Link Lead to Contact/Company
Leads are approved, or qualified, by promoting them to contacts or companies. You may create a Contact and/or Company from information gathered for a lead, or link the lead to the existing company/contact. From the Contact and Company profile tabs, you can view related leads, or navigate to the lead data.
Connect lead to an existing company/contact
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On the left navigation pane, click Leads.
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Click the Search icon
.This lists the lead records.
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Select the desired lead record. It opens the selected lead record in drawer view.
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Click edit icon
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It opens a specific lead record page. -
On the Lead tab, click the search icon
in the Related to Company / Related to Contact field. -
Search for the desired company/contact.
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Click save.
Promote Lead to a NEW Company/Contact
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Go to the lead record and and select the Options icon (three vertical dots) on the action bar .
New Contact / New Company page opens.
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Choose Create Contact/Create Company.
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The default information will be auto copied, e.g. name, address, email, phone, etc. You can enter other information if needed.
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If you choose Create Company, the duplicate check will be auto performed and any suspected duplicate will be listed under the Company Name field. There is also a Contact tab and the lead will be copied over to the contact of the selected new company.
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Click Save.
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The new contact/company will be created, and get linked to the selected lead in Linked to Contact/Linked to Company field.