AI bees

Please describe your company and your position there.

Transvalor Americas is a software editor. We develop Finite Element Method software for the manufacturing industry. I am the director of Sales and Technology at Transvalor Americas Corp.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees?

We hired AI Bees, to increase our awareness on our markets. We need to communicate to more people and reach out to them and engage with them. AI Bees is the vehicle for us to reach out to them and start the engagement process through LinkedIn connections.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

They reached out to me via LInkedIn, and I agreed to meet with them. After the presentation, I thought it was worth a shot, and started working with the team. The deciding factor was mostly the wide outreach I could see through LInkedIn, and to be honest no competitor reached out to me, so they were the first.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

The project is very simple. I decide what market I want to communicate to, and I create the list of contacts from LinkedIn, and generate the campaign within AI BEES Dashboard platform. Then my account manager reaches out to me and make sure the campaign is set up properly, and we review it together to make adjustments.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I had three account managers so far, and that is all the interactions, and to be honest that is all I need at this stage.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The first success has been to increase my network on LinkedIn. I went from barely 500 connections to 1,200 connections in 6 months, which is great because any communication I post on Linkedin has much more impact. The second success is the direct contacts I had with prospects. So far, I have turned any prospects into actual deals, but I am hopeful it will happen in the near future.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

This has been very effective and very pleasant to work with their team. All the account managers we have been interacted with are very useful and helpful.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are very efficient. They are on our account even if we do not communicate about our new campaigns They know because they monitor your account very well. In addition, we have a weekly meeting with my account manager, and even if I had to skip some of them, it has been very useful in letting me know what is going on with my campaigns, and pushed me on creating new campaigns.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I cannot think of anything on the top of my mind. For me, AI BEES has delivered what they told they will, and I am very satisfied with the treatment of my account and the persons I am in contact with and I have been in contact with.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We provide background checks & drug screening services for employment based purposes.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees?

We hired AI bees to schedule appointments with decision makers within our target market.

How did you select this vendor?

We had previously worked with AI bees on a self-managed LinkedIn campaign. The software worked perfectly & their team was great. When they came to us with a professionally managed solution with a guarantee to deliver XX qualified appointments/month it was a no-brainer on our part.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

AI bees was our outsourced SDR team. They worked with us to create templated verbiage & cold outreach sequences via LinkedIn and Email that they hyper-personalized for each individual outreach. They tracked performance, made the appropriate changes and would solicit our input when neccessary. They would then nuture any responses recieved until enough interest was expressed and would then use our calendaring tool to schedule an appointment with one of our sales reps.

What was the team composition?

Our team consistently included an Account Manager, Copy Writer and SDR/BDR however our initial Sales Rep, the VP and other specialists would occasionally be involved.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Traditionally we've used cold calling & referral marketing to generate leads so this was our first attempt at this type of marketing. While it took a bit longer to hit a stride, AI bees proactively communicated/make adjustments and held true to everything promised! Ultimately the project was a success, generated multiple new clients and reoccurring revenue that exceeded the cost.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Great! They were proactive and clear in their communication.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their integrity! If you've worked with other marketing/lead gen firms then you know how rare integrity is in the industry. AI bees held true to our mutually agreed upon lead qualification standards, was receptive to our feedback/adjustments and fullfilled the terms of the guarantee.

Is there any area for improvement or anything that could have been done differently?

At one point we we got a new SDR, so there was a little learning curve but that's to be expected.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the managing director of a renowned language school that is part of a worldwide franchise network.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees, and what were your goals?

AI Bees supports us in the online acquisition of new customers. We work with AI Bees to make acquisition even more precise and adapted to the changes in the market.

How did you select this vendor?

Ai Bees was recommended to us by colleagues in our network. They were very enthusiastic about working with AI Bees and advised us to do so.

Describe the scope of their work in detail, including any steps and the final deliverables.

We defined our goals and customers and designed campaigns adapted to them and then launched them in a targeted manner.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I have worked with several account managers. They were all very supportive. Phoebe Cruz in particular was very committed to our projects.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have established contact with new customers, renewed existing customer relationships, and positioned ourselves visibly on the market.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We have weekly online meetings and we get weekly reports. Even between meetings, the account managers are always available.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their service and helpfulness are outstanding. The advice is always very good.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

The account managers have changed too often. Although we are very happy with our current account manager again.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We provide next-generation traffic optimization and analytics for large network providers and operators. Our solutions are SaaS I work as the Communications & Content Manager.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees, and what were your goals?

We hired AI Bees at the start of the COVID 19 Pandemic as a means to target customers digitally. Before the pandemic, our main means for meeting customers were in person and at conferences located all over the world. As the pandemic's rapid spread caused governments to take extensive measures to reduce contact, we quickly lost our chances to meet customers. By adding AI Bees to our initial marketing and sales plan, we were able to continue our outreach for new customers digitally without having to leave our homes.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We were turned onto AI Bees via one of our partners. We decided on AI Bees over LinkedIN's Octopus due to AI Bees's account management services. Having an account manager really saves us a lot of time when it comes to keeping our campaigns flowing.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

As our target market is very niche, we searched for our target customers by uploading the attendee's list from the conferences we were originally meant to attend.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We primarily work with our account manager, who we meet with on a weekly basis.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We currently have 100+ connections with prospects with 3 currently at the negotiation table and in free trial mode. This is actually what we were expecting given that we have slow sale cycles and a very limited prospect pool to choose from.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Our project managers have all been really great so far. Each one has been really helpful, transparent, fast, and friendly. I really get the feeling that I am valued as a customer and as a human being.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

How great the account managers are! As well as how malleable the tool is. We not only target our customers but have also used the tool to announce our presence at virtual events and to hire new teammates.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Nothing comes to mind right now.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Director of Business Development for a cloud accounting and consolidation space. The financial close and consolidation software you deserve Say goodbye to late nights and long hours copying and pasting numbers. Slash your close, consolidation, and reporting times by 90%. Report with confidence knowing your numbers and are always accurate, timely, and transparent.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees?

Needed to supplement BD outbound efforts.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Pricing was reasonable and AI Bees provided a great reference call.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

After the kick off meeting, AI Bees provided us with an account manager to help us weekly to set up campaigns, provide messaging suggestions based on their experience and take care of a lot of the admin work that comes along with using their platform.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2, sales and customer success

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have many deals in the forecast thanks to AI Bees (we track the source of all of our deals) and actually have had one close recently!

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We meet weekly and our Customer Success Manager, Greezel is friendly, helpful, and great to work with!

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We were impressed by their desire to keep their customers happy and to pitch in and help when they can to take the burden off of us and take on some of the work that would otherwise be the responsibility of their customers.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

We have no complaints.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the sales manager for our company. We develop eCommerce solutions for grocery retailers to move online or re-platforming existing solutions.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees, and what were your goals?

We hired AI bees to help with finding valuable leads and opportunities that can be turned into potential customers.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

I am not able to answer this, as this was selected for our company from few other vendors.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We were introduced to the service, and how it aligns with our needs and the quality results we can use in the future.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

In the span of 2 years, I have worked with 3 project managers from AI Bees.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We do look at the amount of campaigns that we have sent out using AI Bees. However, even though the campaigning through them is using their tool, we do try different messaging and how that can make a difference on the interest that we received from retailers.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We have been meeting bi-weekly and that has worked well with our schedule.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are very customer service oriented and always willing to help and go the extra mile, which lot of other companies don't do.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

No. They are making everything very easy for us and they do reach out to us with any new development in their tooling.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a sales and business developer. Our company is a venture backed Proptech start-ups and South East Asia’s largest online marketplaces dedicated to workspaces. We operate in SEA across 7 countries Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand across a total of 12 cities.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees?

We needed someone to help manage the account, increase our lead generation and deliver reports so we could focus on more hands-on daily tasks.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

It was a word of mouth that made us choose AI Bees.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

After discussing the best strategy to generate leads, we wrote the messages and got helpful tips from the AI Bees team on who to target and what would be the most efficient way of doing so.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked with one account manager that was very much available for any concerns and did not hesitate to reach out to other department to get the best services.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We got some serious leads which are forecasted to generate a consequent source of income for the company.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We get on a weekly call every Thursday to review what has been done during the week, see if things need to be changed, how things are going...On top of that, we get a weekly report to summarize everything.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We are impressed by the quality of the leads generated. On top of that, our account manager was very available and flexible.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

None.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the managing director at Mazars Consulting, a tax consulting business. We provide two types of service:

1. Process automation and robotics; and
2. General finance services, such as risk management

What challenge were you trying to address with AI Bees?

We needed help with market research, so we hired AI Bees.

What was the scope of their involvement?

AI Bees produces the personal data of our targets, which includes LinkedIn profiles, email addresses, and telephone numbers. The team then runs communication cycles to approach potential targets like risk managers, internal audit managers, or finance managers. There are different ways to do it, one of which is to present me in a story to trigger a conversation on LinkedIn. 

We’ve made a logical construct on how the conversation could run and, in the end, shifted from LinkedIn correspondence to personal communication through phone or emails.  

After a certain point, I intend to continue what they’ve begun and will have the team hand over what they’ve accomplished.

What is the team composition?

The project manager is my main point of contact. There are, in total, 3–4 people working on the project.

How did you come to work with AI Bees?

Two years ago, I ran some interviews with similar firms. I decided to go with AI Bees because our conversation made me feel very hopeful and confident.

How much have you invested with them?

I’ve spent 13,500 € (approximately $16,000 USD).

What is the status of this engagement?

The engagement began in May 2020 and is still ongoing.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

AI Bees is more B2C-focused, but they’ve adapted to work in a B2B model. There has been an upturn in the last six months, and they’ve since become accustomed to working at a very professional level with my team.

How did AI Bees perform from a project management standpoint?

Their services are meant for short-term material projects and not for large, long-term projects, but AI Bees has been very willing and able to learn. They’ve improved greatly and are good listeners; we give weekly feedback and they adjust their methods accordingly. 

We mostly communicate using Microsoft Teams, but we sometimes hop on calls.

What did you find most impressive about them?

AI Bees is very flexible and ready to learn. They’re able to listen to what partners are telling them and take the necessary risks to improve. What they’re doing is better than being rigid and not able to change in the long run.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Th4ey weren’t prepared for a strict B2B business. Next time, I’d expect them to bring experience from a B2B and not a B2C model.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

The more you listen, the more you will understand.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Im a Business Development Manager in a SaaS company, helping large companies around the world create complex documents faster and with increased quality.

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees, and what were your goals?

Normally we have high travel activity in order to obtain new business. When Covid hit we needed to change the way we meet new prospects in order to continue generating new business.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We did some searches online, and decided to try several ways or generating new leads, AI Bees was one of them.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and marking tools used.

We did an email and a Linkedin campaign. Togheter with the AI-Bees account manager we identified targets and started working on our message that would resonate with potential prospects in order to secure high quality leads. This was closely monitored by the Account manager in order to make small changes as we go in order to maximize our ROI. Ria, our Account Manager was great in making sure our rollout went smoothly.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2-5 resources Account Manager and Responder were regulars in our weekly meetings, and they would bring in other resources as needed in order to meet our requirements.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The campaign resulted in over 100 leads for our company.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We had online meetings weekly to monitor the campaign. This worked well, our account manager Ria was always just a phonecall or an email away should we have any questions in between meetings so this worked out great.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Our Account Manager, Ria. She was definatly the backbone of this partnership, she understood our needs and would do anything to ensure we were successful.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

We had a great account manager (Ria), and a great responder (Diana) Ria got a well deserved promotion, and Diana left the company. After Diana was taken of the account we struggled to get a responder that understood our business and as a result the quality and the amount of leads suffered.

We never got back to the same high quality that we had gotten used to when our account was under Rias management, and Diana was our responder. Making sure the AM and responder propperly understand the clients business is key in order to keep the partnership going long term.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a Client Partner and we are a Communication Agency

For what projects/services did your company hire AI bees, and what were your goals?

We wanted to get in touch with potential new clients and invite them to our own events.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Honestly I do not know. I think we used AIBees in HR.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and marking tools used.

We developed a target audience for each event, I created an Sales Navigator list of interesting people, I invited them.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked with an Account Manager.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

It worked great although as we had very specific topics and invitations, it was difficult to write the different steps of the invitation process. Once a questions occurs it doesn't work anymore. So I mostly used AIBees just for the first contact. In gerenal it worked well and we generated a lot of new contacts.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We had video calls every other week and it worked great as my Account Manager helped me on each step of our campaigns.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They can make it sound like you actually wrote all messages yourself - although there are limitations (see above) if the other persons asks questions that differ from what you expect.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

As written above: I don't know how or maybe I just missed it - but to get better notifications if you get answers and a time period where you can stop the bot before he send out the next message that then maybe doesn't fit to the questions the person asked.