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Lead management

What is meant by Lead management?

"Lead Management" refers to the process of capturing, qualifying, tracking, and converting potential customers (leads) into customers. Lead management typically involves managing all interactions with potential customers, from the initial contact to the completion of the sales cycle. The goal is to identify potential customers, understand their needs, qualify them, and guide them through the sales process to eventually achieve the sales closure.

Typical features of software in the "Leadmanagement" area may include:

  1. Lead capture: Capturing leads from various sources such as website forms, social media channels, trade shows, or other marketing activities.

  2. Lead qualification: Evaluating the quality of leads based on criteria such as demographic information, interests, purchase intentions, or behaviors to facilitate lead prioritization and assignment.

  3. Lead tracking: Tracking interactions and activities with leads across various communication channels to better understand their interests and needs and develop personalized approaches.

  4. Lead nurturing: Providing targeted content, offers, or resources to increase lead interest and engagement and guide them through the sales process.

  5. Lead scoring: Assessing leads based on their interactions, behaviors, or demographic data to evaluate their maturity or purchase readiness and optimize resource allocation.

  6. Workflow automation: Automating recurring tasks and processes in lead management, such as sending follow-up emails, scheduling calls, or updating lead information.

  7. Reporting and analysis: Generating reports and analyses on lead metrics, conversion rates, effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and other metrics to gain insights and evaluate the success of lead management.

The function / module Lead management belongs to:

Sales

Field service management
Intermediary book trade
Sales functions
Transaction management
Wholesaler

Software solutions with function or module Lead management:

audius:CRM – the cross-functional standard software
audius:Energy for power engineering companies
audius:Event for Event Management
audius:Finance for financial service providers
audius:Seminar for training and seminar management
audius:Software & Consulting for IT, software and consulting companies
Dialfire - Outbound Callcenter Software
Microsoft Dynamics 365