End the argument over leads.
Leads your sales team will actually call.
Sales questions the leads. Marketing questions the follow-up. Get one definition of qualified, a named next action and a clear place to fix the handoff.
Where the handoff breaks
- Marketing: Hands over. No shared definition of qualified.
- Qualification: Judged by habit
- Sales: Decides by feel
Marketing, qualification and sales as one handoff
Keep the source, qualification and next action connected. Each person gets the information needed to move the enquiry forward.
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Marketing lead or agency
Marketing
Brings a relevant enquiry from search, content or paid media, with its source recorded on arrival.
The enquiry lands without a source, so nobody can tell which campaign produced the good ones and which produced the noise.
No shared definition of qualified -
A named person, not a queue
Qualification
Checks fit, intent and readiness against one definition both teams signed, then names the next action and its owner.
Two definitions of qualified exist: one in the CRM and one in people's heads. Sales uses the second.
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Sales owner
Sales
Takes the named next action within the agreed time and records the outcome where marketing can see it.
Follow-up happens, but the outcome never reaches the report that decides the next budget. So the budget repeats last year's mistake.
Then fix the lane that broke
Once your handoff is mapped, the fix sits in one of three places. You buy only the one that broke.
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Get found
Acquisition
Campaign structure and landing pages that produce enquiries with a recorded source.
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Get chosen
CRM and lifecycle
Fields, stages, routing and follow-up that carry the agreed definition.
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Keep customers
Measurement
Reporting that connects campaign cost to pipeline outcomes on the same fields.
Bring the business context.
Start with how enquiries arrive, how they are handled and what you need to change.
- Where enquiries come from todayWebsite forms, campaigns, referrals, events. The channels, not the volumes.
- What the CRM records when an enquiry arrivesThe fields, the stages, and who gets notified.
- How sales decides what to follow upThe written rule if there is one. The habit if there is not.
- The report that decides the next budgetWhat it shows, and what it cannot show today.
- Who can change the form, the CRM and the campaignsInternal owners or agencies, and what access exists.
Give every good enquiry a next step.
Agree what qualified means, who owns the handoff and where the first correction belongs.
No CRM export or credentials are needed in the enquiry form.
What you get back
- A map of the current handoff
- A shared definition of qualified
- A recommendation for the first correction
