The popularity of calendaring tools like BookIt scheduling proves the B2B buying cycle looks nothing like it did in the past.
Today, with a flood of buying signals coming from intent data, email, conference leads, your website, and even AI, B2B selling has only gotten more complicated. Companies run much more sophisticated go-to-market plays.
There’s inbound, outbound, ABM, PLG, channel growth, or even Forrester’s B2B Revenue Waterfall.
LeanData sits right in the middle, helping companies tie the right signals to the right plays.
BookIt Scheduling: The Right Meeting to the Right Person
The B2B buying journey is like a relay race. As a seller, you want perfect handoffs to occur from demand gen to sales development to an AE and onto customer success.
Certainly it’s important to get the right lead to the right person. But getting the right meeting to the right person is equally critical to pipeline and growth.
In 2022, LeanData announced BookIt for Forms. This scheduling tools takes a “contact us” type form and allows customers to book a meeting on the spot. This tool creates a seamless handoff to sales reps through our world-class routing.
Then, we extended that vision to BookIt Handoff. This innovation allows Sales Development teams to book meetings on behalf of Account Executives, Customer Success, or any other team member.
Conquering the Challenges of Manual Scheduling with BookIt
It’s not uncommon for sales reps to get stuck in a back-and-forth email loop with prospects. It’s frustrating to nail down a meeting time that works for everyone.
Not to mention, sales reps will then spend valuable time researching prospect information to bring the right context and people to the meeting.
Besides, these delays not only waste time. Even worse, it creates a poor buying experience for the customer right out of the gate.
BookIt Scheduling Features
Bringing the power of LeanData’s matching and routing solution into the scheduling world means that your automated meeting scheduling tool delivers:
- Precise Matching: Compete context on every prospect
- Drag-and-Drop FlowBuilder: Your scheduling logic all in one place
- Complete Visibility: Audit logs, routing insights, alerts, dashboards & reports
Both BookIt for Forms and BookIt Handoff include a dynamic feature known as prioritize prospect availability. This feature prioritizes the prospect’s availability by displaying the maximum number of available meeting slots.
As a result, customers are less likely to run into scheduling conflicts that can lead to delays in scheduling meetings, cancellations or no shows.
In addition, administrators have the option to create count-based pools to ensure a fair distribution of meetings to their reps.
Ensuring Accuracy through BookIt Smart Rep Suggestions
BookIt Handoff includes a unique feature, exclusive to LeanData, known as Smart Rep Suggestions. Smart suggestions instantly suggests the right meeting and right team members that a sales rep should assign a buyer to.
Further, LeanData functionality can determine whether the buyer is an existing customer, a lead matched to an account, or a buyer that meets other target criteria. Therefore, all of this relevant, juicy context can be leveraged to automatically guide sales reps to efficiently book with the right team member(s).
Consolidating Your Tech Stack with One Complete Solution
Adding the BookIt scheduling to LeanData matching and routing creates a unified process to act on leads and schedule meetings. Considering today’s focus on tech consolidation and the elimination of overlapping tools, BookIt helps with tool consolidation. This one tool can cover all your matching, routing, and scheduling needs.
In brief, just as with B2C buying experiences, B2B buyers expect a red carpet experience along each step of the buying journey. BookIt for Forms and BookIt Handoff deliver those compelling buying experiences with the power of LeanData flexibility and precision.
Kim Peterson
Kim Peterson is the Manager of Content Strategy at LeanData where she digs deep into all aspects of the revenue process and shares her findings across multiple content channels. Kim's writing experiences span tech companies, stunt blogging, education, and the real estate industry. Connect with Kim on LinkedIn.
