90 MQLs from LE for an information security software vendor
Business goal
A customer is an IT security software company with headquarters in the USA. They have developed a security software platform that allows organizations to protect unstructured data. But the business like this needs not only the best in class product and services, but also sales and marketing efforts to get a steady flow of new customers.

And the question is - how to get high-quality leads from large enterprises for an information security vendor? What best practices should be used? How to start negotiations with chief security officers (CSO) and chief information officers (CIO)?

Here is the case study of our project where you can find some answers.
Target group & lead criteria
  • Large business (LE)
  • Verticals of top priority: banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications
  • High level of decision makers – CSO, CIO
  • Preliminary interest in the potential cooperation and potential to purchase a cybersecurity platform, in case of future interest
  • Other specific criteria
What we did
The goal assigned to our agency was the appointment of business (remote and face-to-face) meetings with representatives of the largest companies.

Our services included lead generation and appointment making with prospective customers, direct mail and gaining attendees to events, Account Based Marketing and data lists gaining.

The lead generation team consisted of the project manager, 2 lead generation agents and one direct mail specialist.

It is important to highlight that some suspents have had a long pre-nurturing cycle before they have turned into leads. It has taken us up to 6 months to arrange some of the meetings because of the specifics of IT budgeting and large enterprises strategical planning.
Our services
Project results
  • 90 marketing qualified leads answering marketing lead criteria
  • 68 sales qualified leads answering sales lead criteria
  • Project analytics by industry and geographical verticals
  • Analytics of the reasons for refusals
  • Contacts of decision makers
  • Project duration - 2021-2022
  • 1364
    "Cold" list of companies
  • 90 MQLs
    Marketing qualified leads
  • 68 SQLs
    Sales qualified leads
  • 5%
    Conversion from the cold list to SQL
Leads & prospects analytics
Leads overview
The lead gen team managed to find prospective lead in banking, telecommunications, CPG, heavy industry and oil&gas. Our agents managed to "enter" the TOP 5 largest enterprises of some of these industries, and arrange personal appointments with their CSO/CIOs and their teams. Most of the meetings were online, but offline negotiations also took place.

Among the decision makers in the leads we have found were:
  • Head of the information technology department of a large CIS bank (more than 80 thousand employees) + a delegation of 4 colleagues of IT managers, vice presidents, etc.
  • Head of the Corporate Information Security Service of TOP-5 telecom companies in CIS
  • Head of information security department of a large retail chain
  • Head of the IT department of a mining holding company
  • Managing Director of IT of a 5000+ employees company
«We have fairly strict lead qualification criteria - both in terms of company size, job level, and a number of other criteria specific to our business. In 98% of cases, leads meet all the stated requirements.
We have had leads from the top of the largest banks, manufacturing companies, retail and other industries that are important to us. Thank you for the professionalism».
Marketing Manager
CIS countries branch of the company