“…50 percent increase in sales…”
In many ways, First Insight Corporation of Hillsboro, Oregon does for eye care medical professionals what Act-On does for small- and medium- sized business marketers. The company enables ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians to automate the business and patient care elements of their practices.
First Insight helps eye care professionals stay current with the latest developments in patient record keeping and conformance with medical standards and practices. It also enables them to deliver efficient and personal customer service that patients have come to expect from first-class businesses and top-notch professional organizations.
I’ve often had to create and deploy an email campaign within a few hours with Act-On, this is now possible. And if we want to import an HTML email that was our web team created, it’s done easily with just a few clicks.
Donna Lehmann
Director of Marketing Communications
Overview
Founded in 1994, First Insight has grown to 100 employees and is recognized as the leader in eye care practice management and electronic health records business solutions.
1. First Insight has first-hand experience with what works and what doesn’t in making small- and medium-sized businesses successful in their respective fields. Accordingly, First Insight demands highly effective, high-touch e-marketing programs – without the expense, complexity, and headcount requirements of traditional tools.
2. First Insight first considered Act-On’s integrated marketing platform based on positive buzz it heard in the local business community. Since integrating Act-On into its marketing programs, First Insight reports dramatic improvements in marketing process efficiency and bottom line results.
3. First Insight wasn’t a first-time user of marketing technology; the company became an Act-On customer after years of using email marketing tools. Given the needs and constraints imposed by such tools, the company decided that an integrated marketing platform was the only way to scale up.
First Insight wanted more than its email vendor could deliver. The major problems were:
- No web visitor tracking data
- No web form customization
- Not user-friendly
- Overall bounce rate was too high
Rich Metrics and Tracking
Act-On enables real-time tracking of lead activities on the First Insight website, including which pages a prospect is visiting, collateral and white papers downloaded, etc. Act-On also creates automated summaries of lead behavior for forwarding to sales people for targeted follow-up based on lead behavior and customer interests.
“Before First Insight began using Act-On, it was difficult to measure the effectiveness of our e-marketing campaigns and website activity.” Says Donna. “Now, with Act-On we can track, analyze, and act on the data that we’ve gathered based on the scoring and activity of our leads and current customers in our database.”
In addition, Donna appreciates the fast, easy access to campaign metrics that lets her evaluate campaign effectiveness and make mid-course corrections to the current campaign or lessons learned for the next rounds.
Act-On prides itself as a “Customer First” company.
The results First Insight has achieved are impressive. Considering the value of time to today’s marketing organization, Act-On has driven significant productivity improvements. And as for results, the numbers speak for themselves:
- The first orchestrated inside sales campaign using Act-On outperformed nine years of previous campaigns
- Cut time to launch an e-marketing campaign from four-five days to just one day
- Cut time to create and send the company newsletter to a few hours
- Can now create and send emails to a targeted list of prospects and customers on an as-needed basis
Our next project is to take marketing up a notch by incorporating drip marketing for our high- scoring leads. In addition, our sales team loves the ability to easily send an email from Salesforce using pre- defined corporate templates that marketing has created for them in Act-On.
Donna Lehmann
Director of Marketing Communications
Highlights
- Customer since 2010
- 50% increase in sales
- 100% increase in response rate for inside sales campaigns
- Seamless integration with Salesforce provides highly targeted follow-up
- Fully automated drip marketing campaigns
- Personalized thank you notes to leads and customers
- Success Manager dedicated to helping them achieve results (each customer gets one)
Everyone at Act-On is highly professional, friendly, and knowledgeable, and there when I need them. This attribute is extremely important to our company as we value high-quality customer support as a key component for every successful company.
Donna Lehmann
Director of Marketing Communications
Act-On provides a level of service and training that is far better than any vendor I’ve worked with in the past