By 2015, dcs plus was selling its technology solutions to travel industry professionals across the world. However, the travel-tech company needed to make a change to its marketing strategy. It was using a collection of unconnected tools, including MailChimp and Google Analytics, and their lack of integration meant that it wasn’t getting the most out of its data. As well as this, its website was built on a custom CMS, and it had no way to capture useful information about its visitors, such as the pages they were looking at and where they came from.
According to Andrei Savin, marketing manager with dcs plus: “It was a more of a technology-oriented presentation website than a sales one. Prospects could fill in a form to request more information, but their details ended up in an Excel sheet, where there was no accurate segmentation.”
dcs plus realised that it needed to change its website to increase its profile and generate and nurture more leads. It began to search for a complete solution to help it achieve those goals – fellow software company UiPath recommended the HubSpot software.
“They told us that they had already achieved great success with it themselves, and we were naturally intrigued. We started reading up on the inbound methodology and saw that this was something that could be a game-changer for us. We also evaluated Marketo, but after a demonstration of the HubSpot Marketing Platform, we were convinced. It was so simple to use, and all its tools were connected.”
The decision was made, and dcs plus signed on with HubSpot in 2015.
A New Way of Doing BusinessFirst, dcs plus moved its website to the CMS Hub. Then, it migrated its Contacts and added a Blog and Landing Pages with downloadable ebooks, whitepapers and case studies. It promoted user engagement with the Calls-to-Action and Forms tools in Marketing Hub Professional. Finally, dcs plus created email campaigns to nurture leads based on their interests and their position in the marketing funnel.
“The HubSpot onboarding team was great,” explains Andrei. “They gave us a very clear list of tasks that we needed to do and made it easy for us to understand everything.”
The company’s exploration of the inbound methodology led it to the conclusion that it needed to hire a sales team. That hadn’t been necessary before partnering with HubSpot, as the majority of its customers were converted through referrals and recommendations.
“We decided we needed a sales team because we couldn’t manage the number of leads we were generating. We needed to focus on a more structured approach.”
dcs plus has introduced manual lead scoring; once visitors have had a certain number of interactions with the company, they are passed across to the sales team. The salespeople then use the HubSpot CRM to get a clear view of their leads’ interests and pain points. This, says Andrei, leads to more informed conversations and closed contracts.
“When we were using Excel sheets, we simply didn’t know what was happening with our potential customers. Every day, I would have to ask ‘what’s happening with the lead? Whose lead is that?’ Now we can just go into the CRM and all that information is at our fingertips, from who made the last contact to how the deal is progressing.”
The company is also making use of the Marketing Analytics Dashboard to get a better sense of how well its marketing activities are working.
“Before, we couldn’t tell why a campaign worked or didn’t. Now we can correlate actions with results. We can see what we need to do more of and figure out when we need to take corrective measures.”
Reaping Rewards With the Inbound Methodology