After the lead has converted to a client (lifestage changed to “customer”), what “lead status” do you assign to that contact?
Hi @galaxyweb,
Thank you for reaching out to the Community!
I wanted to tag in a couple of subject matter experts to see if they have any input on this matter:
Hi @JonPayne, @HubDoPete, @jfreeman, do you have any tips regarding the property “Lead status” you can share with @galaxyweb? Thank you!
Cheers
Mia, Community Team
Hi @galaxyweb,
HubSpot understands the Lead status as sub-phases of the SQL Lifecycle stage. In that sense, you could simply clear the property with a workflow once a contact transitions into a later Lifecycle stage.
There is however no one stopping you from continuing to use this property after the SQL stage, if you do have a purpose for it. I personally would find it a bit misleading.
Alternatively, you could also update the Lead status to the value “Customer” with a workflow, too. (Or introduce values for upselling, if that applies to your sales process.)
Best regards!
Hi @galaxyweb ,
if you have converted your lead into a client that means your deal is won and your lead status should beset to “won deal”
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Hi @galaxyweb
It’s a great question - and as @Anonymous and @webdew have pointed out - Lead Status is normally used to indicate the progress from lead to Opportunity. BDRs/SDRs use it to indicate MQL bad-fit or bad-timing and push the lead back to marketing or Sales use it to progress the SQL sub-stages to opportunity.
What I recommend for this field once they are a customer, is for the upsell/cross-sell
Otherwise, once a contact is at the lifecycle stage of customer, how do you track progress for ongoing sales?
If there is no current cross-sell opportunity, then I like to set it to “Customer-Success” on the way to creating an evangelist.
Once an upsell/cross-sell opportunity appears, you can use lead status to progress a customer from “new” upsell/cross-sell to their 2nd, 3rd and more opportunities.
cheers
Pete