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Inbound Sales: Routing Leads

Susan Swier Updated by Susan Swier

Business Goal: Route leads to the right sales agent automatically.

When a message comes in from a new lead, you’ll want to send it to the right sales agent, for example, in the correct region or specializing in the right product line. You can automatically do this using information collected from the lead.

Benefits of Routing Leads

Use routing to:

  • Streamline sales process by automatically sending qualified leads to sales agents.
  • Help sales agents get relevant leads faster.

Methods for Routing Leads

  1. Route leads automatically based on input.
  2. Route leads automatically based on existing lead data.
Tip: Learn about other routing methods that are more applicable for support here.

Route leads automatically based on input

Use this method when you need additional input from leads for qualification.

Method Objectives

  • Ask leads a multiple choice question to get the information you need.
  • Route leads to an agent specializing in that category.

Workflow Setup

Tip: Consider using a Welcome or Away message earlier in the Workflow.

Here’s an example of how to use a Workflow to route leads to sales agents. You can adapt it according to your business needs.

screenshot of a workflow to route leads to agents

In this example, we’ll show how to route a lead based on what plan they’re interested in. Other types of questions you might ask include Which country are you in? What is your budget? Which product line are you interested in?

Use the Ask a Question Step to ask a multiple choice question
Tip: Learn more about question types here.

Use the Ask a Question Step to ask leads for input and save their answers as Variables. The Variables will be used in this Workflow’s Branch Step for routing purposes.

Ask a Question Step configuration for multiple choice questions
1. Select the Ask a Question Step and fill in the Question Text field.
2. Select Multiple Choice in the Question Type dropdown.
3. Add and fill in the answer choices as needed: for example, for a plan type, Individual, Business.
4. Enable Save Response As Variable and give the variable a name.
Route leads to the appropriate agent
Tip: There are best practices for the Branch Step here.

Use a Branch Step to route leads to the right team or agent based on their answers. Since we saved the above example Variable as PlanType and we have two plans, Individual and Business, we’re adding a branch for each answer.

Branch Step configuration for routing
1. A Contact answering the question leads to the Success branch. Here, add a Branch Step.
2. In the configuration panel, select your Variable name, then is equal to from the Operator menu.
3. Fill in the Value with one of the answer choices from the Ask a Question Step.
4. Select Add Branch and repeat this process until you have a branch for each answer choice.
5. Now you can add steps in each of the branches to decide what happens next.
Tip: Consider Auto-Assignment as your next step to automatically assign leads to the right sales agent.

Route based on existing lead data

Use this method when you want to route leads to the right sales agent based on existing Contact information.

Data collected from lead enrichment can be used to make automated decisions about the next steps for the lead based on your business needs. You can also use any data that you gain from enrichment, e.g., budget, job title, company size. Contact information such as country or language can be derived automatically from some Channels leads used to message your business.

Method Objective

  • Route leads based on existing Contact information.

Workflow Setup

Tip: Consider doing lead data enrichment earlier in this workflow.
Tip: There are best practices for the Branch Step here.

Here’s a setup example of the Branch Step to route leads based on existing Contact information. For this example, we’re using the country field.

screenshot of workflow showing how to add a branch to route contacts by country

Add a Branch Step > select Contact Field and Country > select is equal to from the Operator menu > choose your desired country as the Value.

Tip: Consider Auto-Assignment as your next step to automatically assign customers to the right sales agent.

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