Client case study · 2026

Case study · Enterprise outbound for print & signage

100 enterprise leads in 90 days.

Our client makes print and illuminated signage for national brands. SMGP built them an outbound engine that emails the whole buying committee at once. From March to June it produced 100 enterprise leads and a new enterprise client, Ace Beverage Group.

Client Name withheld
Industry Print & illuminated signage
Channel Group email + LinkedIn
Window March to June 2026
Result 100 enterprise leads, 1 client closed
Lead rate per account Group email · monthly · March to June 2026
Lead rate % per account Hover or tap a month for detail

Group email, by month, from the client's KPI tracker. A positive reply counts as a lead, so lead rate = positive replies divided by accounts contacted that month.

The short version

Our client's buyer is never one person. It is a committee of marketing and development leaders, and outreach dies when an email reaches only one of them. So we email the whole committee in one thread.

From March to June the engine reached 1,483 cold accounts. It produced 100 enterprise leads, meetings with brands like Golden Corral and King's Hawaiian, and one signed client: Ace Beverage Group. Replies have landed on 39.8% of all accounts contacted since launch, when most teams call 3% a good result. 98 opportunities sit open for the client's sales team right now.

01

The system behind the numberWhat we ran

Four moves, repeated every week. None of them work alone. Together they turn cold accounts into a full pipeline.

Group email

One thread, whole committee

We put 3 to 5 decision-makers from each account on one email. When leaders see each other on the thread, a reply feels expected. The internal forward that kills most outreach disappears.

The hook

A no-brainer opener

The first email leads with an offer that costs nothing to accept. The account gets value before any pitch, and replying becomes the easy choice.

Social proof

Proof before the pitch

Every thread names the national brands that already trust our client. A prospect sees proof first and a pitch second.

The team

An engine that stays full

A dedicated campaign manager enriches new accounts weekly and triple-checks every send. An operations manager keeps the daily quota on track.

02

The numbers and the pipelineThe results

In 90 days the engine logged 100 enterprise leads, and one of them signed.

100
Enterprise leads, March to June
1
New enterprise client closed
1,483
Cold accounts contacted
6.7%
Lead rate per account
98
Opportunities open today

Lead total from the client's response tracker across all outbound channels. Account count and the monthly chart cover the group email campaign, the engine's core.

The headline win

Ace Beverage Group came in as a group email reply from a senior brand manager, moved through renderings, and signed. A new enterprise client in the first 90 days, before most of the pipeline has even reached a meeting.

Positive reply rate by month
group email · March to June 2026
June275 accounts, 28 leads
10.2%
May340 accounts, 13 leads
3.8%
April139 accounts, 7 leads
5.0%
March729 accounts, 26 leads
3.6%

June is the best month so far at 10.2%, and the trend is up.

The caliber of the pipeline

These are not small leads. The brands that replied span national restaurant groups, beverage companies, grocery chains, casinos, and cinema operators. Four meetings have been held, with Golden Corral, King's Hawaiian, TFE Wines, and The Save Mart Companies among them.

A sample of the brands that replied
Monster Beverage KFC Kroger King's Hawaiian Golden Corral E. & J. Gallo Regal Cinemas Dine Brands Smashburger and more
Weighted pipeline model
104 logged replies from the client's response tracker, by current stage
StageOpenClose prob.Weighted deals
Reply received175%0.85
Active dialogue658%5.20
Logos received120%0.20
Creating prototypes425%1.00
Renderings sent630%1.80
Meeting held435%1.40
Deferred13%0.03
Won: Ace Beverage Group1closed
Disqualified50%0.00
Total active98n/a10.5
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Weighted pipeline value
$524,000
10.5 weighted deals at the value you set
Total open pipeline: $4,900,000

Weighted pipeline = open opportunities per stage, times a conservative close probability, times your deal value. The probabilities stay low on purpose, so the number is a floor. The closed deal is revenue, not pipeline, so it is excluded.

Every lead routes itself

SMGP built an agentic workflow that scores and routes each positive reply. The bot researches the company, detects the vertical, and picks the right salesperson with two ranked backups. The full brief lands in the sales team's chat before anyone opens the thread.

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