Founded in 2018, Seamless.ai is a real-time search engine for B2B sales leads. Currently serving over 35,000 organizations globally and a million users worldwide, they validate contact data, company information, and buyer intent signals in real-time.
It’d be remiss for us to not start this customer story with Jonathan’s zinger of a description of the marketing org:
We’re all brand, we’re all demand and everyday is about getting in front of new audiences, serving our customers and making the most out of our relationships
With a marketing team of 17 people responsible for revenue outcomes, they've built a sophisticated GTM engine that drives consistent growth. Seamless, by the nature of the product and the many different use cases that it enables has a sales team that takes a consultative approach to work with their customers to understand their challenges and opportunities to prescribe the right package at the right time at the right price for them.
As a result, demo requests, new user registrations and optimisation of the process down the funnel has significant impact on revenue.
The demo scheduling process was a work in progress: "At the very beginning, we would just simply hand off meetings, right? Kind of like those sales movies calling out RECO and then somebody picks up the phone."
From there to 1:1 calendaring to sophisticated calendaring systems that everyone has heard of, Seamless has tried it all, and were faced with:
For a company handling 600-700 daily user registrations and hundreds of demos, every system failure means lost revenue.
As Jonathan Pogact, VP of Marketing at Seamless.ai puts it:
"Even if you're down for five minutes in our world... it's leaving money on the table. The calendar links would go down often. If one person left the organization, it might break an entire workflow."
After hearing about RevenueHero frequently on Linkedin and seeing a lot of organizations make the switch in the market that was pretty much dominated by a single player in the space, an evaluation ended up in making the switch to RevenueHero due to:
When prospects or customers want to talk to your sales team, they’re not going to wait while watching the calendar populate waiting on a loader to finish. This was the experience with their previous vendor. RevenueHero’s speed and reliability of the scheduling experience was one of the major reasons, apart from:
Seamless’s SDR team structure, that is split by use cases, regions, functions, and several other complexities required a solution that allowed them to route meetings to the right AEs every single time.
RevenueHero’s Relays met that need at scale, and enabled them to get the right meetings to the right people at the right time, every single time.
For a sales org that is as large and as sophisticated as Seamless, the CRM setup tends to be pretty complicated. After working with existing vendors whose limitations meant changing their CRM setup to accommodate the product they were using, RevenueHero’s flexible and adaptable integration provided them with a system that:
Having witnessed the platform go through advancements throughout their time, some even based on their direct feedback, Seamless saw a partner that provided:
Apart from automating the scheduling process for prospects on the website, Seamless leverages RevenueHero in a variety of ways across sales and marketing.
As Jonathan explains:
When somebody is in Seamless AI, we're a freemium subscription based platform. We already have their name and their email address and their phone number. So why make them fill that out again?
With RevenueHero’s in-app scheduling capability, logged in users get a fast, easy and “seamless” experience when they want to have a conversation with the sales team. All they have to do is click the button and they can select a time.
Meetings that haven't been booked are a huge opportunity for the sales team to quickly take action and RevenueHero’s slack notifications enable the SDR teams to quickly act on them.
At Seamless.ai's scale, where they handle hundreds of demos daily, incremental improvements compound into significant revenue impact. As Jonathan notes:
When you get to a certain size of an organization, you no longer get the big, big wins... you're dealing in incrementality. And it's been a really nice improvement for us because anytime we can get a percentage point, a few percentage points higher on book meetings, held meetings... it makes a massive difference to the business.
Jonathan shares some refreshingly practical advice for marketing leaders looking to make a real impact:
At Seamless.ai, follow-up happens in minutes, not hours or days. This requires:
If you're a marketer out there and you want to have a nice career for yourself, tie yourself to a revenue number or a company metric that makes a difference to the bottom line that gets reported up to the board. Chances are it's not going to be MQLs and SQLs.
If nothing else has sold you on RevenueHero, Hopefully these traditional marketing tactics will.