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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sales teams across the world had to redefine how to function with no in-person meetings and lots of budget hesitation. While MHS’s sales team adapted to this new normal, their marketing department wanted to put a greater emphasis on lead nurture initiatives to help ease the burden.
MHS’s paid media placements generate about 1,500 leads annually. But rather than just tossing those contacts over the bow to the sales team, the plan was to nurture them into warmer, marketing qualified leads via targeted email campaigns – then, give them to sales.
Koroberi reviewed all lead generating placements in MHS’s trade media plan and categorized them by audience and topics of interest based on the promoted assets. To match the audience segments with relevant solutions, we needed four lead nurture campaigns: robotics, software, distribution and fulfillment, and peak season preparation.
Then, we mapped out each nurture campaign’s path to include three basic kinds of emails:
Thought leadership
White paper or case study to establish MHS as an expert on the topic
Product or service capabilities
Brochure or video that highlights MHS’s offerings related to the topic
Sales introduction
Plain-text email introducing the recipient to an MHS sales contact
The last email looks like something sent out of Outlook – not a designed marketing send. We included the email signature of the sales contact and a link for recipients to review their calendar availability and schedule a meeting. This final touch served as a formal hand-off to sales to continue the conversation.
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