Influitive Customers ReadyTalk, Bomgar Recognized for Successful B2B Advocate Marketing Programs

The two B2B companies won high-profile industry awards for using Influitive's AdvocateHub software to impact marketing, sales and revenue goals

TORONTO, June 4, 2014 /CNW/ - Influitive, the advocate marketing experts, today announced that two of its customers, Bomgar and ReadyTalk, were recently recognized for their use of B2B advocate marketing programs to drive business success.

Bomgar's advocate marketing program, the Bomgar Insider, won the 2014 Forrester Groundswell Award in the B2B Social Reach Marketing category. The program drove more than 300 high-quality customer referrals, increased social mentions of the company by 66 per cent and boosted the creation of customer case studies by 50 per cent in the first three months of the program.

ReadyTalk, meanwhile, earned a Silver Key in the Demand Generation category of the BMA Colorado Golden Key Awards for its program, the ReadyTalk Summit Club. In the first four months, 70 advocates opted in to be sales references and the program generated 190 referrals. What's more, 33 per cent of deals referred through the program closed within 60 days – half the usual sales cycle.

"We're excited that two of our most successful customers are being recognized for their efforts by Forrester and the Business Marketing Association. These awards were hard-earned by the forward-thinking marketers at ReadyTalk and Bomgar," said Influitive's founder and CEO, Mark Organ.

"Flooding the marketplace with third-party validation from advocates is strongly linked to rapid, profitable growth," he added. "We salute the innovative advocate marketers who are driving industry-leading growth and profits for their companies by leveraging their customer advocates to maximum effect."

Bomgar used Influitive's AdvocateHub to invite, mobilize and recognize more than 600 customers and fans as part of the award-winning Bomgar Insider program. "We knew we had great and enthusiastic customers that were part of the driving force behind our success. What we didn't know until we started this program is how excited and willing they would be to be Bomgar evangelists," said Liz Richardson, Bomgar's social media and advocate marketing manager.

"Since launching the Bomgar Insider, our followers have completed more than 10,000 acts of advocacy. It's incredible to see that Bomgar's remote support solution has had such a positive impact on their organizations that they would also be willing to help us achieve our goals."

Also using Influitive's advocate marketing software, ReadyTalk implemented a formal customer-driven marketing program that sought to increase lead generation with customer referrals, speed up the sales process with customer references, and create more case studies and product reviews.

"We're definitely the underdog in this market, competing against both huge international brands and startups with venture capital funding," said Bo Bandy, senior marketing communications manager at ReadyTalk. "Our advocates are our biggest advantage, so being able to mobilize them with just a few clicks has led to enormous gains for our company."

About Influitive
Influitive, the advocate marketing experts, helps B2B marketers mobilize their advocates and fans to share their positive experiences across the social web in order to influence buyers. The company's innovative AdvocateHub software and Maven mobile app make it fun and exciting for advocates to participate in more referrals, references, success stories, product reviews, survey responses and other promotional content. This approach, called advocate marketing, is proven to generate higher-quality sales leads, accelerate sales opportunities and improve brand recognition. Influitive is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Boston and Palo Alto. To learn how to get your advocates working with you, visit www.influitive.com.

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