This case study illustrates how access to campaign data can support more efficient demand-generation campaigns, including mid-campaign decision-making about promotions.

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Summary: Data management platform provider
leverages real-time reporting and data insight from
customized campaign dashboards to drive more
effective audience creation for live Webinars.
Challenge: Objectivity is a global technology
company that offers a data management platform
for government, science and engineering
organizations. Kimberley Roberts, Manager of
Direct & Internet Marketing for Objectivity, is
responsible for the organization’s lead-generation
Webinars, a key component of its lead-generation
efforts.
Audience creation—driving people to register
and attend her live Webinars—is one of Roberts’
primary challenges. Her success metrics for lead
generation are based on overall registration and
the proportion of those registrants that can be
identified as qualified prospects, or “suspects, ” Solution: When Roberts first began working
for the organization. This means it’s critical for with Bulldog Solutions, she’d been accustomed
Roberts not only to identify a sufficient number to producing Webinar campaigns on her own. She
of prospects, but also to identify the right kind quickly saw the value Bulldog’s team added to
of prospects, targeting those who will be most her efforts.
responsive to Objectivity’s products.
“I found it invaluable to have someone else
to work with, someone who is an expert on
producing Webinars and knows how to optimize
them, Roberts said.
”
“I was on the Campaign Management Working with Bulldog Solutions, Roberts was
Center pretty much all day long. I had able to get assistance with audience creation
a running total for each vendor and I on a number of fronts. On the logistics of media
planning and buying, Roberts worked with Bulldog
could see results immediately after to execute media buys, varying the strategy
each drop.” between media planning and buying from Bulldog,
and negotiating the buys herself with assistance
Kimberley Roberts from Bulldog where needed.
Manager of
Direct & Internet Marketing
Objectivity
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Real-Time Data Means Better Media Buying The immediate access to data through her
Real-time access to campaign data through customized portal, as well as the specificity of that
Bulldog’s proprietary Campaign Management data, which indicated exactly which media buys
Center portal and the Bulldognostics 2.0 were performing in terms of registration and lead
data dashboards supported Roberts in her quality, was critical to Roberts’ ability to act mid-
efforts. For example, on Objectivity’s June 26 campaign.
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Technologies, access to conversion data helped Bulldog also helped Roberts develop effective
Roberts negotiate additional promotion support for campaign messages.
her event.
“When I began working with Bulldog, they had
Roberts set a registration goal of 200 for the experience not only with my company, but with
initiative. After initial promotions began, Bulldog our vertical. They understood our message, she
”
provided specific statistics for each media said. “My Bulldog campaign manager was able to
placement, indicating how many registrations provide a lot of insight.
”
had been driven from each buy. Concerned about
the performance of some placements, Roberts Real-time insight into conversion data—for
contacted the lowest-performing vendors and, example, seeing that a particular message
with data to back up her assertions, got additional garnered opens but did not convert to
support at no additional cost. The Webinar registration—enabled Roberts to make
exceeded its registration goal at 227 and Roberts
, mid-campaign changes to her communications.
received positive feedback from her organization On one campaign, she requested copy changes
on the lead quality. when the original copy developed for promotion
did not generate the results she expected. Bulldog
“I was on the Campaign Management Center suggested streamlining and simplifying the
pretty much all day long, Roberts said. “I had
” copy and Roberts was able to implement those
a running total for each vendor and I could see changes in time to see immediate results.
results immediately after each drop.”
About Bulldog Solutions
Bulldog Solutions is the recognized thought leader and pioneer in lead optimization and management using Webinar
campaigns and other information platforms. Bulldog Solutions’ unique multi-step process integrates marketing and
sales efforts to increase reach, maximize marketing ROI, shorten sales cycles and boost top-line revenues.
Bulldog Solutions has developed successful lead-generation campaigns and strategies for BtoB marketers across
a variety of industries, including technology, financial services, life science, health care, telecom, insurance and
publishing.
The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with EMEA operations based in Brussels, Belgium.
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