Case Study: Accelerating Enterprise Growth with Account-based Marketing (ABM)

Project: Buyer Journey + ABM Campaign

Company: Virtru

Expanding into enterprise revealed that Virtru’s SMB-focused GTM motion wasn’t enough, demand programs were reactive, engaging buyers too late and limiting influence.

Objective: Build a targeted ABM program aligned to the enterprise buying journey, engage high-value accounts earlier, maintain consistent messaging, and drive pipeline growth.

" Michelle shaped and executed integrated demand gen strategies that were grounded in insights and focused on real results. She collaborated seamlessly across teams to develop strong personas, messaging, and creative, and led paid marketing across SEO, search, display, and social while expertly managing agency partners."
Shani Becker

Actions:

  • Partnered with sales, product marketing, and customer success to map the enterprise buying journey, including triggers, personas, and evaluation timelines.

  • Identified early-stage signals such as cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and collaboration tool consolidation.

  • Designed campaigns around key pain points, Google migration, security/Breach & Zero Trust, and federal requirements, ensuring consistent messaging across the journey.

  • Developed tailored content and messaging frameworks, including executive thought leadership, technical guides, and Gartner comparison assets.

  • Executed coordinated campaigns across digital ads, social media, content syndication, email nurtures, and sales outreach, equipping account teams with customized playbooks.

"Having Michelle on your team means you have a powerhouse of marketing knowledge and campaign strategy at the ready."
Megan Leader

Results:

  • Boosted early-stage engagement with high-value enterprise accounts.

  • SDRs reached more enterprise prospects on the phone.

  • Accelerated pipeline creation and improved marketing-sales alignment.

  • Strengthened competitive positioning by influencing buyers earlier.

  • Established a scalable ABM framework, later expanded to additional enterprise initiatives.

From Fragmented Messaging to a Unified Buyer Journey

Disjointed GTM messaging was confusing buyers and killing conversion. This case study shows how I aligned teams around a single messaging framework by mapping the buyer journey and clearly connecting pain points, solutions, and differentiators, so every team told the same story and conversion improved.

From Intent to Opportunity: ABM in Action

The company needed to convert known, high-intent accounts into pipeline, but existing campaigns lacked focus and personalization. Find out how I built a high-intent ABM strategy that aligned messaging, channels, and sales outreach to accelerate pipeline from target accounts.