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Bioil AfriqueCircular EconomyAfrica2025
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Cold outreach that filled Bioil Afrique's partner pipeline across three markets.

A HubSpot + Apollo outbound engine brought Bioil Afrique's circular-economy offer to industrial kitchens, hotel chains and food producers: 8,240 emails, 99.5% deliverability, 22 deals generated.

99.5%
Deliverability rate
10.7%
Reply rate
22
Deals generated
26
Meetings booked
Timeline
4-month outbound program
Stakeholders
Sales, operations & marketing
Scope
Three-market partner outreach
Stack
HubSpotApolloHubSpot Sales Hub
Services
Sales EnablementEmail InfrastructureRevOps
Solution focus
OutboundPipeline & DealsAutomation

The challenge

Bioil Afrique's growth depends on signing new collection partners: industrial kitchens, hotel chains and food producers. But partner acquisition was manual, driven by field visits and word of mouth.

Sales had no scalable way to reach decision-makers in new regions, and follow-ups depended on whoever remembered to call back.

With a multi-country operation, sending cold email from the main domain risked damaging deliverability for the entire network's operational communication.

Our approach

  1. 01ICP-first list building on Apollo: operations managers, sustainability leads and procurement at hotel chains, catering groups and food producers across three markets, segmented by size and sector.
  2. 02Deliverability infrastructure before the first send: dedicated sending domain, full SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup and a two-week warm-up, keeping the operational domain untouched.
  3. 03Segment-based HubSpot Sequences: four-step cadences over 14 days, personalized from CRM data (sector, region, estimated volume), so every email speaks to that partner's reality.
  4. 04Replies route automatically to the regional sales owner with an SLA, and every meeting, contract and ton collected is attributed back to the sequence that generated it.

What we shipped

  • Dedicated sending domain with 99.5% deliverability across 8,240 emails.
  • Three segment-specific cadences: hotels, catering, food production.
  • Full attribution: every partner contract traced back to the sequence that opened it.

Results in detail

99.5%Deliverability

8,240 emails sent from a dedicated, fully warmed domain: the operational domain never touched cold outreach and partner communication kept landing in the inbox.

10.7%Reply rate

Above the typical HubSpot Sequences benchmark, because every email was personalized from CRM data, not a templated mass blast.

22Deals generated

New partner contracts opened in pipeline straight from cold sequences: booked meetings, not luck.

26Meetings booked

Qualified meetings with decision-makers booked straight from cold sequences, all attributed per segment and sequence.

How we ran the engagement

A repeatable four-phase model, designed to ship value in weeks, not quarters.

  1. 01
    Discover

    Audit of data, tools and revenue motion. We map the current state in 1–2 weeks.

  2. 02
    Architect

    Data model, automations and reporting blueprint, reviewed with your team before we build.

  3. 03
    Build

    Implementation in HubSpot and connected systems, with weekly demos and zero black boxes.

  4. 04
    Scale

    Enablement, dashboards and an ongoing optimisation loop tied to your KPIs.

Could this work for you?

If any of these sound familiar, we should talk.

  • Your growth depends on signing new partners, but acquisition is still manual and local.
  • You're expanding into new regions without a scalable way to reach decision-makers.
  • Follow-ups depend on who remembers to call back, and deals slip away.
  • You can't tell which campaign, segment or email actually produced a contract.

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