Sarah Sutton

Sarah Sutton

Southend-On-Sea, England, United Kingdom
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I am an award-winning marketing leader with more than 15 years B2B strategic marketing…

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    5 free lockdown resources for B2B marketers

    I hope when the job market re-opens that furloughed or unemployed B2B marketers aren’t shamed into feeling like they…

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    Southend on Sea, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

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    London, United Kingdom

Projects

  • Art of Transformation

    Our latest campaign for the London insurance market showcases the combined capabilities of CSC and Xchanging. We aimed for an impactful, colourful and immersive multi-channel campaign including bespoke branding, online and offline advertising, social promotion and programmatic media, events and ABM.
    At an exclusive C-level event in The Leadenhall Building, we kicked off the campaign by sharing our vision for the London market, unveiled several new products and invites customers to…

    Our latest campaign for the London insurance market showcases the combined capabilities of CSC and Xchanging. We aimed for an impactful, colourful and immersive multi-channel campaign including bespoke branding, online and offline advertising, social promotion and programmatic media, events and ABM.
    At an exclusive C-level event in The Leadenhall Building, we kicked off the campaign by sharing our vision for the London market, unveiled several new products and invites customers to participate in an industry panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1uTqgt6caU

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  • Xuber Re-launch

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    We have recently successfully relaunch Xchanging's insurance software business as Xuber. The project encompassed brand strategy, key messages, collateral creation, social media, video production, guerilla marketing, outdoor media, a launch event and more...

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Honors & Awards

  • B2B Marketer of Year 2023

    B2B Marketing

    Sarah wins gold and named as 'B2B Marketer of the Year' at the 2023 B2B Marketing awards in London.

  • Award of Excellence for US PR Campaign

    PRSA

    Xuber awarded a 2014 PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence for the PR campaign “Breaking Bold".

    The “Breaking Bold” campaign sought to re-launch Xuber in 2013 in the crowded U.S. specialty insurance technology market with 2-months lead time and a media whose attitude toward covering service providers is lukewarm, at best. Bold, CIO-level messages centered on “the Xuber difference” helped drive results including:

    • $8 million in pipeline opportunities were secured via 30 leads…

    Xuber awarded a 2014 PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence for the PR campaign “Breaking Bold".

    The “Breaking Bold” campaign sought to re-launch Xuber in 2013 in the crowded U.S. specialty insurance technology market with 2-months lead time and a media whose attitude toward covering service providers is lukewarm, at best. Bold, CIO-level messages centered on “the Xuber difference” helped drive results including:

    • $8 million in pipeline opportunities were secured via 30 leads generated from tradeshow participation, and 171 leads to date were generated from the sponsored webinar series.
    • For the first time, Xuber was included in Novarica’s analyst report on policy administration vendors in the U.S.
    • Approximately 100 outlets covered the U.S. re-launch and tradeshow keynote session, including all top tier media such as Insurance & Technology and Business Insurance.
    • Post-launch, the percentage of Twitter followers from the U.S. surpassed UK followers, at almost 36% in April and 39% in May.

    PRSA Silver Anvil is the most competitive and prestigious U.S. award in the public relations industry. The scoring criteria is extremely rigorous and, unlike many other industry awards programs, the judges include journalism/mass communications professors from top universities. It’s considered a huge honor to be named a finalist and Award of Excellence winner.

    The Silver Anvil awards program is administered at the national level by the Public Relations Society of America, the world’s oldest and largest organization of public relations professionals. Its members currently number 21,000. The competition recognizes and honors the very best PR programs planned and executed each year.

    This year’s competition drew a total of 843 entries. Of those, only 156 organizations were selected as finalists, and Xuber was among four finalists in its category.

  • Finalist for UK PR campaign at DARE awards 'Live, launched & loud'

    PRCA

    PRCA is the professional body that represents UK PR consultancies, in-house communications teams, PR freelancers and individuals, and its DARE awards challenge brands to demonstrate how they stand out from the crowd).

    ‘Live, launched & Loud’ campaign highlights entries where PR has been effectively used to launch a new product or service, build an audience for an event or developed a relationship with the public to secure the reputation for the event, product or service.

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    PRCA is the professional body that represents UK PR consultancies, in-house communications teams, PR freelancers and individuals, and its DARE awards challenge brands to demonstrate how they stand out from the crowd).

    ‘Live, launched & Loud’ campaign highlights entries where PR has been effectively used to launch a new product or service, build an audience for an event or developed a relationship with the public to secure the reputation for the event, product or service.

    In October 2012 the Xchanging Group relaunched its insurance software arm as ‘Xuber’. Despite having existed for 30 plus years, Xchanging Insurance Software (as Xuber was previously known) had no brand of its own, and zero outward industry or media presence. In thirty years it had never before had a communications programme, and had not won any new business in three.

    The reason for the relaunch was to rectify this, differentiate, and grow market share. The investment was there – what was missing was any semblance of a story or media strategy.

    Objectives:
    • Support Xuber’s new business drive through effective media relations, helping to increase the number of sales leads and demonstration requests
    • Get the story straight – develop a clear, compelling way for Xuber to talk about itself internally and externally
    • Minimise the impact of negative messages
    • Deliver Xuber’s first ever media programme, identifying trade press targets and forming relationships with them
    • Integrate PR programme with marketing disciplines to maximum effect

    Results:
    Following the launch, Xuber saw a marked spike in demo requests and business leads, and heading into 2013 had an extremely strong new business pipeline. In addition:

    • The top news story across all tier 1 insurance media publications
    • 100% of articles communicated at least 4 out of 5 key messages
    • 27 articles covering or previewing the launch, including 12 in tier 1 media
    • Combined circulation of publications appeared in was 3.4 million

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