Editors Note:

Hey all, my good friend Paul Sokol or PLS consulting is back with another post this week, and predictably, it's a good one.

Submitting a web form is exhilarating. Think about it, you are interacting with someone or some company digitally. After you hit "Submit" it gets exciting......what's on the other side?And then BOOM!A static page with nowhere to go.This is one of the leakiest, yet simple to fix, things I see. The thank you page someone sees upon submitting should further guide the relationship. Here are a couple things you can do:* Drive people to your Facebook page* Give them a 'click to tweet' link (Use this tool)* Drive them to a sales page or order form* Drive them back to your blogThe whole idea is you don't want to waste the momentum achieved from a form submission. Guide them to the next logical place.Strategically, you could drive them to their inbox too if they were opting in for some lead magnet. This is a great example of

guiding the person. This one trick alone can boost lead magnet redemption rates.For an example of this tactic in action, check out the "Free Resource" campaign in the Marketplace.

Thing the Second: Misusing Opportunities

I probably sound like a broken record to all my friends, but seriously, Opportunities in Infusionsoft are one of the most powerful tools in the whole program. The reason why most people don't use it more is because the configuration and workflow isn't the most intuitive. And so, Opportunities are misused all over the place :(Here is the general idea. An Opportunity is merely a manual accountability tool that hooks into a User's calendar. Opportunities exist to track a process. An end-user simply has to indicate what they did, what they plan to do, and by when. The User's calendar will have an event based on that "by when". Everything else is designed to support those functions.Once someone understands this general workflow, they can begin to use Opportunities to manage a pipeline. If it is a sales

pipeline, there is an extra layer of functionality that makes selling a breeze.Usually, people are using Opportunities to track a sales process. To make this as easy as possible, Infusionsoft created the "Sales Pipeline Starter Kit". This provides you with the basic process stages, training on how to setup your dashboard and how to work an opportunity.Check it out here.

Thing the Third: Misusing Tags

Back in the dark days, before Campaign Builder, there was this thing called "legacy". Its functionality was still very powerful, but not as easy to setup. As a result, the community adopted the habit of using Tags for tracking basically anything.However, there is a downside to this tactic: it can legitimately slow down your app's performance. Too many tags on too many people simply takes longer for the database to query.A great example of this is link click tracking. In legacy, the notion of a Link Click goal didn't exist, so you had to tag any links

you wanted to track. This habit is often brought over into the Campaign Builder.Realize that you can use Link Click goals to track activity and then use Campaign Goal reporting to see the behaviors. Yes, you could do the same thing by tagging a link and then just searching for people with that tag, but its not necessary.I also realize that there are certain circumstances that require applying a tag to control a campaign. These functional tags should be removed once they have done their job. Again, this is to keep the database fast and lean. The good news is we don't lose any reporting :)

So there you have it. Three things you can do today to boost your use of Infusionsoft. Let me know what you think in the comments!