Customer story
One industry,
profiled properly.
Phorest is a vertical SaaS company serving over 155,000 hair, beauty, barber and spa professionals worldwide. Laser-focused on the salon industry, it wanted to fine-tune its ideal customer profile to cut wasted spend and increase conversions — using salon location, card revenues, revenue growth and payment technographics.
Enigma + Phorest — refining an ideal customer profile in a niche industry
- Customer
- Phorest
- Industry
- Vertical SaaS — salon management
- Use case
- ICP refinement & outbound segmentation
- Product
- Enigma Sales and Marketing

155,000+
hair, beauty, barber and spa professionals Phorest serves worldwide — the only figure this study published
Source: Maximizing Outbound Campaigns, enigma.com
Phorest and Enigma published this study without conversion figures. The quote below is what they said about the result; there are no numbers to add to it.
01
The challenge
Knowing the industry isn't the same as knowing the accounts.
Phorest is laser-focused on the salon industry and wanted to improve the effectiveness of its marketing campaign targeting.
The team recognised that fine-tuning its Ideal Customer Profile was the way to identify the right audience for its salon management solution — a move aimed at reducing wasted spend and increasing conversions.
By targeting the right audience, Phorest could make its marketing efforts hit the mark with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
02
The approach
Location, revenue, growth, and the till they already use.
Phorest refined its ICP using Enigma's data attributes — salon location, card revenues, revenue growth and payment technographics — which let the team identify and prioritize its most valuable target customers.
The commercial team then improved campaign targeting by segmenting leads on the specific in-person and online payment technologies a salon uses, with access to multiple contacts at each target salon to find the right way in.
Finally, Phorest improved the messaging of its outbound campaigns by incorporating intelligence on a salon's monthly revenues, transaction sizes and processing volumes.
ICP
Salon location, card revenues, revenue growth, payment technographics
Segmentation
In-person and online payment technology in use at the salon
Messaging
Monthly revenues, transaction sizes, processing volumes
“Enigma Sales and Marketing helps our team identify the top prospects that match our ideal customer profile. Using Enigma's data about business financial health and granular industry classifications, we've been able to optimize our prospecting efforts to boost conversions and grow our customer base.”
Rob Hewitt
Commercial Director, Phorest
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