What they are, how to capture, nurture, qualify and manage leads for a business

If you need to understand more about digital marketing strategy, you've probably come across the term lead.

The lead is the fuel that feeds the strategy of sales funnel and is directly linked to a company's growth in turnover.

 What is a lead?

Lead is a term used to describe a person who has the potential to buy your product or service. In other words, someone who is part of your target audience and who could also become a customer.

How to capture leads?

There are many people on the Internet who need your service or product, but they need to reach you. To do this, there are various ways of attracting people, such as having a well-structured and positioned website (SEO) with registration so that they can receive content such as ebooks, free classes, and whatever else your brand can offer for free.

But receiving lots of leads takes work, because each of these people must have real buying potential so that you or your sales team don't waste time on empty contacts and answering lots of questions that don't end up making a sale.

The solution to this lies in two strategies: for contacts with a lot of questions, you should do lead nurturing, and while you're doing lead nurturing, you should do lead qualification.

How do you nurture leads?

Nurturing is a process that helps the lead before they contact you to make a purchase.

It can happen when the lead searches for information that is already on the company's website or when they are already registered in your company's marketing automation and receive emails with rich content that answers pre-existing questions about products or services. This way, the lead already begins to understand better what your work is like and what the objectives are in order to make the purchase with knowledge about it. This avoids wasting the sales team's time and makes it easier to make the sale.

How do you qualify leads?

In order to understand which leads really fit your buying profile, you can use a technique known as lead scoring.

Basically, qualification is based on a path that the lead must follow within an email automation.

For example, in an email sent to a lead, he clicked on a link that took him to a specific piece of content. This means that they have acquired a point about that content, and are showing interest in it. This releases new, more in-depth content for them, which lets you know what level of knowledge this lead is at.

In this case, it is essential to use the marketing automation, landing pages and rich content.

How to manage leads?

If you already have a base of leads or are just starting to capture them, you're going to have to manage them, organizing them so that you know what stage of the funnel they're in and what the best approach is for a relationship, which is why it's essential that you have a customer relationship system (CRM). The system helps you organize your bank of leads and what approaches to take at each stage of the sales funnel.

In general, we use branding and marketing strategies for our clients in order to carry out the process from attraction to sales targeting and then brand relations. In this way, the results are exponential, expanding the brand's reach, increasing sales and strengthening the brand in the market.

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