Campaigns: Revive Closed Lost by targeting past evaluators [after 6 months]
Overview
Revive accounts that have previously evaluated but didn’t purchase by reengaging the previous evaluator(s) after a set period of time.
Why run it
Closed-lost opps often come down to timing — not lack of interest/fit. Since these accounts already know your product, if the timing improves, they’re primed to move quickly.
Campaign Complexity
Basic --> This campaign should take ~30 min set-up (if pre-requisites are already completed) and requires limited customization.
Signals Used
- People: Past Champions
- Account: Revive Closed Lost
1. Complete the pre-requisites
- Easy start completed (Salesforce / Hubspot):
- SEP configured (Outreach, Salesloft, or CRM (non Outreach / Salesloft SEPs)
2. Create a Gem-E sequence / cadence in your Sales Engagement tool
- Create a new sequence or duplicate a default Gem-e sequence / cadence if you already created one
- Call the sequence / cadence “UG - Revive Closed Lost by targeting past evaluators [after 6 months]” or similar.
- Suggested structure for this campaign sequence/cadence:
3. Customize your campaign workflow
- If this is your first workflow, make sure you’ve reviewed the campaign workflows help article
- Navigate to the campaign workflows page in UserGems
- Select “create new campaign”
- Select the default “Revive Closed Lost by targeting past evaluators [after 6 months]” campaign
- This default campaign workflow should include the following actions:
- Audience = Default “Revive Closed Lost by targeting past evaluators [after 6 months'” audience
- Schedule = Default
- Create prospects = Default
- Delay = Default
- Activate Gem-E = Default

4. Validate your audience
- Click the "Audience" action
- Select "Edit audience" to review the default audience
- Click the wrench icon in the top right to download as a CSV
- Take a random sample of 20 prospects:
- If >90% are a good fit, no edits are needed
- If <90% are a good fit, you may want to consider updating your Ideal Customer Profile and/or personas and/or adding additional filters


5. Customize your schedule & limits
- Default schedule will limit to 100 prospects sent at 8am EST.
- The schedule wont begin running until the entire workflow is activated
- Click the "Schedule & limits" action
- Customize the schedule to your preferences

6. Confirm your create or update prospect rules
- Default creation rules be set to your own default CRM export settings
- In most cases this step shouldn't need customization since the record creation rules should generally always follow the same criteria

7. Keep, extend, or delete default delay
- The default delay between activating Gem-E is 30 minutes
- This delay is intended to leave time for 3rd party routing tools like LeanData or Chilipiper to run assignments before Gem-E creates messaging.
- If you're using a routing tool, you'll likely want to keep or extend this step.
- If you're not using a routing tool, it's optional to keep this step since it won't have any direct impact.

8. Review Activate Gem-E action
- In most cases, you shouldn't need to adjust anything in this step other than the number of emails generated.
- There is an option to override default prompts here which should only be used for one-off micro campaigns.
- Default Gem-E activation is to create 3 subjects and 7 emails for this campaign.
- If you're not using the recommended sequence structure and have less or more AI emails, adjust the toggles accordingly.

9. Add an action to enroll in sequence / cadence or update CRM fields
- If using Outreach / Salesloft:
- Select "Add action" at the bottom of the workflow
- Select "Add to sequence" for Outreach or "Add to Cadence" for Salesloft
- Select the sequence / cadence you created for this campaign
- Select who to enroll as
- Most common option is to enroll as the record owner assuming we've set up assignment rules that way

- If using any other SEP or sequencing tool:
- Select "add action" at the bottom of the workflow
- Select "Update CRM fields"
- If you're only creating contacts or leads select the appropriate option then map each Gem-E field created in your CRM with the dynamic value in UseGems
- If you're creating contacts & leads with UserGems, you'll need to add this action twice, once for the lead object, and once for the contact object

10. Customize your Gem-E messaging & snippets
- Navigate to Gem-E snippets in UserGems
- Review your Revive Closed Lost Snippet

11. Validate your Gem-E messaging
- Navigate back to the campaign workflow
- Open the activate Gem-E step
- Click the "preview messages" button in the top right
- Review the emails
- If these look good to send hit save
- If not you may want to further revise your Gem-E messaging

12. Manually send 10 records in the audience
- Head to the workflows page in UserGems
- Find your “Revive Closed Lost by targeting past evaluators [after 6 months]” workflow
- Select the 3 dots all the way on the right of the row
- Select “run workflow”
- Check the “Limit to”checkbox
- Limit to 10
- Click "Run"
13. Check for errors
- After about 1 hour, review if there were any errors:
- There were no workflow errors
- The records were assigned to the correct person
- Gem-E messaging was generated properly
- Prospects were added to sequence if applicable

14. Train the team and launch!
- Share this video training with your team
- Activate your workflow by selecting the toggle on the workflows page
