Love Energy Savings Increases Lead Generation and Conversion Thanks to Sendinblue's All-in-one Platform

On a mission to help small and medium size businesses save money

In line with the company’s mission to help small and medium size businesses save money on essential costs, Love Energy Savings delivers best-in-class customer service through an omni-channel approach based on customers wants and needs. 

In 2019, Tom Spoelstra joined the team as an e-CRM manager to build the company’s CRM strategy from the ground up and create efficient, personalized customer journeys with data segmentation and automated email campaigns. His objectives included converting leads, retaining customers, and increasing the average customer value. At the time, the company was using an email platform that was very limited in terms of functionality, only allowing them to import contacts and send campaigns. The manager immediately knew his team needed a new solution to work on the different CRM projects he had envisioned to achieve their objectives.

On the lookout for a robust platform to segment users and build customer journeys

The team at Love Energy Savings, focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses save money on essential costs, wanted to enhance and drive effectiveness of their eCRM activity.

For this reason, they needed a robust platform that would allow them to segment users and build customer journeys.

“I remember sitting down and thinking of every possible feature I would need to cover all our planned activities,” explains Spoelstra. “It was a long checklist because I was looking for a platform that also included transactional emails, SMS marketing, automation, dynamic segmentation, and that was very user-friendly”.

After doing research, he decided to create a free account with Sendinblue and try out the features before making a final decision. “We chose Sendinblue because it offered us everything we needed, and it was the most user-friendly tool we tried. We wanted to make the most of a platform, and Sendinblue offers so many features at a very competitive price, so it’s definitely worth it.”

A platform that does it all

Following the trial, Love Energy Savings signed up for the Premium plan and was able to set up the platform smoothly and autonomously. “Sendinblue is very easy to navigate. Shortly after paying for our plan, we were customizing templates, sending campaigns, and creating new customer journeys thanks to the addition of attributes” explains Spoelstra. 

The objective of the company’s CRM is to optimize conversion on all channels and to ensure cohesiveness and personalization at each touchpoint along the lead journey. “Since we get a lot of visitors, we use the Sendinblue forms in many of our pages, to capture the lead information and offer them the most convenient way to get in touch with us. One of the most effective and important forms we have created with Sendinblue is for the lead to receive or schedule a callback from one of our agents. With this form, we can prioritize leads, and reach them at the best time. We also ensure the clients receive an email notification with a reminder on the morning the call is scheduled, reducing friction”.  

Their marketing campaigns also play an important role in their CRM activities. The team uses conditional display and personalization to ensure the best user experience for recipients. “In our campaigns, we include a banner encouraging the leads to contact one of our agents, and we only display it when the call center is open. The rest of the time, it shows a banner that redirects to a callback form,” explains the manager. “This way, we make sure the lead is not frustrated by the experience with our service and we can get in touch with them as efficiently as possible” 

The team at Love Energy Savings also leverages the automation and SMS features to enhance the customer journey. They have set up various renewal scenarios, to proactively reach out to customers with personalized communications before their contract expires. “With these scenarios, we warm up our clients and tell them when it will be time to change their contract. We show them better options for their savings. This allows us to create further touchpoints and ensure they don’t miss their notice period. Integrating SMS in these scenarios has been key due to the customer phase on the journey. SMS helps us increase conversions as well because it is a channel with a very high response rate,” adds Spoelstra. 

After a few months, with the evolving needs of the company and its growing sending volume, the team upgraded to an Enterprise plan. “When we switched to Enterprise, we were assigned a dedicated Customer Success Manager, and we have been in regular touch with her to discuss our account. She has guided us through the IP warm-up process to ensure our campaigns get delivered and we maintain our sender’s reputation,” tells the manager. “Additionally, she helps us analyze from a strategic perspective how we can make the most of our platform and how to ensure the success of our campaigns, so we have both technical and strategic support from our CSM which is very valuable”. 

Generating 6 times more leads thanks to Sendinblue

The e-CRM team has seen a significant improvement in performance in all the CRM and marketing activities since switching to Sendinblue.

Since they operate in the B2B sector where contact information changes frequently, the team, guided by their customer success manager, understands the importance of maintaining good deliverability and a high sender score. “We only send campaigns to contacts either created or who have engaged with campaigns sent in the past 3 months. With this rule, we’ve been able to maintain almost perfect deliverability and less than 1% bounce rate.“

The specific journeys the team has built have made a significant impact in lead generation and conversions. “With Sendinblue’s tools, we are now generating 6 times more leads. That’s a massive increase,” explains Spoelstra