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Customer story

RecRight

Supporting business growth with strategic marketing operations

About RecRight

RecRight is a video recruitment platform that helps companies hire the right people at the right time, in the right way. Targeting mid-market to enterprise companies, the company was looking to expand internationally and reach its ambitious growth targets.

RecRight partnered with us to get help building a marketing strategy and scaling up their marketing operations. 

Services provided

Marketing strategy
ICP research, positioning, messaging
Content marketing
Advertising

Marketing tactics weren’t aligned with business goals

Before working with us, RecRight was lacking a marketing strategy and the key processes to tie marketing and sales together. While RecRight’s marketing team was working on many individual tasks, they weren’t clear on how their efforts contributed to the bigger picture. 

“We didn’t have a lead process in place and we hadn’t identified our ideal target audiences. We wanted marketing to be seen as a true contributor to business results, and we were looking for a partner to help us with that,” says Saara Saalamo, Marketing Lead at RecRight.   

RecRight wasn’t looking for an agency to execute one-off marketing campaigns, but rather a strategic partner that would act as an extension to their team. “There are so many new marketing technologies, tools, and methodologies, making it hard to keep up with the pace and master all those areas yourself. We were looking for a partner so that we could scale up our own team,” says Saara.

 

Building RecRight’s strategic marketing strategy

During the initial strategy phase of the collaboration, we

  • ran workshops with RecRight to learn about their business and identify their company goals.
  • worked together to determine RecRight’s ideal customers
  • interviewed their best customers to better understand them.

Rather than developing traditional buyer personas based on demographics and psychographics, we used the Jobs to be Done framework to understand the challenges RecRight’s core buyers face and the progress they aim to make. By conducting customer research, we helped RecRight refine its value proposition and clarify their target companies. 

After building the first version of the marketing strategy, we moved into agile marketing operations with RecRight with the aim of supporting customer acquisition and accelerating revenue growth.

“Developing the marketing strategy helped us clarify and crystalize our overall business strategy. It’s not just a document that’s collecting dust—it’s really a living document that I’m using on a daily basis.” 

Saara Saalamo
Marketing Lead, RecRight

Saara Saalamo

A strategic partnership

We work together with RecRight in 4-week sprints.

Each new sprint starts with a planning session to choose the tasks for the upcoming sprint, and we have 15-minute scrums every Monday to connect about what’s going on that week. Each sprint ends with a retrospective where we analyze their results and performance, discuss any learnings, and determine the focus for the next sprint.  

It’s hard to imagine not working in an agile way. The agile method really helps our team focus on the most important things. I feel like I’m really on top of everything and the communication flow is very natural,” says Saara. 

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When deciding the focus for each sprint, we prioritize reaching RecRight’s growth goals. “I honestly feel that the people I work with at Advance B2B are more interested in our success than they are in their own. I feel that we are genuinely on the same team. This would definitely be described as a strategic partnership,” says Saara. 

Focusing on outcomes over outputs, we’ve helped RecRight adopt a more data-oriented way of working by first setting up clear dashboards in Databox. “Advance B2B has helped us identify the right kinds of data sources, and we use that information to decide what to concentrate on next in marketing,” says Saara. 

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"I was really impressed by how Advance B2B was studying our business and our goals, our customers, and even our brand category. We worked very closely with the sales and product teams to build a successful marketing strategy, and I think that was really groundbreaking.”

Saara Saalamo
Marketing Lead, RecRight

Saara Saalamo

Towards a collaborative sales & marketing relationship

Early on in the partnership, we worked with RecRight to optimize the sales process and align the sales and marketing teams.

  • Together, we defined what it meant to be a contact, MQL, SQL, and opportunity.
  • We also set a clear lead scoring model and lead follow-up guidelines.

We developed one of the company’s core processes—the lead process—which ties marketing and sales very closely together,” says Saara.

Working with us has impacted RecRight’s overall company culture, from both the marketing and sales perspectives. “We are more goal-oriented, and marketing has become everyone’s business. People outside of marketing are asking what we’re up to and how they can contribute. And when it comes to results, they’re are eager to learn what we have achieved,” says Saara.

RecRight can now focus their efforts on working towards a common goal with the sales team. “I think our team is more efficient because we are better organized and more focused,” says Saara. Sales and marketing worked closely together, for example, when working on an account-based marketing campaign.

When it comes to sales, the team now gets more materials and ideas from marketing and is better able to focus on their strengths.

Working with Advance B2B has given a lot of structure to our collaboration with our marketing team. It’s like we got a new team member who is always up to date on modern sales and marketing,” says Miikka Tuomola, Business Development Director at RecRight

Content strategy is part of the overall marketing strategy

As part of the overall marketing strategy, we developed a content strategy using the topic cluster approach where they identified three core topics for pillar pages and optimized existing content around these pages.

The video recruitment pillar page now ranks on the first page of Google with a featured snippet for a key search term. 👇

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"I honestly feel that the people I work with at Advance B2B are more interested in our success than they are in their own."

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"For fellow marketers in B2B SaaS companies like ours, I would recommend you look for partners like Advance B2B because they will make sure you’re focusing on the right things and that you’re able to accelerate your own learning."

Saara Saalamo
Marketing Lead, RecRight

Saara Saalamo

RecRight’s future focus

RecRight understands that testing and trying new things—and learning from your experiments—is key to business success. As for the next steps, RecRight plans on setting new growth goals now that they have more reliable data. 

In the summer 2022, Recright reached out to us again to collaborate on building a go-to-market game plan that would be used in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

Learn more about it here.

Highlights

Our collaboration gave RecRight the foundation to run marketing operations that truly support business growth.

Additionally, working with AB2B gave RecRight's team a chance to develop all sorts of skills.

When you’re working within a small team and you have tight resources, it’s key to have an external partner so that you can use their expertise in specific areas where you’re not the strongest yourself,” says Saara. 

We also empowered RecRight with expert guidance they can put into practice outside of their collaboration. After planning two webinars together with us, for example, RecRight was able to follow the same practices on their own. 

We also support RecRight with strategic paid acquisition campaigns, focusing on the right channels, audiences, and messages to get better results.

In-house marketing team, marketing agency, or both?

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