How Automated Lead Management Amplifies Your Sales Strategy
See the exact people visiting your website and Follow up with them.
Just attracting a lead to a business is a tricky process. A process that can be expensive, uncertain, and time-consuming.
And that’s only the beginning of the sales cycle.
When a lead comes in, marketing teams and sales representatives might have a long road ahead of managing the lead, doing whatever it takes to up the chances of this person or company eventually doing business.
Today, we’re going to look at how automation can help speed up and take some of the manual effort out of that lead management process.
Basics of Automated Lead Management
Lead Management, Defined
Lead management is a fairly broad term, encompassing everything a salesperson might do with a lead through the course of the sales process.
Accordingly, lead management might mean completely different things at companies depending on the length of their sales cycle. It might be a 30-second process for a hot dog vendor, compared to a 1-2 year process for a rep selling enterprise resource planning software to a large company.
At the shortest and longest stages, though, lead management is essentially about what it takes to attract a potential customer and eventually help guide them to the point of doing business. It doesn’t have to be aggressively over-the-top, but some kind of formalized process can help.
Stages of Lead Management
Speaking of a formal process, the seven recognized stages of lead management are as follows:
- Lead generation, creating pathways for a potential customer to contact your company.
- Lead qualification and segmentation, separating likely customers from casual visitors.
- Lead nurturing, growing lead interest in a company.
- Lead scoring, quantifying when a lead is ready for the sales team.
- Lead distribution, assigning the lead to the sales team.
- Lead conversion, when a prospect becomes a buyer.
- Tracking and adjusting, reviewing outcomes to capture more business next time.
What it Means to Automate Lead Management
Automated lead management might sound complex. It uses modern tools to automate simpler parts of the lead management steps, freeing staff for analytical or nuanced work.
5 Ways Automation Amplifies Sales
Higher Close Rates
When a lead comes in for a business, there’s a 20% chance of it converting into a customer, according to HubSpot. Automation removes guesswork and makes the process predictable, leading to higher close rates.
Easier Lead Routing
Lead routing is the real-time process of gathering leads and assigning them to the best people on your sales team.
A Good Tool for the Sales Funnel
The buying process is mystical sometimes. Automation helps at every step of the sales funnel, from awareness to being a paying customer.
Easier Email Campaigns
Through customer relationship management (CRM) tools like Salesforce, reps can have templated emails set to go for each part of the sales cycle. From an initial prospecting email to follow-ups after calls or meetings, companies can automate exactly what they want to say.
How to Implement Automated Lead Management in Sales
Make Full Use of Your CRM
Aside from the email capabilities of CRM tools, these platforms can provide automated reminders and tracking.
Use SaaS-Based Plug-Ins
This guide from getuplead lists providers like AeroLeads for analytics, Vidyard for video customization, and Albacross for data gathering.
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