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Streamlining Sales for a Digital-First Future: How Pace Fuels Success with emlen

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Pace enables seamless digital fueling and payments through mobile apps and connected car systems.

Industry
Mobility technology
Company size
150
+
Country
🇩🇪 Germany
Website
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About
PACE Telematics GmbH

Pace is a European leader in connected fueling solutions, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Through their innovative platform, they enable drivers to refuel and pay digitally using mobile apps, car dashboards, or integrations like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. By digitizing the fueling experience, Pace empowers users to enjoy seamless, modern mobility.

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Challenge

Pace needed a way to streamline its sales processes and address inefficiencies in managing and sharing content with stakeholders throughout long sales cycles.

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Solution

emlen provided Pace with a digital sales room (DSR) solution that centralized content, improved collaboration, and showcased their innovative approach to sales.

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Sales Content Management
Sales Content Analytics
Buying Center Alignment
Sales Content Management
Buying Center Alignment
Sales Content Analytics

The Challenges

Before implementing emlen, Pace faced significant challenges in their sales processes:

Decentralized content management

With sales materials scattered across email threads and Google Drive, Pace struggled to keep track of shared resources. Long sales cycles, combined with frequent changes in stakeholder teams, led to confusion and inefficiencies.

"The biggest pain was to get all things located in one place. When people involved on the prospect side changed, we had to start all over again. All the sales material was sunk in email conversations."

Klaus-Dietrich (KD) Gast
Head of Sales, PACE Connected Fueling

Inefficient stakeholder collaboration

Prospective clients often requested materials multiple times, leading to delays and a lack of clarity about what had already been shared. Internal teams also faced difficulties synchronizing content updates and sharing the latest resources with indirect sales partners.

Limited buyer engagement insights

Pace lacked visibility into buyer engagement, like whether materials had been accessed or reviewed. This made it challenging to prioritize deals and tailor follow-ups effectively.

The Solutions

Pace discovered emlen through a proactive outreach by emlen’s team, and the potential benefits were quickly apparent. The digital sales room became a game-changer in addressing their challenges:

One source of truth: Centralized content management

emlen provided Pace with a unified platform to organize sales materials, making it easy to share content with stakeholders while keeping everything in one place.

"It was a very nice thing to just hand it over to the new persons involved and say, ‘Look, there’s the history; there’s the sales room. You can find everything."

Klaus-Dietrich (KD) Gast
Head of Sales, PACE Connected Fueling

Streamlined sharing: Improved collaboration

Being able to create customized, web-based showrooms allowed Pace to streamline content sharing with internal teams, indirect sales partners, and prospects. Materials were always up-to-date, and access was seamless.

Data-based insights with emlen buyer engagement analytics

emlen’s analytics offered Pace valuable insights into buyer activity. Knowing when and how prospects engaged with their digital showroom enabled the sales team to prioritize opportunities more effectively.

"If people are viewing the digital sales room, you get notified. You can see what documents they looked at. That’s a very nice feature!"

Klaus-Dietrich (KD) Gast
Head of Sales, PACE Connected Fueling

How Pace uses emlen

Pace leverages emlen as a central hub for their sales materials, simplifying the way teams and prospects access and interact with content:

  1. Sales content distribution: The digital showroom organizes materials by categories (e.g., legal documents or technical specifications), ensuring stakeholders quickly find what they need.
  1. Streamlining onboarding: For indirect sales teams, emlen replaced Google Drive links, minimizing confusion and manual synchronization of materials.
  1. Improving buyer experience: Personalized showrooms, complete with the prospect’s name and a welcome message, impressed clients and demonstrated Pace’s commitment to innovation.
"We also enjoyed showing off that we are a modern and innovative company. It was a great opportunity to demonstrate to prospects that there’s a more modern way of working together."

Klaus-Dietrich (KD) Gast
Head of Sales, PACE Connected Fueling

Impact and future plans with emlen

Since adopting emlen, Pace has significantly improved the efficiency and professionalism of its sales processes. 

The centralized platform saves time, reduces errors, and fosters better stakeholder collaboration. Additionally, emlen’s analytics empower the sales team with actionable insights into buyer behavior.

"It eases up things for stakeholders on the other side—they know they can find everything they need there."

Klaus-Dietrich (KD) Gast
Head of Sales, PACE Connected Fueling

Looking ahead, Pace envisions further integrating emlen into their workflows, potentially extending its use into the post-sales phase for onboarding and implementation.

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About

Pace enables seamless digital fueling and payments through mobile apps and connected car systems.

Industry
Mobility technology
Company size
150
+
Country
🇩🇪 Germany
Website
External link iconLinkedIn icon

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