Utilities & Energy
Branding
Interactive
Product Marketing
Messaging
Public Relations
A product without a meaningful brand and sound go-to-market plan is just that – a product.
Arc-Two, the leading consulting practice for the North American utility industry, aimed to launch a cloud-native solution designed to streamline regulatory compliance, capital accounting, and tax reporting. But the company needed help developing the branding, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for its first-ever software product launch.
Arc-Two’s innovative SaaS product would provide a revolutionary alternative to the utility industry status quo. But how could the company effectively introduce its software to an audience of utilities providers and their decision-makers?
To introduce and showcase its solution, Arc-Two engaged Arketi Group to craft the product messaging, brand identity, a comprehensive sales deck, website enhancements, and go-to-market plan, including all awareness, sales enablement, and public relations activities. We aimed to launch Arc-Two’s cloud-based solution at the 2024 AGA/EEI Spring Accounting Conference. With just five months to spare, we first set out to conduct an Unearth Workshop alongside Arc-Two’s industry experts and technology leaders to better understand the new product’s benefits, attributes, capabilities, and differentiators.
Arketi paired our workshop with in-depth research that identified similar solutions in other industries, their unique differentiators, market positioning, messaging, and share-of-voice in the public sphere. We then engaged directly with Arc-Two’s customers and conducted guided, qualitative interviews to validate our findings.
Using our insights and research, Arc-Two and Arketi selected a name for the B2B SaaS solution: Arctek. This name was essential to the launch as it retained Arc-Two’s established brand value, while providing a new venue for Arc-Two to market itself as an innovative technology provider with a deep understanding of the utilities industry.
Our next step was to expand on Arctek’s new name and build the foundational tools for our go-to-market launch. We accomplished this by:
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ANN KOCH
Partner
Arc-Two
As a part of our go-to-market strategy, Arketi helped Arc-Two first soft-launch the solution with a targeted email campaign to select prospects. This built momentum for our formal launch, including a national press release, demo, and kickoff at the Spring Accounting Conference. The combined effort ultimately garnered a total audience reach of 26.8 million. Plus, our sizzle reel video was presented to prospective customers at the tradeshow using a VR headset to maximize the visual impact of the new solution.
Most importantly, the feedback from attendees at the show was extremely positive, and Arc-Two is now conducting pilots with prospective customers, demonstrating strong initial interest and engagement. The launch campaign helped Arc-Two generate a sales pipeline of $1.9 million, and the results serve as a testament to not only the product’s value, but the messaging, branding, and marketing support backing it up.
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