Leads

May172020 by switchleadNo Comments

How To Optimize The Transfer of Leads Between Marketing and Sales

Historically, the biggest cause of conflicts between marketing and sales can be summed up in one word. Leads. Marketing generates leads. Sales determines that most of these leads are not qualified. They tell the marketing department that they need more leads. The marketers say, "Why don't you use all the leads we've already given you !?" And so it goes on. Establishment of criteria for leads and SLA When it comes to sports, we not only ask the athletes to play fairly; we create rules and use judges. Similarly, companies cannot expect their sales and marketing departments to work well without guidelines or objective third parties. The first step, which most organizations have already taken, is to establish a common definition of what a qualified lead means. It is of the utmost...

Mar72020 by switchleadNo Comments

How to Acquire Leads for Increased Sales

Business, Leads, Marketing

Leads are important for all sellers because they have the opportunity to reach out to customers with input. The difference between regular cold calls and lead addresses can be huge. What leads are partly about identifying customers who really need the product, which leads to a higher willingness to buy. The other side of the coin is that if the seller has an input on the customers that makes it easier to start a call, the sales will increase. Therefore, leads can be worth gold for sales organizations. Save money with leads Leads cost more than regular call numbers or addresses are no secret. Often you pay more to acquire leads. But how can you save money on leads? Imagine that you have a sales organization with 10 salespeople who all carry out 5 sales a day of various products to cold...

Mar72020 by switchleadNo Comments

3 Tips on How to get More Leads Through Linkedin

Business, Leads

3 quick tips to get more leads on Linkedin How well do you use LinkedIn's Search Builder Lead Builder to find leads? Many just use LinkedIn to accept yes to contact requests or send away impersonal requests to different people themselves. Few use LinkedIn to partly Structure existing contacts Export your contacts to other systems Structure existing contacts - tag Keep in mind that every contact you connect to your network on LinkedIn you can give a so-called tag, ie. ear tag so you can more easily search out a certain number of people included in that tag. This is not something anyone else sees, but it is only for your own sake. Below the picture of each person, there is today a "mini-CRM system" on LinkedIn. There you can fill in when you got in touch, tag in your own ...

Mar72020 by switchleadNo Comments

Lead Generation – How Does It Work?

Leads, Marketing

A lead is a customer contact that the sales department can follow up with and which can lead to increased sales. It is important that you decide what leads you want and at what cost. For the sales department, not only the number of incoming leads is important, but also the quality of the inquiries. A lead can be entered via channels online and offline. Before we go into how to generate more leads, it is important to understand how sales and markets should work to get the best exchange possible. Which channels generate the most leads for B2B companies today? There are a bunch of studies done by different companies regarding this. Below you will find some. Offline activities such as trade shows, cold talks and traditional media have lost ground over the last 10 years, which is not en...

Mar72020 by switchleadNo Comments

Prospecting – Identify Potential Leads

Business, Customers, Leads

Exploration is about the process of finding companies and contacts who are potential customers. Companies and contacts you want to start working on to get them as customers in the long run. Prospecting - Find the man with the problem Simply put, exploration is done by choosing which potential customers you should spend time working on for different reasons. Or as Ben Friedman writes, find those who have a problem that you can solve. Wikipedia definition of exploration: "Exploration is the search for natural raw materials, such as minerals and petroleum". At the same time, it is appropriate for the word means in sales to find just the valuable potential customers in the large mass. The first step in exploration is to identify your target audience. This is done by trying to narrow ...

Jan162020 by switchleadNo Comments

How to Create Leads Automatically and Increase Your Sales

Business, Leads

Creating leads automatically sounds a bit like science fiction. In reality, it's more science than fiction. Sellers generally spend a lot of their time trying to make contact with potential customers. When contact is established, more time is needed to qualify them and create dialogue. There is a lot of time here and therefore a lot of money to gain from automating this work. Creating leads today can be done in a variety of ways and although it is not entirely automatic, larger or smaller parts of the work today can be automated. One way to succeed is to work with bidding on knowledge and start a dialogue with interested potential customers. Let's take a closer look at how you can create leads through this approach. Offer knowledge Content marketing is simply about offering your targ...

Jan152020 by switchleadNo Comments

How to Work with Lead Score (Scoring Leads)

Leads

Lead scoring is an important part of managing leads, helping you get the most out of your leads. You can score your leads based on the interest shown as the lead for your product or service and how well the lead fits into your target groups (categories), personas and markets. Often lead scoring is used by analyzing behavioral data and demographic data and attributes to rank leads and give leads that are ready for sellers (SQLs) the highest score. What is the point of lead score? The point is not the main goal. What matters is the point value hierarchy (some activities are worth more points than others). The higher the score value, the closer the sales value is the lead. A lower score does not mean that the lead is worse. This usually means that the person is at an early stage in the c...

Jan92020 by switchleadNo Comments

5 Tips for Generating Leads in Social Media

Leads

Good content on social media allows you to generate leads, many and qualified leads. In this blog post, we have collected 5 great tips that can help you create leads on social media. How to generate leads on social media? Sharing content on social media can be used to engage their existing followers (and customers) but can also be used to engage potential customers. In social media, the content must be both interesting and relevant to engage the audience. "Mixed" content is good at the beginning for attracting new leads. But since, it is important to reactivate the lead with more relevant content that addresses new possible stages in the buying process where the lead can be located. 1. Humorous content Most companies can find something humorous to share in social media. A well-place...

Jan92020 by switchleadNo Comments

5 Tips for Generating Leads

Leads

Generating leads - of both quantity and quality - is one of the most important goals of marketing and can be achieved with the help of inbound marketing. A successful lead generator engine is what keeps your inbox full of potential customers while you can have a sleep tomorrow. Surprisingly, only 1 in 10 marketers feel that their campaigns to get leads to new customers are effective. Why, you might ask. The answer is not simple, but it can be because there are many parts of a campaign and it can be difficult to know exactly which parts need to be fine-tuned to achieve optimal results. Okay, before we do a swank dive among the tips, we first have to grapple with the dry, but oh so mandatory mechanics behind the "lead generation". Each campaign whose purpose is to find potential custom...

Jan12020 by switchleadNo Comments

Lead Generation – How to Acquire new Leads for Sales Teams

Business, Leads

Lead generation and obtaining leads for the sales force is the guiding star of most companies and marketing departments, especially in B2B. Many SEO companies have an exaggerated belief that ranking is the holy grail but it is just one component of getting visitors to the site. A website should be built on the basis of the business concept that you want to support. Your marketing department and SEO agency will give you statistics that seem to show digital progress, but on the inside, you may know that rankings and traffic are not what the CEO really wants to improve without increased sales. You can reach more people by being data-driven and turning on processes, content, technology and embracing qualified lead generation. A good website strengthens the brand and employer branding. Bu...