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Intrum · Credit management and debt collection, Denmark

36 positive conversations with Danish finance leaders from LinkedIn outreach in 3 months.

Intrum helps companies get paid on time and protect their customer relationships. We put two Intrum sales profiles in front of CFOs, finance directors and credit managers at Intrum's chosen Danish accounts, and one in three of the people we messaged replied.

  • 3 months
  • 2 LinkedIn profiles
  • Denmark
Services provided
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • Profile optimisation
  • Targeting and list building
  • Message copywriting
  • A/B testing
  • Lead tracking
  • Monthly reporting

Who we targeted

1Audience

  • Finance and credit decision makers
  • Procurement and operations leaders
  • Customer experience leaders

Each profile worked its own list of named Danish accounts chosen by Intrum, filtered to the people who own payments and collections.

2Industry

  • Financial services and banking
  • Construction
  • Retail
  • Utilities and energy
  • IT services

The industries that replied most, across Intrum's named account lists.

3Company size

  • Mid-sized and large companies

4Job titles

  • CFO
  • Finance director
  • Head of finance
  • Credit manager
  • Credit risk director
  • Procurement director

5Countries

  • DKDenmark

All messages were written for the Danish market.

The numbers

Two profiles, three months, 36 positive conversations.

Results from the LinkedIn campaign data and lead tracking over 3 months.

36

Positive conversations

Referrals to the right person, interested prospects and 3 booked meetings.

147

Replies

From finance and credit leaders at Intrum's target accounts.

33%

Reply rate

Of the people we messaged replied.

473

New connections

Decision makers at named accounts, more than double the goal of 200.

Positive conversations vs goal
1.8xthe goal for positive conversations

The goal set at the start was 10 positive conversations per profile. With sharp account lists and short, curious openers, the two profiles reached 36.

Goal for two profiles20
Positive conversations reached36

The goal was agreed at the strategy workshop. The result is the total in the final monthly report to Intrum.

ChallengeStart conversations with the people who own collections

Intrum sells credit management to companies with a lot of invoices to chase. The buyers are CFOs, finance directors and credit managers, and they rarely answer a cold approach.

Intrum had a clear list of Danish companies it wanted to reach. It needed a way to open conversations with the right person inside each one.

The goal: at least 10 positive conversations per profile.

SolutionNamed accounts, the right titles and a simple question

We ran outreach from two Intrum sales profiles. Each worked its own list of named accounts, filtered to finance, credit, procurement and customer experience leaders.

We tested three openers. A short, curious question about how the company handles collections won with a 45% reply rate, more than double the longest version.

We also rewrote one profile headline. Its acceptance rate rose from 33% to 40% in the next round.

ImpactAlmost double the goal

Across both profiles, 473 decision makers connected and 147 replied. One in three people we messaged wrote back.

Those replies became 36 positive conversations, against a goal of 20.

25 of them were referrals to the person who handles collections, 8 were interested prospects and 3 turned into booked meetings.

How we helped

What we did, and when

From workshop to 36 positive conversations in three months.

  1. Before launch

    Strategy and targeting

    Strategy workshop, headline suggestions for both profiles and a named account list for each, filtered to finance and credit decision makers.

  2. Month 1

    Launch

    Both profiles went live with three openers. 220 new connections and 61 replies in the first month.

  3. Month 2

    Testing and optimisation

    The short, curious opener won the test. We kept the best two, added a new one and updated a profile headline.

  4. Month 3

    Results

    The reply rate climbed to 41%. In total: 473 new connections, 147 replies and 36 positive conversations.

Month by month

The reply rate kept climbing.

People messaged and replies each month, with the share who replied.

People messaged and replies

Both profiles combined.

People messagedReplies
  1. 18661
    Month 133% replied
  2. 17552
    Month 230% replied
  3. 8234
    Month 341% replied

How we count. Requests, new connections, people messaged and replies are monthly totals from the LinkedIn campaign data for both profiles. Month 3 runs to the final report. Acceptance rate is new connections divided by requests. Reply rate is replies divided by people messaged. In the opener test, reply rate is replies divided by messages delivered. Positive conversations are referrals, interested prospects and booked meetings, as totalled in the final monthly report to Intrum. Acceptance rates per profile come from our test results.

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