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Case Study: Solar Company Grows New Leads by 49% in 6 Months ๐ŸŒž

Posted by Elyse Flynn Meyer | 3 Minutes to Read

There are thousands of companies around the globe using HubSpot. Many of these companies are working with a HubSpot dedicated partner to help them strategize and develop cohesive inbound marketing campaigns to maximize their use of HubSpot. But, most importantly, working with those agencies helps companies drive the marketing results they are looking to achieve. 

We often get asked to show comparable tangible results of companies, before working with us as an agency, and after working with us as their agency. So, weโ€™ve decided to show you exactly what results you can achieve when you decide to utilize HubSpot software in tandem with partnering with a HubSpot certified agency to maximize your results.

THE CHALLENGE:

One of our clients, a solar company, had been using marketing technology for 1.5 years, but they did not have formal training to maximize the use of the tool. While they were using some components, they were not using all of them, and not all efficiently. This caused gaps in their marketing and sales process, and most importantly, in reporting to see what campaigns were most effective.

THE PLAN:

Our team did a full marketing audit which included the use of their marketing automation tool, HubSpot, the entire marketing technology stack including Salesforce CRM, lead generation and customer conversion goals, and assessed their prior campaign and general inbound results. While this company was already using HubSpot, there were some major improvements that could be made relatively quickly to see even greater ROI. Through this audit and planning, our team made the following recommendations AND implementations:

  • Migrated blog to HubSpot: When you leverage HubSpot for your blog hosting, you can easily set up email notifications for people to receive your blogs daily, weekly or monthly based on their request. In addition, it just helps to have all your web assets on one platform if possible. The results are:
    • 254% increase in blog views
    • 221 new blog subscribers (compared to 0)
  • Moved external landing pages that were hosted on Wordpress to HubSpot: When you have your landing pages hosted on HubSpot, you receive detailed information on the performance of that page including: new contact rate, conversion rate, source of traffic (which is critical to see at the page level), and overall trends over time in all of these areas. This helps you to make more informed marketing decisions. The results are:

    Landing Page Performance
    • 190% increase in landing page views as a result of search engine optimization and link placement throughout website and blogs
    • 15% increase in submissions
    • 6% increase on view to submission rate
  • Published one lead generating post on social media every other week:  Your followers on social want to hear from you, and they are also interested in your content offers. While you always want to share helpful information, sharing conversion pages for content offers helps your followers move through your funnel. The results are:
    • 440% increase in new leads from social
    • 19% increase in social sessions
    • 88% increase in social media interactions
  • Implemented a batch email strategy to re-engage existing contacts: Email was not something widely used by this solar company. They had a few very targeted workflows, which is good to see when implemented correctly, but batch emails help to re-engage your existing audience. If you donโ€™t engage with your contacts by email, they forget that they opted in, and they move onto a competitor. By engaging with existing contacts, you reopen the prospect of new opportunities in your pipeline. Remember, just because someone entered your funnel last year does not mean they are not qualified. This may be just the right time for them to be reengaged, so leverage the tools at your disposal to do just that. The results are:

    Email Marketing
    • 112% increase in opens
    • 181% increase in clicks
    • 1491% increase in email sessions
    • Reengaged 1,204 contacts in email marketing in a 3-period that had not previously engaged in email (this also leveraged send time optimization as part of the batch email marketing strategy. See how send time optimization works.)

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Results BEFORE Working with Prism Global Marketing Solutions:
Results Before HubSpot Agency

Results AFTER Working with Prism Global Marketing Solutions: Results After HubSpot Agency


Here are some additional results this solar company achieved by working with a HubSpot certified agency in just 6 months:

  • 31% increase in new customers
  • 49% increase in total digital leads generated
  • 53.5% increase in organic leads. This is a result of:
    • adding calls-to-action to their website
    • strategic embedded forms leveraging dependent fields
    • updating all their blogs to include backlinks and calls-to-action, and overall increased blogging
  • 440% increase in social leads
  • 301 contacts that have been reengaged to an opportunity by requesting a quote (the most bottom of the funnel offer). This is based on contacts who were in the database prior to working with an agency, and have since asked for a quote and have become an active sales opportunity.

 

If you're looking to achieve similar results as the solar company featured in this case study, we invite you to speak with one of our inbound marketing experts today. We will discuss your current technology stack, if HubSpot may be a fit, your marketing and sales goals, and results you can expect.

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Topics: Inbound Marketing, HubSpot

Elyse Flynn Meyer

Posted by Elyse Flynn Meyer

Elyse Flynn Meyer is the Owner and Founder of Prism Global Marketing Solutions, an inbound marketing agency and HubSpot Platinum Partner based in Phoenix, Arizona. Elyse is the author of the book, Mastering Inbound Marketing Your Complete Guide to Building a Results-Driven Inbound Strategy. She is a frequent contributor to Forbes on digital marketing, and was named Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association.