The company was the sole Australian distributor for innovative and highly awarded European PC security software. The company had been distributing the software for over 5 years and had:
a sizable business based on 800 small resellers customers who were mainly small businesses or single users international recognition with the technical IT community limited profile in the Australian business community no profile as a corporate solution a product which out-performed its major competitors limited selling tools tools apart from a corporate website.
Challenge
To raise the profile of the product to Australian media, resellers and potential end-users, quickly and cost-effectively.
Solution
We:
interviewed 2 small but high profile clients and wrote their case studies pitched them to key IT security media, IT journalists and IT triallists created new end user and reseller sales tools identified high potential target segments using our PosMaxTM process prospected 42 resellers, 2 PC makers, 10 retailers and 38 end user organisations
Results
In 8 weeks our client had gained:
4 placements in key Australian security and IT media (including the Australian, the Age and Government News) 8 resellers to mid and larger sized organisations keen to trial the product 3 IT journalists who had agreed to trial the software 1 PC maker interested to trial the software 6 end user organisations interested to trial the software A plan to leverage our work to produce sales
Feedback
“This is bloody good work!” Managing Director, Antivirus Software Distributor