
Softcat.
Turning their website into a lead generation tool, creating high quality engaged leads.
Improved lead quality and increased internal efficiency
Bottomline Technologies.
Driving awareness for Bottomline Technologies Paymode-X® Business Solutions
Following on from the website launch project (read the case study here) we worked with Bottomline to drive the new Paymode-X® Business Solution.
Bottomline Technologies are transforming business payments and processes for companies and financial institutions around the world. Bottomline Technologies are renowned for producing high-quality, industry-leading content and resources however their main challenge is attracting the right personas and generating awareness of their business, products and solutions, a challenge for lead generation. Rawnet was tasked with getting the right audience to take action on their website in order to generate high quality and relevant leads for the Paymode-X® Business Solution, targeting potential clients at different stages of their purchasing journey.
Objectives
We had clear objectives to make sure the Paymode-X® Business Solution was successful and that a paid inbound strategy was the best way to see results:
The Bottomline Technologies PPC campaign was rolled out in a three-phase plan: Short term, focusing on initial brand and product awareness, mid-term, which was focused on prospecting with a more targeted approach and long term which was to enable a lead generation strategy through paid adverts and driving traffic to the site to create a sustainable approach at all levels in the funnel.
Both organic and paid LinkedIn were used to drive initial awareness of the Paymode-X® offering and help create additional, more targeted, audiences for sponsored posts.
Sponsored Content was used to create brand awareness to serve the LinkedIn target audience, ensuring the relevancy of initial content to start their journey and act as a hook for nurturing the relationship in the future. We provided users with helpful information at the start of their journey (and continually nurture them) to increase the chance of conversion in the longer term. By curating content that was freely available, with the data capture being for an optional PDF downloadable of that asset allowed better conversions.
To get a better understanding of the types of content that would work best we curated combinations of the above post types for each campaign to understand what works best from a creative, messaging, and performance perspective.
The landing pages reflected initial messaging and were structured to be easily digestible with links pointing to further resources/topics should the user wish. At this point in the user’s journey, we established Paymode-X® as a reliable source of thought leadership, therefore we did not gate content at this stage. However, we produced downloadable PDFs that packaged up versions of what is available on the page. The main CTA to collect data was a downloadable asset.
To track the activity of users across the website we created custom audiences on LinkedIn. This allowed us to target and exclude users from brand awareness campaigns, prospecting campaigns, and acquisition campaigns. We used UTM parameters to track the behaviour fully in Google Analytics with the ability to create segments and dashboards to monitor behaviour.
Google Search Ads was used and keywords were split into campaigns and ad groups based on intent and relevancy. The landing pages used Hotjar recordings to monitor the behaviour and optimise regularly.
For tracking, we used a combination of Google Ads tracking to create audiences and conversions. Google Analytics automatically tracks the performance of Google Ads so additional segments and behavioural analytics were carried out in GA.
The more users that visit the Paymode-X® pages, the larger the audience is available for prospecting. The primary objective was to re-engage with users who have been to the website but have not taken any valuable action from a data exchange perspective.
At this point in the customer journey, they know about the brand, they know about the offering, and they have parted with their details for gated assets. If prospects have downloaded assets but have not yet proceeded with more meaningful actions, such as demos, webinars or have not gotten in touch with sales, we will target these prospects with product demos and webinars. This will drive prospects further down the sales funnel and generate more leads for sales to follow up on.
For these specific campaigns, we tracked conversions in the shape of form fills. Form fills and gated downloads were tracked in Google Analytics and synced with Google Ads, so when a user converts they will not be targeted in other marketing journeys.
On LinkedIn, we have received 774,634 impressions with 246 download conversions alongside 41 assisted conversions (bounced and then returned). Through PPC we achieved nearly 3,000 website visits and 119 calls with 38 assisted conversions. Across all campaigns, we have received an incredible total conversion rate of 16.60%.