Money-Saving Contact Management App: Wordpress-to-Lead Contact Form for Salesforce CRM

Posted May 12th, 2010 / By Ann Smarty in Web

Among the many CMS system available freely or for a fee, many have neglected the fact that Wordpress can also be utilized as a business CMS. Not only do you get an easy to install, implement and managed CMS but you’d also get to use one of the most highly customizable pseudo-CMS available today. And the best thing, it’s free!

Wordpress is loaded with plugins that extends its functionality and features and can be used as alternative to the usual processes and systems that you’d normally implement on your website. For every little thing out there, there’s a free or affordable Wordpress plugin developed: from this little finance plugin (via CreditCardFinder.com.au) to huge ecommerce-focused plugins developed for businesses we are describing below.

For example, business contact forms that allows users to enter some data which are then sent to your email inbox. The problem is, it could be risky and you might loose valuable leads that gets thrown into your email’s spam folder. So, what’s the solution? Wordpress-to-lead plugin. This plugin is so useful to SME’s customers that Salesforce.com decided to sponsor its development and release. The result? A very effective website tool which if you combined with Salesforce CRM could make your website a great source of leads.

What’s good about Wordpress-to-lead is that it allows you to skip the task of finding lead information sent to your email inbox by your site’s contact forms. The plugin retrieves all the information from your contact forms and makes it useful for the Salesforce CRM. This totally erases any probability of error from occuring if you are going to do it manually, that is through copy and paste procedure. This plugin offers an efficient alternative to this otherwise crude process.

According to Yoast, the efficiency by which this plugin handles lead information from contact forms and integrates it with Salesforce CRM has lead the company to offer its sponsorship of the plugin.

This plugin is so effective in carrying out its task and also allows you to:

• Syncs effortlessly with Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo! and more
• Tracks all your interactions and conversions
• Keep all your information and tasks organized under one roof

Besides that the plugin is really easy to configure and it lets you create various types of forms:

Want to see this plugin in action? Watch the video and let us know what you think!

Ann Smarty is a strong believer in guest posting. If you love or plan on guest blogging, join Ann’s community of guest bloggers: My Blog Guest, which is basically a forum where people meet to exchange, post, and promote each other’s content.