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Salesforce For Dummies, 8th Edition
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Salesforce For Dummies, 8th Edition

by Liz Kao, Jon Paz
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h 1m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Tracking Leads

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Defining important Lead terms

Bullet Importing Leads

Bullet Managing the Lead lifecycle

Bullet Keeping your Leads database up to date

Often, we hear frustrated salespeople say, “We could hit our numbers if we just had enough qualified Leads to fill our pipeline.” Leads are the building blocks by which many companies drive their sales.

Loosely defined, a Lead is a person or a company that may be interested in your services. Some organizations refer to them as visitors because they haven’t yet shared any information about themselves. Others call them prospects because a Lead has to be someone who has expressed interest in your service. Whatever your favorite terminology is, you can use Leads to efficiently follow up on sales inquiries, aggressively attack new markets, and vastly improve your sales pipeline.

In this chapter, you can discover all the basic tricks you need to convert Leads into revenue. You need to get your existing Leads into Salesforce and update them when you follow up with them. Also, we discuss how to convert a Lead into an actual Opportunity ...

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