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Case study · Trend forecasting
Big Data

Spate.

Spate turns consumer search behaviour into trend forecasts for beauty and personal-care brands. The team wanted outbound started but had no capacity to absorb a new channel while running everything else.

The audience was narrow and easy to name, so we built a multi-step sequence against it and ran the channel on their behalf.

Snapshot
The brief
Kickstart outbound without the internal resources to experiment with a new channel.
Who they needed to reach
Insights and trend leaders at beauty and consumer brands.
Market
United States.
Channels
Cold email.
Timeline
Twelve months, 2020 to 2021.
100+
Interested replies
55%
Average open rate
50+
Campaigns launched
Before
  • No outbound running, and no capacity to start it in-house
  • A new channel competing with existing priorities
  • No sequence built for a narrow, specific audience
  • No evidence that the channel would return anything
After
  • 100 interested replies
  • A multi-step sequence built for a precisely named audience
  • A new sales channel opened without internal headcount
  • A twelve-month run producing consistent conversations
Challenge

The challenge

Spate wanted to kickstart their outbound initiative but had limited resources to experiment and fully take on a new marketing channel.

Approach

Narrow audience, patient sequence.

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    How we ran it

    SPATE targets a niche audience that is easily identifiable and solves a very specific problem. Therefore, we decided to run a multi-step outreach campaign to this audience.

Results

A hundred conversations from a channel they had no time to build.

Twelve months produced 100 interested replies and a working second channel for a team that had no capacity to build one themselves.

When the audience is this specific and the problem this well-defined, the win comes from persistence in the sequence rather than from clever targeting.

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In their words
Growth Rhino has been an extension of the Spate team — always seeking out new opportunities and sharing best practices for success. The team helped us create a new channel for sales that brings in consistent opportunities and revenue
Yarden Horwitz · Co-Founder
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