CUSTOMER STORY
How We Helped Estis Scale Up With HubSpot Sales Enablement
There’s no doubt - building a thriving business off of hard work, strong relationships and a good reputation works. At a certain point, however, you might find yourself looking to accelerate the growth of the business.
To break past and find renewed growth, you’ll need to mature your sales team, establish a formal sales process and deploy technology for tracking, executing and optimizing your sales efforts more coherently.
That’s the moment Estis had reached when they approached us ready to consider options such as HubSpot for taking that next step.
What would it take? A brand new customer relationship management and content management system (CRM & CMS) supported by sales enablement tools capable of facilitating end-to-end contract management.
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Hear from the client “We had ambitious growth plans, so we needed a way to capture and capitalize on every opportunity while remaining true to our strategic and financial objectives. We already had a strong track record in innovation and service delivery, and we needed to build a sales force to match that. We had never used a CRM system or had documented sales standards, and saw this as critical to accelerating our growth.” Estis |
Estis is a leader in top-of-the-line artificial lift services in the form of gas lift. They are the pioneer in High-Pressure Gas Lift services (HPGL) – an innovative technology for maximizing production from unconventional oil and gas wells.
With a strong brand - providing service to an expanding installed base of customers - Estis had achieved an impressive market foothold through sheer quality of delivery and relationships.
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Key Goal: Now, having recently secured private equity backing, new, more refined sales gears needed to be found to take growth to the next level and reach clearly defined new milestones. |
Without the right CRM infrastructure, their sales growth would be difficult to model and even harder to achieve. Their customer and prospect lists would be on paper - scattered and anecdotal at best - instead of in a shared database.
The core challenge Estis faced was the need to define and build new, standardized sales processes able to bring order, volume and conversion potential:
These factors needed to come together to move the needle in the right direction for effective pipeline management, building detailed account plans, contract creation and storage, adding competitor tracking capabilities and improving customer demand tracking.
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How could Estis triple their customer base with a new CRM and processes without standardized sales operations tracked and managed in practical, scalable, effective ways? |
The Estis website already had a steady flow of unconverted traffic. Without replatforming to HubSpot CMS to capture and route sales leads to the appropriate regional sales manager - most of it was destined to remain just that… traffic.
There would be little standardization among the sales team for pipeline management, forecasting, contract creation & negotiation - nor would there be a common language or rules of engagement for the sales organization. It would be impossible to judge customer demand, therefore hampering growth potential.
Without the tailored HubSpot implementation and onboarding from Bayard Bradford, Estis’ sales team would have experienced a longer ramp-up time to full adoption of an effective sales process.
PROJECT OUTLINE
How did Bayard Bradford approach the project engagement with Estis?
Before eventually working directly with Estis’ sales team - to implement HubSpot Sales Hub Professional - a little groundwork was first required for proving the value of what would come next.
Following the initial groundwork to prove value, Bayard Bradford worked closely with Estis’ sales team to implement HubSpot Sales Hub Professional, deployed in 4 weeks during which we conducted:
Following the HubSpot program, it was important that we deploy learning and enablement through a carefully planned user training and adoption program.
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Ultimately, Bayard Bradford wanted to equip the Estis team with the practical knowledge for day-to-day HubSpot ownership, independence and deal development that would help maximize utilization and ROI. |
The Estis website had been designed for tablet device browsing. While elegant, it lacked the kind of content management system (CMS) functionality that would allow for stronger SEO optimization.
To address this, Bayard Bradford helped Estis replatform the website into HubSpot where opportunities could be more efficiently managed, saving time and money.
In doing so, Estis gained new strategic insights on their business by utilizing the best available deal data in a way that the sales team and company leadership could digest.
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“Bayard Bradford’s support enabled us to increase our pipeline, while better tracking current and potential customers and building out forecasts that modeled how many units we needed to build to meet our forecasted demand.” Estis |
What Estis still lacked was deeper CRM expertise and business intelligence reporting capability. To solve this, we created a system easy enough to use that their new sales team could quickly become adept at leveraging.
Via a mentoring and training program, we were able to hand the sales operations over for the longer term, bypassing the need for over-reliance and investment in outside assistance.
The upshot? Accessible business intelligence with minimal support required from third parties.
OUTCOMES & SUCCESS INDICATORS
How did the Estis sales team respond to HubSpot Sales Hub Professional?
Both Estis and Bayard Bradford were encouraged to see full HubSpot adoption across the entire sales team - from early stage lead engagement, right through to pipeline and contract management.
Through the term of the engagement, Estis tripled their customer base while building out a high-performing sales organization. |
After an initial ramp-up in user adoption, the sales team began providing feedback to further tighten the screws on the system that they were quickly establishing as a key component to future sales and business success.
From day-one post implementation, Estis’ sales team made conscious use of the CRM on their desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Whether at home, on the road, or in the field, the sales team always had their customer intelligence at their fingertips.
Efficiency boost
Almost immediately, Estis’ sales team saw notable efficiency boosts that included:
The sales team participated in weekly standard pipeline reviews around new CRM documented insights to share detailed competitive intelligence and pipeline progress.
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I started participating in routine weekly pipeline reviews with management, reviewing documented deals and making plans to win them at the rates I wanted to win. Estis |
To optimize lead conversion performance, Bayard Bradford set up a process to distribute leads that were captured via the contact forms on the new website to the assigned regional sales team, leading to several new customer acquisitions.
Once user adoption and data cleaning were achieved, Estis requested a connection to their business intelligence dashboard for creating forecasts for the sales & executive teams.
We built reports in PowerBI using HubSpot data based on feedback from the customer that allowed the sales team to make smarter decisions.
Over time, Estis transformed their raw data into meaningful reports, helping the executive team better manage business growth and achievement of top level objectives.
THE VERDICT FROM Estis
How does Estis rate their experience with Bayard Bradford?
Following the success of our initial engagement, Estis transitioned to managing their own day-to-day sales operations in HubSpot with only limited ongoing support from Bayard Bradford.
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“The Bayard Bradford team has provided great support for us. Always available with the right answers, our experience with them has been fantastic.
Estis |
Update 7/3/2023: Estis has announced the formation of Flowco, Inc. as a result of the merging of three companies: Estis Compression, Flowco Production Solutions, and Flogistix. Read the full press release here.