Case Study
Travel agency “My Greek Friend” Cuts Costs & Saves Time with Repath
The need for CRM and Marketing Automation became of crucial importance when the team found itself wasting significant time dealing with unqualified leads while handling mass customer data using spreadsheets.
The Challenge
Based in Crete, My Greek Friend is a well-known travel agency offering personalized vacation packages to travelers who want to visit Greece. The company constantly handles requests from travelers in US, UK, Ireland, France and Germany who plan to visit Greece throughout the year.
To reach potential customers, My Greek Friend invests heavily in Facebook and Google Ads through which it receives contact details as well as traveler’s preferences regarding their preferred time to visit Greece. This information is then passed on the sales department which is responsible for making follow up calls and emails to those leads in order to acquire more specific information about their preferences (age of the travelers, extra services, preferred board, amenities) and thus, be able to propose the ideal vacation package for each other.
Until the adoption of the Zoho CRM plus, the marketing and sales teams found themselves wasting significant time to filter out the quality of the incoming leads by following up with leads that were not truly interested in purchasing the travel service. A great percentage of the leads did not respond and this caused a great amount of time to be wasted.
Another major bottleneck that prevented My Greek Friend from handling the requests efficiently and effectively was the lack of CRM. Internal teams used spreadsheets to keep up with clients’ information and therefore the historical data of each client were not stored while any customer segmentation was not possible.
Carefully examining the customer journey
The most important aspect of the process was to define the processes that rolled out from the time that the website or the social media user fills the lead form until the time a sales rep handles the information in order to push the lead forward to the sales pipeline.
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Manolis Labovas,
Co-Founder of Repath
Integrating Zoho Survey
As such we elicited powerful conclusions for every single segment of our client database shaping our strategy accordingly to meet their needs.
Nikos Fantaoutsakis
Marketing Manager My Greek Friend
All in one 360° customer visibility
Integration with Facebook and third party providers allowed us to have all the information of the leads into one place. With the use of Surveys, we were able to update clients’ records easily and automatically having 360° visibility of our customer.
Based on the responses of the clients, Zoho identifies the best times to call them and some other functions enabled us to put each customer into segments and based on scores to personalize our messages.
Last but certainly not least, Social Integrations helped to break up the silos among different platforms. If some interacts with us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Website thanks to Social Tab of Zoho CRM that stores all the information in one place!
Bringing together marketing and sales
We divided the marketing and sales process into different stages. During the 1st stage, the lead answers questions through Zoho Survey. During the second stage, our sales rep gets in touch with the client with a proposed offer and as the last stage the deal is closed either successfully or not.
It then became apparent which stage “produces the leaks” and based on that we make further optimizations.
When a lead answers a survey that was triggered through the automated email, there is an email trigger that sends the notification to the sales rep. The sales rep then begins working on the lead based on an actual travel quote.
