Global Ecom Partners (GEP) knew what they needed to change: their sales model didn’t make sense. But they didn’t know whether to hire a team in-house or partner with a lead generation outsourcing company. In the end, they built a brand new go-to-market engine with Salaria’s team as an integral piece. The result? A 1,000% return on investment.
GEP partners with Amazon sellers to maximize their revenue at zero cost. They handle sellers’ marketing, customer service, and brand building, all customized to their partners’ needs. They incentivize their own performance by taking their pay from the margins of the sales they help their partners produce. The result is a no-cost, full-service partnership with e-commerce experts determined to help their sellers grow.
In January 2022, GEP had no full-time sales professionals working for them. Instead, they had account managers seek out new business when they had the capacity to do so, which created an inconsistent pipeline and uncertain growth.
But if GEP was going to bring in a sales team or work with an outsourced one, they needed to know GEP’s business well. GEP’s tailored and high-touch approach means that they have to carefully select who they want to partner with, and that creates high standards for their sales and prospecting team. Leads need to fit GEP’s ideal customer profile (ICP) closely and salespeople need to carefully vet them at every stage.
When GEP started talking to Salaria, they wanted to be sure the value was really there. Could Salaria understand their business model and ICP well enough to deliver the results they’d need?
After in-depth discussions and a trial period to prove Salaria’s worth, GEP decided that partnering with Salaria was the best solution to their problems. They hired Salaria’s lead generation team to send cold emails, follow up on inbound leads, and prospect new leads by auditing lists of trade show attendees.
Nick Lassor, Managing Partner at GEP, explained his reasoning for hiring Salaria instead of bringing in-house salespeople: “Do I think… that we could probably build something similar? Yes. Do I want to? No… I’m probably not going to do it as well, the time and energy to build the process is not going to be worth it, if you have a partner that is efficient at it. I think your rate’s competitive, and I think the quality is good.”
Do I think… that we could probably build something similar? Yes. Do I want to? No… I’m probably not going to do it as well, the time and energy to build the process is not going to be worth it, if you have a partner that is efficient at it. I think your rate’s competitive, and I think the quality is good.
Lassor reported calculated that Salaria delivered a 1,000% return on investment over the course of their partnership with GEP. That comes from setting plenty of meetings with excellent prospects.
Salaria has booked an average of 21 meetings per month for GEP. Those are highly-targeted meetings booked with best-fit prospects, over 80% of whom have C-level titles. The meetings have an impressive 72% completion rate, showing genuine interest from prospects and the close fit between the ICP and the actual leads Salaria generates.
Looking forward, GEP is open to expanding their relationship with Salaria. They’ve seen impressive returns, and are eager to see how they can scale. When asked whether others should consider partnering with Salaria, Lassor replied, “Definitely, the investment is worthwhile.”
Our clients span a variety of industries/verticals and many of them sell complicated products and services. Several of our team members are dedicated to your account and receive consistent training on your account so they get up to speed very quickly. Our goal is not to be experts on your product or service, only to make sure we are putting the experts on your team in front of qualified leads so you have more opportunities to close deals.
Onboarding is 4-5 business days. It only takes an hour each day, so it doesn’t take up much of your time. During onboarding we will collaborate with you to craft your digital messaging through email and LinkedIn in addition to your cold call scripts, value prop, objection handling, etc. We will also put the initial rules and parameters in place for our prospecting of leads and the outbound channels.
If you have an existing list of leads we can start outreach with those leads and build on top of that list each day. If you don’t have any list, we can build out a new list from scratch based on the prospecting parameters we put in place with you during onboarding. We have all the necessary databases and resources to build out highly targeted lead lists.
We provide full transparency to all of our clients. You will receive daily, weekly, and monthly reports with all of the metrics and KPIs most important to you. We also give you access to a real-time data dashboard that will show more in depth data for your account so you don’t have to wait on any of the reports to analyze our performance.
Generally, our team starts ramping up pretty quickly because after onboarding we jump right into high-volume outreach through all of the outbound channels. Many of our clients have meetings booked during the first week of outreach. Most accounts are fully ramped up by 2-3 months.
