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Effective Lead Scoring Made Easy

Lead Scoring is about scoring your clientele based on specific criteria. These criteria can be what links they click on, what websites they visit, and what ads they click on in a website.

All of this data is collected and the client receives a score on their profile which shows what is the best way to get their attention and how best to target them for buying in the future.

The lead scoring information also helps you to decide if the lead ought to be sent to sales or to a reseller, kept for nurturing, or even unnecessary to keep. You might also use the score to see what types of offers that the client qualifies for.

Finding the hottest leads
The upshot of a lead scoring system is the capability to score and prioritize prospective clients into business opportunities. It also allows you to send leads to the field utilizing a method that is pre-arranged and is measurable. This method used is a more precise way of scoring potential clients.

Being more specific can help your marketing team to focus on the probable leads and nurture those that want to buy but are just not ready yet. The lead scores tell the tale. There is less weeding out on the marketer's part and less time wasted on people that are not interested.

This will boost sales by targeting and nurturing the right people. No money lost on wasted time.

Monitor website and all your e-marketing campaigns
You can find out a lot by monitoring a person's behavior when they visit your website.
 
I.e.: If one just comes in and looks at the home page and leaves the score would be pretty low for this person. If one comes in and looks around and clicks on links, even if they do not buy it shows an interest. This person would have a higher score. By the links that they click on you can target their interests and help to bring them back to be a buyer, and if all goes well, a repeat buyer.

Link scoring is the most precise way to build up your leads and customer base. It also leads to more profits, repeat business, and money savings in the marketing department. Follow-Up software is made for link scoring that target the information about each person that receives an email or visits your site. The scoring is pretty straight forward and can be setup quite easily.

Link scoring has been shown to increase business profits by up to 30% and decreased amount of leads sent to sales by 22%. This shows how well the targeting of relative issues when scoring works for you.

The core of lead scoring is not the software. The program allows you to organize, classify, and evaluate the collected data about your leads, but it is only as good as your skills are to catch on to the strong points of the leads.

What do you want to look for?
That leads me to the last point. Knowing what to look for when link scoring. Marketers have a good idea how to read the results. It is a process that is easily learned. It has no long time learning curve to learn to use Follow-Up Software or the scoring methods.

What needs to be decided is how high the score should be to keep them in your sales category and how low the score must be to take them out of your system. The data is pretty clear and you will look at it and decide what is best for your business.

This is the way of the future in generating business for your company. It has come a long way in a fairly short time. All of the new technologies are good for business, and they continue to get better each year.

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Article by Ruben Skov, CMO, Follow-Up Systems
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