5 Reasons You Need Lead Management

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Increase your sales velocity with Lead Management.

Break through your sales performance barriers!

Do you want to acquire customers? Then you need a lead management solution.

1. CRM is NOT customer acquisition 

Read the acronym--Customer Relationship Management. When you attempt to acquire a customer from a lead you have neither a customer or a relationship.

Lead management is the difference between servicing a relationship and creating a relationship.
CRM v.Customer Acquisition Management
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline
CRM is killing your customer acquisition
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline

2. One call closes are bullshit! 

Sure, it happens, but they never become customers. 80% of leads/consumers close after the 5th call.

How many calls does it take to make a relationship? How many of your leads get 5 calls.

Now, you do the math. How much production did you lose last month?
Building a Trusted Advisor Relationship
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline
How Many Leads Did You Trash?
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline

3. Sales people can't pick leads 

How much time is wasted picking what to work on? We already know it is contact rate and persistent relationship building that closes all leads.

Read my article on Why quality doesn't matter to learn how to make this inefficient behavior even less important.
Sales People are Bad Lead Pickers
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline

4. Leads need to be nurtured 

68% of sales people that become trusted advisors get the deal

73% of sales teams do not have a process to re-qualify or re-visit leads

80% of sales close after the 5th contact

40%-68% of disqualified leads became qualified within 12 months
Lead Nurturing
Brian Carroll, startwithalead.com

5. Load and shoot and Your Sales Velocity will Increase 

No distribution, no lost leads, selective lead distribution creates a highly responsive customer experience.

Watch performance tempo go from 15 calls per day to 80 calls per day with the same quality, just less waste.

You know I always give you more than you expect. (By the way, you should try this with your customers--they love it!)
High Velocity Sales
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline

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  • You know I always give you more than you expect.
  • (By the way, you should try this with your customers--they love it!)

6. You can actually make business and sales process decisions with FACTS. 

Optimize Lead Buys
Bill Rice, Lead Management Newsline

7. It will make you better than your competitors 

  • + Faster
  • + Leaner
  • + More Responsive
  • = MORE CUSTOMERS
  • = MORE MONEY

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Bill Rice is the CEO and co-founder of Kaleidico an innovator in customer acquisition and lead management technology.

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