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Client Success Story:
From SaaS to Sold

How SIX’s Comprehensive Marketing for ProEst Delivered Results
PROJECT
Comprehensive marketing strategy, including a complete website redesign and ABM campaigns. 
WHAT WE DID

ABM, PPC, web development, SEO, reputation management, content marketing, trade show marketing, and more.

 
CLIENT

ProEst Estimating Software

www.proest.com
TIMELINE

July 2020 - November 2021 (when ProEst was acquired by AutoDesk)

SUCCESS SUMMARY

A key to ProEst's marketing success came from SIX's methodology of putting the best teams in place to get the job done. We believe that having a customized strategic plan and the most qualified teams in place maximizes success — and we do this through key strategic partnerships. As you read this case study, know that each team played an impactful role to help ProEst surpass its goals and get acquired.

Our role was to strategize how best to grow ProEst. Like many software companies, ProEst was looking to reach the next level and needed our help prioritizing which strategic tactics would net the fastest growth. The truth is, we worked on just about every aspect of growing the business, including: 

  • Creating marketing and sales strategy
  • Delivering high-quality lead generation, including strategic ABM campaigns
  • Executing paid and social media efforts
  • Implementing new systems and cleaning up decades of old data
  • Training internal sales and marketing staff
  • Building budgets and ROI attribution models
  • Developing a new cutting-edge website
  • Optimizing their website for search engines (SEO)
  • Enhancing their brand reputation
  • Strategizing and facilitating trade shows

We're proud to say ProEst is one of our greatest successes to date. Working with both internal and external teams helped transform this SaaS company into a significant component of AutoDesk's platform. 

GOALS

  • Increase sales by 10% 
  • Establish themselves as an industry thought leader
  • Be in the top 3 results for "Construction bid management," "Construction estimating," and "Takeoffs" in the US, Canada, Britain, and Australia
  • Increase conversions, site traffic, appearance
  • Increase their number of reviews
  • Boost score on review sites
  • Increase website traffic
  • See ROI from trade shows
  • Navigate and establish best practices for sponsoring and attending virtual trade shows (when in-person events were canceled)
  • Engage with trade show leads
  • Regularly publish more relevant and helpful blogs
  • Train the sales development team in working leads
  • Develop nurture campaigns for each part of the funnel and faster conversions 

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SIX's Solutions

  • Acted as a CMO managing and facilitating all strategic teams
  • Account-Based Marketing strategy (marketing emails, sales sequences, and landing pages)
  • Trained their in-house SDRs
  • Updated and monitored bidding for PPC and PPL on Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice
  • Complete website redesign and ongoing development
  • Technical SEO
  • Blogging and content marketing, including creating a knowledge center called "Construction HQ"
  • Virtual trade show promotion, setup, and post-event follow up
  • Ad campaigns & landing pages
  • Brand reputation & review management
  • Advertising in industry publications
  • Industry association/partnership event management
  • In-depth reporting

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RESULTS

  • ABM: The ABM campaign was an omnichannel campaign that identified and reached companies that were ProEst's ideal customer. Within these organizations, we identified the decision-maker and reached them through channels such as: email, LinkedIn, targeted ads and brand awareness. This approach helped them to not only get more leads, but more qualified leads helping to shorten the sales cycle and help to maximize sales' time.
    • Increased leads by 207% YOY since inception of the campaign
    • Received a proposal worth $500,000 within month 3 of ABM
    • Shortened close rate by 20%
  • SEO: Built out "Construction HQ," an educational resource, for SEO.
    • Increased visibility in the global marketplace for a highly competitive SaaS product.
    • Remained in top 3-5 for all countries.
    • 20% increase in organic traffic
    • Positioned ProEst as a 75mm company to investors.
  • Reputation management: Gathered more than 50 reviews on G2.com and responded to each one.
    • They went from not even ranking in G2's construction estimating and construction management grids to being one of the top competitors (2/12 in estimating and 7/56 in management) in less than a year.
    • Became the #2 construction estimating software on G2 in less than a year.

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