Objectives
Description
Eloqua engaged BAT to assess and refine their brand position, messaging platform and core brand devices.
Situation
Eloqua defined the marketing-automation space with a first-to-market offering in 2002. By 2007 the category was impacted and fragmented with multiple new entrants offering low and mid-tier price competitive SaaS solutions. Eloqua was in the midst of revamping their offering and needed a new value proposition with stronger messaging to support their efforts.
Engagement
Through customer interviews, Brand Synthesis® and user-testing BAT reinvented the Eloqua brand from the ground up - supporting the global roll-out of a leadership-oriented brand in Q1 of 2009, followed by a complete overhaul of the website and demand generation program.
We delivered a new identity, business systems, tagline, messaging platform, collateral, website, marketing programs and a sales deck.
Results
The new Brand Platform helped Eloqua's marketing team exceed aggressive net-new inquiry and lead targets in 2009, priming the sales pipeline for a robust second half of 2009 and beyond.
Leveraging unique content and product announcements, BAT designed a series of e-mail templates and campaigns for Eloqua. Among these were a comprehensive e-book program utilizing chapters of Steve Woods' Digital Body Language, a product launch program targeting CMOs and VPs of Sales, and a standardized template used in dozens of programs throughout the year. The two custom programs have collectively driven more leads than any other demand generation effort to date.