Overview
Workflows provide end-to-end automations that help you reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and drive more pipeline. Create workflows in Apollo to automate time-consuming manual actions and connect with your ideal customers at scale.
Use workflows to automate fundamental steps in your sales workflow, including adding or removing contacts from a sequence or list, scheduling tasks for your reps, and updating contact job changes. You can also configure alerts to remind you when you need to take manual actions.
The following sections detail the key benefits of workflows by role and provides more learning resources.
Understand Benefits of Workflows for Your Role
Different roles experience distinct advantages when leveraging workflows in Apollo, including:
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Sales Development Reps (SDRs) and Account Executives (AEs) |
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Sales Leaders |
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Founders and CEOs |
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Demand Gen |
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Create Workflows
When you create a workflow, use templates from Apollo to quickly generate new pipeline, secure more meetings, retain existing business, and automate several other parts of the sales workflow.
Alternatively, build workflows from scratch that run based on a variety of triggers and automated actions.
Run Account-based Sales Motions
Use workflows to more effectively target high-priority accounts. A successful account-based sales motion relies on your team consistently finding the right contacts at your high-priority accounts, and that often means manual prospecting and messaging.
To avoid those tedious manual tasks, follow Apollo's example of an account-based workflow to automatically surface the right contacts and add them to sequences.
Use AI Power-ups in Workflows
Run AI power-ups in workflows to automate manual tasks, like researching prospects and generating personalized email language for them. Check out AI Power-ups Overview to learn more about power-ups, then add a power-up into your workflow.
Receive Slack Notifications for Workflows
Set up the Apollo-Slack integration to receive workflows-related alerts in Slack. Use Slack notifications to inform yourself or other members of your team that a workflow ran in Apollo, or that they need to take a manual action in Apollo such as calling a contact or adding an account to a list.
Also, add a priority status to notifications so that team members can easily determine how quickly they need to take action in Apollo.
Send Customer Renewal Notifications Using Workflows
If you've just started exploring workflows, you should know that you can use custom fields in your workflows. To learn how custom fields can be used, walk through Use Case: Automate Customer Renewal Notifications Using Workflows.
This example workflow shows the various shows you can build a workflow that automatically sends emails to customers with upcoming renewal dates. The workflow uses updates to a custom contact field as an enrollment trigger.
Start Automating Your Sales Workflows
Ready to automate your sales motions? Launch Apollo and click Workflows to get started.