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Turning B2B expertise into B2C growth: +250% revenue in seven months

An online language-training company had a solid presence with universities and schools. Growing with individual learners required rethinking its marketing, its offer and its customer experience. The engagement covered building the B2C go-to-market, selling a subscription offer, and reorganising customer service around Customer Success. In seven months, revenue grew by more than 250%.

SectorEdTech · Online language training
ContextB2C growth from a B2B business
EngagementMarketing · Go-to-market · Offer · Customer Success
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Recognised expertise with institutions, a proposition to rebuild for individuals

The company had built a solid business with universities, schools and other training providers. It had teaching expertise and a digital offer, but its commercial approach was still structured around B2B. Growing with individuals meant rethinking how that offer was presented, sold and supported.
An institution bought a solution for a group of users. An individual had to recognise their own need, understand the path on offer, and decide to commit personally.

From an institutional sale to an individual decision

The offer ran as SaaS, available by subscription. Selling it to individuals meant meeting the demands of an e-commerce journey: immediate understanding, readable plans, and a simple purchase decision.
  • A SaaS offer to present inside an e-commerce journey
  • France's CPF scheme, which added its own steps to the path
  • A customer relationship to adapt to an individual audience
  • Support expected on onboarding and progress
B2C growth therefore engaged marketing, sales and the product experience at the same time.

Rebuilding the coherence between what was sold and what was experienced

The work covered the whole journey: discovering the offer, understanding its value, subscribing, using it and being supported.

  • How do you translate teaching expertise into a proposition that speaks to an individual?
  • How do you present a recurring offer inside a clear purchase journey?
  • How do you support the user once the subscription is signed?
  • Connect the marketing rebuild to the customer-service rebuild, within one approach

Three structuring priorities

01

Reposition the offer for B2C

The proposition had to answer an individual buyer's motivations, with courses, plans and subscription value presented accordingly.

02

Build the go-to-market and the launch

Marketing and sales had to carry a SaaS offer sold with e-commerce mechanics, including the CPF dimension.

03

Organise support after subscription

Customer service had to move towards Customer Success, with indicators that track the experience and needs of users.

The actions taken

01 · MARKETING

Rebuilding the marketing strategy

I reworked the marketing approach for growth with individuals. The work covered how the offer was presented, how its value was expressed, and how its sale was supported with this new audience. The company's long-standing expertise had to become clear and compelling at the scale of one person's project.

02 · OFFER

Rebuilding the offer and the go-to-market

I worked on reshaping the online language-course offer and on its B2C launch. The model combined SaaS subscription with e-commerce selling. That combination demanded coherence between the content of the offer, the plans on sale, and the way the customer made their decision.

03 · FUNDING

Fitting the CPF scheme in

France's CPF training-funding scheme was built into the work on the offer and its sale. It introduced specific steps in the journey that had to sit alongside the teaching and commercial proposition.

04 · CUSTOMERS

Rebuilding customer service

The engagement also covered a significant transformation of customer service, introducing a Customer Success approach. Support was placed in continuity with the sale: the quality of the experience after subscription was part of growing the business.

05 · GOVERNANCE

Improving the tracking indicators

Indicators were revised to track the customer relationship better and support Customer Success governance. This strengthened the place of user experience in reading performance, beyond the act of purchase alone.

Subscribing opened a relationship to maintain

In this model, commercial performance also depended on the customer's ability to get value from the service they had subscribed to.

The customer-service rebuild run alongside the marketing rebuild
Expectations set before purchase connected to the support given afterwards
Customer Success giving that continuity a framework
A more structured follow-up of the relationship and better governance indicators

Impact of the engagement

GROWTH

+250% revenue in seven months

Revenue multiplied by more than 3.5 over the period.

MARKETING

An approach rebuilt for individuals

The offer was reworked to support B2C growth for a company historically strong with institutions.

MODEL

SaaS sold with e-commerce mechanics

The work brought together subscription, online course offer and selling journey, including the CPF dimension.

CUSTOMERS

Customer service reorganised around Customer Success

Support and tracking indicators were strengthened to govern the relationship after subscription.

The structuring trade-offs

01

Keeping the expertise while changing the commercial language

The tension

The credibility built with institutions was an asset, but it spoke in institutional terms.

The call made

Translate it into benefits an individual could understand, measured against their own goals.

02

Making a multi-dimensional offer readable

The tension

The service combined training, subscription and funding arrangements.

The call made

Work the offer so the whole could be presented coherently, without losing clarity.

03

Letting support evolve with commercial growth

The tension

B2C growth called for a customer relationship the existing organisation could not yet carry.

The call made

Run the Customer Success rebuild as a component of the model, alongside marketing and sales.

A commercial model transformed end to end.

The engagement connected the offer rebuild, the go-to-market, the B2C launch and user support. In seven months, revenue grew by more than 250%. That result came with a deeper shift: expertise historically sold to institutions was rethought so it could be chosen, bought and used directly by individuals.
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