Lead Management
Also called: lead mgmt, managing sales leads
Lead management is the end-to-end process of capturing, qualifying, organising, and following up with sales leads from first contact through to a closed-won or closed-lost outcome.
Why it matters
Lead management is broader than lead capture and narrower than full CRM workflow. It covers the salesperson's daily reality: who came in, who's hot, who needs a follow-up today, who went cold. Done well, it shortens response times, raises connect rates, and prevents leads from falling through the cracks. Done badly, every lead is a coin flip.
Example
A roofing company gets 50 inbound leads a week from Google Ads, Facebook, and word-of-mouth. Their lead-management workflow captures each one within minutes, assigns it to a rep, sets a 24-hour follow-up, tracks every touch, and reports weekly on which channels actually convert.
How Lead Sorted handles it
Lead Sorted handles the lead-management workflow that small teams actually run: capture (manual or CSV), qualification (status + temperature), follow-up tracking (logged touches with auto-set next dates), and a Today queue that prioritises overdue and high-temperature leads. Forecasting, quotas, and marketing automation are intentionally out of scope.
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