Forcepoint Providing clarity and a cohesive approach to market

Forcepoint is a human-centric cyber security company aimed at helping enterprise security leaders adapt to the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape. Together, we developed a sophisticated, multi-faceted digital demand generation engine from the ground up.

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75x

Return on Ad Spend

$82M

Pipeline revenue generated

Know your audience

The audience for this Forcepoint program is people in charge of protecting mid-size to large companies. Practitioners hold titles like Solutions or Network Architect, and they work with decision-makers with positions like CISO and CIO. They are highly educated, busy people with a sincere sense of duty – to protect their company from risk.

To cut through we needed a strong idea. The concept was called “clarity”, and featured bisected portraits meant to communicate the “before and after” of cybersecurity – moving from what is unclear and uncertain to what can be seen and protected. It invites the audience to take control of their future in cybersecurity.

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The challenge

Forcepoint wanted to consolidate their presence in market under one creative platform. One idea that would be able to encompass multiple products and add context to Forcepoint’s brand philosophy (stop the bad and free the good) all across the buyer’s journey.

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The strategy

Insight: You can’t safeguard what you can’t see.

The visual approach features bisected portraits to help communicate that the murky unknown of cybersecurity can become a clear, non-threatening place with Forcepoint’s help. The idea of clarity can meet multiple Forcepoint value propositions and audience needs.

  • Focus: Security strategy requires commitment, vigilance and the ability to see things through.
  • Vision: Staying ahead of threats means continually evolving.
  • Transparency: Price, performance, risk, behavior. See everything you need to move ahead with confidence.
  • Freedom: Control is confidence. To succeed, grow and challenge the competition.
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The results

In six months, the campaign performed well beyond industry benchmark, and far exceeded initial Forcepoint pipeline goals.

All performance metrics across the campaign were aggregated in a custom-built dashboard that consolidated campaign performance data into views appropriate for different levels of interest (from practitioner-level detailed views to executive summaries).

  • Implementation of “Clarity” creative increased CTR by 73% over previous campaign
  • Display CTR exceeded industry benchmark by 120%
  • CPC was less than a third of the industry benchmark of $28
  • Pipeline for opportunities from the Clarity campaign resulted in 75x Return on Ad Spend
  • Pipeline Revenue was $82M
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Key deliverables

  • Content Strategy

    Powering the campaign was a deep content marketing engine, with assets tailored to support the entire buyer's journey. eBooks provided general information about a given solution, while buyer's guides allowed for more specific competitive comparison. For pre-sale conversations we produced and promoted webcasts, whitepapers and remote consultations. Assets were developed in North America then adapted to EMEA, APAC and LATAM.

  • Media

    To get this message out in front of the audience, our goal was to take a full-funnel approach – generating awareness while pulling potential customers through the funnel to ultimately drive them to lead status. As a result, the campaign focused on wide reaching outlets such as Facebook, LinkedIn, programmatic display, Reddit, and Quora. The campaign also focused on reaching decision makers in the publications they trust most. As a result of the well-rounded media strategy, the Clarity campaign took hold in almost all forms of digital media – banners, social posts, syndicated content, digital takeovers, email and landing pages

  • Competitive displacement sub-campaign

    A primary Forcepoint competitor was making strategic missteps and angering their customer base. We looked to capitalize on some of the pain points that audience was feeling by adapting the Clarity campaign to address issues like price transparency and a long-term strategic vision. An account-targeted list was used, and respondents were placed into a nurture series and given access to lower-funnel content and sales consultations.

  • ABM approach

    A key account selection list was generated with the Forcepoint sales team, and we created an arm of the Clarity campaign designed to get more specific to customer pain points. This list was comprised of prospects from strategic and named accounts, with sales opportunities exceeding $250K+. Our goal was to stay top of mind with these high-value targeted accounts and position Forcepoint as a leading source of expertise on cybersecurity.

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