🚀 Nurturing Your Leads

For ease of organization we're going to break leads into 3's...

3 Types of Leads!

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NEW LEADS

•leads who have most recently been added to your CRM

•leads who are 15 days old or younger

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These are your Seed Leads! You will want to give your new leads "extra attention" by reaching out to them every day to try to create a relationship. Even if they aren't responsive. Keep it up for at least 15 days. What you want is for that New Lead Seed to become an Active Lead Sprout!

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ACTIVE LEADS

•leads who are actively using your website (who are logging back on)

•leads who have had positive communication with you

•leads who are not new

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These are your Sprout Leads! They still need attention to keep them growing, or in other words, to keep them interested in searching for real estate on YOUR website. You will get to know their behavior on your site, and you'll understand their searching habits and patterns. So you may not need to reach out to them daily. But you will want to check on their activity daily.

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INACTIVE LEADS

leads who once were showing interest but no longer appear interested

•leads with a lower or declining score

•leads who have not had recent activity on your website

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These are your Rooting Leads! Their interest seems to be growing in the wrong direction...down. You'll want to coax them into the light by reminding them periodically that you have an awesome, up to date, and easy website in which to search for real estate. What you want is for your Rooting Leads to start growing up again into a Sprout Lead!

Let's break those types of leads into...

3 Steps of Nurturing!

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REACH OUT

Reach out to New Leads

Where can I find them? Utilize your QUICK VIEW on your Elevate CRM Dashboard. New Leads are labeled "NEW".

How often do I reach out? Daily. But make sure to follow a schedule with boundaries and take 1 day off a week to prevent burn out.

How do I sort them? Utilize their noted "Age" under their name to determine if they are still new. As our markets have shifted quite a bit over the past year, clients may be making decisions quicker. This will change what a "NEW" lead is. Right now I'm recommending between 7 - 15 days. Once they are older, set them as "Engaged" or "Marketing" unless they are "Active" (see next step). This will keep your Dashboard clean with your "New Leads" and your "Active Clients" easily accessible.

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RESEARCH

Research Active Leads

Where can I find them? Use sorting on your CLIENTS List to find people that have been logging back in by clicking on "Last Login" until it shows you the descending view. (Note: if there is only one date, that is the registration date, and does not indicate that this person is active.) Do the same with "Score" to find the descending view. Utilize your Dashboard thereafter to find Active Clients quickly.

How often do I reach out? Check on them Daily. Research and understand their activity. However, you may find you only need to reach out twice per week.

How do I sort them? Label your active leads with the status "Active" in order to easily find them on your dashboard and easily sort them within your client's list using the Filter.

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REINVITE

Reinvite Your Inactive Leads

Where can I find them? Use sorting on your CLIENTS List to find people who have lower scores, scores that are staying stagnant, or who have a "Last Login" older than 2 months old. (Some people tighten this range up to 2 weeks or make it more lenient to 3 months. It is up to you to decide what helps you best.)

How often do I reach out? Be sure to invite them back in a creative way twice per month.

How do I sort them? Labeling your inactive leads as "Engaged" (some prefer "Marketing") and Tagging them as "Inactive" will allow you to easily sort them within your Clients list using the Filter so that you can more easily take bulk actions.

How do I "reach out" to my leads?

You guessed it! We're breaking down communication into...

3 Communication Styles!

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CALLING

Calling is hard.
Here are some tips:

•Set up your VOIP and initiate phone calls through your Elevate CRM. This way the system will keep track of all your efforts.

•Leave quick voice mails with very little detail, OR

•Don't leave a voice mail at all and take advantage of hum curiosity.

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TEXTING

Texting leads is challaning. Here are some tips:

•Always Introduce yourself. For example: "Hello, this is Krista from Elevate."

•Make sure your texts are short. Maybe 4 sentences tops.

•End with an open-ended question. That is a question that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.

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EMAILING

Emailing can be a drag.
Here are some tips:

•Use Templates. Elevate has dozens of templates to use, OR create your own Custom Templates and reach out to your leads in a more personal way.

•Set up your emails to go out automatically

•Use a customized Signature. Creating a custom sigature will set you apart from other emails, and keep you memorable.

How do I set up a successful Schedule?

They key is to work smart, not hard!

3 Principles of Scheduling!

TIME MANAGEMENT

Limiting your CRM time will help prevent burn out.

My suggestion is to not spend more than 2 hours a day within your CRM. To help keep this possible you will want to keep your dashboard updated and accurate so that you can find your most important leads without having to search for them.

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STICK TO A ROUTINE

Assign each of your communication actions to a specific day of the week.

For example, every Monday and Thursday could be call days, every Tuesday and Friday could be Texting Days, and every Wednesday and Saturday could be Email days.

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USE AUTOMATIONS

Be aware of your email automations, to save time.

Your Elevate product has many possible automated email options. Know what they are, so you can let the system take care of some of your work.

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Here I have created a possible Weekly Schedule.

However, you can of course create your own schedule to follow. You may even want to change the time of day that you complete your CRM work. This way you will widen your net for possible connection with your leads. Remember: Not everybody has a 9-5 job!

Or, feel free to try out the "Daily Scheduling Tool" to help you figure out what comes next with any particular client!