What do you dislike about Campaign Stars?
They were very honest with their kickoff assessment. We thought we were in better shape than we were. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Recommendations to others considering Campaign Stars:
We had tried to launch an effective ABM program previously. We realised that the longer it took, the harder it would take to launch territory changes, sales cycles progress, etc. We just got caught up in our internal culture and way of doing things. What Campaign Stars did was bring that non-emotional input into analysing where we were at and helping us to figure out how to get buy-in from the sales team, partner team, the marketing team and even our exec team. Suddenly we were not pointing fingers but working together to figure it out and we needed the external catalyst from Campaign Stars to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Campaign Stars solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the first instance we were not seeing great response rates with our own outbound marketing strategy. We found with Campaign Stars inputs, that we were using somewhat dated approaches and did not fully appreciate the degree to which B2B buying behaviours have changed. Campaign Stars had surveyed over 2000 B2B buyers at the end of 2019 and had some tremendous insights we did not know about and implemented.
As part of this new strategy we were able to implement a more successful B2C level of experience, for these B2B buyers and influencers. The difference was dramatic. We were seeing 50% more consumption on our website of key assets and across the initial pilot phase we were able to engage with 83% targeted accounts, which in turn led to 45% qualified meetings.
The other key area Campaign Stars helped us solve was to crystallise our thinking and create strategies across all three key areas of our sales strategy - Acquiring net new logos, Accelerating the opportunities in the pipeline and staying front of mind with our long sales cycles and finally Expanding existing accounts with additional projects and services. We made significant headway across all three of these areas.
Finally, we achieved a single unified sales and marketing approach with Campaign Stars. This is the first time we have done this and this is one of the single most important aspects of the overall engagement. Suddenly, we have a single 'arrow head' made up of both divisions, focused on penetrating new countries, markets and accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
