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Amy June 05, 2024 at 05:21 PM

:question:Question for the group. What are your thoughts about how customer evidence (case studies, quotes, videos, etc) can *support lead generation* and *sales*? Examples welcome! :thank_you:

Shannon Howard June 05, 2024 at 06:27 PM

So, I am a firm believer in ungated case studies.

THAT SAID, something I've done before is have case studies ungated on the website and then included a button to download a PDF. That PDF is behind a form. So lead capture + impacts our lead scoring/shows maybe higher intent.

We're working now on how customer evidence can be used in the sales process -- recently brought in an awesome VP of Solutions Engineering who is helping us with that, since our team was not used to leveraging customer evidence (other than references) in the sales process.

Amy June 05, 2024 at 07:03 PM

This is great, Shannon. Thank you for the response!

Laurie Timms June 05, 2024 at 07:43 PM

At Google Cloud, I managed the Scaled Program. I used TechValidate to do customer surveys to quickly create a library of customer evidence (quotes, statistics, NPS scores). We used that information in collaboration with the Campaigns team. Response rates were much higher when we used customer evidence. I don’t remember the exact numbers but I know the response rates were at least 2% higher.

Amy June 05, 2024 at 08:20 PM

Thanks @Laurie Timms I have used TV in the past and have been using UserEvidence.

Laurie Timms June 05, 2024 at 08:40 PM

Cool! I used that at Splunk. Great stuff.