Campaign Data Sets – We helped profile relevant targeted data sets across Singapore & Australia at CxO level, inclusive of key stakeholders and other influencers.

It was evident from the outset that a lead nurture approach with an account based marketing (ABM) approach was needed for a challenging long sales cycle engagement. It was important to drive some inbound engagement from our inside sales team with relevant, engaging and customer centric content pieces suited for each buyer persona.

Some contextual preparation in acknowledging the local differences between Asia and Australian market customisations for the Digital Realty offering was needed. This including a site visit to visualise the data centre facilities and also speaking to some of the site operations and sales team.

Partway through the campaign there were changes in the direction of our engagement, with the team primarily prioritising focus to a large press release event for the Erskine Park Data Centre (Sydney) and a  launch post event overlooking Sydney Harbour for guests. We assisted in the profiling and invitation of selected guests to the launch event, which was completed across a six week process.

Campaign timeframe 

We started in Month 1 with a detailed preparation of about 2,000 contacts from a variety of contact sources compiled, researched and profiled in line with a typical buyer’s journey contact of Awareness, Consideration and Decision stage content and using an ABM light strategy.  The localisation of the content for Singapore and Australia included videos, case studies and Forrester White Papers about Hyper-scale Data Centres, Multi Cloud connectivity and also Alliance partnership offerings such as Service Exchange with IBM.

Source: Hubspot- Inbound Methodology

Initially we started with Singapore and found it somewhat challenging to get across but found opportunities in other ASEAN countries also. 

Throughout Months 2 and 3, our focus was on ensuring relevant contacts at qualified companies were invited to the launch event in which we achieved about a 40% attendance rate. 

We were able to contribute around 30 new registered invitees to the 45 already known to Digital Realty attending including wholesale partners, vendors and cloud service integrators/providers.

During Month 4, we deepened our lead nurture program with more market data-driven insights, competitive positioning and identified some sales drivers with digital transformation and cloud positioned projects looking ahead to 2019.

Campaign outcomes and takeaways

• We help achieve approximately a 40% attendee rate for the Sydney Data Centre Launch Post Event with new attendees from Enterprise Financial Services and Insurance prospective clients and partners to compliment the existing launch event guests.

• We confirmed relevant APAC market data , insights and prospective opportunity for hyper-scale data centres and multi-cloud and associated partnership opportunities.

• We identified depth of market data and segments of opportunity to assist with Digital Realty’s strategic planning and APAC market focus.

• The lead nurture process created good market research  for both marketing and sales insights with localised presence and specific timelines for prospective clients. This mature method offsets any of the lower cost off shore call centre lead generation services which may not align to the industry depth of knowledge for Enterprise Data Centre sales experience suited for the Singapore and Australian markets.

• Our relationship developed with the Digital Realty marketing team in APAC allows further assistance to drive more strategic marketing value and insights for future planning and execution.

   

   

Why partner with Alchemise Consulting for your next technology campaign?

Despite the challenge of some re-priortised requirements, we still delivered to Digital Realty’s expectation, with our team’s focus and flexibility and understanding of the priorities and needs throughout the different stages of our campaign delivery.

The value from our APAC ICT sector experience and technology domain knowledge of the market helped position the confidence and network of suitable prospects for this need within the Enterprise market focus.  

One of the benefits of our local Australian time zone provides broader access to key stakeholders during business hours which was recognised as part of the additional value we provided Digital Realty.

"It has been a real pleasure to work with the Alchemise team for this APAC campaign!  While the campaign had to change quite a bit from our original starting point – you always managed to stay focused and deliver, especially for our Opening Event activities. Looking forward to working with you again in the future! "

Omer Wilson – Regional APAC Marketing Director –  Digital Realty

What are your next marketing and sales campaign actions or go to market plans?  –To start off with, we suggest you have a look at your complimentary New market entry checklist and then arrange a time to discuss your APAC demand generation campaigns or Go to Market campaign needs.

If you would like to work with a specialised technology solutions marketing and sales partner to help with your strategic market research, account based marketing and B2B demand generation plans, we can provide an initial no obligation consultation.

Please contact us at info@alchemiseconsulting.com or @alchemise_cons, or call our office on +61 3 9225 5022.

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