Sherlock Holmes. Frenchies. Cacti (or is it cactuses?). Sick rhymes. 94% response charges. And thousands and thousands of {dollars} in new income. The 2018 Video in Enterprise Awards had all of it, and we’re thrilled to share the tales of this yr’s Video Promoting winners so we are able to all study from their video awesomeness.
Video has emerged as a strong software for contemporary B2B gross sales groups. In contrast to electronic mail, cellphone, and social media, video presents a extremely inventive technique to reduce by way of the noise and construct extra private relationships with consumers. It’s an effective way to face out, a greater technique to educate, and the following neatest thing to being there in individual in the case of connecting on an emotional stage.
This yr’s version of the Video in Enterprise Awards acknowledges 12 advertising and marketing and gross sales groups utilizing video in inventive methods to ship some fairly unimaginable outcomes. No price range? No drawback! The outcomes achieved by this yr’s winners had been a results of large concepts, good execution, and in some instances, an amazing quantity of braveness to strive one thing new and put your self on the market.
5 finalists had been chosen for every class, the winners and runners-up had been chosen by superstar judges Jamie Shanks, Jill Rowley, Morgan J. Ingram, Marcus Sheridan, Trish Bertuzzi, and Max Altschuler. With out additional ado, be part of us in congratulating—and getting inspiration from—the winners of the 2018 VIB Awards. The winners of the 2018 Video in Enterprise Awards Gross sales classes. The online game is afoot.
The Video Promoting Connector: Punch!
The Connector is aware of that it takes greater than a catchy topic line to heat up a chilly prospect. These crew of gross sales improvement representatives (SDR) are utilizing personalised 1-to-1 movies to face out, e book extra conferences, and cush their quotas. They perceive the way to ship a personalised message that may drive motion, and aren’t afraid to strive one thing new to get the eye they deserve.
Winner: Punch!
Runners-Up: Forrester, LeadIQ
Honorable Mentions: KPA, Pipefy
Combining personalised movies with experiential account-based advertising and marketing (ABM) campaigns—just like the Sherlock Holmes themed video and marketing campaign under!—the gross sales improvement crew at Punch! is clearly differentiating themselves from rivals and reserving extra conferences with key prospects.
Video additionally permits their crew to trace and rating precise content material engagement inside goal accounts, offering a greater understanding as to which prospects are spending essentially the most time participating with their content material and expressing essentially the most shopping for intent. Every video additionally incorporates a powerful call-to-action similar to offering prospects with the flexibility to e book a discovery name straight right into a calendar which is displayed as a part of an integration on the finish of every video.
“We’re experiencing a CTR of 31% throughout our campaigns when sending personalised video emails. Higher but, one in each 20 movies despatched ends in a discovery name. On account of the human and distinctive method, 50% of those discovery calls convert into alternatives. Once you add it up, these video campaigns are greater than 2x more practical than different techniques we’ve tried.”
Punch! Isn’t the one one utilizing video to attach in a greater approach. LeadIQ’s high performing gross sales improvement rep, Jeremy Leveille, just lately recorded 24 customized songs and raps for focused accounts leading to 23 responses (that’s a 96% response price, of us) and 17 certified alternatives. Ellie Twigger at Forrester is boosting attendance at occasions and reserving extra conferences for his or her account crew with genuine one-to-one video messages.
The Video Promoting Attractor: Listen360
The Attractor is fearless, enjoyable, and intensely inventive in the case of standing out from the noise and attracting new prospects. This memorable gross sales crew makes use of enjoyable and inventive movies to depart a long-lasting impression. No unsubscribes right here, the Attractor is just irresistible.
Winner: Listen360
Runners-Up: AlayaCare, Datadog
Honorable Point out: Bizible (a Marketo firm), TimeTrade
Listen360 challenged their odd gross sales outreach course of by getting their reps to work together extra straight and personally with key goal accounts. Focusing on companies with bodily retail areas, that they had their gross sales reps seize ‘on-the-street’ movies showcasing themselves interacting with their prospect’s model at one in all their bodily retailer areas.
“The outcomes of this marketing campaign had been unimaginable! First, they went viral throughout the accounts, with key contacts sharing with others of their group. We additionally had 100% watch every video and half of them replied expressing curiosity. Those who re-engaged resulted in demos scheduled. What’s unimaginable is that these had been accounts we haven’t been capable of join with in over 2 years.”
Now THAT’s the way you appeal to consideration as a gross sales rep. The runners-up even have their distinctive approaches to standing out and constructing an viewers. AlayaCare isn’t shy to file parody music movies for his or her key prospects to the tune of I Will Survive, whereas Datadog’s Jon Levesque is utilizing thought management video posts on LinkedIn to draw his justifiable share of consideration.
The Video Promoting Engager: Think about Enterprise Improvement
The Engager drinks espresso, rings bells and makes use of video to remain one step forward of their competitors. This epic Account Exec (or complete crew) makes use of focused movies to create extra alternatives, speed up deal cycles, and enhance shut charges. From 1-to-1 video messages to personalised demos and gross sales proposals, they use the facility of video to personalize their message, construct belief, and shut offers, all whereas boosting their gross sales effectivity.
Winner: Think about Enterprise Improvement
Runners-Up: Igloo Software program, Modus
Honorable Point out: Bluleadz, New Breed
Think about BD already had a powerful playbook to information their gross sales course of, however they knew that by incorporating video all through the gross sales cycle they might enhance even additional. They took a strategic method to contemplate the place the video might assist enhance gross sales effectivity or improve the client expertise. This led to creating three classes of movies so as to add to their gross sales course of:
- Course of/drawback movies that targeted on high-impact, early gross sales cycle points that took vital gross sales time to elucidate manually (see instance right here)
- Centered movies that zero in on particular ideas straight associated to the prospect’s enterprise or to a particular answer we might be recommending (see instance right here)
- Customized movies to help our proposals and suggestions (assume video proposals reasonably than only a deck or PDF)
“The outcomes have been huge. We’ve reduce rep inefficiency time down by over 40 hours/month, we spend 90% much less time on alternatives that obtained disqualified in first half of gross sales course of, we’ve elevated our win price by greater than 20%, and our ‘first 90 days service points’ have decreased by greater than two-thirds.”
Runners-up Igloo Software program and Modus are each utilizing 1-to-1 personalised movies all through the gross sales cycle to following up with prospects, create customized product demonstrations, reply widespread questions and construct belief throughout shopping for teams. Thomas Buchanan from Modus notes:
“I landed my first 6 determine deal as an AE because of video and this deal had a file brief gross sales cycle. I’ve by no means spoken to the busy government who’s funding the mission however he is aware of me by way of my movies. We had been capable of have interaction all the resolution makers inside 48 hours due to using personalised video messages”.
The Video Promoting Innovator: Rant & Rave
These gross sales groups impressed us with their inventive method to focusing on key accounts and to make sure they obtained the eye they deserved. From interactive, personalised video campaigns to the inventive use of props to get into, then out of, a prickly state of affairs, the Innovators are forward of the pack in how they give thought to the potential of video to generate new gross sales alternatives.
Winner: Rant & Rave
Runners-Up: Charity Dynamics, Storyboard Media
Honorable Point out: Alleyoop, Quarry Communications
Already seeing success with 1-to-1 personalised movies of their gross sales improvement crew, Rant & Rave determined to step it up a notch by incorporating personalised movies into inventive account-based promoting campaigns focusing on tier-one accounts.
However we’re not simply speaking about waving with a whiteboard! Tieing into the themes of broader campaigns, their reps integrated french bulldogs (none had been harmed within the making of those movies), cactus puns, personalised demos, and different wow-worthy content material into their outreach. Try this paw-some instance:
“Inside 11 minutes of sending this video, we had a response saying they needed to arrange a gathering! A response that fast was unparalleled in our firm and set a brand new file, solely to be damaged by our subsequent video marketing campaign which produced a response in lower than 2 minutes! We closed that deal inside 25 days (yet one more file) and every of those prospects at the moment are blissful purchasers of Rant & Rave.”
The runners-up every took a strategic method to account-based promoting campaigns as properly. Charity Dynamics recording customized movies for every key prospect together with a custom-made content material hub to not solely get their consideration however to drive an instantaneous conversion.
Storyboard Media created an wonderful collection of tailor-made movies (price a look ahead to some nice inspiration) to extend their electronic mail engagement by greater than 400% and blow away their pipeline targets.
The Video Promoting Dream Crew: IMPACT
The Dream Crew is firing on all cylinders in the case of utilizing video all through the gross sales cycle and throughout their gross sales crew. From outbound prospecting and alternative administration to onboarding and help, this crew is utilizing a mixture of personalised movies, customized recordings, off-the-shelf movies, and extra to remodel the client expertise from the primary contact to the most recent renewal.
Winner: IMPACT
Runners-Up: 1Huddle, Name One
Honorable Point out: Dynamic Sign, MediaValet
Merely put, the gross sales crew at IMPACT is completely crushing it with video as a technique to help each stage of the client’s journey and to construct belief inside their group. How is the IMPACT gross sales crew utilizing video? Let’s hear it from them straight:
- Neighborhood Engagement: Interacting with our on-line group, IMPACT Elite, by way of weekly video updates. These movies construct familiarity and belief amongst our group of shoppers, prospects, and people merely fascinated with studying.
- Inbound Lead Administration: As our market turns into an increasing number of aggressive we’ve got to seek out inventive methods to set ourselves up as high contenders earlier on. We see video as a possibility to just about introduce ourselves and construct a powerful first impression early on. Since incorporating personalised video when managing inbound leads, we’ve seen a 90% enhance within the variety of conferences booked in addition to shorter gross sales cycle as we’ve established belief and stronger relationships a lot earlier on.
- Assembly Observe-Ups and Recap Movies: After conferences, our reps do a fast video recap on the dialog that they had with the prospect, and reply any follow-up questions they could have. This helps hold the joy going, and likewise offers the prospect a video they will share with inside stakeholders who may need not been capable of attend the assembly.
- The “80%” Movies to Reply Widespread FAQs: Our gross sales crew has created movies to reply the everyday questions we obtain from 80% of our prospects. We use these movies at the start of gross sales conversations to assist introduce our crew of specialists, and to reply FAQs earlier than prospects even get an opportunity to ask. This helps deal with questions early on and reduce down on additional conferences that may decelerate the gross sales course of. Right here’s an instance of one in all our “80%” movies.
- Introductory Movies: Previous to a Consumer Success Supervisor having an exploratory name with a prospect we ship them an intro video which supplies the prospect background on the individual they are going to be speaking to and likewise gives a extra human factor to assist start constructing a relationship. It’s additionally a possibility for the CSM to set expectations for the decision.
- And extra! The IMPACT crew additionally makes use of Assertion of Work movies to obviously clarify their gross sales proposals, post-sales movies to welcome new purchasers on board, occasion promotion movies to drive clients to native occasions, and extra.
“Merely put, video has been a recreation changer in serving to us enhance our variety of conferences booked, shorten deal cycles, enhance total buyer engagement and shut extra offers, quicker! It’s impacting actually each stage of our buyer lifecycle in a constructive approach.”
Just like the crew at IMPACT, runners-up 1Huddle and Name One have discovered success utilizing quite a lot of video varieties throughout their gross sales groups to extend response charges, e book extra conferences, and speed up deal cycles.
The Video Mastery Award
This visionary group is embracing video to remodel each stage of the client journey. From advertising and marketing and gross sales to success and help, they use a variety of video content material to humanize their model, educate their consumers, speed up gross sales cycles, and join with clients in additional private methods.
Winner: Tech Information Company
Runners-Up: Ceridian, Zycus
Ceridian, Tech Information Company and Zycus are all seeing super outcomes from incorporating video into the material of their advertising and marketing, gross sales and buyer success packages. Greater than only a supporting character, video is enjoying a starring function in how they characterize their model, talk with audiences and construct relationships with their clients.
All three groups are leveraging video extensively throughout their digital, demand gen, social media and advertising and marketing communications, and have embraced the Vidyard Chrome extensionto empower their gross sales groups with 1-to-1 personalised movies. Congratulations to those groups on taking an enormous step in the direction of the long run, and for making Enterprise-to-Enterprise look much more like Human-to-Human.
BONUS! Greatest Video to Assist a VIB Awards Nomination: GPS Perception
So right here’s the factor. We requested all nominees to publish a brief video explaining why they need to win a Video in Enterprise Award. The finalists for this shock class went above and past to create a video that was exhausting to disregard.
Congratulations to our winner GPS Perception for taking us again to the early days of movie; to our runners-up Danby Home equipment for his or her spot-on parody of Anchorman and Listen360 for CRUSHING their Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air parody; and to our honorable mentions Leighton Interactive for serenading us with their songwriting and top-shelf ukulele abilities and Suzi Lindner for reminding us all that sock puppets are by no means a nasty thought.
However what about these Video Advertising award winners?
To study concerning the winners of the 2018 Video Advertising award classes and the way they’ve used video to get extra consideration and generate extra pipeline, take a look at the next publish: How The High Video Entrepreneurs of 2018 Use Video to Generate Extra Pipeline
