Indigo Blue

The Client

IndigoBlue is a professional services company specialising in Agile project and programme management services principally to large blue-chip organisations with specialist services for the public and third sector.

Founded in 2002, the Company has grown year on year to become the leading UK provider of Agile consulting services. Their clients range from Specsavers, Carphone Warehouse and The Guardian Group to charities including the Downs Syndrome Association and MS Society.

The Situation

All full time employees of IndigoBlue, including directors, have billable targets and also contribute to business development activities. The directors decided against employing a full time sales resource but instead, were seeking to recruit a company that could offer across the board sales and marketing capability, enabling them to focus on managing the business effectively, therefore delivering value to their clients.

Activities required for business development included: generating new leads (online and offline); building existing contacts, to a point where work would be forthcoming, and finally joining the dots across all activities so that no lead is ever lost!

The Solution

Buyingtime has developed a holistic sales support service which has resulted in a truly effective sales ‘engine’ for IndigoBlue. We manage all new lead generation, website conversion and search activities, pitch development, and ongoing prospect CRM.

Our team includes experts in each of these areas, all of whom have impressive CV’s and market-leading skills. Most importantly, we calculate that over the 3 years that we have been working with IndigoBlue, more than £3m in billings has been added through new client relationships that we have developed together. The fact that we have added at least 10 new clients to the roster together is further testimony of our relationship.

Our team does the following for IndigoBlue:

• Pitch Development
• New Lead Generation
• Online Lead Generation
• Website Conversion
• Prospect CRM

The Benefits

IndigoBlue and Buyingtime have developed this method of working over a long period. It enables both parties to exploit their strengths - enabling IndigoBlue to explain their expertise in Agile to a willing and well briefed audience.

Buyingtime’s team only look after the area that they are skilled in, which means that handing contacts between us is painless for the prospect because they are never ignored, and always dealt with in a way that reflects their importance for our client, in this case IndigoBlue.

‘We have been working with the extended team at Buyingtime since early 2005, and they are now an integral part of our business. They really do provide expert sales resources to supplement our own skills, and they have had a large part to play in our successful growth.’
Jason Smith, Director, IndigoBlue - June 2008