Akvo project

Client

Akvo

Project

A to Z HubSpot marketing & sales implementation

Marketing palette

Marketing-sales bridge

Marketing funnel optimisation

Marketing automations

Website and HubSpot integration

Database management

Marketing and sales reporting in HubSpot

 

Akvo project

Client

Akvo

Project

A to Z HubSpot marketing & sales implementation

Marketing palette

Marketing-sales bridge

Marketing funnel optimisation

Marketing automations

Website and HubSpot integration

Database management

Marketing and sales reporting in HubSpot

1700+

New online leads

27%+

Email campaigns open rate

2mln+ euro

Sales from online leads

Need

Akvo helps governments and non-governmental organisations unlock the power of data for sustainable change. The company needed a system that would underpin its marketing and business development strategy and support the bridge between the two. It also needed to streamline its CRM, develop targeted campaigns, build a funnel that effectively converts leads into customers, and improve its reporting.

Approach

After researching a range of systems, I supported Akvo in acquiring HubSpot Marketing and Sales Professional as the ideal choice for the organisation’s business model. I then managed the implementation of the system across Akvo’s seven offices around the world: from aligning the system’s processes with Akvo’s strategy, migrating all data into a cohesive set-up and integrating Akvo’s website and blog with HubSpot, to building the organisation’s funnel, creating automated workflows that bridge marketing and sales, and developing reporting dashboards. I also provided training for the Akvo staff to maximise the use of HubSpot.

Results

Akvo can now better understand and easily optimise its customer journey from the awareness stage to customer conversion and retention. Because all data and processes are centralised and automations are in place, the organisation can now save a great amount of time on managing its marketing and sales. It can also produce powerful campaigns by easily slicing and dicing its database for optimum segmentation, and can make strategic decisions and reliable predictions based on real-time data. In less than two years, Akvo generated 1,700+ qualified online leads and over €2mln in sales from online leads.

Laura is one in a million. I have never encountered a person with her unique mix of high-level strategic thinking and brilliantly detail-oriented executive skills. Laura is creative, determined and enthusiastic as well as a great sparring partner whose solid and thoughtful advice is to be taken seriously. She can navigate complex situations and deliver on a project against all odds. I always trusted her to pick up and enrich the brief on the fly and make things happen. Usually exceeding expectations, she was ahead of the curve in bringing innovation when the organization most required it. During her time at Akvo, Laura improved our marketing efforts enormously. Thanks to her, we’ve been able to roll out consistent marketing campaigns and generate qualified leads like never before. She used her creativity, intelligence, abundance of energy and entrepreneurial drive to make a marketing strategy that worked, brought results and hit the bottom line.

 

Alvaro de Salvo, Head of Marketing & Communications
Akvo