Epec Engineered Technologies knew that they were generating traffic for their website, but needed a more efficient way to convert those visitors into leads that they could nurture and hand off to their sales team. Though they had spent three years with a leading marketing automation competitor, Epec was still hitting major roadblocks.
Epec felt a constant burden from turning nurturing prospects into a frustrating, time-consuming process. The team, small at the time, also had to rely on numerous point-solutions like Hootsuite , Blogger, and PipeDrive to run their day-to-day operations beyond their marketing automation efforts.
Growing tired of these inefficiencies, Epec evaluated and then signed with HubSpot in 2015. For Epec’s CEO, Edward McMahon, it was love at first demo of the Sales Tools offered in the CRM.
It was the all-in-one appeal of HubSpot that attracted Epec’s Director of Marketing, Keith Araujo.
“We saw HubSpot as a way to incorporate everything we were doing to make our lives easier.”
Beyond that, Keith and his team cited that HubSpot allowed them to:
Given Epec’s years’ worth of legacy data, Keith was nervous about migrating from one platform to another. However, with the help of a HubSpot Implementation Specialist , the team was able to seamlessly map their NetSuite data using BedrockData over in just a few weeks.
Sparking Lead Growth with Targeted Content and Automated NurturingEpec knew that their marketing content was attracting qualified traffic to their website, they just needed the right marketing platform to turn those visitors into leads, and HubSpot was that answer. Though Epec was proficient with blogging, they had little sense of what was performing best. Additionally, they struggled previously to convert these visitors into leads.
Using data from HubSpot, they created a comprehensive action plan with their Customer Success Manager, Nora Edmonds to increase their blog subscribers. From there, they devised a strategy to get those new visitors into their database, redesigning their subscription call-to-action buttons, creating new forms, and tagging and sorting content by category. These changes sparked massive growth, resulting in an increase in subscribers from 50 in January 2016 to over 2,000 to-date.
“By this time next year, we’ll have close to 10,000 blog subscribers, easily.”
This starts with having all of Epec’s subscriber info in one database, where he can email, nurture, and pass those leads along to his sales team. Using HubSpot’s Workflow Tool, Epec automates communication between sales representatives and engaged prospects. For example, after a prospect fills out a form for a piece of content, a follow-up email about that particular interaction is sent from an Epec Sales representative to the prospect.
Keith describes one of his favorites processes:
“Our website conversion follow up queue is probably the best example of how robust the Workflow Tool really is. Let’s say someone downloads an Ebook, based on the form they filled out, they receive an automated email with a link to the content the downloaded. Behind the scenes, we set their product interest (Custom Contact property), set them to unqualified or qualified based on location (Country Property) and then he qualified ones are flagged “Follow Up Required” (Custom Contact property), which adds them to a Contact View in the HubSpot CRM for our Inside Sales team to follow up with.”
This feature helps Epec Sales team to reach out to engaged traffic in an authentic, personalized way, while also establishing their credibility within the industry.
Through their blog and content offers, Epec has been able to grow onsite conversions by 126% since January 2016. This impressive boost in qualified leads was crucial for the Sales team, who now had a greater pool of contacts that were already interested in Epec products.
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