Lead generation

Lead gen that sales actually wants

A pile of cheap leads is not a result. The only number that matters is closed, profitable business. Optimise for that, not for the form fill.
Low Digital · 5 min read
The short version
  • Cheap leads are easy to generate and expensive to chase. Volume without quality just burns the sales team’s time.
  • Optimising to qualified, sales-ready leads and the deals behind them is harder, and the only thing that actually grows revenue.
  • Feeding closed-deal data back to the platforms teaches them to go and find more of the right people.

More leads is not the goal

It is very easy to generate leads. Drop the targeting, widen the offer, optimise to the cheapest form fill, and the numbers pour in. The sales team will tell you within a fortnight that most of them are useless: wrong budget, wrong fit, never going to buy. You have not generated demand, you have generated work.

The goal was never leads. It was customers. Those are not the same thing, and optimising for the first actively works against the second.

Optimise to the bottom of the funnel

So we change what the platforms are aiming at. Instead of rewarding a cheap enquiry, we reward the enquiries that become qualified, and the qualified ones that become deals.

What we optimise towardThe bottom of the funnel, not the topEnquiryMarketing-qualifiedSales-readyCloseddealOptimising to the last box, not the first, is what changes the revenue.

A cheap lead at the top means nothing if it never reaches the box on the right.

Feed the platforms what actually closes

This only works if the platforms can see the outcome. We plug into the CRM and send the signals back: which leads were junk, which were qualified, which closed and for how much. Given that feedback, the bidding stops chasing the cheapest form and starts hunting for people who look like your best customers.

Working with sales, not over the fence

Good lead gen is a partnership, not a handover. We stay close to the sales team, track every lead through to won or lost, and treat their feedback as data rather than complaint. That loop, marketing learning from what sales closes, is what turns a lead-gen account from a cost into a pipeline.

The proof: Flowd

More
Deals won from paid
2x+
Budget scaled, profitably
Higher
Lead quality

Drowning in leads that never close?

We will optimise for the pipeline your sales team can actually win.

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