Maximize Conversions with Smart Lead Routing Strategies and Solutions for Sales Directors

Many sales directors are faced with this challenge: They need to increase conversions to make more revenue for their company.

That might sound like a big goal but reaching it doesn’t have to be complicated. By breaking down how conversions are made, you’ll see where there’s room for improvement at each of the important points of your overall sales process.

Lead routing is a crucial starting point that impacts whether a lead will convert in the end.

Schedule a demo to see how lead routing can support, rather than hinder conversions.

What is lead routing?

Lead routing is the often automated process of assigning and distributing new, incoming leads to the sales team so that each lead can be paired with a sales agent that will prioritize working the lead with the goal of converting it to a customer.

Dive deeper with our Guide to Lead Distribution: Getting the Right Leads to the Right Sales Agents.

How does lead routing impact conversions?

It’s an important step in the sales process as it ensures each lead is visible to the sales team so that they can maximize the likeliness of conversion by clearly prioritizing incoming leads and moving them to each next step of the sales process, through an organized and efficient process.

Without it, all of the time, money, and resources that go into buying and generating leads get wasted as leads are lost, overlooked, or mismanaged and don’t ultimately convert.

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The 10 key elements of strategic lead routing

With the above essentials in mind, let’s dig further into why it’s worth investing in smart lead routing strategies to improve conversions and generate more revenue.

These 10 key elements show what is required for strategic lead routing that can maximize conversions:

1. Measure the right lead qualification criteria
2. Allow for visibility of all new leads flowing into the system
3. Create clarity on how leads will be assigned
4. Shorten the sales cycle, from becoming a lead to moving through the sales process
5. Have effective communication channels to route leads through
6. Prioritize the leads that are most likely to close a sale
7. Improve productivity and efficiency of the sales team
8. Improve each lead’s experience
9. Increase the number of leads that convert to customers
10. Track and assess how lead routing is impacting sales and marketing objectives

Read more: Lead Management KPIs Every Sales Director Needs to Track + How to Do it Simply Using AI

How to analyze and prioritize leads to maximize conversions

If you’re struggling with any of the above key elements, you’re not alone. These age-old sales challenges have plagued sales teams for years.

Past challenges

Maybe you’ve tried manually assigning leads, which is difficult to keep track of and sustain. Or maybe you’ve relied on setting common lead routing models like Cherry Picking, Round Robin, Shark Tank, or Shotgun. Unfortunately, these rely on stagnant rules. 

Either way, you’re not optimizing how leads get assigned and you’re missing winnable deals.

New solutions

Intelligent lead routing works differently, finally providing a better solution to these common challenges.

By using artificial intelligence to provide data-backed decision support, AI automatically routes leads based on several complex data points that aren’t possible to measure manually — and all with the purpose of matching the best leads to the right salespeople, at the right time.

This is possible because machine learning models continuously learn and improve without human intervention, ensuring the accuracy of lead routing even as markets shifts and other changes arise.

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Go further, read our 2023 Perspective on Harnessing the Power of AI for Lead Distribution.

Intelligent lead routing solutions

If you currently use a CRM or lead management system, it likely has some sort of solution for lead routing. Whether that solution is AI-powered and allows you to maximize conversions is something you’ll want to find out.

Some CRM systems offer built-in AI capabilities to enhance lead management, including tools to help assign leads. This includes robust software like Salesforce and HubSpot.

Software solutions such as ProPair or Databowl provide simple lead routing capabilities that can be added to your current lead management system through integration, and without having to overhaul your CRM system.

Options like this use predictive AI to plug into your current system and measure several complex dimensions of each lead, including multiple data points related to:

• The source of the lead
• The lead’s behaviors and engagement with marketing campaigns
• The lead’s demographics

At the same time, AI also measures several data points related to sales performance:

• Sales agent availability
• Sales agent areas of expertise
• Previous sales performance

Then by combining this data, AI provides predictive values about which lead is the best to assign and which salesperson will be the right one to work the lead, all while offering prioritization to provide insight into the best timing for managing each lead.

Read more — Leveraging AI for Enhanced Lead Distribution: A Comprehensive Review

Start maximizing conversions now with smart lead routing

Production-ready solutions are available to help you increase conversions and fuel revenue growth through smarter lead routing.

Schedule a free demo with ProPair to see how we can help you win more deals.

Our AI platform plugs into your current system so that you can intelligently route leads, improve your sales operations, and maximize conversions.