AI bees

BACKGROUND

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.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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.

SOLUTION

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.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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.

BACKGROUND

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.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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.

SOLUTION

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.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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.

BACKGROUND

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

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with AI Bees?

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

SOLUTION

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.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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.

BACKGROUND

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.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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.

SOLUTION

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.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a Client Partner and we are a Communication Agency

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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.

SOLUTION

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.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am working in a company that provides software solutions for automated linking of heterogeneous enterprise data. As Marketing Assistant I am responsible for Social Media and events.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

To get in contact with more potential clients on LinkedIn.

SOLUTION

How did you select Al bees and what were the deciding factors?

Recommendation by a stakeholder

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

After a kick-off meeting, ai.bees organized almost everything. The took care of the contact list, added the Herr/Frau and present us the most important information every week.

How many resources from the Al bees team worked with you, and what were their positions?

I think three or four.... all are Account Managers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

My boss Michael generated many new contacts (more than 3.000) in LinkedIn that we can contct for new campaigns.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very effective... the consulation is very good.

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

The consulation service is excellent.

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

Everything is fine

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am one of the owners of the company & responsible for developing the go to market in Singapore

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Lead Generation focused around Food & Discrete Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and high-tech.

SOLUTION

How did you select Al bees and what were the deciding factors?

They reached out to me through LinkedIn. I liked their pitch around the combination of artificial intelligence & human touch in terms of driving outcomes of campaigns. I strongly believe full marketing automation leads to sub-par results as messages are insufficiently personalized and this is something that AI Bees stated to have addressed.

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

Kick-off & initial period of target audience setting & content creation (reach-out templates) A period of reach-outs & appointment setting

How many resources from the Al bees team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2 - an account manager and an operational person

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

we did get outcomes, with link-ups to a number of people that led to some discussions. Due to personnel changes on both sides & the related challenges the program was cut short before it was completed.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

I only saw this from 2nd hand but understood most of this worked well, even tho we had a few comm breakdowns where misalignment existed and some communication was sent out in a disjointed manner

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

They had a great sales team with nice ideas and concepts.

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

When they are working under the persona of a customer representative, it is sensitive to have communication issues as it has direct exposure - this should have been avoided. I can't comment on other matters

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the Marketing Operations Manager for a SaaS company that specializes in making physical spaces intelligent.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We're a channel business with some big partners. Our challenges was that we only had a few key contacts at these larger partners. AI Bees allowed us to expand our reach within these organizations and speak to more people within their sales teams.

SOLUTION

How did you select Al bees and what were the deciding factors?

AI Bees reached out to us and after a demo I was suitably impressed to go ahead.

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

We discussed with AI Bees our target audience and personas. We were also required to fill out a questionnaire in relation to our messaging.

How many resources from the Al bees team worked with you, and what were their positions?

AI Bees is always on hand to do a lot of the heavy lifting initially. We mainly dealt with our account manager. However, the sales director also stayed involved for a few months after we onboarded to iron out any issues that we had.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We achieved over 200 meetings with key sales people at our channel partners, enabling us to educate them about what we do.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Initially we had a weekly meeting but were able to push this out to monthly as we got more and more to grips with the solution.

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

It allowed us to prospect at scale using LinkedIn. 

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

The things that I would have mentioned previously have been resolved in recent updates for example being able to perform a Sales Navigator search within the app.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a technical solutions developer, and I educate/ sell our services to those in need of electrical safety.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed someone to help our professional social media platforms with finding the correct prospects to engage with.

SOLUTION

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

My management team selected this vendor, and I've been super pleased with our results!

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

After several kick off meetings, we decided to target clientele through LinkedIn, and set up several templates to send out to potential clientele.

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

We worked with the account manager, and several other assistants assigned to the account.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The LinkedIn account jumped up drastically, from 500 to over 1200 people in a very short time period. Through some of the messages, we were awarded work that we solicited.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We met each week, and AI Bees kept up with their workflow, as well as kept us accountable for the work we needed to provide on our end.

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

What I found to be the most impressive is how personable everyone with AI Bee's is. Often we find that people are just treated as a number, with AI Bee's we felt like we were treated as an individual.

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

Not at this time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the manager of a mortgage broker company

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

To reach out to real estate agents to work with us.

SOLUTION

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

Accessability to the linkedin data base and message automation

Describe the engagement and overall scope of work in detail, including the stages of the partnership.

There was an initial sales call, followed up by an oboarding call and then weekly update calls.

What were the terms and the value of the lease, and what percentage did AI bees take in commission?

Monthly subscription

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

Worked with head of account management

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the engagement or general feedback about the services?

Ria Buenanventura is an outstanding account manager. She is always willing and able to answer any question and helped me to brainstorm on the best way to produce the desired outcome. AI bees is very knowledgeable and show real interest in their customer.

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

Ria Buenaventura spent all of her allowable time to coach me and direct me on the strategy for the campaigns. She was helptul becouse she thinks outside of the box, which is needed to suceed. I wish I were allowed more time on my weekly meetings

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

The uniqueness of the service provided by exploiting Linkedin structure available to its members.

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

Yes, more time for coaching. Improved features to the dashboard such as being able to import more profiles.