So your business is generating leads – terrific. The best way to ensure all those expensive leads don’t get ignored, is to create a great lead follow up process.
Your process should include cross-media marketing efforts as well as sales lead follow up. This will put your sales force in the best position for qualifying leads and ultimately converting sales.
A well managed, effective lead follow up process combines the best of your sales and marketing efforts. Consider the following components in your lead follow up process:
Some people prefer e-mail, some prefer talking on the phone and there are those that use fax machines or the postal service. Consider all these mediums in your lead follow up process.
Here’s an outline of what I mean – this is an example for a product or service provider:
This exact process may or may not fit your business model, but you get the idea of using multiple touches, a call to action, CRM marketing and integrating both sales and marketing efforts. If you do something like this for every lead, your conversion rates should increase.
While marketing is a critical component of the lead follow up process, the best method of qualifying leads is person to person, and that involves the sales person or persons.
Here are some tips to help your sales people improve at qualifying leads.
Leveraging your CRM system can greatly improve the sales follow up process. If your sales group has done a good job of qualifying leads, reminders, activities and actions can be set in the CRM system to trigger your sales people into action. Marketing can assist with the sales lead follow up process by providing messaging, product information and e-mail templates – all of which can likely be stored in your CRM system. Take advantage of all these powerful tool and your sales follow up will improve, and so will your conversions.
Improving your sales lead follow up and better qualifying leads is important to maximizing revenue. Don’t let your online marketing lead generation efforts go to waste!
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