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Building a high-performing revenue engine: 1:4 spend to pipeline ratio and +80% traffic YoY

"Working with YOYABA gave us the speed we urgently needed. We were able to realign our marketing team while advancing towards a truly performance-driven organization. In a short time, we implemented the right processes, structures, and analyses that had immediate business impact. This helped us build real transparency on our organic performance, scale it sustainably, and establish paid as a key driver for our pipeline with a spend to pipeline ratio of 1:4, while setting the data foundation to invest where it matters most.”

Josef Elsperger
Josef Elsperger
Deputy CRO
-41% in Cost per SQL
and achieved spend to pipeline ratio of 1:4
+80% YoY
in non-branded traffic
Reliable reporting
across channels, products & campaigns

Executive summary

Infoniqa, a PE-backed HR and payroll software provider, reached a critical growth phase: demand generation needed to be scaled and unified across five recently acquired entities, while ambitious growth targets required an uplifting performance.
To accelerate this transformation, Infoniqa partnered with YOYABA to strengthen and scale its capabilities across Paid Growth, Organic Growth, and Revenue Operations.

Over eleven months, YOYABA managed 100+ campaigns across DACH markets with a seven-figure annual paid media budget, executed a complex "One-CRM" project consolidating multiple HubSpot instances into a holistic revenue engine and content infrastructure required for sustainable growth. The result: Cost per SQL dropped by >41% , ROAS tripled, and Infoniqa gained the scalable revenue marketing engine needed to support multi-million in net-new revenue targets.

Challenges

Infoniqa was navigating the complexity of integrating five acquired entities while addressing diverse market requirements across the DACH region, each with its own systems and partially established go-to-market approaches.

To unify marketing efforts, strengthen revenue generation, and enable scalable growth, the company sought a partner who could combine hands-on execution with strategic guidance to build a more integrated and future-proof go-to-market architecture.

Together with YOYABA, Infoniqa set out to design a high-performing, integrated revenue engine and corresponding go-to-market strategies to support its next phase of growth. The transformation focused on addressing three core challenges:

1. Post-Acquisition Fragmentation

The company's product portfolio was a collection of powerful but disconnected solutions from different acquired entities. This resulted in a fragmented brand message and a confusing value proposition for potential buyers. 

Internally, teams operated in silos, lacking a unified strategy to market the company as a single, integrated platform. This complexity made it difficult to run cohesive campaigns and articulate a clear "Why Infoniqa?" message in a crowded market.

2. The Attribution Black Box

Marketing and sales leadership had almost no visibility into which activities were driving pipeline and revenue. With over 100 paid campaigns running simultaneously, combined with other marketing initiatives, the significant investment in demand generation could not be reliably tied to business outcomes. The lack of a proper tracking and attribution framework meant that key strategic questions like "What's working? Where should we invest more?" were difficult to answer.

3. Inefficient and Disconnected GTM Processes

Infoniqa’s go-to-market processes were evolving across multiple business units, each with its own systems and ways of working. This made it challenging to maintain a unified view of leads, pipeline, and revenue. 

Without a single source of truth, handoffs between teams were inconsistent, forecasting was less reliable, and processes for qualifying and routing opportunities varied. Streamlining these processes presented an opportunity to reduce friction, improve lead management, and create a scalable foundation for growth.

Main areas of collaboration

YOYABA’s engagement with Infoniqa was built around a single principle: full-responsibility partnership. Rather than acting as a traditional agency, YOYABA took ownership of Infoniqa’s entire performance marketing function, providing both hands-on execution and strategic guidance.

This approach enabled alignment across Paid Growth, Organic Growth, and Revenue Operations, ensuring all activities worked toward a unified goal: generating qualified pipeline and measurable revenue. The collaboration combined centralized performance architecture, embedded squad integration, and strategic sparring to help Infoniqa scale efficiently and systematically.

"Looking at INFONIQA’s GTM complexity arising from a strong M&A focus it was obvious that we had to tackle the case from a strategic RevOps perspective and use the insights to steer paid & organic growth initiatives."

Stefan Mersch
Team Lead RevOps @ YOYABA

6.1 Revenue Operations

Revenue Operations served as the backbone connecting Paid and Organic efforts to measurable business outcomes. Initially, Infoniqa had multiple CRM systems, inconsistent funnel stages, and limited attribution, making it difficult to understand how go-to-market efforts  contribute to pipeline and revenue.

YOYABA standardized lead to cash flows, and implemented comprehensive attribution and reporting frameworks. This included campaign tracking, a full revenue funnel re-design, and dashboards that provides a single source of truth for performance. Cross-functional processes are now aligned, enabling consistent segmentation, lead routing, and forecasting across all marketing channels.

RevOps created transparency and accountability across channels, supporting strategic decision-making, scalable growth, and a repeatable, data-driven marketing system that directly contributes to qualified leads and revenue generation.

6.2 Paid Growth

YOYABA took over Paid Growth at a time when Infoniqa’s campaigns were spread across multiple channels without a unified structure, which made optimization and reliable measurement challenging. The task was clear: consolidate budgets, campaigns, and targeting while creating a pipeline-driving engine that could deliver measurable impact across the business.

The team’s approach combined centralization with strategic restructuring. Campaigns were brought under a single performance framework, budgets aligned, and the structure shifted from product-centric to solution-focused messaging that addresses real customer problems. 

Creative innovation and precise targeting refinements increased relevance and engagement. Continuous testing and cross-channel learnings allowed insights from one campaign to accelerate performance across others, creating real momentum.

Paid Growth became a cornerstone of the broader marketing system. Fully attributed and structured campaigns created a clear feedback loop, with insights informing Organic content priorities, guiding strategy and budget allocation, and ensuring all channels work toward the shared goal of generating qualified leads and pipeline.

6.3 Organic Growth

At the beginning of the collaboration, the organic function lacked clear ownership, systematic content processes, and a SEO foundation. The website architecture needed optimization, and content production was fragmented, making it difficult to create sustainable, compounding demand.

Together with Infoniqa, we implemented a structured content strategy, improving site architecture and aligning messaging with solution-focused campaigns from Paid Growth. Keyword mapping, page-level SEO intent, and pragmatic UX improvements ensured that new and existing content contributes meaningfully to search visibility and user experience. Content production was systematized, allowing the team to scale output.

Organic Growth was tightly integrated with Paid and Revenue Operations. Paid campaign insights guide content priorities and keyword targeting, while RevOps-enabled attribution allows the team to measure pipeline contribution beyond traffic metrics. This creates a sustainable, repeatable system that drives long-term demand and reinforces Infoniqa’s overall marketing performance.

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The Results

  • Cost per SQL was reduced by over 41%, enabling Infoniqa to generate significantly more qualified pipeline from the same marketing investment.
  • Through campaign restructuring, budget reallocation, creative refresh, and tighter attribution, ROAS was tripled, representing a more than 200% improvement in advertising efficiency.
  • Organic content architecture was rebuilt, including website pages, to support long-term inbound growth
  • Non-branded traffic increased by 80 % YoY and achieved a 106 % increase in total ranking keywords and +178 % keywords in top 10
  • Previously fragmented go-to-market operations were unified into a single, scalable system. Campaigns, sales funnels, and reporting were integrated into one CRM, creating group-level visibility, reducing operational friction, and enabling faster cross-channel optimization.
  • Full attribution and reporting frameworks now make it clear which channels and campaigns drive pipeline, allowing marketing decisions to be fully data-driven, ROI to be demonstrable to leadership, and strategic planning to rely on real-time insights.

"Working with YOYABA gave us the speed we urgently needed. We were able to realign our marketing team while advancing towards a truly performance-driven organization. In a short time, we implemented the right processes, structures, and analyses that had immediate business impact. This helped us build real transparency on our organic performance, scale it sustainably, and establish paid as a key driver for our pipeline with a spend to pipeline ratio of 1:4, while setting the data foundation to invest where it matters most.”

Josef Elsperger
Deputy CRO
Josef Elsperger

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