What is a Lead and how to profile and contact them

In order to better communicate with your leads it’s important to know what they want. The best way to do that is to profile them. We have many tools and profiling categories for you to use, which come in handy when you need to filter your leads for important messages and requests.

Assigning leads:

Leads are flowing in and you understand how to profile them and the importance of this, but the question remains who will be managing all these valuable leads. This is where assigning leads is important. The last thing that you would want is a lead slipping through the cracks, so it’s important that incoming leads are assigned to the correct agents so they can be contacted and converted into a homeowner. A principal agent will be assigned to each development to manage the leads coming in from your listing and they will have the responsibility of assigning leads to different agents. If you upgrade to our Standard and Pro account you can even create teams which is invaluable when you work within a large company under one account.

If you are the Agent principal or admin of an account, all new lead notifications will be sent to you via email, it will look like this.

At this point you can decide to reply to the lead. You will be directed to a smart reply window on your desktop if you have a Standard account. From here you can reply directly to the lead using pre-loaded smart responses or your own response. You can also launch your email browser, phone your lead (this will work with Mac if you have an iPhone connected to your mac book – otherwise will only work if you open the lead notification in your phone emails), sms your lead (this will only work if you open the notification in your phone emails), assign your lead to another agent, or manage the lead yourself. Assigning and managing your lead will redirect you back to your PropertyEngine account.

You can also change who the lead is assigned to, if you are an admin or principal agent. You simply need to click on the lead you wish to change, the right profiling window will appear. On the top right corner you can view who the lead is assigned to, click on the name of the agent assigned to the lead and a drop down menu of the available agents will appear, select the agent you wish to assign the lead to.

Importing leads into your account:

If you have an existing database of leads that you wish to manage conveniently from one location, you can upload this into your PropertyEngine account.

This process is quite straightforward. Step 1: Simply click on the development you wish to upload the lead database into. Select the “leads” tab on the top tool bar, you will be directed to the lead list page. On the top right hand corner there is a button called “Add lead” and next to this there is a down arrow, click on the down arrow and an “import leads” tab will appear, click on this.

You will be redirected to an upload page where you can copy and paste your list of leads, or import a CSV or excel database.

Step 2: You will be asked to categorise your lead information, using the tabs on the left hand side. Simply drag and drop the tags into the correct columns.

Step 3: You will be asked to confirm all the columns and information is correct once you are happy you can proceed to the final step and upload your database.

Step 4: You will be shown the progress of your lead database import and you can go back to your PropertyEngine account dashboard to continue profiling leads or updating your listings while the import completes.

Requesting documents from leads:

Once your lead database has been imported you can request any documentation you may need by sending a document request email. The best part is everything is loaded straight into your PropertyEngine account where it can be managed from one convenient location.

You can even create your own custom document requests as explained above. 
To request documents from your leads, select the lead you would like to request documents from. Click the "Actions" button next to the assigned agents name and a dropdown should appear. Click on the “Request Documents” option.

A window will pop up where you can select the documents you would like to request from the lead as well as insert a personal message. If you have already requested a document from a lead that document will be unchecked.

The request that the lead will receive will look like this and they are able to upload the documents straight into the LMS from here.

We have recently added a Standard package feature whereby all requested document emails can be branded with your company logo and details. Take your communication to the next level by upgrading to a Standard account.

Watch the helpful video tutorial