Scale your lead era efforts with the brand new Facebook Lead Ads integration

We’re excited to announce the release of the new Facebook Lead Ads integration for ActiveCampaign, Facebook Lead Ads by Meta. This integration syncs newly generated leads directly to your CRM, so your sales and marketing teams can take immediate action nurturing them through all of your channels, campaigns, and automations.

Check out the integration or continue reading for tips to optimize your lead generation strategy.

What is lead generation in digital marketing?

In digital marketing, lead generation is the process of attracting potential customers and capturing their contact details to enter into yours CRM or sales platform.

Many of your marketing efforts will focus on building awareness for your brand, your product, and the problems you solve for your customers.

At some point, you need to start engaging in a one-on-one conversation with each customer, which is why we generate leads so that our marketing or sales teams can initiate this contact.

In addition to content marketing, search engine optimization, pay per click, and digital advertising, social media is a great way to generate leads for your business. “But how?”, you may ask. Enter Facebook Lead Ads.

What are lead ads?

Lead Ads make it easy to generate qualified leads by letting you customize your ad to meet marketing objectives for the entire customer lifecycle.

While scrolling Instagram or Facebook people can simply tap your ad and a form pops up—it’s already pre-populated with their contact information and ready to be sent directly to you. With just a few taps, they can get the information they want, and you generate a qualified lead for your business.

You can use lead ads to:

• Identify potential customers for your business
• Collect subscriber information for your company newsletter
• Encourage downloads of white papers or brochures
• Understand the interests and behaviors of potential clients
• Get people to enroll in your program

Sounds like a win-win, right? Not quite. Generating the leads is half the battle. Ensuring those leads are followed up with in a timely manner and converting them into customers is an entirely different story.

But don’t fret! Thanks to a new native integration between Lead Ads and ActiveCampaign you can streamline the lead nurture process and convert more leads to customers.

Connect Lead Ads to ActiveCampaign

With the native Lead Ads integration, Newly generated leads sync directly to your CRM, so your sales and marketing teams can take immediate action.

This means you no longer have to leverage third party tools like Zapier or enter leads manually. Which is great news because the longer you wait to follow up with a new lead, the less likely that lead is to convert.

With ActiveCampaign and Lead Ads, you can automate the creation of new contacts or update an existing contact every time a lead ads form is filled out and then easily add that lead to an automation.

Aside from contact info (name, phone number, email, etc.), any additional information captured in the form will be stored within the Custom Object section of the contact record. You can also select which form fields are mapped to regular and custom contact fields. You’ll have a full historic record of all the forms a contact has filled out over time, whether that be a resource they’ve downloaded or an event they’ve registered for.

With a complete picture of the relationship you have with a contact you’ll be able to automate the most relevant, 1:1 customer experiences possible. And best of all, contacts that submit these lead forms are expressing interest in your business and effectively opting in to receive more information from you across all of your channels and campaigns.

If you’re ready to take your lead generation strategy to the next level, it’s time to connect Lead Ads and Active Campaign! Don’t have an account yet? Sign up for a free 14-day trial.

Meta does not take responsibility for the accuracy of this information. Please reach out to ActiveCampaign with any specific questions about this solution. The Facebook Lead Ads integration is only available on Plus plans and above.