Our client for this case study is a billion-dollar software company serving mid-market business customers. The company was tracking hundreds of thousands of prospect accounts, with a conversion rate of about 3% at a cost of about $1,500 per conversion. They needed a better propensity model. The client company had also just been through a series of acquisitions and as a result had inherited a collection of prospect databases with limited targeting in place.
CMO, Software Client
Within a quarter of implementing the G2M Platform we were able to clearly identify high-propensity prospects with much higher conversion rates; the service is already adding value and supporting our efforts to drive higher sales at a lower cost.
Challenge
The client company was using propensity and fitness scores provided by its existing software vendors, which were not producing results due to:
- Lack of transparency: The scores were based on a black box approach, and the client’s sales leaders were not willing to commit resources without understanding the underlying methodology.
- Canned approach and outcomes: The scores were derived using a generic approach that wasn’t tailored to the company’s needs, predicting likelihood for a lead to create an opportunity, rather than likelihood that an account would lead to a closed won deal.
- Lack of integration with CRM and sales process: With recent acquisitions there was no integrated end-to-end process to expose and leverage account scores with the sales team.
Solution
To help the company better target prospects and drive efficiencies, Go2Market installed the G2M platform then trained a custom propensity model designed to identify accounts that would lead to closed won deals.
Using the company’s data, the G2M platform produces easy-to-understand ratings – a propensity score and a propensity grade (A through F) – for each account prospect. The ratings are pushed into the company’s CRM (in this case, Salesforce) on an hourly basis for sales and marketing teams to use in programming efforts, allowing them to target the best prospects.
Results
We compared actual account conversion rates within 4 months after installation with initial predictions based on the G2M propensity scores. We found that the G2M platform was able to identify accounts most likely to convert (graded “A”) at up to 5x the original baseline with 98% accuracy, translating into a 2x increase in projected average conversion rate by refocusing resources away from “F” graded accounts.
In the end, the company gained the ability to optimize their marketing resources and enhance their ability to drive long-term business growth. They no longer rely on generic, canned insights. Now they have a constant flow of reliable, high-quality predictions that accelerate conversion rates by allowing them to focus on their most productive prospect accounts.
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