eti Case Study

Fortune 500 technology client

Fortune 500 high tech manufacturer selling Automation Solutions.

Technology client seeking to drive sales for new product with specialized application.

Campaign strategy deployed; Integrated email, Highly specialized Tele-qualification, Tele-prospecting and nurturing.

Target market; A target list of well scrutinized businesses with specified demographics and criteria were mined from the client's internal database. Prospects in specified 5 vertical markets.

Email broadcast generated first wave of inquiries. Every single inquiry was followed up on and qualified promptly and when qualified distributed to direct sales force or the channel. Highly focused Teleprospecting to the "non-respondents" followed to increase lead ratio and overall campaign ROMI.

ROI of dollars in the pipeline over 20 : 1

Our Client is a well-known, Fortune 500 high tech manufacturer offering a range of automation solutions with applications offered to verticals including manufacturing, retail, transportation and logistics, healthcare, and hospitality.

• Client was seeking to drive sales for a new product set with a specialized application.
• The assumption was that it would be received successfully in a specified segment of the verticals in which the Client had had historical successes.
• It was important to the project’s success that the Client was able to identify existing clients and prospects who had expressed interest at one time in the past in a solution like that provided by the new product set.
• The overall objective was to deliver to their internal and channel partner sales resources only fully qualified, ready-to-engage prospects with near-term sales potential.
• The project needed to be cost-effective and serve as a model for future campaigns.

As a function of our extensive long-term partnership, eti was able to mine the Client’s existing client/prospect database to identify approximately 100,000 prospects for this new technology. Based on our recommendations, the client agreed to an integrated two-phase campaign. Phase one entailed an email broadcast to an audience of approximately 100,000 prospects offering two response mechanisms: a dedicated toll-free number that went directly to eti and a link to a web form that was transmitted in real-time to the eti database for rapid follow up by the eti Business Developers.

When inquiries were received by telephone or via the web form, eti Business Developers qualified the prospect interest carefully, gathering vital information about the nature of the interest the prospects had expressed as well as profiling the business challenges they were facing and the potential applications they were using that might benefit from the technology. As qualified prospects were identified from among the myriad of respondents, they were immediately sent to the Client and/or channel partner for appropriate follow up.

Phase two of the campaign was an outbound teleprospecting to a large sample of the non-respondents with the objective of maximizing the return on the initial email investment by testing the market response of these who either never received the email or chose not to respond.

Inquiries from the email

• 1,400 responses received (1.4%)
• From this 219 near-term sales opportunities identified which is a 15% conversion rate from inquiries to qualified opportunities
• Cost per qualified sales opportunity: approximately $110 (including cost of email)

Outbound Teleprospecting to non-respondents

• 5,900 targeted prospect companies engaged
• 180 near-term sales opportunities identified
• 3.1% conversion rate of companies contacted

Revenue Generated

• Cost per qualified sales opportunity from cold calling: approximately $940
• $2.6 million in reported revenue
• $6.6 million in residual pipeline value
• Total program expenditure of $190,000

ROI of dollars in the pipeline over 20 : 1