Lead supervision - A Focus Above the Funnel - Part Ii

Managers - Lead supervision - A Focus Above the Funnel - Part Ii

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Last month we highlighted the need to best administrate things "Above the Funnel", with a definite focus on how to best administrate leads. The central message being that leads need to be fully maximized and nurtured using a ideas of campaigning that dictates what actions we take with "Active" lead and what needs to be done with "Inactive" leads. Clients, who embrace the methodology, monetize a larger percentage of their leads by consistently converting more of them in to viable prospects. This still leave a examine that many reps claim to struggle with every day, and that is where you source leads.

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One of the sad truths of sales is the activities complex in being prosperous above the funnel; Lead Generation and Prospecting are more "blue collar" in nature than the rest of the income process Sales, which traditionally has been more "white collar" in nature. Many sales reps fancy themselves white collar professions and therefore do not take to lead generation and prospecting. They fail to riposte that there is heavy lifting, fullness of hard work, in this palpate sport called Prospecting.

Having implemented a Touch > palpate > Engage, coming to managing your leads, you need to have a replenishment plan. The fact you are recycling leads, ensuring that you advantage from the fact that today's dud is tomorrow's cash cow, insight that more is not best, just a start, you still need a means of brining new leads in to you base.

As with many things above the funnel, there are few secrets, the real deal is in implementing, and staying consistent; the things you'll read below all will work if you put them in to practice, and do so in a consistent ongoing way.

In no particular order, and with the insight that many verticals have other unique sources for leads, here are a few every person could use immediately:

o Referrals

o Dependent Referrals

o Networking

o Directories

o Cold Calling

o Referrals - every person talks about them, very few undoubtedly do it, or do it right. I find it very interesting, at every workshop I ask how many habitancy have success with referrals, and in a group of 15 or 18 habitancy two habitancy will put up their hand; I then ask how many undoubtedly ask for referrals, and the same two habitancy raise their hands. every person has worked referrals, but very few actively generate referrals. The one that do seem to restrict it to habitancy they "have a connection with"; when asked why they don't include prospects, or leads in pursuing referrals, they rarely have anyone to offer other than that they "don't yet have a relationship". There have been numerous capability books written on referrals, we recommended one in The Pipeline's Recommended Reading section. The key is you can get referrals from a lot more habitancy you deal with in business, from prospects, clients, vendors, tradesmen, even other leads. It is never too early to ask for referrals, you may not get one right away, but habitancy will know you are ready for them.

o Direct Authority Referrals - One source of referrals need to be segmented from the others, and needs to be more consistently pursued and harvested, we call these Direct Authority Referrals. These are habitancy who have relationships with habitancy who could use your assistance or product, and are in a position to have to more than strongly influence matters as a effect of being an authority figure. Often as a result, they are privy to facts that you can advantage from, and where their hint or referral will fast track the process of absorbing a Lead to a Prospect, and compel the sale in general. These could be lawyers, accountants, company advisors, bankers. Within given markets there could very definite relationships where one party is in a position to help the referral take on real teeth.

For example, there is a natural synergy in the middle of what I do and Sales recompense consultants. They are interacting with habitancy who can use our services, and can often be perceived as "an authority" by these people. Not only can we add value to their relationships by ensuring that the client fully benefits from their assistance we are able to accelerate the cycle for both our associates and growth the advantage for the client.

Regardless of the nature of the referral, you can take the initiative in ensuring a salutary relationship, send referrals their way, if you can, before you even receive one from them, this is a small investment, but one that pays long dividends.

o Networking - It's on everyone's to-do, not all ways done effectively. There are all kinds of books and articles written on networking, all things from etiquette to seeing dissimilar networks. Our focus here is to get you thinking about where prospecting fits in to your lead management strategy and program. Not all networks a favorable for every type of sale, but there are all the time a amount that will supply you a steady stream of leads. Since networking is part of the over all strategy make sure you don't over do it, but do it right. When you attend an event remember you are there to network not socialize. Have targets to quantum against and adjust them and you networking based on clear objectives and results.

o Directories - Much like networking, there are a amount of dissimilar directories our there. Some may cost more than others, but if they supply the leads you need you'll find the cost negligible. We do quite a bit of cold calling, and we rely heavily on Scott's Directories, over half our leads, managed of pre-sourced come from Scott's. The ease of use, sorting, creating lists, all make this more than a cost sufficient way of securing capability leads and prospects on an ongoing basis. There are connection member lists, chambers and boards of trade, and many more.

o Cold Calling - As we have outlined in this space before, other than referrals, cold calling is still the most time and cost sufficient way to gain and qualify leads and turn them in to prospects. A few moths back we wrote about this in an narrative called "Rediscover a proven and easy way to growth Sales and Productivity", we highlighted the seeing detailed on Businessweek.com:

"That's right, because cold-calling works, if it's done right. The examine results showed that the top three ways associates generated capability new leads over the past two years were referrals from clients or partners (22%), normal referrals (16%), and cold-calling or telephone prospecting (13%)."

Even in these days of global warming, the inconvenient truth is sales is that you have to have prospect to get sales, and cold calling done right is still an sufficient way to get those habitancy who want to buy, who don't know how to find you.

Using the sources above and other tactics, you can ensure that you have a steady source of leads. Using the strategies we outlined last moth in part One, you can qualify, rank and continuously convert those leads to prospects and then to sales.

While we have not found a way to make things easy, I think you'll find that putting in to institution the things highlighted in these two articles, you will find it easier to engage with more habitancy at a time when they are more likely to have an interest in what you have to sell, and administrate those that will be prospects in the future.

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