AI bees

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.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a personal fitness trainer with 4 employees, specialised in body forming and mental coaching.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

In this business it´s very hard to gain new clients. Mostly it´s working only by recommendations. I was planning to hire more employees, so I needed a way to gain much more clients in a very short period of time.

SOLUTION

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

I chose this company due to recommendations from my consisting clients. Two of my clients are using AI-Bees since years and are still very happy with their work and smart solutions.

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

At the Kickoff meeting I described my goals and target groups of my desired clients. Short after the first meeting AI-Bees presented a very very smart marketing solution for my specific case. I was very surprised of these great ideas and could´t wait for the marketing campaign to start!

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

AI-Bees provided a Team of content creaters and marketing specialist. For every need, there was a specialist!

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Before I used the service of AI-Bees I was already at a very good SEO position, but in my business section people are not searching for trainers. They have to see the offer in their inbox for seeing the need of our services.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Every week I get a weekly report of the responses and leads of potential clients. If there where any deviations, they worked on solutions right away!

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

Most impressive for me are the very smart marketing strategies and the psychology behind it. Everything worked much better than I thought.

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

Right now I can´t think of any improvements. I´m very happy to work with AI-Bees because they enlarged my business big time!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am working for a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. In my role as an Enterprise Account Executive, I am responsible for identifying, qualifying and managing leads/accounts on an enterprise level.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

In order to generating additional leads through LinkedIn I was looking for tools that improve the outcome of outreach campaigns. Especially at greenfield accounts, the outreach outcome was often low, as you can imagine prospects are not easy to reach these times. AI Bees was specially chosen for booking meetings with potential targets within those greenfield accounts.

What were your goals for this project?

To book at least 20-30 meetings with relevant contact persons at various companies (not vertical specific) in between 3 months. With booking those meeting I accelerated my time for booking first appointments with my focus targets (at least by 30%).

SOLUTION

How did you select AI bees?

AI Bees was recommended to me by a close friend, who is strongly focussed within his own pipeline generation activities. As he proved his success to me I felt confident using AI Bees.

What was the team composition?

2 contacts from AI Bees were involved during my usage, one dedicated Account Manager as well as the CSO was multiple time engaged during the process. As a result of a growing usage of AI Bees was massively growing over the last 12 months.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

I managed to break into an account that is strongly using legacy technology.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We were assigned an account manager who serves as a support and bridge to the other support teams.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I felt really comfortable working with AI Bees. The acceleration of getting first meetings booked, in that timeline felt pretty impressive. The solution overall is nearly completely managed, the efforts configuring the GUI were low.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nothing that I can tell so far.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am working for Cherry GmbH, headquartered in Germany. Cherry is a leading global manufacturer of computer input devices with a focus on Office, Gaming, Industry, Security, Digital Health and switches for mechanical keyboards. In my role as Marketing Manager for the Digital Health products - focusing the german healthcare market - I am creating and monitoring marketing strategies, campaigns and all relevant marketing channels.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We have been looking for opportunities to effectively generate awareness within the target group to position us a a relevant hardware brand in the german healthcare market. Therefore we aimed to generate leads in the market and create a dialog direct to the end customers. 

We hired AIBees to support us in lead generation due to our limited sales & marketing resources. AIBees provides us a service with fully automated lead generation process via LinkedIN sales navigator to get in contact and communicate with our determined target group and build a huge long lasting network.

What were your goals for this project?

We aimed to increase our product sales and position our relevant product portfolio directly to the relevant decision makers in the market during the decision making process. Besides this we want to leverage the growing network to keep them updated with our products for further developments. We needed a reliable approach to build a professional image with limited time exposure.

SOLUTION

How did you select AI Bees?

Through direct contact with the manging director. Hadn't heard of a similar intelligent solution and tried their service with setting up a test campaign and decided to move forward with their excellent solution.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

After getting in touch with the managing director we started to set up the first test campaign to evaluate their service. Therefore, our sales representative and me provided them with product material, marketing data, a market overview and talked about the target customers we want to address and generate leads with to provide the vendor an overview about our company and goals.

We signed up for LinkedIn Sales Navigator and improved our connected LinkedIn sales profile with their tips and connected with their automated solution. They provided us example templates, we modified for our specific need and we conducted searches on LinkedIn together to specify our target customers. After this, they set up the campaign. We received login data for the monitoring dashboard and were able to review and make changes withtin the campaign everytime.

Their support included the access to their automated tool, which makes the campaigns running with our connected LinkedIn Profile. They adjusted and monitored the running campaigns and automated message process within their dashboard solution and make suggestions for further message or contact campaigns.

What was the team composition?

First, we discussed our topic with the managing sales director of AIBEES. He coordinated our first test campaign with determining the target group, suggesting the templates and set up the campaign and provided us with results during running. He was our direct contact person and available everytime.

After this, we started further several campaigns and had an own account manager from their team. They improved their customer support regularly and we received weekly reports and set up weekly update calls to go through the current campagins and clarify open questions and adjusting/discussing new campaigns.

Their company increased siginificantly during our cooperation so the account manager changed during our long cooperation due to internal structural changes which comes along with such a fast-growing and popular company. The changes were no problem at all and they had a perfect handover of our topics and product and project goals. Every account manager was supportive and always available for questions.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Since beginning to work with AI Bees we increased our leads within the target groups and build a huge network on LinkedIn and guide traffic to our LinkedIn Page and product website. We were able to use the automated intelligent tool to communicate with our customers we would not have been able to address without AIBees.

The software saved us a huge amount of time and efforts. The target customers had not recognized the automation behind their messages which was so important to keep a professional image. After the lead generation process, we kept in contact with the contacts in webinars or direct calls and noticed the product awareness within the market due to increased demand from the addressed customers.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow was very effective and pleasant from the very beginning. It started with direct contact via mails and calls with the managing sales director/founder from their team. The account manager that we were assigned to later in the process was available for our us everytime via mail. We kept in contact in our weekly update calls and monitored the dashboard. Additionally, their provided us a weekly update report about the generated leads. I could count on a fast reply and support during the whole project, whenever I asked for. Their frequently asked for feedback and were open to improve their service.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

We highly appreciated the direct contact to the managing director of the company at the beginning of our cooperation. We were taken seriously and he provided us with so good recommendations for our campaigns to support our lead generation process. Every person we worked with was so extraordinarily friendly and supportive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We were satisfied with their work and service at every step of our collaboration. So we will keep using their service tool.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

iTernity is a leading vendor for archiving software that allows organizations to protect business data regardless of the storage hardware in use. Our products: iCAS FS is a scale-out platform for long-term archiving of compliance data and other business data. The software-defined storage platform scales without limits starting at 20 TB, and impresses with low TCO, great ease of use and high flexibility. iCAS is a flexible middleware for retention management & WORM storage.

The solution integrates perfectly into heterogeneous infrastructure landscapes. While you take care of your core business, iCAS reliably protects the integrity and availability of your data in the background. Ransomware attacks pose serious threats to companies and public authorities. iTernity offers a streamlined and secure solution, enabling you to protect your archive data from attacks and to fulfill long-term regulatory requirements. When it comes to data protection, companies are expected to professionally handle personal data and the "right to erasure".

With the Special Delete Manager for iCAS you have the possibility to delete archive data before the expiration of the retention period in a GDPR-compliant way. I am a marketing manager. Core task: lead management.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired AI Bees for lead generation via LinkedIn. Our target groups are end customer lead and partner leads. We wanted to generate more qualified leads, reach out to new target groups, position our solutions and strengthen our position in the storage market.

What were your goals for this project?

The goal is to reach out to our target group i Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Benelux and in the future the north american market. Our aim is to nurture the lead's interest and arrange meetings with them in order to win new projects and raise revenue. We also want to raise the awareness for our company and position us as a leading provider for archive storage solutions.

SOLUTION

How did you select AI Bees?

We found AI Bees via google and had an presentation meeting with them. We were very impressed and fully conviced by the quality od the marketing possibilities with AI Bees and hired them. The price was good, so we hired them.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

We had an onboarding meeting where we discussed about our goals and target groups. The team supported us in all possible areas. We got to know all the features, functions and benefits, we saw how the tool works, created LinkedIn searches togehter, made a plan for marketing campaigns. Our contact person gives us excellent support in setting up and optimizing campaigns on a weekly basis. We received optimized sequence templates.

The contact persons also monitors our activities and gives us excellent advise and support. This way, we were able to arrange high-quality meetings and opportunities to sell our products. We are very satisfied with our contact person.

What was the team composition?

I work with our AI Bees contact person and several sales people from our company who are using the AI Bees dashboard.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We reached out to new target groups which we weren't able to reach out to before we worked with AI Bees. We were able to better position our solutions in our target market and raised the awraeness for our products.

We arrange high-quality meetings and new sales opportunities. The users connected to the AI Bees dashboard were able to expand their LinkedIn network, creating synergy effects.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Our contact at AI Bees supports us exellently in all areas of our AI Bees marketing activities. She understands our goals and target groups and supports us in setting up new campaigns, gives advice how to optimize our campaign and of course how to optimally use the tool (blacklist etc.). We also receive advise how to optimally set up the LinkedIn searches in order to gain better results.

Technical settings are managed by AI Bees which our work better and faster and really helps us a lot. We also received optimized templates for sequence and invite messages, making it possible to us to strengthen our marketing message. We have meeting via Zoom on a weekly basis where we discuss optimization possibilities, new features and open questions.

We also receive reports on our activities on a weekly basis. We are very satisfied with our AI Bees contact person. That's why we purchased new licenses for additional sales colleagues and plan new licenses for the future.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

We love the excellent support from  AI Bees as they have provided great results in our campaigns.

Are there any areas for improvement?

So far no improvements.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m an account manager for Beta Systems Software. I’m responsible for finding new customers for our products. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with AI bees?

AI bees is in charge of different campaigns on LinkedIn to find new customers for us. 

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Initially, they try to find the best contact people from good companies. Those are our target audience. They start conversations with these people, asking them if they’re interested in taking 15-minute calls to discuss our account management product. Overall, AI bees try to collect leads for us. 

What is the team composition?

We work with 2–3 people from AI bees, including Ria (Head of Account Management), who’s our main contact person. Another person does the main work on LinkedIn and takes our standard script to their automation tool.

How did you come to work with AI bees?

AI bees was recommended by another company that used them before, so it was an easy decision for us to hire them. 

How much have you invested with them?

We spend between $1,500–$3,000 per month. 

What is the status of this engagement?

They started the campaigns in August 2020, and the partnership is ongoing. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

In terms of metrics, we have a coordination meeting with AI bees every two weeks where they hand over new leads. So far, they’ve handed over 70 hot leads. They always give us an evaluation of how many people they’ve contacted, and how many people they’ve talked to. We check and discuss those things to improve our work, and they’ve always been transparent about what they’ve done. On top of that, we’ve been very satisfied with the leads they provide.

How did AI bees perform from a project management standpoint?

We use email to communicate, and they have an Excel spreadsheet in the cloud. Everyone can make notes, so it’s easy to stay in touch with the whole team. We always try to work together, and it’s been very easy. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their scale is the most impressive thing about them. They contact so many people that I can’t contact by myself even in five years. They use an automation tool to contact those people, and that’s why they’re very productive. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, there aren’t any. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Always check AI bees’ conversations, and make examples of different situations that can improve the script they’re using. This will help them understand your business better. Checking their work on LinkedIn is normal because they can’t automatically know what product you offer. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We help Health Care providers automatically stay in compliance with Internet Connected Devices. I am the owner and founder of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired AI bees to provide social media based marketing to help sales growth by driving new leads.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goals were to have 20 monthly inbound inquiries which would help meet the companies goal of 3x revenue by EOY 2021

SOLUTION

How did you select AI Bees?

AI Bees was recommended to me by another founder. We considered 3 other vendors and selected AI bees based on their price point and previous customer experiences.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

AI bees focused on leveraging our existing LinkedIn presence and marketing collateral. They identified potential clients, engaged with them online, and shared invite them to continue the conversation with one of our team members. I personally provided AI bees with training on our product and its advantages, as well as the customers problem set, and reviewed copy pre-publishing.

What was the team composition?

AI bees team included an account manager, lead copy writer, prospect targeting specialist, and copy writer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

AI Bees reached our initial success metrics of 20 inbound inquiries per month. Our prospects recall positive experiences.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication was easy and effective - AI bees was responsive within a few hours and always willing to arrange phone calls when needed. responsibilities and deliverables were clearly set by the account manage.r

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their customer service was excellent by any measure - they worked hard to make sure their customers and prospects were happy.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None at this time

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company is a network-centric service provider with a focus on public Cloud access for the Enterprise through our DCX Cloud Exchange. I am a Sr. Sales Consultant working with prospective customers assisting them with their Cloud initiatives.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our goal was simple; during the height of COVID in 2020 find a way to engage with prospective customers via LinkedIn Sales Navigator. I reviewed some options, and AI Bees appeared to be the best solution.

SOLUTION

How did you select AI Bees and what were the deciding factors?

AI Bees offered a program that aligned to our budget and addressed the objectives of our outreach program.

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

The scope was leveraging LinkedIn Sales Navigator to communicate messaging to a large group of people. This was executed using an initial connection message followed by two sequencing messages.

Prior to deploying the solution, AI Bees provided a virtual demo of the entire system process followed by a couple of follow on Q&A phone calls. Their technology is very easy to use and has good reporting functionality.

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

Initially I worked with a Sales Manager, Katherine who provided the demo and described the available service options and pricing. She also addressed all our initial questions and was the point of contact before deploying the solution.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The objective was to contact 3,000 people who were decision makers within their companies for the initial 3 campaigns. This was conducted during the better part of 2020. The response rate for people who connected with me via LinkedIn was 20%+. Of the respondents ~7% resulted in live conversations, virtual meetings.

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

AI Bees was quite proactive and responsive. Weekly reports were generated through their dashboard and delivered every Monday morning via email. The dashboard was always available to us and we could make changes to the campaigns if needed.

Once the service was deployed, AI Bess provided a dedicated Account Manager. The Account Manager worked with us to set up the campaigns including selection of the total addressable market. This including reviewing contact levels, titles, departments, etc.

The Account Manager also supported a weekly progress meeting to review the results of the campaign from the prior week and discuss any changes needed. The Account Manager was very helpful and willing to meet our timeframes for deployments and reporting. We found the Account Managers to be professional and easy to work with.

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

AI Bees are very willing to accommodate our needs. They were amenable to making changes especially when it came to a more targeted outreach approach versus a general broadcast to potential contacts. The Account Managers acted as though they had a vested interest in our success.

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

We were pleased with the service, it met our objectives. The only concern we had was the change of Account Managers (4) during the year we engaged with AI Bees. We realize this is difficult to control, but continuity is always good when you have a good person supporting you.