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Jul 11, 2021 9:00 AM
On a past thread, we discussed some of the ways that workflows can trigger your team internally. You can use them to automate data clean up or to trigger notifications to your sales team.
Now, let’s discuss ways you can use workflows to engage your leads and customers.
For example, one of my all-time favorite ways to use workflows is to re-engage leads that have abandoned their shopping cart.
The concept here is simple: When someone adds an item to their online shopping cart but leaves your site without completing the purchase, you can trigger an email workflow that reminds them of their forgotten purchase and motivates them to Live the transaction by offering a special discount code or some other incentive to buy.
That’s my favorite use workflows! How are you currently using yours? Sound off in the comments below.
Sep 28, 2021 2:16 PM - edited Sep 28, 2021 2:16 PM
I use them a lot for Slack notifications of page visits, new leads, etc. I create Slack channels such as "Lead Page Visits" and add the appropriate members ie. sales team.
Sep 28, 2021 9:47 AM
Just now beginning to learn about them.
Sep 27, 2021 10:27 AM
Just starting to learn about them...
Sep 25, 2021 1:24 PM
The workflows we are using now, are for special promotions to our members, adding contect that shows them that is a limited time to take advantage of the promotion, to create the urgency to go to the form of purchase the package or to call us and continue to sell that special promotion.
Sep 23, 2021 5:20 PM
Similar to reminding leads to go back to their shopping carts, reminding people to finish registering for a partner portal or a webinar.
Sep 20, 2021 2:58 PM
Currently using workflows to notify sales members when someone fills out a form, sending emails when someone registers or click on a specific CTA, and creating lists!
Sep 20, 2021 1:24 PM
creating mqls from lead forms.
Sep 20, 2021 11:42 AM
The workflows that I see often are the abandoned cart workflows mentioned above and confirmation emails and/or texts I recieve before I have an appointment to either ammend or confirm my appointment.
Sep 13, 2021 6:28 PM
Will be using them for events - to track registrations and follow up with event links/materials. Maybe send follow up emails after the events and info for upcoming webinars.
Sep 13, 2021 4:42 PM
Use workflows to warm up contacts in the pipeline and follow up emails
Sep 8, 2021 12:03 PM
He also use workflows to contact people who joined our website, but didn't leave their contacts.
Sep 8, 2021 10:19 AM
We haven't used a lot of workflows yet, but coming from a sales background I can see the benefit. In sales, you have a HUGE network to maintain, literally thousands of contacts, and it's impossible to keep track manually. Marketing workflows help you keep the ball rolling with minimal effort so you can focus on the customers that respond and most need your help.
Sep 3, 2021 6:04 PM
We have three "retention" workflows that we're really excited about. Our business model tracks external wholesaler activity.
When the wholesaler doesn't submit business after 30 days, they get an automated they get a call from our success managment team
When the wholesaler produces 2 cases in 30 days, they get a thank you email and some encouragement to keep distributing with us
When the wholesaler produces 3 cases in 30 days, they get a call from our firm success team to ask how we can help and more active engagement
If the wholesaler doesn't produce within 60 days, they go into a re-engagement campaign
This is a great way to continue to measure the productivity of your sales force without taking a ton of reporting time and rationing the responsibilities of your firm success team.
Sep 3, 2021 1:52 AM
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Aug 24, 2021 5:06 PM
I love marketing automation, is amazing how tools can help us stay on top of the sales proccess, and most importantly it helps us provide a better customer service by contacting the customer on different stages of their process as we were offering a highly personalized service to them.
Aug 23, 2021 12:03 PM
I also see a lot of great outcomes when using the abandoned cart workflow, especially if you uncover a pain point in the checkout process.
Sep 10, 2021 4:57 PM
As a consumer, this technique is wonderful. It always catches me. "You left something in your cart, here is 15% off".
However, sometimes I just do that as standard practice now. To get the future coupon 🙂
Aug 22, 2021 5:00 AM
Good
Aug 19, 2021 11:35 AM
My workflows revolve around lists and targeting after form submissions. I also have workflows that do send internal emails to sales when one of their leads have reached a certain score so they can send a direct sales email check in.
Aug 18, 2021 9:03 AM
To let people know what they missed after they signed up for an event and didn't get to attend, and provide further information to help them.
Aug 18, 2021 4:30 AM
as an organiser and reminder on the stuff we need to do