6sense, an ABM orchestration platform, has raised $27 million in funding. The round was led by Industry Ventures, with additional participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Venrock.
6sense, an ABM orchestration platform, announced a new integration with Salesforce Pardot. The integration intends to help mutual customers gain deeper visibility into buyers’ journeys, positioning them to better engage stakeholders at target accounts with the right campaigns and messaging.
PGi, a web conferencing, online meetings and webcasting solution, teamed up with ABM orchestration platform 6sense to enhance its marketing and sales efforts and better reach prospective customers. The partnership resulted in a 77% increase in win rates.
Lauren Weatherly, PGi’s VP of Channel Marketing and Demand Gen, noted that as the company shifted from audio conferencing to a wider array of meeting and webcasting solutions, its go-to-market strategy also needed an update.
“We were predominantly an audio-conferencing company but audio conferencing on its own is dying and it’s dying faster than analysts had predicted,” said Weatherly in an interview with Demand Gen Report. “We really recognized the need to transform not only into acquiring new customers, but also into acquiring new customers in a new business and new product suite. That presented quite a challenge for us, so we knew that we needed to be very smart from a marketing perspective and needed to be very in tune and aligned with our sales team.”
PGi began searching for an ABM solution to help drive demand generation for its expanded product portfolio. According to Weatherly, the company had an exhaustive list of solution criteria, which included API and third-party compatibility, comprehensive data and analytics reporting, as well as ongoing training and support.
Ultimately, the company chose 6sense because it met the above criteria, as well as brought together intent data and predictive analytics. Weatherly added that it also offered both a marketing and sales solution to ensure cross-departmental alignment.
“The last thing on our list of criteria was the one-stop shop — which they aren’t today, nor are any vendors in this space — but they seek to be that,” said Weatherly. “We really feel like their ability to be nimble, to listen to their customers and to really seek those insights and seek to add on those tools was important.”
PGi uses 6sense to uncover buying intent, prioritize accounts with a high buying propensity and engage buyers with omnichannel, multitouch campaigns. To drive high adoption rates amongst the sales team, the company unveiled a “six minutes with 6sense” initiative that encouraged sales reps to start their day by spending just six minutes with the solution.
The initiative proved successful and within just a few months, PGi began seeing impressive results such as a 77% increase in win rates. Additional results include a 68% faster time-to-contact rate and a 9x boost in average deal size.
“6sense is the foundation of our demand gen,” said Weatherly. “We begin with very targeted accounts that are obviously showing in market and we take them through the buyer’s journey. It’s a huge part of how we go to market, who we target and how we target them.”
After starting out three years ago as a small satellite event during Dreamforce, the Ops-Stars Conference has quickly grown to attract more than 1,500 attendees, 40 sessions and 26 sponsors. Hosted by LeanData, the event has become the lead forum for B2B executives who are either in an Ops role, looking to hire Ops roles, or those simply looking to optimize how the role functions within their organization.
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AI and big-data powered marketing cloud 6sense has appointed Jason Zintak as CEO to help drive growth and oversee the technological development of the company. 6sense Founder and former CEO Amanda Kahlow will maintain an active role in the company as Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chairman.
Predictive intelligence platform 6sense has launched SearchSense, a product designed to reveal the search activity of B2B decision makers and buying committees across the Web. The solution aims to provide marketing and sales with insight into who is exhibiting heightened buying activity, and which prospects are searching their keywords.
Predictive marketing platform provider 6sense has seen a 400% revenue increase in Q3 2015, as well as the addition of several Fortune 1000 businesses to its client roster. The company attributed the growth to a greater recognition of the competitive advantage provided by predictive analytics.
