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Callbox Caps RSVP Campaign with Big Time Financial Players for Fintech Firm

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The Client

The Client is a leading provider of strategic intelligence and builder of platforms in the financial industry, running regular programmes around the world and operates on four closely related verticals: editorial, research, forums, and academy.

The Challenge

The Client regularly hosts live events in different countries that stage a wide range of financial products and services designed to build intelligence for their global market. They believe that meeting their customers face to face is the best way to form ideas of how to help them plan and expand their business. 

But, these in-person events have slowly become quite impractical due to low conversion rates delivered, considering the time and money spent on travel and logistics. This made the Client consider hosting online events instead of doing it live from one location to another.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox designed an Event and Lead Generation campaign which consisted of:

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management via Voice, Email, Chat, Web, Social Media, and Webinar
  • Sales Enablement & Support which included Product 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 goal was for the Callbox team to generate interest from prospects from the biggest banking firms
  • To gather registrations to the Client’s online event and ensure that they are aware of the registration process and fees.
  • The team also needs to regularly update and cleanse the data list for better targeting, and send newsletters to prospects that include CTAs that would lead them to the Client’s website to increase web traffic.

The campaign involved two key steps:

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations
  2. The campaign’s primary targets were Finance managers/Directors, Accounts Managers, IT Managers/Directors, Financial Controllers, HR Managers/Directors, C-suite, Accountants, Business Owners, and a set of specific targets for each event type
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to event type and title, industry, location, attendee type, and company size

Results

Overall, the event campaign produced a total of 61 RSVPs, 1448 Marketing Qualified Leads, and 298 Social Media Connections.

Credit & Collections Firm Used Killer Tactic, ABM Campaign, To Scale Up Leads

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The Client

The Client is a 30-year old trusted advisor credit and collections company that specializes in international due diligence investigations & services for Fortune 100 & 500 companies in the US and Canada, providing International Live Credit Investigations, Denied Parties List Screening, International and Domestic Debt Recovery, and Domestic Database Credit Reporting.

Lines of Business
Credit Reports, Domestic & International Collections Services & Debt Recovery

The Challenge

A study by the Research Credit Foundation showed that payment delinquency is caused by the the following factors:

  • business customers do not adhere to supply credit terms
  • companies are unable to pay an invoice due to a lack of money or poor cash flow
  • companies fail on their payments due to invoice errors, missing information, or other account receivables errors

Although ERP softwares provides a holistic integration approach to battle financial ails, there are some areas in the business that still call for human touch, and this is where credits and collections companies’ expertise, such as the Client’s, comes in.

The Client has a proven strategy that enables their customers to manage credit limits and control the flow of sales, and a centralized view of A/Rs to better manage their collections. In order to best position these benefits to their customers, the Client aimed to launch an awareness campaign to a larger pool of audience by adding more industries in their targets in the US and Canada.

The Callbox Solution

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

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

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to reach out to prospects via multiple channels to uncover pain points or upcoming needs
  • Profile the target accounts to expand the database
  • Set meetings for the Client’s consultants with prospects who expressed interest in their services, and submit leads based on this success call criteria:
    • SQL: Prospect has expressed interest, has pain points or upcoming needs, and agreed to a meeting with the Client’s consultants
    • MQL: Prospect has no immediate requirement, but agreed to be included in the mailing list (opt-in list) to receive regular updates, and be contacted to check for possible opportunities in the coming months

Below is the two-step campaign process:

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided buyer persona profiles of the prospects that they want the outbound campaign to target. The profiles consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. Identified as the campaign’s primary targets were Financial Controller, Credit Manager, Finance Director, Accounts Receivable Manager, International Credit Risk Manager, Accounts Receivables Manager (smaller/medium) International Credit Risk Manager (large corporation), Credit Manager or Credit Analyst.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

The 12-month ABM campaign delivered 84 Sales Qualified Leads, 156 Marketing Qualified Leads, and 2,230 Social Media Connections.

A “Big 4” Accounting Firm Wins New Leads with Full Suite ABM Campaign

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The Client

The Client is an independent 35 year old accounting firm that offers Audit and Assurance, Liquidations, Corporate Secretarial, Taxation, Due Diligence, Forensic Investigations, Litigation Support, Valuations, Data Analytics, Immigration and International Group Restructuring to multinational clients in Singapore. It is one of the “Big 4” financial firms in the city-state, and was ranked number one by DFK Asia Pacific and International Accounting Bulletin for two consecutive years.

The Challenge

The recent years have shown indistinct progress in the business, and customer acquisition downscaled by 20%. The Client tried to enhance in-house strategies by adding more staff, hoping to engage more target prospects and generate new potential customers, but such a move did not draw good results. They decided to outsource a lead generation campaign.

The Callbox Solution

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

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management which included Voice, Email, Web, Chat and Social Media.
  • Sales Enablement & Support that provided Training, Setup and Back Office Sales Support.
  • Tools & Subscriptions of the Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRMs.
  • Account Management with Strategy Building, Reporting and Product Knowledge.

The Goal

The goal was for the Callbox team to generate leads and set appointments for the accounting leader’s consultants with qualified prospects who have the need for compliance obligations like Audit and Tax, Accounting, and all other financial services.

The campaign involved two key steps:

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were Finance Managers/Directors, Account Managers, IT Managers/Directors, Financial Controllers, HR Managers/Directors, C-suite, Accountants, Business Owners.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

Overall, the ABM Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign produced a total of 85 Sales Qualified Leads, 20 MQLs and 287 Social Media Connections.

Leading Fintech Company Banked Volume of Leads and RSVPs with Callbox

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The Client

The Client is a leading fintech company that offers the most comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end lending solutions in the market – across syndicated, commercial, consumer, and mortgage lending, providing applications that power financial institutions, marketplaces that accelerate industry & an open innovation platform for banks, fintechs & no-banks to connect and collaborate.

Line of Business
Lending, Payments,Treasury & Capital Markets, Digital & Retail Banking, Corporate & Commercial Banking, Investment Management

The Challenge

The fintech leader believes that working together is stronger. This is why they built a partner program across industries to drive growth and provide access to the world’s largest range of financial services solutions.

The partner program is also geared towards filling the gaps – areas of the business that require further support or/and need to cope with such as sales and marketing.

As part of their prospecting approach, the Client regularly hosts live forums and seminars in different countries which recently discontinued due to the impact of the global pandemic. Quick to decide however, they planned to convert all scheduled live activities into virtual events. And, to make things roll even faster, the fintech leader outsourced marketing services from Callbox to help them carry out webinar campaigns.

The Callbox Solution

Callbox designed a Webinar and ABM Lead Generation campaign which consisted of:

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management which utilized Voice, Email, Chat, Web, Social Media, and Webinar
  • Sales Enablement & Support that covers Team Training, Account Setup, and Back Office Sales Support
  • Tools & Subscriptions to Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRM
  • Account Management with Strategy Building, Reporting, and Product Knowledge

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to drive attendees to the Client’s series of webinars in APAC.
  • Arrange phone or online meetings with prospects who are not able to attend the events.
  • Nurture all potential leads, especially those who opted-in to receive product/service updates via email.

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were CFO, CTO, CIO, COO, Chief Investment Officer, Heads of: Retail, Digital Channels, Capital Markets, Risk, Commercial Lending, Corporate Banking, Investment Management, and Technology and Operations.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

In total, the eight-event Webinar campaign gathered 277 RSVPs, and 188 Sales Qualified Appointments.

Ongoing ABM Campaign Lifts Potential ARR by $785K for FinTech SaaS Firm

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The Client

The Client develops and maintains a cloud-based platform that facilitates supply chain financing transactions. The company primarily targets enterprise-level businesses in a number of industries throughout Southeast Asia and North America.

The Challenge

Recently, the Client implemented a marketing program aimed to help them better identify high-priority accounts in their target markets. With half a decade’s worth of customer data under their belt, the Client was able to reliably determine some key qualities about their most promising target accounts: those with highest lifetime values (LTVs), top accounts that process invoices manually or through a legacy system prior to switching over to their platform, and all won deals which involved reaching out to three different decision-maker segments. The said program also specifies the need to outsource their top-of-funnel activities, including prospect research and initial outreach.

After reviewing proposals from several marketing providers, the Client signed up for Callbox’s account-based appointment setting service, and noted that the program met all their requirements apart from having an extensive track record of success with FinTech companies in the US and APAC region.

The Callbox Solution

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

  • Multi-Channel Lead Management which utilized Voice, Email, Chat, Web and Social Media
  • Sales Enablement & Support which covered Training, Setup and Back Office Sales Support
  • Tools & Subscriptions to Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRMs
  • Account Management which included Strategy Building, Reporting and Product Knowledge

The Goals

  • The Callbox team was to make initial contact to target prospects via email to see the most responsive
  • Call target decision makers to uncover their pain points to identify high-priority accounts
  • Set phone or online meetings with qualified DMs for the Client’s consultants
  • Manage the database, keep it accurate and free from duplicates and not qualified contacts

Account Research and Selection

  • Key firmographic qualities include: workforce of at least 500 employees; annual revenues of $50 million or more; engaged in manufacturing, retail, or wholesale trade in key US cities, Singapore and Malaysia
  • As for technographics, the Client’s top-tier accounts were companies that rely on either manual processes or on-premise software to handle procurement, invoicing, and cash flow management
  • The Callbox team then prepared the target account list using a combination of Callbox’s in-house database and external data sources.

Account and Prospect Profiling

  • Three decision-maker groups were targeted in the campaign: end users (managers in charge of procurement and invoicing), economic buyers (CFOs, controllers, etc.), technical buyers (IT managers, IT directors, CTOs, CIOs, etc.)
  • The Client specified additional prospect characteristics to help the Callbox team pinpoint the right decision makers from each target account
  • All contact details and information were screened by a database QA team and submitted to the Client for review before being used in the campaign

Multi-touch, Multi-channel Outreach

  • The Callbox team followed a unique lead nurture path and personalized messaging strategy for each of the three decision-maker groups
  • The Lead Nurture paths combined phone, email, and LinkedIn touches which were scheduled and executed using a dynamic outreach cadence
  • Callbox’s own CRM platform, Pipeline, combine with HubSpot, helped orchestrate the different outreach activities and kept the Client up-to-date on the campaign’s progress

Results

The Callbox ABM campaign completed 12 months of Lead Generation & Appointment Setting activities and delivered 181 Sales Qualified Leads and 223 Marketing Qualified Leads.

According to the Client, their reps can convert 20% of SQLs into proposals, and turn 70% of proposals into new customers. With an average annual subscription revenue of $31,000 per customer, the Client can potentially close $785,000 in new annual recurring revenue from the appointments generated by Callbox.

Tax Credit Expert, Boosting with Leads and Connections with Callbox ABM Lead Generation

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The Client

The Client is a 30-year old specialized business consulting firm that offers expertise and advisory services regarding federal and state research and development tax credits to manufacturing and technology companies.

The Challenge

The Client has been nurturing a huge database of contacts for more than three decades now, but decided to look for an outbound lead generation company who could assist them in acquiring new leads, so that they can  focus on converting current leads into customers.

The Callbox Solution

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

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

THE GOALS

  • The Callbox team was to generate meetings for the Client with interested prospects via multiple channels
  • Build connections with prospects online via social media marketing
  • Profile the database 

The campaign involved two key steps:

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were Finance Manager/Director, Accounts Manager, Financial Controller, Managing Director, C-suite, Accountant, Business Owner
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type 

Results

The ABM Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign delivered 162 Sales Qualified Leads, 6 Marketing Qualified Leads, 6 For Callback, 138 Potential Leads, and 2,449 Social Media Connections.

Callbox Lead Generation Amps Demand for Insurance Firm’s Mobile App

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The Client

The Client is more than just a financial firm, but offers a broad array of protection products and solutions through multiple brands and diverse channels, including auto, home and life, and have been in the business for more than 25 years.

The Challenge

What sets the Client apart from other insurance providers is the way it empowers its people – customers, investors, shareholders and agents, with tools and resources that provide knowledge, support, and anything that makes being part of the company a worthwhile life and career experience.

Innovation is one of the Client’s best practices, and creating a custom mobile app that makes communication among stakeholders seamless was a breakthrough. The app provides easy access to information, reminders, uploads/downloads, bills payment, on-demand roadside services, quick inventory and augmented reality, and was made available not only for the Client’s agents, but for external agents and brokers as well.

The Callbox Solution

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

  • Account-Based Multi-Channel Lead Management which utilized Voice, Email, Chat, Social Media and Mobile channels
  • Sales Enablement & Support that was composed of an end-to-end service coverage from Training, Setup and Back Office Sales Support
  • Tools & Subscriptions to Callbox Pipeline and HubSpot CRMs
  • Account Management which includes Strategy Building, Reporting and Product Knowledge

The goal was for the Callbox team to generate leads and set appointments for the Client with insurance agents, brokers or companies who have the need for a mobile app that could provide express access, account management, forms and documents, relocating and billing.

The campaign involved two key steps:

Account Research and Selection

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

Account and Prospect Profiling

  1. The Client provided target decision makers for the Callbox team to reach out which consisted of detailed demographic and firmographic segmentations.
  2. The buyer personas designated as the campaign’s primary targets were Insurance Agents/Brokers, Managers/Directors and Business Owners.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas.

Results

Overall, the ABM Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign produced a total of 73 Appointments, 59 MQLs and 287 Social Media connections.

Callbox ABM Lead Generation and Appointment Setting Helped US Financial Consulting Leader

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The Client

The Client is a leading financial consulting provider that’s been in the business for more than three decades. They offer innovative financial products like asset allocation, insurance, employee benefits, tax planning, wealth management and annuities to thousands of businesses worldwide that help address common financial concerns.

The Challenge

The significant growth in the IT industry has prompted the Client to leverage digitization. They employed new tools and tactics to improve customer experience and achieve business growth. However, the arduous transformation process required help from third-party providers to augment the phase by phase integration and provide support to the company’s marketing needs. With Callbox’s account-based marketing multi-touch, multi-channel lead generation and appointment setting strategies, the financial leader found a way to fittingly cope with the rapid evolution in the finance industry.

The Callbox Solution

Given both the Client’s current strategic situation and its immediate marketing goals, it was determined that Callbox’s precision-oriented lead generation solutions would be an effective approach at enhancing the Client’s rebranding and customer outreach efforts. Accordingly, the campaign plan consisted of two main components: (1) customer profiling and (2) lead generation.

Account Research and Selection

  1. Agents called every contact on the list in order to check and update all pertinent information.
  2. Callbox’s customer profiling package ensured that every entry on the list contained complete, accurate, relevant, and timely information on a valid decision-maker.
  3. Once completely profiled, every record on the list represented a contact having any of the above-mentioned job titles working in a manufacturing company located within any of the four APAC countries mentioned earlier

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 CFO, CHR, CEO, CIO.
  3. The master contact list was segmented based on these personas, and was further grouped according to industry type.

Results

Overall, the two-term Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaign produced a total of 192 appointments, 44 leads, 134 requests for information and 716 social media connections.

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

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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 campaigns, 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.

Expat-Focused Financial Planning Firm Expands in Niche SG Market

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The Client

The Client is a Singapore-based financial advisory firm that specializes in tax, investment, pension, and estate planning for British expatriates living in SG.

The Challenge

The Client offers several lines of financial planning services to expats currently working and residing in Singapore. The firm’s client portfolio primarily consists of UK expatriates, which has seen a steady year-over-year growth since its inception. The Client has also received a number of industry awards and recognition as one of Singapore’s leading and most trusted financial advisory groups.

In 2016, the firm underwent administrative and operational streamlining. One area impacted by the changes was customer acquisition. The new business development strategy assigned prospecting and nurturing responsibilities into a single in-house team, which sometimes resulted in the same individual doing the tasks of researching prospects, screening contacts, booking introductory meetings, and following up on opportunities.

The client wants its business development team to concentrate on bottom-of-funnel activities, so that they can devote more time and effort to crucial points in the conversion funnel. The firm plans to delegate most activities in its current prospecting process to a reputable third-party provider.

The Callbox Solution

The Client chose Callbox after evaluating a number of options, citing Callbox’s extensive project portfolio of Singapore campaigns along with its flexibility to seamlessly integrate into the Client’s ongoing business development workflow.

Callbox then closely collaborated with the Client to develop a campaign plan that combines personalized email touches with targeted phone calls to:

  • Identify UK expatriates who fit the Client’s ideal customer profile
  • Qualify contacts based on interest
  • Collect and verify prospect data

Some key campaign activities include:

Database Profiling

  1. The Client provided its own contact list to be used in the campaign, which was then thoroughly profiled by the Callbox team.
  2. The Client’s list was cross-matched with records in Callbox’s in-house database as well as validated using external data sources.
  3. Before being deployed, the list underwent a final round of data scrubbing where inaccurate, duplicate, and missing records were fixed. The updated list was handed over to the Client at the end of the campaign.

Email Marketing

  1. The Client also provided its own outreach email template, which was then reviewed by the Callbox team.
  2. Callbox prepared the rest of the templates for the campaign, including copies for follow-ups, targeted send-outs, and triggered responses.
  3. The Callbox team also designed and tested the various landing pages used in the campaign, as well as optimized each email component.

Appointment Setting

  1. The Callbox team came up with a call script designed to achieve all three campaign objectives.
  2. Agents qualified every prospect with probing questions that identified their suitability and willingness to schedule an initial phone appointment with one of the Client’s financial advisors.
  3. The Client kept track of the campaign’s results in real-time through Pipeline, Callbox’s proprietary CRM and lead management tool.

Results

Callbox carried out the campaign until all records in the Client’s list were contacted and followed up. It took the team two months to complete the project. Most of the campaign’s initial stages were spent on email outreach. Some key results of the campaign’s email marketing activities include:

  • 98.3% delivery rate
  • 33.8% open rate
  • 13% click-through rate

The campaign’s 46 qualified appointments began trickling in near the end of the first month (17 appointments) and increased in the second month (29 appointments), as warm contacts during the email outreach phase started converting into qualified prospects.While the Client hasn’t specified how much of the 46 phone appointments it expects to close as new customers, the Client says the quality of conversations with the Callbox-supplied opportunities has prompted an upward adjustment to its pipeline growth forecast.

Callbox Aced Appointment Setting for Accounting Expert

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The Client

The Client bears unmatched experience in providing redefined Accounting, Bookkeeping and Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSF) to its partner clients, addressing specific pain points of modern accounting practice.

The Challenge

The accounting expert serves as an integral extension of its clients, ensuring all tasks are accurately completed. However recently, competition became fierce as competitors started to offer equally interesting services and even used enticing branding images which made the Client indistinguishable from its industry peers.

The Client decided on offering a FREE-TRIAL to target customers. Well aware that this required expertise in pursuing prospects and getting them to agree to meet with the Client’s consultants to discuss signing up for the free trial, the Client searched for an appointment setting company that best fit their needs and chose Callbox.

The Callbox Solution

Appointment Setting

Callbox ran a Customer Profiling campaign along with Appointment Setting to update the Client’s database and to build a new set of qualified prospects.

1. An initial email copy which contained news releases about the Client’s FREE TRIAL offer were sent to target customers.

2. Active emails from prospects who responded, clicked links and visited the Client’s company website were saved for follow-up calls.

3. Responses also gave the Callbox team the opportunity to filter the most available prospects to touch base with via the CTA link (scheduling option) in the email copies.

4. Bounces were filtered and saved for follow-up calls for the agents to update as they speak with the prospect.

Customer Profiling

Aside from targeting to gain a new set of clients, the Appointment Setting program aimed to exhibit a differentiated service by giving their customers a first-hand experience of the service.

1. With the help of the Pipeline Lead Nurture Tool, the team was able to profile the contacts in the database: information like contact name, address, contact numbers and email address were updated.

2. Initial email copies with replies were set for follow-up call – appointments were set for prospects who agreed not only to the FREE TRIAL but also for those who were merely interested to discuss about the Client’s services.

3. To ensure that appointments were not missed, the Callbox team sent calendar invites to prospects to remind them of their appointment schedule.

4. And with Callbox’s SMART Calling system, a hefty number of prospects was reached by the Callbox team to speak with the Client’s specialists and agreed to a FREE TRIAL.

Results and Return on Investments

The first four weeks were the busiest days of the campaign period as the Callbox team was juggling between getting together a fitting list of contacts to profile and setting appointments with those contacts at the same time, but successfully delivered 11 solid appointments.

Between the 5th and 8th weeks, with the Callbox team effectively done with the initial calls, follow-up calls came out more productive as most of the prospects the team spoke with were already knowledgeable of the free trial and have learned of the service’s benefits from other prospects via testimonial videos linked through the follow-up emails. This phase of the campaign generated 13 more appointments for the accounting expert.

The last 4 weeks (9th to 12th) had the Callbox team equally busy but more delighted as follow-ups that were nurtured during the start of the campaign eventually converted into appointments and impressed the Client with 15 appointments at the closing.

Callbox Lends B2C Expertise to Debt Management Firm in AU-wide Campaign

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The Client

The Client is a long-established, family-run business providing a variety of financial solutions tailored for individuals and households throughout Australia. Its main lines of services include same-day small loans, car loans, and business loans. In addition, the Client is a mortgage broker offering home loans and is also a Registered Debt Agreement Administrator helping
customers with debt relief and bankruptcy avoidance.

The Challenge

The Client is among the country’s many credit repair and debt relief companies offering Part IX Debt administration, which are services that help customers handle debt and avoid personal bankruptcy. The Client is looking to expand its share of this growing sector with its unique value proposition centered around having “the fairest fee structure in the market” as well as its reputation as an established industry player.

While there are ample opportunities to increase its customer base for debt agreement solutions, the Client also faces a number of hurdles when it comes to marketing and promoting these services.

Regulations related to the aggressive marketing of debt agreements and cases of misrepresentation by other debt relief providers have made finding potential customers even more challenging.

Accordingly, the Client decided to focus its debt agreement marketing initiatives only on individuals who have already expressed some level of interest in its other loan services and have communicated with the Client in the recent past. This ensured that the target prospects are not entirely cold while, at the same time, providing the Client with the needed information to refine the outreach effort.

Based on these initial requirements, the Client was able to come up with a list of potential customers to target with its debt agreement offer. The plan called for the Client’s in-house consultants to contact qualified prospects and find out how its solutions fit with their current financial situation.

To maximize their consultants’ productivity, the Client opted to hire the services of a third-party provider for carrying out the initial touch points and qualifying activities. The Client chose Callbox because of the latter’s experience in planning and executing Australia-wide lead generation campaigns as well as its roster of clients in the heavily-regulated financial services sector.

The Callbox Solution

The Callbox team put together a phone-based lead generation program designed for a B2C campaign. Due to the nature of the project (i.e., aimed at consumers), it was determined that the best approach would be to engage prospects solely through live conversations without integrating other channels into the mix.

The main goal of the campaign revolved around identifying prospects willing to find out more about how the Client could help them in their current financial situation. Some key activities of the lead generation campaign include:

1. The client provided the Callbox team with records to be contacted. The list only included individuals who have interacted with the Client in the past such as through a loan application. As is standard practice in Callbox campaigns, the list was thoroughly profiled and validated before being used.

2. Campaign materials and collaterals, including call scripts, were produced in close consultation with the Client to ensure compliance.

3. Agents qualified every prospect with probing questions that identified their suitability and willingness to further engage with the Client’s debt counselors. Prospects having personal debt, net assets, and disposable income within a given range were tagged as qualified leads.

Results

The entire campaign ran for a total of nine months or 198 days (at 22 days/month) given that the Client renewed its contract with Callbox several times after the initial pilot phase. The following table shows a monthly breakdown of some key indicators throughout the campaign duration:

Additionally, the campaign was able to yield the following metrics in terms of activity, reach, and response:

• Reach rates of up to 55% with an average of 31%. By comparison, a reach rate of 15% is considered acceptable while 30% is quite good.
• Response rates of over 18% with an average of 11%, which is in line with phone prospecting benchmarks of 9% to 10% for this type of list.

All in all, the nine-month campaign produced a total of 505 qualified leads handed over for further engagement with the Client’s in-house consultants. By the Client’s own estimates, between 70% to 80% of the leads are expected to become customers within six months after the campaign. As such, the Client is looking to potentially generate around 354 to 404 new customers for its Part IX Debt Agreement dministration services.