Case Study

Cultivating Leads with Attention-Getting Content

 
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“The American Hospital Association truly acted as an extension of our marketing department with this campaign. Much consideration was put into the target audience, content/message, lead generation and reports. Using one key asset, the AHA designed different forms of content that could appeal to the different members of our target audience. All of this was extremely valuable to us for brand building, and their scoring method with opens and clicks provided us with over 250 qualified leads.

The campaign exceeded our expectations. With the number of qualified leads we received, we had new discussions around how we are leveraging the campaigns, what we are doing with the leads, and the best way for our salespeople to follow up.”

Assistant Vice President, Marketing

When a highly regarded equipment leasing and financing firm wanted to build awareness of how it could help hospitals with their technology funding needs, it turned to the American Hospital Association to create an integrated, credible and highly effective campaign.

The multi-channel initiative, built on a foundation of thought leadership and executed via a range of engaging tactics, exceeded all expectations, generating more than twice the number of “marketing engaged” leads expected.

THE CHALLENGE

In order to generate interest and engagement, the equipment leasing and financing firm needed to establish itself as an authority in the minds of its prospects. To achieve this objective, the American Hospital Association conducted a joint survey with its client on the current state of technology funding and priorities at U.S. hospitals. The survey’s results and insights derived from it were then turned into an engaging report that could be leveraged in multiple ways.

THE GOAL: to use this content to create new contacts, and to nurture existing prospects so that at least 125 leads would reach “marketing engaged” status.

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CAMPAIGN

Over a period of two months, the AHA worked with the client to identify its best targets, develop key messages, and execute a multi-channel engagement campaign to fuel the pipeline.

This campaign targeted health care professionals in hospitals and health systems that were selected from AHA’s high-quality database of health care executives and professionals — built from multiple sources across the American Hospital Association. Targeted titles included chief information officer, chief financial officer, chief nursing officer, facilities vice presidents, finance directors, VPs, management and other finance titles.

Using the survey report content as the key asset, the AHA deployed a range of marketing tactics to generate and build interest:

  • E-promotions
  • Infographic
  • White paper report

The AHA launched the campaign by developing an informative white paper report that highlighted key data from our joint survey. This white paper was promoted and available through e-promotions to two separate streams of prospects: new and existing.

Over the following weeks, the target list then received a series of e-promotions highlighting various aspects of the report in order to drive additional downloads.

In addition, the AHA helped the client position itself as a thought leader through a native web article which was viewed by an average of 15,000 hospital and health system executives each month.

“The American Hospital Association truly acted as an extension of our marketing department with this campaign. Much consideration was put into the target audience, content/message, lead generation and reports. Using one key asset, the AHA designed different forms of content that could appeal to the different members of our target audience. All of this was extremely valuable to us for brand building, and their scoring method with opens and clicks provided us with over 250 qualified leads.

The campaign exceeded our expectations. With the number of qualified leads we received, we had new discussions around how we are leveraging the campaigns, what we are doing with the leads, and the best way for our salespeople to follow up.”

Assistant Vice President, Marketing

RESULTS

More than 280 “marketing engaged” leads were delivered to the client with 38 downloads of the white paper report as a result of this campaign.

The client saw more than double the anticipated number of marketing qualified leads, with a mix of both new and existing prospects.

38

white paper downloads

251

existing prospects pursued more information from the campaign

280+

qualified leads delivered

 
 

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