Lifecycle and detailed Description of the Difference between an Account, Leads, Contacts and Opportunity in CRM.

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In FranConnect, under the CRM module in the Marketing tab, scroll down to see the various tabs such as Lead, Contact, Accounts, Opportunity and Transaction.

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These are some of the common Business Terms used in Franchising while some of these are interchangeable.

The Lifecycle of a customer in CRM will typically follow this flow:  

- New Lead = Form fill on a website or call in.

- Lead Nurturing with Campaigns and qualification steps.

- Convert to Contact: Qualified Lead that you want to engage with on a sales cycle.

- Associate Contacts with Accounts when necessary for high-level roll-up. For Example, an Account can be the Company that you are working with and the Contacts can be the individuals within that company that you are working with.

- Create an Opportunity: You have identified the type of service the potential customer is interested in and you can now track your progress to close that opportunity. 

- Create a Transaction: Your Opportunity has converted to a sale and now you can track the closed sale for long term customer building

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