IT Services

Italy

IT Services company books 150 qualified sales meetings.

Enrico Degrassi

CEO & Co-Founder 

 Since the end of 2022, letstrike has helped us streamline the first steps of our sales process; allowing us to gain access to new industries and decision makers that did not know of IKON.'

5

Clients won in the end

70+

Opportunities opened after the meetings

150

Qualified sales meetings

70

Weeks

62k

Contacts

9

Personalised copies

Why letstrike?

In the end of 2022 Ikon was looking at finding a partner who could help them achieve their growth goals:

01

Word of mouth dependency

Historically IKON has grown by providing exceptional service to a small number of clients who became extremely loyal, stayed for years and referred other businesses in their network to Enrico.  

02

Lack of resources and automation capabilities

Due to the significant growth of the company, IKON needed to structure their lead generation process and further automation capabilities.

03

Objective to grow
outside the local market

 In order to grow the team also wanted to start connecting with potential clients outside of their home region - Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto, and to expand to international markets, where they did not have many connections 

Testimonial

More about the client

IKON is an IT Services and development company created in 1997. They specialise in developing web and mobile applications for large organisations and omnichannel retailers. With its “Digital Farm” IKON is creating innovative solutions for its clients based on technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality and IoT.

ICP

Regions

Italy
Western Europe

Industries

Manufacturing
Museums
Entertainment

Headcount

Large Organisations

Persona

CIO
CTO
C-level Executives
IT Department Directors
CMO

Roadmap

First step

  • Started to target their nearest local market in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto 
  • Launched personalised copy to target the manufacturing and retail industries

S1 2023

S2 2023

Second step

  • Expanded to the financial services, transportation and logistics sectors

Third step

  • Created new ICP personalised copies 
  • Design a new copy to address the niche needs of European museums

2024

Key messages

Some of the most effective outreach messages addressed specific industry pain points and benefits:

With our applications online retailers like IKEA allowed their online customers to visualise and try-on products before they buy them with VR and AR. Which in only weeks have produced an important increase of their Conversion Rate and Average Transaction Value. 

Online retail:

Roadblocks & Solutions

Over the course of one and a half year the team had to address some challenges: 

Needing to expand outside the local market: We faced the challenge of needing to expand our regions inside of Italy as well as include new industries. Since we have first targeted just our local market, we expanded it which resulted in great success and realising that our solutions appeal to a broader audience.

Italian market becoming too small: To solve the problem of the small market and to still stay inside of our ICP we started experimenting with new countries and sub-industries across Europe. Since we had great success in Italy, we decided to create a specific campaign targeting museums in Western Europe which opened a new door of opportunities and collaborations.

Needing to expand outside the local market: We faced the challenge of needing to expand our regions inside of Italy as well as include new industries. Since we have first targeted just our local market, we expanded it which resulted in great success and realising that our solutions appeal to a broader audience.

Italian market becoming too small: To solve the problem of the small market and to still stay inside of our ICP we started experimenting with new countries and sub-industries across Europe. Since we had great success in Italy, we decided to create a specific campaign targeting museums in Western Europe which opened a new door of opportunities and collaborations.

Needing to expand outside the local market: We faced the challenge of needing to expand our regions inside of Italy as well as include new industries. Since we have first targeted just our local market, we expanded it which resulted in great success and realising that our solutions appeal to a broader audience.

Italian market becoming too small: To solve the problem of the small market and to still stay inside of our ICP we started experimenting with new countries and sub-industries across Europe. Since we had great success in Italy, we decided to create a specific campaign targeting museums in Western Europe which opened a new door of opportunities and collaborations.

Benefits

Regaining a historical client

IKON won an old client back by reconnecting with a new contact in the organisation. 

Quickly initiate quality conversations

 IKON is able to engage conversations with a large number of decision makers at once, very quickly, which allows them to fill their pipeline with opportunities that they nurture and be ready to win any new project when the time comes. 

Create a strong end-to-end sales process

Starting with the assistance of letstrike Enrico was able to build a consistent flow of meetings, to take them by himself, then define the best sales process and ultimately hire a sales professional to industrialise it. 

Focusing on higher value sales tasks

After outsourcing this process,  IKON sales team could better focus on meetings, presentations and closing deals. 

Business development in autopilot

Despites ups and downs the agenda of the team has been filled continuously and consistently, allowing Tilkal’s management to spend more time on product development, investor meetings and closing deals.