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Callbox Solves Software Company's Marketing Conundrum [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Solves Software Company’s Marketing Conundrum

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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.
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Callbox ABM: Bridged the Gap Between Offshoring Expert and Target Clients

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The Client

The Client is a leading media company in Hong Kong, providing news and finance information services to financial intermediaries and high net worth individuals. The services they provide include educating Chinese financial intermediaries on the effective use of tax planning and asset management through a series of summits. They work on a platform built from different media channels like online media, periodicals, and guides, to deliver the latest information and relevant topics to finance professionals.

The Challenge

The Client connects Chinese financial consultants to companies that plan to bring their business offshore via financial conferences. These businesses could either be companies from neighboring countries in Asia that would want to be educated on how to bring investments to Hong Kong, as well as Hong Kong-based companies that would like to expand in other regions.

The Client is recognized as a crowd drawer to every financial summit they launch, but the leads generated from the impressive event attendance convert very low number of follow-ups, as most of the attendees were either just curious to hear what the meeting was all about or didn’t really have a solid need for offshoring at all.

The Client thought they needed a more targeted audience who wanted to learn about offshoring, and interested to engage further. Add to that was the pressing time to expedite the project since a series of summits were already on the approving stage.

But, the Client didn’t have the right tools to carry out the tasks needed for the upcoming summits which are to profile their target attendees, gauge the need of the prospects, and uncover the genuine interest for offshoring opportunities.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox designed an ABM Lead Generation & Appointment Setting campaign which consisted of:

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management which included Voice, Email, Chat, and Web.
  • Sales Enablement & Support that provided Team 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 do Database Profiling by scrubbing off invalids from the list to keep the contacts updated.
  • To call profiled contacts, and invite them to the Client’s upcoming series of summits.
  • Mainly, schedule face to face or online meetings with potential clients for the Client’s consultants.

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 relevant contacts for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were C-Levels, Business Development Managers, Directors, Marketing Directors, General Managers.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

The six-month Appointment Setting campaign generated 132 Sales Qualified Leads and 146 Marketing-Qualified Leads.

Callbox Perfect Candidate for Japan Chief Recruiter [CASE STUDY]

Callbox: Perfect Candidate for Japan’s Chief Recruiter

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CASE STUDY



Callbox: Perfect Candidate for Japan’s Chief Recruiter


THE CLIENT



ABOUT
The Client is Japan’s largest recruiting and information Service Company. They are focused on supporting a diverse range of work style though offering a wide variety of services including job advertisements, permanent placement services, temporary staffing services, outsourcing services, pre organization-related services, and development-related services in an effort to help realize a world in which people can freely choose their own unique work style.

The Client also provides a broad range of services for companies, from employee recruitment to development and assignment. Through their diverse services, they are committed to offering the best HR solutions for business operations.

TARGET LOCATION
 Houston, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and UK

TARGET INDUSTRY
 All industries except recruitment and employment agencies and job boards companies


THE CHALLENGE



The Client was planning to launch a new product in Singapore and they didn’t have a marketing team to help them engage with customers. Hoping to reach out to prospects and meeting their deadline, the Client decided to outsource to a company that specializes in reaching new markets and has all the marketing tools including database, email support and social media to manage a campaign and help generate potential clients for them.


THE CALLBOX SOLUTION



1st Campaign:

Before the campaign commenced, the Client highlighted how crucial it is for them to reach their target prospects for the launch of their product. Prior to signing up with Callbox, the Client had planned a marketing strategy of their own, which was focused on different target locations per week. They decided to apply this strategy to their first Callbox campaign.

Contacts were profiled properly and were sent out an email. To get more interested prospects, the team needed a sustained and focused effort. However, despite much effort exerted by the team, the Client’s marketing strategy gave them less time to nurture their warm prospects, which resulted to failure in meeting the Client’s campaign expectations.

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The Client assessed the results and the team provided their feedback on the campaign as well. After evaluating the campaign, the Client and the Callbox team came to the following conclusions:

  • Jumping from one target area to another from week to week gave them less time to reach out to the right people. The availability of prospects had to be put into consideration as well.
  • Having limited time to run the campaign affected the conversion rate. Many prospects considered looking into the product, however, most of them didn’t want to commit yet.
  • Right timing is the key. Running a 3-week campaign on a lean month, when most of the prospects were on vacation, contributed to a lower-than-expected turnout.

2nd Campaign:

Having learned much from the initial campaign and armed with insights on how they can make improvements, the Callbox team, together with the Client, made some changes to help improve the campaign’s performance. In order to address the Client’s challenge of reaching out to prospects before the official launch of their product, the team implemented the following:

  • Callbox’s multi-channel approach, whereby the team sent out emails to warm prospects prior to the start of the campaign which helped generates positive replies and was converted to appointments. At the same time, the team tried different approaches to touch base and follow up with them while running the campaign.
  • The Client ran a 2-week campaign, this time with 4 agents focusing on one location. The team conducted regular status meetings with the Client to provide updates and keep track of their course of action.

With the help of the Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, the team was able to create a scheme and set a timeline that helped achieve the desired results within the time frame specified by the Client.

Callbox’s multi-channel approach played an important role which resulted to higher number of appointments at the end of 2nd term:

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Before the end of the campaign, the client commended the team for their effort, “99% no cancellation of appointments. Only 1% of the appointment was cancelled because of double booking.”


RESULTS



With Callbox’s experience and the team’s expertise in troubleshooting different types of campaigns, together with the Client, they managed to create a customized program to meet the Client’s target and expectations.

Running a multi-channel marketing campaign with the aid of the Callbox’s Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, the team managed to deliver a higher number of qualified appointments than they would have without it. As a result, the Client decided not to accept more office appointments and advised the team to convert them to leads instead as they no longer have enough people to handle all appointments delivered.

Currently, the Client is nurturing 178 leads, 37 of which are interested with the product and agreed to meet with the Client’s sales team, 75 warm leads who are interested to know more about the product and 66 leads which can be followed up through email. These impressive results prompted the Client to signify his intention to sign up for a long term contract by the 3rd quarter of this year.


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Callbox Three Step Tactic Success Marketing Specialist [CASE STUDY]

Callbox’s Three-Step Tactic To Success for Marketing Consulting Specialist

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The Client

The Client is a Marketing Consulting Agency which was founded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2002. The company is an event specialist mainly for IT and Software industries providing Signature Campaigns, Event Management, Retail Services, Partner Programmes and Content Development in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and had ran several successful events for IT giants like Intel and Microsoft.

As the Client’s reputation grew in 2007, more industry giants like Bosch, Castrol, DiGi and Disney Channel entrusted them to handle major events which brought them more acclaim in the region.

The Challenge

The Client’s successes in the past did not leave them overconfident and content with their achievements but rather drove them to set their sights higher with plans for expansion of their services in the Southeast Asia by providing service to multinational IT and software companies. This objective was crystal clear but the tools and processes to run the project remained a gray area. This led the Client to look for a third party provider who possesses the expertise that would help them realize their plans. They considered partnering with a telemarketing company – specifically someone who has rich experience in events marketing campaigns and can provide a large and well profiled database for them.

Callbox was among three providers that were shortlisted by the Client but stood out to be their best choice in the end.

The Callbox Solution

The Client planned out a trade event for a giant IT firm. The objective was to gather as many attendees as possible and get interested prospects who would be good targets to follow up for succeeding events.

Callbox, known for its thought technology as a top lead generation provider, designed a multi-channel marketing campaign for the Client and employed the use of the Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, a marketing automation tool that streamlines actions and communication between the Client and the targets, creating a seamless workflow for the Callbox team throughout the duration of the campaign.

The presentation of the whole idea of how the project will be ran was the very reason why the Client blithely chose Callbox over the other two lead generation providers.

The process was easy as counting 1-2-3:

  1. Event invitation emails were sent to prospects before the calling commenced. This was coursed through the Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture tool which served a double purpose – to formally invite prospects and at the same time to validate the information details of the contacts in the list. The validation process filtered invalid contacts like DNC and Bounced emails by moving these entries from the target list to a repository list. Once updated, these were uploaded back to the target list to be blasted with email invites.
  2. A one call resolution tactic was applied in making follow-up calls to prospects who took actions like opened email, replied or clicked a link on the page upon receipt of the invites. The agent’s follow-up call was not simply to share more about the event details or answer the prospect’s queries but as much as possible, aimed to seize the lead by walking them through the whole registration process. Once done, the agent immediately sent out a calendar invite that contained complete event details like title, date and time, venue and confirmation codes as a steady reminder for the prospect.
  3. The third and last step was calling all the registrants a day or two before the event date to confirm their attendance. During the confirmation call, the agent had to make sure that the registrant had accepted or accepts the calendar invite and confirms his or his representative’s attendance to the event.

Results

The campaign officially registered 129 confirmed attendees for the giant IT company. But for this Marketing Consulting specialist, the successfully concluded campaign was just a start of even bigger things, for them the best thing was nurturing 150 warm follow-ups who are all possible attendees to upcoming events, and a rich database containing well-profiled and accurate contacts.

The event campaign saved the Client much time and money as they not only gathered a good number of attendees for the IT giant’s event but at the same time, currently reserves another batch of warm prospects for the next event that wouldn’t necessarily require much time and effort to follow-up.

In fact, as of press time, Callbox is set to launch another event campaign for the Client.

Callbox Fueled Supply Chain Solutions Leader's Race to Success [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Fueled Supply Chain Solutions Leader’s Race to Success

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The Client

The Client is a strong and powerful supply chain solutions leader in the logistics industry, empowered to compete, innovate and fearlessly take risks at any course of the business. It is one of the three interconnected networks by a global 30-year old sourcing company that has anchored long-term clients from the Retail, FMCG, Footwear & Apparel and Food & Beverage industries.

The Challenge

Competition in the logistics industry intensified as more big time players joined the race. This made the Client realize the need to go further down the track by increasing brand awareness and widening their market reach. However, they didn’t have the right marketing strategy that would fuel them in running the course. After looking at a list of possible lead generation partners, Callbox stood out as the most qualified to provide both the list and the tools that they needed.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox designed a Lead Generation & Appointment Setting campaign for the Client which consisted of:
  • Multi-Channel Lead Management which utilized Voice, Email, Web, Chat and Social Media
  • Sales Enablement & Support that covered Training, Setup and Back Office Sales Support
  • Tools & Subscriptions to Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRMs
  • Account Management with Strategy Building, Reporting and Product Knowledge

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to profile the database, keep the contacts accurate and up to date in order to get a good conversion rate out of the target accounts
  • To qualify prospects based on the Client’s criteria
  • Set phone or web meetings with interested qualified decision makers with the Client’s consultants

Account Research and Selection

  1. The Client specified their target SME industries and decision makers
  2. Based on the industry and DM specifications, Callbox worked out the Client’s ideal customer profile (ICP) which served as a basis for identifying qualified accounts
  3. A list of potential contacts to target was then compiled by the Callbox team 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 out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were Procurement Manager, COO, Chief Supply Chain Officer, VP for Operations/Manufacturing/Logistics, IT Director, Director of Planning, Inventory Director, VP of Business Intelligence
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas and was further grouped according to industry type

Results in 12 months

The 12-month Lead Generation & Appointment Setting campaign delivered 157 Sales Qualified Leads, 67 Marketing Qualified Leads, and 387 Social Media Connections.
Callbox Takes Systems Integrator Leader From Test To Trust [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Takes Systems Integrator Leader From Test To Trust

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The Client

The Client is a leading provider of Cloud Integration and Supply Chain Integration Solutions. The services they provide help businesses simplify integration, automate processes and improve collaboration and visibility to global trading partners.

Originally founded in 2005 as a B2B-focused consulting firm, they later evolved, acquired and developed key technologies to address the growing needs of collaboration in businesses worldwide.

The Challenge

Despite working with some providers whom the Client relied on in getting new business, finding interested companies to engage with their services for the long term was a challenge. The Client figured out that the issue was rooted in two causes:

  1. Contacts that weren’t fully profiled. Most of their current customers may not be the best candidates to maximize the whole range of collaboration solutions the Client has to offer and sign on with the Client for longer contract periods.
  2. Lack of probing efforts to uncover the need from prospects like, which integration solutions would best fit to integrate and automate their business processes.

With the hope to find key solutions to the problem, the Client searched for another marketing provider – a lead generation/appointment setting company who can provide them with a list of accurate contacts and quality appointments with interested prospects who have the need for cloud integration and supply chain solution services, and who would most likely keep a long-term engagement with them.

The Callbox Solution

Past experiences with providers who delivered less qualified appointments have made the Client become quite skeptical about what Callbox’s multi-channel marketing campaign program can do to better their current business status. For them, the first 3-month campaign term they signed up was a “test”, but for Callbox, as always, it was a “commitment”.

In order to address the Client’s challenges on contact accuracy and quality of appointments, the team carried out their best effort to profile and update each contact information with each call, and took the opportunity to ask prospects appropriate probing questions to uncover business needs. These were significant factors in generating high converting appointments.

To make these processes continuously run throughout the whole campaign period, the Callbox team employed the Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool which efficiently automated tasks that streamlined the workflow:

  • Contact profiling was efficiently processed through the Lead Nurture Tool’s list cleansing feature, by automatically sending invalid contacts to support lists for the research team to wash and update.
  • Custom emails were automatically sent to prospects in a scheduled manner. The actions taken by prospects like clicking a website or submitting a form, sent real time alerts to the caller to promptly respond or call them.

The Callbox Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool was vital in keeping the calling list accurate throughout the whole campaign duration, and broadened the chance for the caller to reach the right prospects at the right time, when they are most available to talk, thus resulting to a very impressive turnover at each end term:

  • 1st Term (3 months) – 49 appointments (4 seats)
  • 2nd Term (5 months) – 94 appointments (4 seats)
  • 3rd term (3 months) – 197 appointments
  • 4th term (3months) – 360 appointments
Another good one, good fit. Keep ’em coming. A little small, but they have the need for sure.
I’m happy with the leads for these past couple of days. Just had a call with (company) earlier and it was a very good call. Good job!
Another good call. Sending an initial proposal over now.
There was a great improvement on the quality of the leads for the past couple of months.

Results

With Callbox’s skillful profiling methods, the Client now keeps a well-profiled list of contacts – customers who fully require collaborative commerce solutions; and through intensive probing, the team was able to uncover business needs. This has helped the Client tailor the best solutions for customers and get them to sign up for longer term contracts.

The Callbox multi-channel marketing campaign delivered a total of 700 appointments over a period of 14 months. Approximately 25% or 175 of these leads agreed to receive proposals and with a close ratio of 12%, the Client stands to gain a total of $1.3M worth of incremental revenue from Callbox-generated leads.

Currently, they are actively nurturing over 150 leads, and anticipating further success in the coming year.

The Client greatly acknowledges Callbox’s best efforts to unleash their business potentials and achieve their goals.

It has allowed us to focus on what we do best instead of cold calling or generating lists. Callbox is very efficient in these areas and has economies of scale that we simply cannot produce on our own.

A well-profiled contact list, high converting qualified appointments, upscaled sales revenue and long-term business engagements – all these have reversed the Client’s skeptical view on Callbox’s Multi-Channel Marketing Program from a mere “test” into a “trustful” business partnership.

Marketing Automation and the Callbox Curriculum for Success [CASE STUDY]

Marketing Automation and the Callbox Curriculum for Success

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CASE STUDY



Marketing Automation and the Callbox
Curriculum for Success



HIGHLIGHTS



  • Seamless Call-to-Invite process, improving lead generation results by 75%
  • Eliminated efforts on revising and sending email copies, manual call scheduling and list cleansing, added more opportune time to reach prospects
  • Cleansed database with profiled and updated contact information, inducing data accuracy
  • Promptly responded to real time alerts and notifications, maximizing call hours on reaching 40 plus prospects daily
  • Spot-on tracking of prospect’s actions on email communications, increasing lead conversion rates

THE CLIENT



ABOUT
The Client is a Singapore partner company of a US-based Leadership Curriculum provider that promotes the world’s most advanced curriculum in leadership potentials.They conduct seminars that deliver extraordinary results for clients by combining optimization technologies, services and custom-built facilities that ensure sustained growth, fulfillment and momentum over the long-term. They were in search of a competitive telemarketing company that can maximize both staff and tools to address their need for a systematic and trackable introduction and follow up of all target contacts, and their search ended with Callbox.

PRODUCT / SERVICE
US-based Leadership Curriculum Provider

CAMPAIGN TYPE
Call-to-Invite


THE CHALLENGE



A top Leadership Curriculum provider wants to maximize its manpower and software to improve its lead generation rates, cleanse its database, and increase lead conversion. It found the perfect partner in Callbox and its trusted marketing automation platform and lead nurture tool.

Between its efficient data profiling efforts and successful event telemarketing, Callbox helped reach more prospects and ultimately increase the client’s lead conversion rates. The best part? The client now nurtures its own quality leads, thanks to the model Callbox provided.


THE CALLBOX SOLUTION



In this Call-to-Invite campaign, Callbox uncovered opportunities for improvement – the database and the target contacts. Concurrent with the Callbox agent’s daily call schedule is the consistent Data Profiling for the improvement of the database by updating the contact information with current and correct data, verifying the contact details like direct line and mobile numbers, and filling up blanks like email addresses to ensure accuracy.

Moreover, Callbox maximized the Pipeline’s marketing automation function via its Lead Nurture Tool to facilitate the sending out of specific email copies to prospects, notifying the caller to follow up a contact who took action on email communications, and moving invalid contacts from one list to another for validation and cleansing. To cap all these dynamic processes, a master schema of behavior-based actions was created, which fostered three effectual working concepts:

Concept 1- Send Mail

A sequence of emails are sent to all unique entries contained in the Target List. The call result tag in the pipeline triggers the status change in the LN Tool, and a specific email copy is automatically sent. Below is a reference of email copy with corresponding call tag:

Note:

In the event where the agent makes a follow up call and the prospect was not available or the call was directed to a voicemail, RFI and For Follow Up copies are sent subsequently.

Also, if the Trigger status is unchanged and the timeframe for the Wait action lapsed, this means there wasn’t any action from the prospect, and so Intro, RFI and For Follow Up copies will be sent subsequently.

Concept 2 – Queue as Call Priority

A reminder for the agent to call a prospect as soon as he takes an action on email communications. This timely alert gives a better chance of converting opportunities into leads.

OPENED – the prospect opened the email
CLICKED – the prospect clicked a link/s on the email copy
VISITED WEBSITE – the prospect visited the website
SUBMITTED A FORM – the prospect submitted a form (most common for call-to-invite campaigns)

Concept 3 – Move to List

Moving invalid contacts from the Target List to other lists for cleansing purposes. The following lists are required entries for each schema:

TARGET LIST – is the prime list of unique contacts and resource of email send outs, which the agent utilizes for calling.

SUPPORT LIST – receives bounced contacts. These bounced contacts are then validated/profiled by the agent or research team and sent back to the Target List to be called.

REPOSITORY LIST – Invalid contacts that were tagged as Deadline, Fax Tone, or Disconnected, contacts are moved to this list and undergo the same process as with bounces.


RESULTS



Callbox’s call-to-invite campaign scheme unleashed more potentials for the Leadership Curriculum provider, leveraging on smart marketing technology and proven prospecting processes. With integration of Callbox’s Lead Nurture Tool, the campaign ran seamlessly. The automated behavior-based actions like sending email copies, queuing call priorities, and moving invalid contacts for list cleansing have rounded up a total of 228 registrations for 10 event campaigns, of which 79 (34%) were generated through the Lead Nurture Tool. The time and effort saved were instead utilized in making more calls to decision makers that made an upshot on the monthly average number of leads generated from 21 to 28. The Data Profiling process resulted to notable improvement on database accuracy from an average of 35% to 75%, as determined by Callbox’s List Scoring system. The Client now nurtures quality, revenue-driving leads and more potential follow up attendees for upcoming seminars in Bali, Indonesia and Bangkok, Thailand.


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Callbox Partnering for Sales Increase in Sydney IP Services [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Multi-Channel Marketing Program and Marketing Automation Platform: Partnering for 33% Sales Increase in Sydney IP Services

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The Client

Established in 1998, the Client is an Australian-owned cloud, data centre and connectivity provider. Specializing in enterprise cloud, robust data centres, managed connectivity solutions and multi-provider internet services, the Client’s network extends throughout Australia with its own points of presence in five states.

The Challenge

In 1999, the Client partnered with Optus to wholesale Internet Protocol (IP) Services to middle-tier ISPs and voice service providers in Queensland, and extended its market to Sydney in the mid-aughts. The Sydney operation did quite well in the first five years, maintaining a good number of customers. However, in recent years, the Sydney operation fell into a predicament where Annual ROIs barely moved up as in-house sales and marketing schemes became ineffective at acquiring new customers. The Client knew that in order to increase their clientele list, more advanced sales and marketing methods and tools were needed. But this also led them to another challenge: they were not equipped with the best tactics and tools for scaling up their sales numbers. After some foresightful study, the Client took a backseat from the situation and decided to outsource their sales and marketing efforts with Callbox.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox and the Client were a match made in heaven. The first project was a single-seat, 3-month appointment setting campaign that initially ran with scaled-back activities, which were gradually increased as the campaign proceeded. Both Callbox and the Client kept the database containing specific zip codes from the Sydney area accurate and up-to-date through regular list scrubbing and prospect data profiling. This process significantly reduced invalid records, allowing the campaign to reach a greater number of prospects. Along with managing the campaign database, the Client worked closely with the assigned agent by providing insights and feedback on how to deliver a compelling pitch about the solution’s key benefits and overall messaging strategy, while helping the agent to sharpen her fundamental appointment setting skills, resulting in a higher output of quality leads. Moreover, Callbox Pipeline’s marketing automation features for lead management, campaign monitoring and lead nurturing helped the Client stay on top of the campaign. Callbox Pipeline served as the campaign’s central hub for monitoring prospecting calls, follow-up emails, and booked appointments, providing real-time tracking and project management capabilities. As per the client, “it’s a neat diary”.

Results

With the help of Callbox Pipeline and Callbox’s multi-channel marketing program, the team booked 24 appointments in the first two months of the three-month campaign period – good news not only to the company’s directors but most especially to their partner Optus. These appointments represented a significant 62% surge from their average conversion rate for the last three years. But the best was yet to come. On the 3rd month, things got off to a flying start as sale after sale came in. A few feedback from the Client during this time included:
“Hi Team, FYI, we are about to get our first large deal signed off. Thank you and your team for the fantastic result. Keep them coming!”
“Hi Team, I hope all is well. Some more good news, I have converted another lead this week. Please pass on my thanks to the team & keep up the good work!”
“Team, What a great way to start the New Year! Thank you very much.”
Callbox’s multi-channel marketing program and Callbox Pipeline were exactly the perfect pairing of strategy and technology that the Client needed to achieve a 33% sales increase in six months’ time. After two campaign periods that closed 3large multinational deals, the Client’s sister company, a web design firm, also signed up for a lead generation campaign with Callbox. As for the Client, these results helped win their trust and confidence in Callbox, leading them to refer another Optus-partner company to work with Callbox for an appointment setting campaign.
Callbox: Clear Connection to Leads for Managed Telco [CASE STUDY]

Callbox: Clear Connection to Leads for Managed Telco

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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.

Global Media Runs On Accurate Market Data [CASE STUDY]

Global Media Runs On Accurate Market Data

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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.
Callbox Takes on Challenge Scores A VIQtory [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Takes on Challenge & Scores a VIQtory

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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 Data Profiling A Major Coup for Exhibition Leader [CASE STUDY]

Callbox Data Profiling A Major Coup for Exhibition Leader

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The Client

The Client is an exhibition and conference pioneer that withstood time and tide to become Singapore’s top and most successful trade event organizer today. They stage trade exhibitions that provide dynamic platforms for effective networking and business opportunity growth to the largest and longest-running key industry sectors in the region.

Summary

Their four-decade reign as the leader in the exhibition industry brought numerous recognition from different award-giving bodies like the Exhibition City Approved International Fair (AIF) Scheme and the Singapore Business Events Awards. Such has gained them much trust from the industry sectors they serve and increased their clientele list over the years. Indestructible they may seem to have lived with a four-decade trade leadership in the region, what good reason did they have to still take the option to enterprise telemarketing into their current strategies? Why not stick with the conventional, but proven effective scheme of 40 long years?

The Callbox Solution

Campaign 1

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Campaign 2

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