Communications and Analytics - Lead Management Architecture

Leadorganizer and Lead Management software talk, we talk about linear lead flow process in our first post and in second talk we talk about Lead Generation and Lead Acquisition and Distribution as lead managment software. To continue our talk about leadorganizer and lead management software with reference to our lead flow. We talk about Marketing & Sales Operations in last past. Here we talk about Communications and Analytics as important part of leadorganizer and lead management flow.


Communications
Communications is the center piece of the lead management architecture. The communications functions should include the intelligent sourcing of call information for sales professionals to make telephone contact. This is obviously fundamental; however, more subtle, but equally important is the ability to maintain ongoing nurturing communications that cultivate a lead into a future sales. This cultivating architecture typically comes in the form of some type of email campaign architecture.


Analytics
The analytics architecture is probably the most critical piece of an effective lead management system. This portion of the architecture allows for the dynamic review and analysis of lead actions, marketing channels, and sales performance. Information that can assist in the business decisions that improve production and ROI.


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Lead Management Architecture

Leadorganizer and Lead Management software talk, we talk about linear lead flow process in our first post and in second talk we talk about Lead Generation and Lead Acquisition and Distribution as lead managment software.

Today we continue our talk about leadorganizer and lead management software with reference to our lead flow. we talk about Marketing & Sales Operations.

Ultimately the customer of any leadorganizer or lead management system or methodology is the marketing and sales operations. It is the connectivity and accountability between those two operational units. It is also the connectivity that enhances the effectiveness of both operations.


The architectural relationship is much akin to the order carousel in a short order diner. This carousel is the communication and accountability between the waiter and the cook. Without this simple coordination orders would be lost, prepared incorrectly, or prepared in random order missing the expectations of the customer.


This analogy is very relevant to the architectural foundation creating efficiency and accountability between marketing and sales activities. If implemented correctly, the lead management system will complete a loop from lead generation, to prioritization, to distribution, to final disposition, and back to re-calibrate lead generation.


For marketing, this portion of the architecture primarily manages the analytics of the lead generation, distribution, and disposition. For sales, the architecture provides the means to receive leads and account for the actions taken on them throughout the sales process.



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Leadorganizer and Lead Management we understand in our last talk. Today we talk about Lead Management Architecture.A Lead Management Architecture is consist of following things.

Lead Generation

Generating a lead, or lead generation can relate to a myriad of marketing technologies and methodologies. However, from an architectural perspective it is simply the ability to attract the interest of a consumer and capture sufficient data to understand the consumer's inquiry and contact that consumer regarding the inquiry.

Lead Acquisition and Distribution

This is arguably one of the most critical functions in the lead management architecture. Its importance is linked to the relevance and responsiveness of the customer experience. A consumer generally uses the Internet and makes Internet inquiries for products and services out of a desire for convenience and efficiency of their time. Consequently, they expect a response and timeliness of the response. If the acquisition and distribution is not effective the consumer will experience neither.

The lead acquisition architecture generally consist of a web form to collect consumer data, a database to either temporarily or persistently store that collected information for subsequent distribution.


The distribution architecture can vary in complex depending upon the objective of the lead generation. Generation for the purpose of selling the inquiry would typically include a methodology for selecting one or more buyers and then transmitting the lead via a variety of potential means, like: XML, named-value pairs, fax, email, telephone. In the case of leads generated for an organization's own use it may simply consist of a web page to render the contents of the leads database or a simple email action from the Web form itself.

The Lead distribution Automatically route or distribute leads to the right agent in your team based on a set of configurable assignment rules such geography, health information, product interest, revenue potential, and others. This will help sales team to get qualified leads and reduce manual assignment.

Leadorganizer, Lead Management and Lead Management Architecture, we talk on this more in next post.

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