How TurboHire Unlocked Pre-Series A Round With Us

“SaaS Growth Advisory helped us build highly scalable inbound and outbound acquisition channels which helped our sales team get a constant flow of SQLs & opportunities every month.”
– Aman Gour, Co-Founder
TurboHire

Δ CPSQL
-75%
Increase in MRR
400%
# of Channels with Predictable Funnel
2
The Story Of TurboHire
TurboHire is an automation platform for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, that provides configurable horizontal platforms to streamline the hiring process of mid-market and enterprise businesses.
One of our happy clients referred TurboHire to us and that’s when we kicked off the conversation with them. TurboHire had just raised seed funding and their goal was to expand their business, either by exploring new territories or conquering existing geographies. They were looking to engage people with previous experience in building go-to-market strategies for local & global territories.
Their team was not clear on the channels they should use to ramp up their acquisition funnel – go with paid ads, organic growth, or build an outbound marketing engine.
Challenges
TurboHire was already establishing its local footprints and improving its market share in the APAC market and wanted to evaluate US, SEA, and EMEA. When we mapped out the global competitive landscape, we found out that their competitors i.e. greenhouse, lever, etc. competitors had already captured most of the market share in the US, Europe, and Oceania, and thus it was going to be super challenging to make space for TurboHire in those regions.
Additionally, TurboHire wanted to build two GTM teams – one for the local market, and the other for the global market. Therefore, overall resources per team were not optimal.
Our Solution
Our initial approach was to figure out nimble, low-cost strategies through which we can test the waters in the global market. We started with google search ads but we made sure we didn’t bid on any bottom-of-the-funnel, transactional & commercial high-intent keywords. The reason was simple – there was already too much competition for those keywords and bigger competitors were already spending millions of dollars per week on those keywords.
We decided to bid on long-tail keywords that were informational in nature, in order to engage traffic with useful content.
After running several such experiments in the US, Europe, and Middle East regions, we realized that we did not have enough budget to attract traffic of optimal quality, in order to break even. The GTM team responsible for local acquisition also started struggling, because of the split of resources, and the overall performance of the funnel started dipping. Therefore, we proposed the internal team merge both GTM teams, and focus on one territory at a time, sequential targeting, and maximize the return out of that.
After merging both the funnels and picking up a single territory, we audited past and present performance and realized that our lead to SQL rate never achieved more than a 10% rate. While there was some predictability associated with the funnel, the funnel performance was not satisfactory. In order to improve the performance, we incorporated a closed-feedback loop in our process and ensured that the ToF team spoke to SDRs to get feedback on every lead generated every day. Within a few weeks, we realized that there were certain integrations-led campaigns, build campaigns, and competition campaigns that were not leading to many quality conversations at all, and even if there were any, most of the leads were not buying TurboHire for reasons like pricing issue, persona issue, team size issue, etc.
Further, we also realized that we had to measure the time to first touch and # of touchpoints per lead. We developed custom tools to build a real-time view of these leading indicators and identified that a few SDRs were overwhelmed with manual tasks, that could be easily automated within the CRM. With this data, we were able to propose changes to SDR workflows, and thus, improve our lead to SQL conversion rate to 25%+.
Over the period of time, we built a tightly knit funnel of relevant keywords, ad copies, and landing pages which made sure the lead quality and conversion rates improved.
This is when TurboHire started getting 40 SQLs per month, but we were not fully satisfied with the results and thus, decided to take one step forward.
We set up a highly scalable outbound marketing engine where we scoped out TAM (Total Addressable Market) and built segmented lists of prospects. With the help of a variety of outbound tools, our engine could deliver >50K emails per month. We were able to generate as many as 50 product demos per month, and all these experiments and campaigns combined were able to generate impressive bottom-of-the-line business. TurboHire was eventually able to raise their pre-series A round based on the revenue growth that we were able to get them.
Results
TurboHire being in such a competitive market still was able to get 80+ SQLs month over month. The majority of these leads were from the paid acquisition channels and outbound engine that we set up.
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