REVIEWSSalesforce Pardot Case Study where Guinness World Records sets new records.
Upgrading from email marketing program like MailChimp onto a professional B2B marketing automation platform like Pardot can bring significant benefits to a company’s sales turnover, sales management, digital marketing sophistication, and ultimately, the customer experience. This is once again proven by the Guinness World Records company (GWR, for short), based in London, UK.
In yesterday’s London Pardot User Group meeting held at their offices, Mawa Rodriguez, Senior B2B Marketing Manager for GWR, shared her marketing automation team’s success story of Pardot adoption, which resulted into real, tangible benefits for her company, her team, and her customers.
A bit about Guinness World Records
We all know the Guinness World Records book, but the company does more than this. It actually partners with companies to identify brand-befitting new records, marking corporate celebrations, and / or invite user participation into the brand story. By associating the company brands with the Guinness World of Records, they can become ‘officially amazing’. To reach prospects and convert them in to clients, GWR needs to communicate with lots of brands, around the world.
Sounds good. But their marketing automation story started off as a challenge all by itself. GWR had renewed its website in early 2015. It resulted into a 50% increase of ‘leads’. Rather than a celebration, it was an ‘icky’ situation of having ‘too many leads’, many of which were low quality. Think: website enquiries instead of sales-qualified leads.
To remedy the situation, GWR looked to leverage Pardot’s extensive digital marketing capabilities, and went to work. These are some of the benefits they realised:
- 20% load reduction of Sales Reps, by being able to better filter out unqualified leads.
- 15-20% increased deal value thanks to the more consultative selling approach made possible by Pardot.
- Improved conversion rate from 5% to 18%.
- Clear insights into the sales pipeline, for sales forecasting & ops management.
- Better understanding of their target markets and the development of Lead Grading.
- By studying prospect responses and an augmented interactivity, building a better understanding of customer needs.
- More focused efforts of the marketing team thanks to more and better data.
- An emerging process of marketing asset optimisation with A/B testing and acted upon learning.
Overall, these are great results and showcase how using Pardot allowed GWR to become superior marketers and gain sales.
While the team seems to still have plenty of new Pardot / digital marketing ideas & challenges they want to tackle, they deserve a congratulation for an overall successful Pardot implementation.
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This was one of three talks at the Pardot Usergroup London event. The other two presentations were on:
- How to send SMS messages with Pardot, and Salesforce.
- Pardot Reporting, show me the ways.
More about these topics later.
Some Fun Facts
The Pardot London Usergroup is now 1 year old!
Yesterday’s meeting was the 1st anniversary of the London Pardot Usergroup. Congrads to all, and a special thanks to Ricky Wheeler, Jess Pyne and Mawa Rodrigez for holding that first, inaugural meeting.
Thanks again to Jess and Burak for organising the event!
Racing and Record Making at Guinness World Records
It would not be the home of the Guinness World Records, if we weren’t actually trying to set a new record. Congrads to Robin Barnwell for setting the best time marker track-racing at 14.06 sec on the day. The current world record is about 9 sec.
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The second talk will be by Martin Woolley, on the same topic, but with a different take on it. Martin is CEO of a phone system integration consultancy, TrackEleven, offering simple phone solutions with Salesforce that is suitable for smaller business.
Register today for this upcoming event, at our Brighton Salesforce User Group -page. See you all there!
