Collectiv
Collectiv Closes 7 Figure Consulting Engagement with Waste Management and Adds Millions More to Sales Pipeline
Collectiv saw an opportunity to grow their sales pipeline by outsourcing their sales development department. The company wanted to remain focused on its core business while allowing a sales development specialist to handle outreach.
Founded In
2016
Industry
IT Services & IT Consulting
Verticals
Financial Services, IT, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Automotive
Website
gocollectiv.comAbout Collectiv
Collectiv is a Microsoft Gold partner and the #1 rated consulting provider of Business Intelligence and Power BI services on G2.
They help enterprise customers get the most out of their massive investment in the latest business intelligence tools from the Microsoft stack.
Collectiv saw an opportunity to grow their sales pipeline by outsourcing their sales development department. The company wanted to remain focused on its core business while allowing a sales development specialist to handle outreach.
What Collectiv is Saying
Working with Growth Era to outsource our sales development has been a great solution for us to build a sales pipeline while not having to create an entirely new function in house.
The Challenge
Collectiv decided that one way to grow their firm was to develop a sales development function. Their target market is the enterprise consumer and thus the lifetime value of any new client relationship can range from the multi six figures to multi seven figures. The question that came up whether to develop the function in-house or to outsource it, and if the latter, to which provider.
Collectiv decided that the sales development function was not going to be an internal focus for them. It involves managing a group of people early in their careers doing repetitive, emotionally difficult work. From where they were sitting, they were happy to have someone else manage it for them.
Collectiv’s sales development challenges fell into few key categories:
The Solution
After some discovery with multiple outsourced sales development firms the company settled on Growth Era.
“We were impressed with the people we were interacting with. We liked the way they had thought through the problem from the client perspective and came up with the bolt-on department model. They understood that we don’t want to deal with any of the aspects of the sales development function. We want to become involved once there is a discovery meeting on the calendar. Growth Era’s model anticipated our desires and so we decided on a partnership with them.”
Real Results
The Perfect Fit
In the first year of the partnership, Collectiv was able to add its first massive new logo to their client portfolio based on a meeting set by Growth Era – Waste Management (WM).
WM is the perfect client-fit for Collectiv. They have invested in all of the tools and were feeling the pain of getting maximum value out of their investment. Collectiv was able to show them a path to how they could achieve their goals, and have begun the first project.
Aside from the Waste Management deal, Growth Era helped set over 50 other meetings, adding multiple millions of dollars to the sales pipeline.
Collectiv’s sale is not a transactional sale. They realized that they were investing in a pipeline of sales conversations. As long as they get in front of the right target prospect, Collectiv is confident that their knowledge and reputation will help them convert at a high rate.
The Results
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The Next Level
“We are very happy with the work that Growth Era does on our behalf. We manage the entire process with a short weekly update call and they handle the rest. They are responsive, hardworking, and can adapt intelligently to the difficulties that arise. We plan to continue our work with them and see ourselves expanding the relationship in the future.”
Collectiv has now scaled the team with Growth Era and is working on securing yet another 7-figure deal from their sales development efforts.
