Prospecting an Existing Database with Accurate, Timely Lead Scoring
A successful Silicon Valley SaaS company with a manufacturing industry focus had its own CRM populated with plentiful data. The client had collected information on more than 50,000 target customers including contacts details, email, and physical address. In an effort to grow its business even more, they looked to mine their existing data for extra opportunities.
The client had a clear sense of its most successful target markets and the shared characteristics for their customers. Rather than randomly unleashing its sales and marketing efforts on all 50,000 potential accounts in a manner that lacked process and method, they decided to implement a lead scoring methodology. Lead scoring allowed the client to segment their prospect base into several tiers based on relevant characteristics such as manufacturing operations, manufacturing methodologies, product types, technology stack, and distribution.
After scoring only 100 of the prospective customers in their CRM, the client realized they were facing a substantial resource challenge. Processing and scoring 100 records took an excessive amount of time for internal sales and support staff, but they needed to get the data as quickly as possible without taking away from other priority tasks.