outreach campaigns which closely matched the company’s specific requirements.

A plan was drawn up for a one-month campaign that would run each January or February to coincide with the company’s seasonal sales activity. As of writing, the project has completed two full months and is currently in its third. Each campaign involves three key steps:

Step 1: Profiling the Client’s in-house list

  • Callbox’s data research team checked and verified each record in the Client’s prospect list.
  • The list was thoroughly scrubbed, then duplicate and incomplete records were appropriately processed.
  • The first month’s list was exported into Callbox Pipeline, while the second month’s campaign exclusively used data in the Client’s own CRM.

Step 2: Pre-qualifying each contact

  • The team followed an outreach cadence that initiated contact with email touches and then engaged warm prospects through live phone conversations.
  • These interactions achieved the two-fold objective of deepening awareness of the Client’s offer and qualifying potential leads for the company’s reps.
  • The Client also gave Callbox access to its proprietary creditworthiness calculator to help the team identify which prospects qualified for their cash advance promo.

Step 3: Following up and nurturing leads

  • The campaign’s outreach cadence also included a sequence of additional email and phone touches to follow up and keep leads engaged.
  • Appointments were confirmed via phone call to ensure leads show up for their meeting with the Client’s reps.
  • The added touches also provided the Callbox team with more opportunities to gather crucial marketing intelligence about the prospects.

Results

The project has now wrapped up a total of two campaign months, with the first campaign completed in January of 2017 and the second in February last year. Based on the KPIs specified by the Client at the outset, the project has so far produced very good results: 201 booked appointments and 67 completed leads.

The Callbox team was also able to profile 2,147 records from the Client’s in-house list and maintained response rates of 31% for phone calls and 17% for emails throughout the two campaigns.

The Client continues to partner with Callbox, and the project is about to launch its third full campaign month.

31-Month Campaign Yields New Cleaning Contracts for NY Janitorial Firm [CASE STUDY]

31-Month Campaign Yields New Cleaning Contracts for NY Janitorial Firm

The Client

The Client is a family-owned commercial cleaning company that serves businesses in the Long Island, NY area. The company offers janitorial services, building maintenance solutions, as well as sanitary supplies. It specializes in commercial, medical healthcare, educational, industrial, and retail properties.

The Challenge

With limited manpower and resources to carry out outbound prospecting activities in-house, the Client hired the services of Callbox in January of 2015. For the next two-and-a-half years, Callbox served as a close extension of the company’s sales team, consistently providing appointments and leads to its reps and marketing staff.

Before working with Callbox, the Client had been following a 3-point messaging approach in all its marketing communications and sales collateral. The Client required all marketing/sales materials to:

  • Be precisely tailored for the Client’s target audience
  • Be clearly Mapped to the right stage in the company’s sales cycle
  • Tie benefits and pain points back to specific business outcomes

The Client was very clear about meeting these standards. This formed the basis for selecting Callbox since the agency was able to demonstrate these qualities through its flexible service proposal and actual track record in deploying successful marketing campaigns for commercial cleaning firms.

In addition to the Client’s messaging requirements, the company also went into the partnership with Callbox expecting to receive at least 15 qualified appointments from the campaign each month.

The Callbox Solution

Throughout the whole effort, the campaign plan centered on carrying out multi-touch, multi-channel appointment setting mainly through an outreach cadence of phone and email touch points.

Callbox then helped the Client identify and refine the campaign’s target prospects which consisted of decision makers handling facilities management, operations, and business service procurement.

The target companies included businesses having at least 75 employees, that operated large Buildings like schools, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, medical practices, and large retail establishments located throughout the Long Island, NY area.

Appointment Setting

  1. With the Callbox-supplied prospect list, the campaign was able to increase its reach and scope much more than what was possible with the Client’s own database.
  2. The Callbox team used SMARTCalling, its proprietary call management algorithm, to determine the optimal times to contact prospects and increase success call rates.
  3. Prospects who agreed to an in-person or phone meeting with the Client’s reps were tagged as qualified appointments, while contacts who accepted company literature via email were labeled as completed leads.

Email Marketing

  1. The outreach cadence was made up of a combination of phone and email touches tailored for the Client’s specific objectives and targets.
  2. The campaign relied on emails to initiate contact and nurture prospects, in particular leveraging targeted send-outs for both qualifying leads and distributing marketing literature.
  3. Callbox’s exclusive Lead Nurture tool enabled easy orchestration of event-driven email touches.

Results

The entire project ran for 31 months from January 2015 to July 2017. In terms of the KPIs agreed upon at the campaign’s outset, the whole effort generated the following results:

  • 622 total qualified appointments (averaging 20 per month)
  • 993 total completed leads (averaging 32 per month)
  • 1,047 total net new prospects (averaging 33 per month)

Callbox was able to maintain delivering 17 to 22 qualified appointments each month throughout the project, which meant that the campaign consistently met the Client’s expectations.

Although the Client did not disclose any figures, the company has mentioned that it had already converted “a great deal” of the Callbox-supplied appointments into new customers.

Outbound Campaign Fast Tracks Inbound Results for Business Travel Platform [CASE STUDY]

Outbound Campaign Fast-tracks Inbound Results for Business Travel Platform

The Client

The Client is the corporate travel management arm of a leading online travel agency. the company provides end-to-end business travel solutions tailored for every stage in the travel cycle. Its primary products and services include its flagship online booking platform, a full suite of travel management and reporting tools, and personalized account management and consulting.

The Challenge

Shortly before first contacting Callbox, the Client was in the middle of a key strategic refocus that aimed to expand the company’s footprint in the growing SME business travel segment. The Client had already developed specific packages and solutions tailored for small and medium-sized companies’ needs and was looking to acquire more SME accounts.

To help drive awareness and generate interest in its SME-focused offerings, the company launched a number of lead generation initiatives that included publishing a comprehensive whitepaper on creating and deploying a company travel policy.

The Client wanted to reach new prospects with this content asset but encountered mixed results with the distribution and promotion tactics they were using (which mostly consisted of inbound channels like SEO, social media, and online promotion).

Downloads average 6 per week (although this went up as high as 11 in the first full week after publication) and marketing-qualified lead (MQL) conversion rates didn’t meet the Client’s targets.

After considering other options for distributing the whitepaper, the Client decided to include outbound channels in its content promotion mix. But, having no outbound expertise of its own, the Client began looking for a third-party lead generation vendor to handle the outbound portion of the campaign.

The Callbox Solution

The Client chose Callbox after a thorough evaluation process, pointing out that Callbox’s multi-channel approach at lead generation and prospecting best met their goals. The Callbox team then prepared a campaign plan for a 3-month lead generation program with the following objectives:

• Increase the number of hand-raisers from its whitepaper
• Qualify prospects based on their ability to influence business travel decisions
• Collect key information to profile each prospect

The campaign carried out direct, targeted outreach through live conversations with the target prospects enhanced through email, social media, and online channels. The decision makers included HR directors, HR managers, CFOs, finance directors, administrative managers, CEOs, and other persons in charge of expense management/ procurement from companies all over the U.S. with annual revenues not exceeding $10 million.

1. Callbox prepared all materials used in the campaign. These were reviewed and approved by the Client. The materials included the campaign contact list, call scripts, email templates, and landing pages.
2. Calling agents engaged the target prospects through one-on-one conversations which served to promote the whitepaper and to qualify the leads.
3. The campaign used emails to add another layer of touch points for distributing the whitepaper, as well as leveraged the LinkedIn platform to increase reach and visibility.

Results

The targeted lead generation campaign ran for a total of 66 days (22 days per month). As with most of Callbox’s multi-touch, multi-channel lead generation projects, leads only began trickling in after the first two weeks of the campaign. That’s because the campaign’s opening phase focused on initiating contact and nurturing prospects through email which maintained open rates of 32.2% and click-through rates of 9.7%.

Broken down by month, the lead
generation activities produced the
following results:

Outbound Campaign Fast-tracks Inbound Results for Business Travel Platform - Campaign Results (Tabular View)

The company travel policy whitepaper was downloaded a total of 189 times during the three-month campaign period, which gave a weekly average of nearly 16 downloads (or twice the pre-campaign rate). The Client also mentioned that 80% of the 109 leads (or 88 leads) were already MQLs.

Callbox Breeds New Customers For HR Consultancy Leader [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Breeds New Customers For HR Consultancy Leader

The Client

The Client is a strategic workforce planning company that provides innovative human resource solutions, and stands on a mission to help companies achieve strategic objectives through workforce planning, analytics and strategy.

The Challenge

The Client has drawn many years of consulting experience and stacked a load of beneficial “end to end” HR services and solutions focused to better align, acquire, utilise and develop talent, targeting key and strategic functions required to deliver core goals.

However, in the latter years of the company’s operation, the Client realized some exigencies in keeping up with the demands in acquiring customers. The slacken number of new customers in the database urged the Client to decide on taking new marketing options that can help them cope with the problem. A lead generation program was plotted to carry out the Client’s goal to acquire new and more customers.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox’s Multi-Touch Multi-Channel Lead Generation Program was strategically designed to help clients get in front of their customers at the best time when they are most ready to listen and are most interested. This was made possible by Callbox for the Client through the Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool.

In the campaign, the Client aimed to promote its core services: Workforce Analytics, Human Resource Consulting and Workforce Strategy and Optimisation. These services were common among HR Consultancy providers in the region but the Client wanted to make a difference in addressing the customer’s’ HR requirements by doing a top-to-toe solution.

Initial Email Copies
Using the Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, the Callbox team sent out initial email copies bearing the Client’s summary of services and solutions, website and query boxes. Email replies and actions taken by prospects such as clicking the website and queries were tracked in real time for the agent to follow-up on.

Appointment Setting
Follow-up calls were made by the Callbox agent wherein probing questions were asked to discover the prospects’ HR needs and so that the Client may be able to tailor fit the best services and solutions for them. The key questions focused on monies invested in the people aspects and the quality of the organization’s human capital initiatives. The prospects’ answers were carefully and properly noted and all contact details were verified before the calls were disposed.

Request For More Information
Prospects who requested for more information were as good as completed leads. Brochures were set by the Client himself for the purpose of analyzing the prospect’s business status and to come up with the best answer to their questions.

Results

The campaign delivered a total of 15 solid appointments63 warm follow ups and 228 RFIs (request for information). The 15 appointments set by the Callbox team were companies that had varied HR needs specifically on workforce planning, management and reporting.

With the Callbox Multi-Touch Multi-Channel Marketing Program and the Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, the Client was able achieve its goal to acquire new customers. Moreso, they look forward to acquiring more new customers from their list of warm follow-ups that they currently nurture.

Callbox Multi Channel Marketing Program Aced Success for Neuro Testing Company [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Multi-Channel Marketing Program Aced Success for Neuro Testing Company

The Client

The Client is a group of academic clinicians and other professionals like engineers and researchers who develop advanced neurological disorders assessment tools, specifically for dementia, and have been in service for more than a decade now. Their product is a memory assessment software used by clinicians to test and analyze a dementia patient’s memory, which also provides recommendations and further medical steps to take based on results.

The Challenge

The Client launched its first neuro-assessment tool and subsequently released an improved version of the tool. The team mainly focused on widely researching and meticulously developing neurological assessment tools, and later on took the project to a higher level by making Android versions of it on different gadgets like smartphones and tablets. The course was a success – the neuro-assessment software for dementia is accessible to clinicians anytime and anywhere, which enables them to work with accuracy through its real-time data tracking and updating features. However, the team went amiss on one thing – the marketing aspect of the project which bore the following challenges:
  • The long periods of research studies and software tool development took most of their attention which somehow, unconsciously snatched ample time to plan on how the tool should be strategically introduced to their target market.
  • The Client had an existing marketing staff but with skills limited to traditional marketing of going from clinic to clinic to present the product.
  • Competitors emerged fast in the market and the Client was running against them and against time – there weren’t appropriate resources or tools to use to expedite product sales and marketing.
The Client had little confidence in their ability to garner enough marketing attention for the project. And there being very little time left to roll out a well-thought marketing strategy, the Client decided, for the first time, to outsource their marketing initiatives.

The Callbox Solution

A decade of perfected marketing strategies – is the pride and inspiration that drives Callbox to serve its countless global clients with tailored, world-class sales and marketing solutions based on their business needs and goals. In this campaign, the Client straightforwardly stated their need for targeted qualified leads as the pressure on keeping up or getting ahead of the race was urgent: Hot Transfers as priority leads and Face to Face or Phone Appointments as secondary options. Callbox was more than ready for the challenge. A Multi-Touch Multi-Channel Marketing program was employed which included the following activities:
  • Data Validity Check via Email Copies – with the use of the Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, target prospects’ contact information like email addresses were validated by sending out initial email copies that contained short product information and CTAs that would compel recipients to answer by replying, clicking links to Q&As or visit the Client’s website.
  • Lead Generation/Appointment Setting – validated contacts were called for two reasons: to be profiled and hot-transferred to the Client’s lead specialists for possible product demonstration. Those who did not agree to be transferred were offered an office appointment, with a phone appointment as a final option.
  • Activate Web, Social and Mobile Network Access – the email copies sent to target prospects contained links that led to: the Client’s website and a landing page that contained “ask us” box where prospects may ask questions and “contact me” box where prospects may share their contact information if they agree to be contacted by the Client.

Results

Out of the 4,500 contacts, 3,375 (75%) were validated to have opened, clicked links or visited the Client’s website, and completely profiled: prospects’ names, clinic addresses, active phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts and SIC codes. The 3,375 were called which produced a total of 45 Hot Transfers and 21 phone appointments – a huge leap of 75% increase in leads from the Client’s previous average of 16 leads. The impressive number of leads and appointments was just a part of the Client’s acknowledged success on the campaign ran by Calbox, the other fraction being that the long periods spent on research and development of the neuro assessment tool did not go to waste with the quality of leads generated by the Callbox team. Furthermore, the seamless Callbox workflow of completely profiling all validated contacts for the Client’s in-house marketing team produced leads they are currently nurturing for future conversion. But for the Client, the cake-topper was the exuberance of seeing results that clearly put them ahead of the competition.
Callbox Solves Software Company's Marketing Conundrum [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Solves Software Company’s Marketing Conundrum

The Client

The Client is a US-based company that primarily provides telephone voice and data communications services. The company also develops software for IP communications and telephony systems.

The Challenge

Despite having already worked with a number of third party providers for the Client’s lead generation campaigns, finding companies interested in their services for the long term remained an unresolved challenge. The Client’s previous marketing partners had clear difficulties delivering consistent campaign results, which in turn made it very hard for the Client’s sales reps to meet their numbers. Most of the leads and appointments from their former partners were a poor fit for the Client’s enterprise VoIP solutions. When those prospects reached the Client’s sales team, reps uncovered that many of them were actually still not in the market for the company’s offerings. Additionally, the Client also observed that their previous providers were not able to fully capture and communicate the company’s unique value proposition, failing to map out key product benefits with business pain points in campaign materials used in the outreach programs. With the lessons gained from these earlier campaigns, the Client searched for a reliable marketing agency that can provide them with a full suite of tools and strategies to book sales meetings with interested and qualified prospects.

The Results

The initial three-month program has generated a total of 29 success calls (28 phone appointments, 1 lead). While not jaw-dropping, it was a stark departure from the meager results their previous partners have provided. Currently, the team is on its first renewal. Feedback from the client have all been positive – from the professional way the team members conduct themselves to the quality of appointments that have been set. As a result, IPV Solutions has decided to move forward for two more months with the engagement.
Callbox: Clear Connection to Leads for Managed Telco [CASE STUDY]

Callbox: Clear Connection to Leads for Managed Telco

The Client

Originally established as a Systems Integrator in 1996, the Client has evolved to become a leading business telecommunications technology provider. Leveraging their strong technology based background, the company began to offer managed telecommunications services in 2005, becoming a top provider of end-to-end technology solutions for a wide range of businesses and industries.

The Challenge

The mid 1990s marked the rapid shift of technology towards virtual work practices, where organisations across the globe sought more flexible, secure and dynamic managed telephony solutions.

The Client’s strategic vision was to help customers keep up with technology by providing end-to-end telephony products and services that allowed users to take advantage of the very latest in enterprise IP communications solutions without the need for significant upfront capital investment.

Years prior to partnering with Callbox, the Client had implemented a number of different marketing strategies, which included both in-house and outsourced channels. But it eventually became clear that the company needed to focus on core business areas and farm out many of its marketing activities including prospecting.

The Callbox Solution

After uncovering the Client’s targets and requirements, Callbox then crafted a campaign plan which mainly consisted of multi-channel lead generation that maximized voice, email, web, mobile and social media through the behavior-based tracking capabilities of Callbox’s Lead Nurturing (LN) Tool.

The workflow which Callbox designed was seamless and aligned with the Client’s goal – to widen its market reach and offer its managed telecommunications services to the Singapore market. So Callbox had the LN Tool send out intro email copies to verify that the contact details were all accurate and up-to-date.

Using the LN Tool’s “Send Email” and “Move to List” features, the team was able to properly handle bounced and invalid emails, automatically sending them to suppression lists or revalidated by the research team. With the database accurately profiled, the team reached more prospects throughout the campaign, while the custom drip email helped establish clear communication between the agent and the prospects, enabling the Client to speak with the prospects at the right time.

Overall, the strategic use of Callbox’s marketing capabilities led to a higher lead conversion rate for the campaign.

Results

The campaign was able to achieve the following conversion rates and other KPIs: 40% closed sales, 20% hot leads expected to close this year, and 32% pipeline boost.

From the 6-month lead generation program powered by the Lead Nurturing Tool, the Callbox team generated a total of 89 leads, 59 of which were converted via the LN Tool. The campaign was able to achieve the following conversion rates and other KPIs: 40% closed sales, 20% hot leads expected to close this year, and 32% pipeline boost.

Callbox’s multi-channel lead generation program was one of the factors that helped widen the Client’s market and scale up its sales numbers. And as of this writing, another round of a 3-month campaign is currently on the discussion table.

The Client is now enjoying several long-term benefits of the 6-month campaign that Callbox ran for them: keeping a cleansed and accurate database, managing a good number of customers, and nurturing contacts tagged as “follow-up” which they forecast as future customers.

Callbox Takes on Challenge Scores A VIQtory [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Takes on Challenge & Scores a VIQtory

The Client

The Client is a leader in Precision Transcription & Stenography services in Australia. For more than 50 years now, the business holds the reputation in quality that has been built on strict, on time delivery, and accurate professional transcription for events, meetings, interviews, arbitrations and courts throughout the country. For the leadoff campaign, the focus was to set appointments with specific decision makers for specific industries. In those meetings, Client introduced and discussed the feature and benefits of VIQ Solutions – the world’s leading expert in digital audio, video and evidence capture and management solutions. VIQ Solutions provides digital recording applications that allow multiple channels of audio and video recordings to be recorded simultaneously with annotations and other information attached to it.

The Challenge

The project plan to partner with a lead generation company was brought about by the Client’s challenge to be able to get through arduous targets like Legal, Medical & Investigation. These are industries that require detailed transcription/dictation tasks as they deal with sensitive and delicate matters.

The Callbox Solution

A full-package, multi-channel marketing program was provided by the Callbox team:

An agent who called for the campaign for 8 hours everyday

Despite the agent starting out with limited knowledge on transcription services, through the Callbox leader’s orientation and training, as well as the agent’s interest to learn the mechanics and myriad of applications of such a service , the agent achieved the Client’s desired level of proficiency in speaking with prospects about VIQ Solutions.

A well-filtered database

Filtering a database for the Client’s required target industries was quite a challenge for the Callbox team, as the number of these type of organizations in a country or region is quite below standards, as compared with consumer-centric businesses. But the team still managed to work well with the approved database.

Client-approved calling script

The calling script served as a guide for the caller to keep himself aligned and knowledgeably-sounding in offering the product & services’ value proposition, and setting solid appointments with target decision makers.

LinkedIn Account

The Callbox team built and managed the LinkedIn account, which was approved and kept monitored by the Client at which conversation threads with connections were viewed.

Emails

Email templates were drafted by Callbox and were approved by the Client. The templates varied in approach depending on the call disposal set by the agent on each call.

Campaign Status Reports

The weekly reports sent to the Client discussed about statistics and feedback about the campaign. Challenges encountered by the caller in his calls were noted, and corresponding action plans were suggested and implemented for each.

Calendar Invite

A calendar invite was utilized to confirm set appointments with interested prospects. And if by chance, that a prospect declined the calendar invite, the Callbox team worked out a follow up call for a reschedule, and made sure that no appointment/lead is lost.

Results

  • Callbox was able to open the doors for more opportunities for the Client to reach quite elusive targets in the tribunals and local councils in Australia by adding 9 solid leads to their existing client list.
  • Client signed for another contract, which was for another company under his management and which offered enterprise audio and text management products and systems.
  • Client is currently nurturing all the leads and maintained communications with Callbox for possible campaigns early this year.
Callbox opened more doors of opportunities for the Client by complementing its business objectives with a multi-channel marketing scheme.
Callbox Brings the Sunshine to Sales Lead Generation [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Brings the Sunshine to Sales Lead Generation

The Client

The Client is a new electricity retailer based in Sydney. The Client is rapidly hitting the Australian market with their integrated energy solutions. The current lead generation campaign they are running with Callbox is beaming with rays of potential in providing full energy service to Australian consumers.

Summary

The initial, single seat campaign period was launched in July. The main call objective was to set a face-to-face appointment for the Client with prospects bearing the discussion on the best solutions to lower down energy bills. The initial production generated 28 leads. This impressive production of leads from the initial period of calling inspired enough trust and confidence from the Client that they recommended our service to their sister company, a Clean Energy Regulator service provider. Callbox worked well and delivered the same amount of hard work and professionalism to the latter which resulted to a very good number of leads of 150, and renewal for another campaign contract. The second part ran with 3 calling agents, and added 3 more campaigns which the Client branded as “special campaigns”, generating a total of 79 leads which finished with 96 leads. All these were achieved through the collaborated resources of both the Client’s sales team who drove so much vigor in sharing knowledge with the callers, coupled with Callbox’s multi-channel marketing processes.
  • Month 1: 28 Leads
  • Month 2: 79 Leads
  • Month 3: 96 Leads

Results

This leading energy retailer is taking delectation on each campaign month that we run for them. They value each lead delivered to them by the calling team and take pride in the glowing work relationship they have with Callbox.
Callbox Dishes Out The Leads [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Dishes Out The Leads

The Client

The Client is one of the premier retailers of Dish Network, the United States’ lowest priced all digital satellite provider. Dish Network offers a variety of HD programming such as theater-quality movie channels, educational and nature programming, Pay-Per-View HD movies, and HD broadcasts of special events, including concerts, boxing matches and professional sporting events. The Client offers TV and entertainment packages that are put together to give choice and value, loaded with popular options for a low price as well as very affordable equipment upgrades.

The Challenge

Providing satellite sales, installation and service throughout the US was not easy for the Client which was a young company. It saw the need to grow, not only in terms of client base but in customer service capacity as well, in line with its goal to provide outstanding service to its customers. The Client faced stiff competition from huge cable providers all over the US so it needed a major marketing campaign to introduce its company, its offers and retain a loyal set of customers. An attempt at in-house sales operations was made by the client, but did not generate as many customers as expected. The Client saw the need for a partner to reach its target market and eventually, hit its sales target.

The Callbox Solution

In order to gather interest for the Client, Callbox launched a Lead Generation campaign in April. Since the Client had in-house specialists, the task of Callbox agents was limited to gathering prospects by generating interest in the Client’s offers, and forwarding these prospects to specialists who closed the sales. A total of 10 agents consisting of 7 openers and 3 closers handled Client’s account. The 6-month lead generation campaign by Callbox customer representatives involved the introduction of the company, its offers and basic installation information.

Results

  • After a 6-month lead generation campaign and 2 months of pre-close transfers, the Client requested Callbox agents to close deals as well, a significant show of confidence in Callbox agents. The Client was able to cut costs by reducing in-house sales support and rely solely on telemarketing in order to sign and maintain customers.
  • At the start of the campaign, the Client’s target market was limited to Southern California. Its client base has spread over 13 states, including Texas, Arizona and Oregon. The Client achieved a hefty 50% increase in installations per day.
  • In a display of satisfaction with the results of the Callbox campaign and as a result of the good relations between Callbox and the Client, its Sales Director scheduled a week-long visit to the dedicated team, and performed in-depth sales training at the Callbox on-site training facilities. The training focused on sales techniques for both sales coaches and agents. The principles learned were shared across all applicable Callbox teams.
Callbox Opens Doors For International Trade [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Opens Doors For International Trade

The Client

The Client is an agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry spearheading the development of Singapore’s external economy wing. Its mission is to promote the overseas growth of Singapore-based enterprises and international trade. With a global network of over 30 locations, the Client offers services to help Singapore enterprises export, develop business capabilities, find overseas partners, and enter new markets. They work to position Singapore as a base for foreign businesses to expand into the region and Singapore-based companies.

The Challenge

The Client’s primary objective was to acquire foreign leads to participate in their ‘business matching’ trade portal. They targeted importers, distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers all over the US, to seed business opportunities and partnerships.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox launched a Foreign Lead Generation Campaign. Based on the Client’s specifications, a target call list was provided from the Callbox database. In order to provide the Client with the right list, the Callbox research team studied the Client’s present goals and long term plans in order to identify potential prospects. Callbox agents made calls across the US daily, inviting businesses to post their company profile, products and services to the trade portal, emphasizing the opportunity to expand the prospect’s market in Singapore. Pertinent information was collected contact person, designation, contact number, company name and address. Among the qualifying questions asked by the Callbox team were:
  • Nature of prospect’s business (importer, manufacturer, exporter, service provider, project management, agent)
  • Products or Services offered
  • Business interest (to buy, invest, franchise, distribute, etc.)
Hot leads were qualified and matched with suitable Singapore-based enterprises. If requested, Callbox also sent the prospect invitations and online brochures.

Results

With the Callbox team delivering a large number of leads monthly, the Client has been enjoying an increasing number of registrations on the online portal, significantly expanding its customer base. The Client’s Business Matching Group expressed satisfaction with the leads generated and the consistent professionalism and quality service shown by the Callbox team. As a result, the Client still continues to engage the services of Callbox in foreign lead generation. Today, Singapore’s most comprehensive business portal lists over 100,000 companies and is growing daily.
Callbox Passes Diagnostic Test with Flying Colors [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Passes Diagnostic Test with Flying Colors

The Client

Incorporated in 2002, The Client is a National O.E.M. and distributor of in-vitro diagnostic products, selling 2 million drug tests annually and growing into one of the largest distributors of rapid on-site drug tests in the United States. The Client’s goal is to help its target market maintain drug-free environments for its constituencies (employees, staff, clients, members, contractors, or students.) They carry a large inventory of products including the following drug testing kits: all-In-one kit/cups, quick-dip kits, pipette tests, and oral kits. The Client also carries test kits measuring breath alcohol levels, saliva alcohol levels, nicotine levels, and adulterants.

The Challenge

In line with its primary goal to provide high quality drug testing products with outstanding service at affordable prices, the company sought the assistance of a business solutions partner to be able to reach and capture a chunk of the market shared with competitors. The Client’s main competitor is an established company known for its very affordable prices. In fact, it is widely known as the cheapest among the Client’s several competitors. The Client needed to market its products with emphasis on quality and bulk discounts, as this is its identified pricing strength. The Client recognized some inadequacy in its sales and marketing strategies, and saw the need for a contact solution to support its growth and sales objectives.

The Callbox Solution

The Client partnered with Callbox to obtain a solution that helped them gain advantage against competitors, with the end goal of increasing their sales volume. Callbox launched a lead generation campaign in order to gather qualified business prospects for the client. To be considered qualified, these prospects had to conduct 50 or more on-site drug tests per day. Calls made to these prospects involved inquiries as to the need for drug testing kits, drugs covered, type of kits used, number of kits required and an offer of free kit samples. Keeping in mind the Client’s objective which was call quality rather than call volume, a Callbox agent made 80-100 calls per day with a quota of 4 successful calls per day, totaling 20 leads per week and 80 leads per month.

Results

  • Successful calls made by Callbox – The Client management has been vocal in their appreciation of having 90% of the leads generated convert to closed deals. Clearly, the introduction of the broad scope of products that the Client offers and increased customer acquisition was achieved as a result of Callbox’s lead generation program.
  • The need for the Client’s in-house sales reps went down from 4 to 2 during the campaign as the sales reps only needed to follow-up the fresh leads provided by Callbox instead of actually initiating the sales calls.
  • Company owner was so pleased with the results of the campaign that he invited the Callbox agent handling the account to visit their California office for an intensive week-long training to further improve the effectivity of the campaign. Callbox takes pride in the ability of its people to deliver.