LeadFabric Stories - Account-based growth, from strategy to signal

Account-based marketing at Barco ClickShare

BUYING GROUPS, SIGNALS AND THE CHANNEL

ClickShare relied on traditional lead-based marketing methods but still found they were leaving money on the table with stagnated deals and slower conversion. Join us as explore how ClickShare adopted ABM principles to transform their buying journey through buyer insight research.

LeadFabric Stories — Account-Based Growth: Where Strategy Meets Signal
Yannic Laleeuwe — Global Marketing Director ClickShare, Barco
Kaat Wuyts — Head of Consulting EMEA, LeadFabric

Client

Barco — ClickShare

Route to market

Largely via distribution

Scope

Buyer research, account-based GTM strategy, 6sense enablement

Stage

Pilot live, early results landing

“We only target accounts who are in market, so we don't spend time on accounts that aren't in a buying cycle.”
Yannic Laleeuwe — Global Marketing Director ClickShare, Barco
Yannic Laleeuwe in conversation with Kaat Wuyts

Global marketing director, Yannic Laleeuwe understood that ClickShare was not the typical case study. The company largely sold through distributors, not end-customers. They needed a new approach that treated B2B differently.

That's exactly what LeadFabric did. We got to work with interviewing salespeople, marketing teams, customers, active prospects, and the deals they'd lost. Our approach left the vanity metrics of lead scoring behind and focused on how buying works within their industry – where the journey starts, how it moves, and what tells us an account has reached each stage.

We quickly discovered that Barco’s customers were making decisions on who to work with long before anyone even reached out to a potential partner. What’s more is that they were making decisions in groups with different objectives rather than relying on any single individual.

THE KEY FINDING

Because Barco’s buyers had long evaluation cycles, they simply weren’t ready for a salesperson. They needed the opposite: speed, proof, and support on the phone within days.

The hard part for Barco wasn’t the outreach, but reading the signals.

The LeadFabric approach

01

Talk to the market

We interviewed sales, marketing, customers, prospects and lost deals to discover the evidence for every buyer decision, and how the strategy earned internal buy-in.

02

A data quality assessment

We asked if the available account and contact data actually cover the target industries and regions, and what was required for successful conversions.

03

Accounts, buying groups, signals

LeadFabric combined account information, buying group insights, and market signals that CRMs didn’t have to fully understand what “in market” means for ClickShare specifically.

04

A deliberately small pilot

Going from insight to action, we piloted a campaign focused on a few people, limited access, and everything built to validate our approach and clarify the impact.

Programme in progress - Results will be shared in autumn

Where it stands

The research phase is complete and orchestration is now live. The content is now matched to sector, role and buying stage, and activated across paid, owned and outbound channels based on the signals we defined.
The first results are being measured, and we’ll return with the numbers in autumn 2026

Yannic Laleeuwe, Global Marketing Director ClickShare at Barco
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