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JorieMunroe
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

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.

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HSoto7
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

We are currently using workflows to engage customers after they sign up for email newsletters.

CLobo1
Contributor

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

This recommendation may appear seemingly complex, but is a good example of setting up workflow for an automated lead routing/nurture based on a specific set of actions (think of engaged, opens, clicks, conversions).

 

  • Each action will have a score assigned to a contact. 5 pts for any opens, visits, 10 pts for clicks, 15 pts for form fills. These can be adjusted based on interaction by content type. For instance, visit to a blog post can be 5 pts where as a solution or a case study page can score 10 pts. Similarly downloading a TOFU whitepaper assigns 15 pts and a solution webinar at 25 pts.
  • Each automated email setup in your Marketing Automation will have certain properties tied to it. If you’re planning to send a link to a recorded thought leadership webinar invite, the property can be tied to contact type = lead, score = 15 pts, country = United States, title = (contains) Finance, Chief, President, etc.
  • Ensure each email or interaction you’re automating whether its an email or a retargeting banner ad or a paid social post has all the properties correctly identified. This will help in routing accuracy and a streamlined automation process.
  • Since the lead score is dynamic and a key field to automate the routing, ensure this is tracked on a daily basis on new contacts that meet a certain threshold and have received an automated communication.
  • Automating follow-ups and engagement with the leads can be done initially with three touch points and later on expanded to five touch points. This will ensure that your not introducing communication fatigue to your audience which can lead to irritation or unsubscribes.

Also, while automation is great, any new announcement, or time sensitive critical message that is part of a new marketing campaign should allow removing contacts from the automated stream. Remember the right contact, to the right message at the right time? Sometimes automation can result excluding the contacts, since they are already included in some nurture blocking them as potential leads for a new campaign.

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ShirshaB
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Lead nurturing for users abandoning forms after the 1st level of Sign-ups for Free Trials.  This one is for lil complex products where a basis contact form is not enough to get the user started. They often drop off with out filling in details like address / tax id number etc. This was a life saver for me. 

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BCohen04
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

I think a lot of workflows function really well as prompts to a customer - sending a birthday email with an offer (which places like Starbucks are really good at doing!), a welcome email if someone has subscribed to a newsletter/loyalty program etc, a reminder email if someone added something to their cart but didn't check out, etc. It's personalized and it also either drives the lead back to the website or back into the physical location to make a purchase.

Speedy24
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

thank you, my favorite workflows are

  • welcome emails for new subscribers
  • personalized birthday emails and
  • targeted content to users after having completed a special nurturing (customer journey)

    Workflows are a great tool for steamlining marketing activities and to personalize actions for dedicated customer lists. They may benefit each company to reach marketing and sales goals.
CWhittington
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

The classic workflow is a welcome email. Contacts either a)subscribe or b) make a purchase, you automate an email to establish brand loyalty and set expectations for the value your brand/product offers. 

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AnikoJM
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Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

An example: whitepaper download triggers topic-specific content from the company, like news, blogs, webinars. After two-three with good engagement, we send the Schedule a demo/call with our experts. 

rosagalvezalmag
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

If your company has online content for each stage of the buyer's journey, it's interesting to create workflows based on this information and to trigger an email offer (e.g. a free and specialised meeting with a product expert) when the lead's behaviour shows real interest in a product/service by consuming 2 or 3 related pieces of content, especially those from the last stages of the buyer's journey (consideration, decision).

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AlAbbas
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Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Examples of Lead Nurturing Work flows

 

It is very helpful to create automation sequence to get reminded of all prospects who have responded to intro call requests and can select the best time through calendars. 

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GKollias
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Abandoned membership or job applications are also a good lead nurturing idea, a reminder to complete the form and submit.

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RKhoroshev4
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

I think workflows are great tools to reengage possible leads

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LMcCauley22
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Agree that abondoned cart workflows are a favorite.  They were very successful when I was working B2C.

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HIyer
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Automation is the best, We do by creating workflow on the triggers to make them purchase / checkout.

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AElder
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

ENAGAING TOPCS, WOKRFLOWS TO PURCHAASE

MBinder1020
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Workflows can be a great tool to receive feedback from a service. Once a customer has completed a purchase, a workflow can be implemented to trigger an email send to gain valuable consumer feedback.

JMiller36
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Using workflows to reengage a possible customer who began interacting with a product and then stopped is one of my favorite ways to use it!

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Mh24
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Workflow Potential Ideas: 
  • A Nurture Workflow Placing prospects in a sequence after hearing "Follow up required" or "Send me more info".
  • Failed/Bad Number Sequence: After rep/Orum identifies phone numbers as failed/bad, and mobile phone is empty, place prospects in an email only sequence. Helps with data cleanup/integrity and gives broader insights. 
  • A Meeting Confirmation Sequence: After rep logs "Booked Meeting", prospects are placed in a confirmation sequence that follows up with them once or twice prior to meeting to ensure a show up.
FWU
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Send a series of educational emails, starting with basics and progressing to more advanced topics.

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RKaur45
Member

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

1. Workflow for Educational Content: Following the download of an eBook, users are gradually sent a number of relevant articles or advice.
2.Re-engagement Workflow: Users who haven't visited your website in a long time are sent an email to pique their curiosity.

 

AKaur31
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

Lead nurturing workflows guide potential customers through the sales funnel with tailored content, like welcome series, educational drips, and re-engagement campaigns, fostering engagement and driving conversions at each stage.

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HKaur0
Participant

Examples of Lead Nurturing Workflows

For example, After webinarEngagement workflow sends personalized emails to webinar attendees and non-attendees, providing resources and recordings respectively. It maintains momentum and keeps our brand in the lead’s mind.