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From Century-Old Tradition to Digital Powerhouse: How Growth Ops Delivered 167% ROI

The ask

After 100 years in business, Beatties faced a familiar dilemma: their traditional approach to customer acquisition was losing ground to digitally-native competitors. The Ontario-based company had built their reputation on relationships and quality service, but their sales process relied heavily on cold calls and walk-in traffic—methods that were becoming increasingly ineffective.

The stakes were clear: adapt to modern buyer expectations or watch their market share erode to competitors who understood the digital customer journey.

The tactics

Rather than applying band-aid solutions like a website refresh or scattered social media campaigns, we implemented a comprehensive Growth Operations (Growth Ops) framework—a systematic approach that transforms how businesses attract, convert, and retain customers through integrated technology, data, and processes.

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User Research
User Journeys
Personas
Competitive Research

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Rebranding
Voice
UI  Design
UX Design
Content
Rapid Prototyping

 

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Hubspot Integration
End-to-end Development
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WordPress

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The approach

Phase 1: Understanding the Modern Buyer
Challenge: Beatties was marketing to assumptions, not insights.

Solution: We conducted extensive user research to uncover how office managers, facility directors, and procurement teams actually make purchasing decisions in today's market.

Result: Three distinct buyer personas emerged, each with unique pain points, preferred communication channels, and decision-making timelines.

Phase 2: Infrastructure that Scales

Challenge: Sales and marketing operated in silos with no shared visibility into the customer journey.

Solution: We deployed HubSpot as the central nervous system, creating:

  • Unified customer data and interaction history
  • Automated lead scoring based on behaviour and engagement
  • Intelligent workflows that nurture prospects without manual intervention
  • Real-time dashboards giving sales teams context before every conversation

Result: Sales teams could focus on closing deals instead of chasing unqualified leads, while marketing
gained clear visibility into which activities drove actual revenue

Phase 3: Brand Evolution for Digital Success

Challenge: Beatties' brand felt dated compared to modern competitors, potentially undermining
digital marketing efforts.

Solution: We evolved their brand identity to reflect their digital transformation while preserving the
trust and reliability that customers valued. This included:

  • Updated visual identity and messaging framework
  • Mobile-optimized website with conversion-focused user experience
  • Consistent brand application across all digital touchpoints

Result: The refreshed brand conveyed a forward-thinking, dynamic identity that resonated with current market expectations and more accurately reflected the company’s evolving products, services, and values — ultimately driving higher engagement and conversion.

Phase 4: Content That Converts

Challenge: Generic brochures, product sheets and resources weren't addressing specific buyer concerns at different stages of their purchase journey.

Solution: We created a content ecosystem tailored to each persona's needs:

  • Awareness Stage: Industry trend reports and workplace efficiency guides, aligned with persona's pain points and Beattie's product and service solutions
  • Consideration Stage: Interactive ROI calculators and comparison tools to help decision making through the purchase journey
  • Decision Stage: Case studies, supporting content and product implementation guides

Result: Content became a sales accelerator, with prospects arriving at sales conversations already educated and engaged.

Phase 5: Integrated Campaign Execution

Challenge: Marketing efforts lacked coordination and measurement across channels.

Solution: We launched synchronized campaigns across Google Ads, Facebook, and Instagram, with every touchpoint feeding data back into HubSpot for comprehensive attribution analysis.

Result: Every marketing dollar could be traced to specific outcomes, enabling continuous optimization and budget reallocation to the highest-performing channels. 

After crunching the numbers, Beatties calculated an ROI of +167% from the growth program

Why Growth Ops succeeded Where Other Approaches Failed

Traditional marketing and sales initiatives often fail because they treat symptoms rather than addressing the underlying system. Growth Ops works because it:

  1. Integrates rather than isolates: Every component across brand, marketing, sales, and technology works together towards unified revenue growth goals
  2. Measure what matters: By focusing on revenue impact instead of vanity metrics, we had a direct influence on business growth and success
  3. Adapts continuously: Built-in feedback loops enable constant improvement
  4. Scales systematically: Success can be replicated and expanded predictably

The Benefits of True Partnership

Today, Beatties continues to invest in and expand their Growth Ops infrastructure, with year-over-year improvements in both efficiency and results. What began as a digital transformation project has become their competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive and crowded market. 

The century-old company now leads with modern buyer experiences while maintaining the personal relationships that built their reputation, proving that tradition and innovation aren't mutually exclusive when supported by the right systems.

Ready to transform your customer acquisition and revenue growth?

Growth Ops might be the systematic approach your business needs to compete and win in today's market.