Capital Recovery Group

CRG is a global private equity firm that creates liquidity for its clients through expertise, innovative solutions and access to worldwide markets. They specialise in complex scenarios comprised of industrial assets and real estate, they revitalize idle or marginally productive assets and liquidate surplus.

Marion Illouz is the Marketing Director at CRG and has considerable skill and experience in successfully marketing Industrial Equipment.

CRG has a tremendous variety of assets for sale in any given month and also have tremendous variety in the types of auction sales that they promote.

Marion sees Bidderlists as an extension of her own marketing department and works with us on bigger projects in the USA and or globally.

As with most projects the process with ourselves started with a call to understand budget and scope of the sale and marketing efforts. We then spent some time looking at the assets for sale to build out a marketing plan across our portfolio. This particular sale was unusual in that it was 3 different verticals, 3 separate sale days and enormous with regards to the number of lots being sold. With the scope of the auction clear we decided to focus on the lab assets for sale and the facilities assets for sale separately. This essentially created two tiers to the campaign but was essential in maximising the end result from the CRG campaign.

Email

The best way to market an auction effectively starts with targeted email and Bidderlists has exclusive access to over 250,000 active buyers every month through its network that includes Exapro and Kitmondo.

The email campaign was as follows:

1 x email campaign with Kitmondo targeting Lab Equipment Buyers.

1 x email campaign with Kitmondo targeting Facilities Buyers.

1 x email campaign with Exapro targeting Lab Equipment Buyers.

1 x email campaign with Exapro targeting Facilities Buyers.

The Industrial Bulletin

As well as targeted email we always give auctioneers the opportunity to advertise in our market leading monthly newsletter “The Industrial Bulletin” This is seen by over 150,000 relevant buyers every month. The newsletter looks at the hot news and trends in the Industrial Equipment Marketplace.

The Industrial Bulletin campaign was as follows:

2 x Banners & Editorial

Video

Video is the best way for auctioneer to get a relevant concise impactful message across to find potential buyers. CRG took time to find the most relevant high res images of the auction sale, we then took a step back and worked our magic in creating a high impact ProSoc Video. 40 seconds in length but professionally crafted with a strong call to action designed to create a tremendous amount of traffic.

Social Media

We used our created video content and designed a highly targeted Social Media campaign across all key channels. We guaranteed at least 10,000 video views as part of package offering Marion piece of mind.

You will see from the results below how successful the campaign was, with each different element targeting a range of buyers to ensure the sale was a huge success.

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I have been working with Paul Fowler and Bidderlists/Kitmondo/Exapro for more than 10 years now. From the moment we started working together, I knew I would be developing a very worthwhile professional relationship, and I was correct. As an industrial auctioneer, it is important to find all of the right avenues to advertise our auctions in order to attract the right customer base, and therefore maximize the return on the assets that we are selling in the most cost effective way. Paul and his staff have been instrumental in helping with this process in that they understand the industrial assets that we sell, as well as the various markets that we need to advertise in, which makes the planning process a lot easier as a customer.

Recently, they helped us with the marketing of a 1.25 Million Square Foot Biomedical Research campus whose assets we sold in three individual auctions which were separated based on the asset class. We did a major campaign with Bidderlists/Kitmondo/Exapro for the 2nd auction as we were selling over 1,000 lots of lab equipment, as well as for the 3rd auction which was comprised of the complete systems and support services from the entire campus. With the amount of subscribers that they have in both of these industries, I knew that advertising with Bidderlists/Kitmondo/Exapro was the right way to go. After lengthy discussions about our budget as well as the assets that we were selling and who the target buyers would be, Paul helped me put together a global campaign which included online banner ads, a press release and special YouTube video in their monthly newsletter to 140,000 subscribers, as well as targeted emails to the proper buyers. He was able to stay within my budget without limiting our global reach, which led to a very successful campaign.

It is always a pleasure working with Paul and his team, and I appreciate the hard work and attention they put into each of their customer’s campaigns.

Marion Illouz

Head of Marketing

It is always a pleasure working with Paul and his team, and I appreciate the hard work and attention they put into each of their customer’s campaigns.

Marion Ilouz

Head of Marketing