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Lead Tracking for Manufacturer Marketing

Posted October 24, 2022
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Listening to potential customers and tracking their inquiries is beneficial to manufacturing marketing for many reasons. A primary benefit of documenting questions (by phone, form submission, email, and chatbot) is to gain ideas for future content but it also shows how the content that marketers created attracts new prospects or reveals opportunities to enhance (or pivot) the approach.

B2B Manufacturer Lead Tracking

Lead tracking enables a business to easily see where prospective customers enter the sales funnel by documenting inquiries from phone and internet contacts. Ideally, a CRM will track this information however we have many manufacturing clients that record leads in a shared spreadsheet which works well. 

Tracking leads yields many benefits for manufacturers and the better the information that is recorded, the more useful it is for marketing strategy in the future. In addition to the quantifiable results tracking leads demonstrates, it fuels content marketing with evidence of success when budgets are determined each year.

Fields to Include on a Lead Tracking Sheet

  • Date of Contact
  • Name
  • New or Current Customer
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Company
  • Comment/Question or Summary of Phone Call
  • Type of lease (form, email, phone call)
  • Lead Source (Referral, Google Ad, Bing Ad, Direct, Google Organic, Bing Organic)
  • Quote Value
  • Closed Revenue
  • Close Ratio

Lead Tracking Example

Manufacturing Lead Tracking

Marketing Channel Effectiveness

A lead tracking system shows what channels attract prospects so manufacturing marketers can easily see where the budget allocation is most effective. It also addresses opportunities to enhance channels with lower-than-expected results. So while content marketing is certainly possible without lead tracking, we find it to be a tremendous resource in planning content calendars for our manufacturing clients.

Topics Lead generation, B2B Marketing, Manufacturing Marketing

Shelly is the Agency Marketing Manager at WebStrategies and showcases our services to prospective clients while listening to existing clients and team members to continually address their digital marketing needs. In 2009 she began her digital marketing career as an account manager with Impression Marketing; a company that is now part of WebStrategies. As a two-time graduate of Virginia Tech, she’s worked in digital roles at Capital One Financial and a leading local news organization in Richmond. After further honing her experience in content marketing, lead generation, email marketing, and social media promotions, Shelly joined WebStrategies in 2022.

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