How to Lead Qualification Bridge the Gap in Sales?

How Lead Qualification Bridge the Gap between Sales and Marketing

Marketing teams spend a lot of time, effort, and money to create compelling campaigns, optimize them to generate leads, set auto-responders and alerts to connect with them promptly, before finally passing the leads to the sales team. Salespeople do not even know marketing terms, but they very well know their targets and in case they don’t meet them, they often complain about the quality of leads. The leads never seem to close and most of the time, the argument is – Leads quality was not GOOD.

There seems to be a gap between the two functions. The sales team complains about lead quality and the marketing team is usually upset with missed follow-ups for their hard-earned leads. That gap is the absence of lead qualification, which if filled can ensure a better alliance between the two powerhouses of your business – sales and marketing.

What is Lead Qualification?

Lead qualification is the process of evaluating whether potential customers (leads) are genuinely interested in your product or services before passing them on to the sales team. This process ensures that the sales team focuses their efforts on leads with a higher chance of converting into paying customers. Qualified leads are often referred to as Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) because they meet specific criteria that indicate they are ready for further engagement.

For businesses, especially those in industries like Call Center Services Provider, lead qualification helps save time and resources by identifying leads who are most likely to make a purchase. It also improves customer satisfaction by ensuring that the right prospects receive timely and relevant communication.

In simpler terms, lead qualification ensures you’re not wasting time chasing uninterested people, allowing you to focus on the ones who genuinely need and value your services.

Different Kinds of Leads Generated and How They Should Be Treated

a. Invalid leads to be directly dumped by the Lead Qualification team

b. Not interested leads should be given back to the marketing team for nurturing

c. Partly interesting leads should be given to the pre-sales team

d. Interested leads should be forwarded to the sales team ( In case of pre-sales team is missing, Partly Interested Leads should be forwarded to the Sales team)

How Does it Impact Revenue?

a. Pre-Sales team have more time for outbound lead generation

b. Leads to better allocation of resources as resources will do what they are best at

c. Gives more time to teams for better follow-ups

How Marketing Team Can Also Contribute to Lead Qualification?

1. Targeting the right audience

If your marketing team is targeting the wrong audience, no matter how hard your qualification or pre-sales teams work, it just won’t cut it. They should be constant feedback on which kind of leads are turning into deals, which industries are they from? What are their demographics? Etc. Your marketing team should always remember that if the targeting is tight, the lead volume will go down and they should never be afraid of that. The correct metric to measure the marketing’s lead generation success should be qualified leads, not just the count of leads.

2. Tightening the lead generation process

Your marketing team shouldn’t put unnecessary fields on the form, instead, they should have only the important qualifying fields in their forms/landing pages to increase conversions.

3. Should Use Email/ Phone validators

These validators will keep a check on the authenticity of the phone numbers or email addresses and will not let the visitor fill-up the form with incorrect entries.This the first sign of a possible junk lead. Your Marketing team should have validators in their forms to get rid of the spam submissions.

4. Having a lead management system

Some CRM and Lead Management systems like LeadSquared give scores to each lead based on the chances of their closure. This scoring is called Quality Scoring. Quality score can be set by the business on the basis of their ideal buyer persona.

The quality score of a lead helps the lead qualification team in prioritizing their tasks and reach out to the most serious lead at the right time. Although quality and lead scoring helps a user understand the seriousness and the intent of the buyer to some extent, it can never fully replace human interaction. That being said, it saves a lot of time and energy if they are set properly.

How DialDesk Can Help in Lead Qualification?

Dialdesk is a unique and one of its kind “PAY AS YOU GO” customer support solution. It is a perfect amalgamation of IVR, Dialer, 24*7 human support, Omnichannel enabled suite in an AI-enabled environment. The entire product is hosted on cloud which makes it a powerful customer service tool. Dialdesk drives the complete “customer lifecycle management” for its clients with a thorough focus on delivering customer experience par excellence.

While you are using various sources to generate leads for your business, you need to have an adequate team size, who is trained enough on your product and USP’s to reach out to customers at the first level to filter the leads.

Dialdesk takes a lead in delivering this through our PPT methodology i.e. People |Process | Technology. An amalgamation of all three ensures that your leads are reached out to, the first level information is accurately provided, and the initial Need | Desire | Problem of the prospect is established

PROFESSIONAL PRE SALES SUPPORT:  We employ a skilled and experienced Tele-Marketing team. Innovative training is provided to them to ensure the deployment of accurate information and customer experience.

ROUND THE CLOCK PRESENCE: Leads reached out after 10 minutes lead to a reduction in Lead qualification criteria by 80%. Dialdesk agents are available to respond to your customers 24*7*365 days as we understand the fact that a lead should be called within 10 minutes of its generation as it is going to increase the chance of sales conversion by 9 times

AUTOMATED WORKFLOW: We create automatic workflows for your company taking into account your process requirements that not only improve the process efficiency but also triggers notifications if any task is skipped or missed

CLOUD-BASED SERVICES: This will give you realtime access to get recordings, reports and dashboards, etc etc so that you don’t need to wait for anyone to send you reports, daily, weekly or monthly

CALL RECORDINGS: You get access to online recordings at your fingertips

In the End

Sales and marketing teams are very different from each other but they strive for a common goal i.e generating more revenue. A lead qualification process will help the sales team by giving them more time for followups and outbound calls and will help marketing teams with data-driven feedback to tweak their campaigns accordingly, and hence the gap between the two departments is filled.

What do you think? How are you currently qualifying your leads? Let’s talk in the comments.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Lead qualification is the process of determining if a potential customer is a good fit for your product or service. It helps sales teams focus on prospects who are more likely to convert, saving time and boosting efficiency.

Lead qualification ensures your sales team targets the right audience. By identifying prospects with real interest and buying potential, it minimizes wasted effort and maximizes success.

By prioritizing high-quality leads, sales teams can focus their energy on prospects most likely to close. This boosts productivity and shortens the sales cycle.

Tools like CRMs, lead scoring systems, and AI-powered analytics help identify qualified leads quickly. These tools provide insights on buyer intent, behaviors, and readiness.

Yes! By focusing on the right leads, you engage with prospects more effectively. This tailored approach builds trust, leading to better relationships and higher customer satisfaction.

Author Profile

Varuna Raghav
Varuna Raghav
As a CX and marketing specialist, Varuna Raghav has more than 15+ years of experience in her name. Her enriching input has been valuable to the brands and organizations she's worked with.

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