Hello HN Community,<p>We recently built a prototype which helps get leads for businesses from social networks. By social network, we mean any places on the social sphere where people are genuinely raising enquires. Example: nowadays, a lot of Facebook groups for entrepreneurs and freelancers have grown so much. On these groups a lot of people post their queries and look for references. Example, someone might post that they need an Android Application done, a logo, content writer or even require an event agency. Being a service provider myself, I have received genuine leads from these groups. We are looking at smartly data mining these enquiries and showing these leads to the relevant business owners.<p>Our target audience would be SMEs and freelancers. They will be able to add the keywords associated with their business and leads associated with them will automatically appear on their Leadify dashboard. Then the business can contact them via our dashboard and try to close the deal.<p>We really want some support from the community in getting feedback.
How can we improve it further?
What relevant data would a business owner want regarding the lead?
How can we improve the lead generating experience of any business owner?
What problems does one face in normally getting leads?
How much would a business owner be willing to pay if the product gives genuine value and helps convert 1-2 leads per month?<p>Here is the prototype version of the product - http://leadify.in<p>Looking forward to your valuable comments :)<p>Thank you.<p>Sumeet Chawla
When you talk about Lead generation,<p>* What kind of details are you giving the user - Full Name, Title, Email, Company and Phone or it's just a Facebook id saying that this user is in need of something that you offer.<p>* Also have you made it location specific and any demographics to target or filters of that kind?<p>* If possible include competitor mapping too, for eg: If I'm Costa coffee, very often someone commenting in Starbucks page must be my lead too.<p>* Fees - A Telesales executive or an Internet guy can sure get more leads and they are not algorithmic, so if your service is to assist them or replace them, the charges have to reflect that.