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Digital Agency

Vested In You.

Vested In You had a new government program to promote — a grant helping small businesses adopt digital tools — and no in-house team to promote it with.

We built the list around eligibility rather than interest: the right verticals, the right size, and a quick check that the business was real and active before anyone wrote to it.

Snapshot
The brief
Scale outreach to promote a new government program, with no in-house outbound team.
Who they needed to reach
Owners and leadership at small businesses eligible for the grant.
Market
Canada.
Channels
Cold email.
Timeline
Twelve months, 2023 to 2024.
179
Interested replies
12 months
Engagement length
$750K+
Pipeline sourced
Before
  • A new program with nobody assigned to promote it
  • No in-house team dedicated to outbound
  • Eligibility rules that most lists ignore
  • No way to separate likely applicants from noise
After
  • 179 interested replies
  • $750K+ in pipeline sourced
  • A list filtered on grant eligibility, not just industry
  • A twelve-month run at that cadence
Challenge

The challenge

"Vested in You had no in-house team dedicated to outbound and needed a partner to help scale their outreach efforts to promote a new government program effectively."

Approach

Target eligibility, not interest.

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    How we ran it

    We identified relevant companies within the targeted verticals and evaluated their size and key team members. To qualify leads further, we ran a quick check on their online presence to ensure they were a good fit. Since the grant supports small businesses in adopting digital initiatives, this approach helped us focus outreach on the most eligible and likely-to-convert prospects.

Results

179 replies from businesses that qualified.

Twelve months produced 179 interested replies and over $750K in sourced pipeline.

Because the grant only supports small businesses adopting digital initiatives, the qualification was the campaign: size, vertical and a check on online presence, so outreach only reached businesses that could actually apply.

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In their words
Growth Rhino helped us uncover a steady stream of genuinely interested leads for our campaign. Their systematic experimentation and outreach rigor delivered the quality connections we needed—and fast.
Turgut Jabbarli · Vested In You
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