Tekman Education is a Spanish company based in Barcelona that develops and delivers educational programs that are known for being innovative, efficient and flexible. More than half a million students in Spain and Latin America, and over 20,000 teachers globally, have greatly benefited from all their programs and educational resources.
The aim of the company is to empower students to own their educational journey by putting them first in a digital learning ecosystem. Tekman Education provides teachers with a lot of digital resources so they can offer students the best possible education.
These tools and resources include a digital classroom manager, webinars and specific projects. These are designed to help K-12 students and educators meet all their educational goals through a practical and intuitive methodology.
“Tekman is a company with a strong focus on creating and delivering innovative educational programs for schools in different parts of the world. We seek to support educators with the best content on mathematics and language so students are empowered to become builders of their own future.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
As Tekman Education programs were largely embraced in Spain and Latin America, this resulted in business growth and its expansion to other countries. The growth of their operations set them looking for a customer management system so they could track and measure their marketing campaign results and improve sales and prospect follow-up.
“Our massive growth brought about the need for better and more optimized processes.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
It was clear that the company needed to optimize its processes to support business scaling. Tekman Education tried Capsule CRM and also Zoho, but both solutions became obsolete once their growth started to accelerate. Zoho is a cloud-based software designed for small and medium-sized enterprises with an interface that makes it difficult to set up its different functions. Ultimately, this results in less flexibility and personalization, two key features in HubSpot. Also, this solution tends to limit customers, as every feature requires a complex technical setup and, in most cases, additional charges apply.
Compared to other CRMs, HubSpot enabled Tekman Education to do something big: customizing their outreach based on centralized information located in one platform to deliver a better experience to their customers. As no help from external consultants is needed to customize messages, emails, webpages, or any other element to engage with clients, this provides a competitive edge that adds value to their communication.
“Unlike other platforms, HubSpot empowers us to customize the experience on all communications without the need to hire an external consultant, and, as users, that provides added value that’s essential to us. For instance, one of the key benefits for our team is how easy it is to set up all these communication processes on our own, which also allows for a much easier segmentation, as all data can be centralized from the same platform in one place.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
Due to the increase in their business operations, Tekman Education wanted a tool which could help their marketing, sales and service teams optimize internal processes. That’s why they started a research process to choose a CRM that suited all their needs.
They knew one thing was non-negotiable about their ideal CRM: it had to be powerful and intuitive. At first, they showed interest in Salesforce features. However, after a more thorough analysis, they realized that this solution was not a good fit for them.
Tekman Education needed to bring all their tools and information together in one single place so they could perform marketing, sales and service actions without depending on other tools outside of the CRM platform.
At a certain point in the research process, an agency recommended HubSpot because of its powerful CRM and tools. The assessment team at Tekman Education immediately liked this software and they started to dig deeper, learning more about HubSpot, its features and the flexibility of its tools.
The Spanish company analyzed all the technical and financial factors of the platform. The fact that HubSpot is based on the inbound marketing methodology was a game changer for Tekman, not to mention the features it offers, like process automation, its increasing number of integrations, its user-friendly interface and its competitive price. Taking all those advantages into account, they decided to implement HubSpot.
“We discovered that HubSpot meets all the needs of our market size thanks to its powerful marketing tools, automations, usability and competitive price.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
Tekman Education needed to create very specific and detailed content about their product to educate potential customers about what their innovative offer in the education market is about. These kinds of programs generally attract very wide audiences, but if they aren’t appropriately captured and segmented, a lot of deals can slip through the cracks.
Fortunately, HubSpot has proven to be a very intuitive platform. Since the very beginning, the Spanish company could start implementing and targeting inbound campaigns to attract potential customers efficiently, something that they hadn't been able to achieve with any of the other CRMs they had tried before.
Since HubSpot’s implementation, Tekman Education relies on a Single Source of Truth (SSOT), which means they can keep all the information in one database to create reports based on area-specific needs. This allows them to optimize all their processes, segment their audiences and generate more leads.
Integrating tools like messaging apps and a training hub for teachers into the same platform has also been essential to better segment customers based on their behavior. This enabled marketing, sales and service teams to communicate in a personalized way with their audiences, so they could ultimately provide them with a better experience.
HubSpot’s CRM Suite helped Tekman to increase internal visibility, and contact and deal tracking. They could also align their marketing, sales and service teams to create better connections with all their contacts and offer them a unique customer experience.
Using HubSpot’s tools allowed them to manage tailored communications between teachers and students, which ultimately helped educators to deliver a better educational experience.
“Our goal is to help children better learn math and language, and that’s why it’s crucial for us to have a platform that empowers us to do so. We were able to centralize the tools we use, such as training for educators, usage analytics and communication features within HubSpot, so we can leverage them all without leaving the platform.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
Tekman Education uses Marketing Hub to create campaigns and automate the communication processes that help improve the impact of their attraction, conversion and retention efforts.
The main goal of the campaigns is to promote their educational programs through helpful content in the form of posts, guidelines, webinars and different resources that help people understand their value proposition, encouraging them to subscribe or download specific content.
Some of the main tools Tekman Education uses are:
All the actions performed through the Marketing Hub tools have helped the company reach the goals they had set when they first started to use HubSpot, achieving a 400% increase on new lead acquisition.
“Since we implemented HubSpot, we have been able to launch inbound campaigns and efficiently acquire new clients — something that would have been unthinkable with our previous CRM. At the same time, we now have better tools to work on customer retention and help our sales team reach their full potential.” David González, Senior Data Analyst, Tekman Education
Tekman has partnered with HubSpot in order to have tools that make tasks easier for their sales team. Sales Hub enables the automation of the most repetitive tasks so that reps can focus on having tailored communications with potential buyers in every stage of the sales journey.
These are some of the Sales Hub tools they most frequently use:
Also, they can automatically assign tasks or new deals based on those notifications. Sales automation enables reps to spend more time engaging with prospects and customers and less time completing repetitive tasks.
“We’ve created individual sequences for our potential customers. The goal has been to customize this tool in order to use it differently for specific segments and stages of the sales cycle”. David González, Senior Data Analyst, Tekman Education.
Tekman considers that sales automation, centralized data management and the use of key documents are some of the main advantages offered by Sales Hub. All these features allow them to act fast, take action quickly and streamline their follow-up.
This also helps the sales team in their daily activities, allowing them to close more deals and deliver an extraordinary buying experience. Besides, the company can standardize the way of working, which represents an efficiency and agility factor highly appreciated by their customers.
Tekman has achieved better contact rates with potential customers by using sequences and tracking leads that show interest for the brand during all of the customer journey. The results speak for themselves: there was a 250% increase in meetings with potential accounts and a 60% rise in engagements with prospects and major accounts.
“The CRM tools have made it possible to automate a lot of actions, such as creating tasks and follow-up dashboards, in order to simplify everyday tasks for the sales teams and standardize their processes. By doing so, the working procedure is the same for all of them, which results in more efficiency and agility.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education
HubSpot’s all-in-one platform enabled Tekman Education to optimize their service efforts. After implementing Service Hub, they started to see more happy customers and they are able to better assist their sales team. They’ve also increased their responsiveness and improved customer service and support.
The Service Hub tools the company uses the most are:
The company uses HubSpot to integrate their value proposition, resources, educational platform, analytics that help understand how educators are engaging with the brand, and communication tools that get their messages going. In short, HubSpot’s platform is the hub for all their sales, marketing and service actions.
Customized communication based on educators’ behavior as well as customer base segmentation have made it possible for Tekman to better engage with thousands of teachers and ultimately reach millions of students.
“With HubSpot, we’ve reached all the goals we’d set at the beginning, which ultimately led to higher conversion rates in our potential market.” Luis Florit, Chief Digital Officer, Tekman Education