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A qualified lead is a lead for which a company has enough information to estimate its interest in the products or services of that company. The stage of the conversion funnel at which it is located can thus be estimated and the marketing and sales techniques adapted.

How to qualify a lead?

A lead is therefore generated when a person has expressed their interest in your company's products or services, by providing their contact details in exchange for a discount voucher, for example. This step, however, is only the beginning of the lead qualification process, with the goal of making them become your customer.

Define the lead qualification steps

The lead, this promising contact, will evolve and become more or less mature in the purchasing cycle of the product or service that your company produces. In order to follow this maturation process that can lead to a contract, it is important to define the different stages of lead qualification. As you now know, the lead is generated as soon as information about a contact is generated, usually the email address. This stage, where there is still a lot of uncertainty about the prospect's true interest in your offer, is at the entrance of the conversion funnel.

If, subsequently, the lead carries out actions confirming his interest, on your initiative or on his own, by coming back several times to the site or by subscribing for example to the newsletter, he will be qualified as a Marketing Qualified Lead, or MQL. It is then located in the middle of the conversion funnel and these positive signals encourage further qualifying actions, such as invitations to events or webinars. The choices for the Telemarketing & lead generation  are also there.

When the marketing team considers that the lead is sufficiently qualified, it is transmitted to the sales teams who, in view of the information collected in the CRM, consider or not that he can become a proven prospect, with which a commercial opportunity. is in the realm of the possible. These validated leads, called Sales Qualified Leads, or SQL, are subject to in-depth qualification work followed by direct commercial actions, such as telephone contact. If the opportunity is confirmed, the lead will become your customer.

Segment Leads

Faced with the multitude of contacts collected, you will naturally not be able to build a personalized speech for each one in order to meet their specific requirements. The solution therefore lies in segmentation, a segment designating a group of leads sharing a certain number of characteristics and to which you can send the same messages.