Home Overview

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Paige York
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Use the home dashboard to view relevant insights on your go-to-market activities in Apollo, all in one central place. Home insights help you track personal and team-wide tasks, monitor engagement and performance statistics, and meet your sales goals.

You can customize your home layout to fit your use case. Apollo provides default layouts to help you get started, or you can create custom layouts to meet your team's specific needs and sales goals.

Apollo home page

Check out the following sections to learn more about your home dashboard and how to customize your layout.

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Use the Home Dashboard

Use the following widgets to monitor all your sales activities from one place:

Available Widgets

Tasks Recent replies Pending deals Recommended prospects Email stats
Call stats Emails sent Quota attainment Calls made Sequence stats
Email funnel Leaderboard: Deal amount won Leaderboard: Deal win rate Leaderboard: Emails sent Leaderboard: Calls completed

Tasks

Track tasks assigned to you, take quick action, and reassign or archive tasks directly from here.

Click View all tasks to navigate to Tasks, and review all task details.

To view tasks from home, you need at least 1 active task assigned to you. Read Create a Task to learn more.

Tasks widget

Recent replies

Track recent replies to messages you sent via the mailboxes you've connected to Apollo. You can filter messages by status and linked mailbox.

To view recent replies from home, you need to connect your mailboxes to Apollo. Read Link Your Mailboxes to learn more.

Recent replies widget

Pending deals

Track the status of your team's pending deals.

Click View all deals to navigate to Deals and review all the pending deals assigned to you and your team.

To access deals from home, you need to have existing deals in Apollo or pull opportunity data from your CRM. Pending deals widget

Recommended prospects

Access a list of prospects that Apollo recommends for you. You can view up to 20 new prospects daily.

Recommended prospects widget

Email stats

Gain a holistic view of your email performance to track progress and monitor:

  • # Emails Sent
  • # Emails Delivered
  • # Emails Opened
  • # Emails Replied
  • # Emails Interested
  • # Emails Bounced

Click filters to adjust the time range for your email stats to daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

Apollo displays data once you start sending emails via sequences in Apollo.

Email stats widget
 
Learn More about Email Deliverability

Hop into Chapter 7 of the Outbound Sales book to learn more about email deliverability best practices or check out this article for recommendations to avoid spam filters.

Call stats

Track your calls to monitor your team's performance and keep an eye on the following statistics:

  • # Calls Logged
  • # Calls Connected
  • # Calls Connected - Positive
  • Avg. Call Duration (sec)

Click the filters icon to adjust the time range for your team's call stats to daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

You need to make and receive calls in Apollo to see call stats data from home. Read Dialer Overview to get started with the Apollo dialer and Cold Calling Best Practices for tips on how to optimize call performance and stay compliant.

Call stats widget

Emails sent

View email volume over the past 5 weeks and compare it with the previous period.

Click Create goal to set a new goal for yourself based on your sent emails.

Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.

Emails sent widget

Quota attainment

Visualize your quota attainment for the last 5 weeks and the total amount won from your successful deals.

Click Create goal to create a new goal for your personal quota attainment based on insights from this widget.

Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.

Quota attainment widget

Calls made

View the number of calls you made from Apollo over the past 5 weeks and compare it with the previous period.

Click Create goal to set a new goal based on your logged calls.

Click ... to view the full report, clone it, or download the data via a CSV file.

Calls made widget

Sequence stats

Track the performance of your team's sequences over the last 90 days. You can review the following statistics for each sequence:

  • # Emails Sent
  • % Emails Opened
  • % Emails Replied
  • % Emails Interested
  • # Calls Logged
  • % Calls Connected

Click the filters icon to adjust the time range for your sequence performance report to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Sequence performance widget

Email funnel

Visualizes percentages for the following email statistics over the last 30 days:

  • # Emails Sent
  • # Emails Delivered
  • # Emails Opened
  • # Emails Replied
  • # Emails Interested

Click filters to adjust the time range for your performance funnel report to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Email performance funnel widget

Leaderboard: Deal amount won

Monitor the total deal amount each of your teammates have won in the last 30 days. Teammates with more deals rank higher on the leaderboard.

Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Deal amount won leaderboard widget

Leaderboard: Deal win rate

Monitor the deal win rate percentage for each of your teammates in the last 30 days. Teammates with a larger deal win rate rank higher on the leaderboard.

Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Deal win rate leaderboard widget

Leaderboard: Emails sent

Monitor the number of emails your teammates sent in the last 30 days. Teammates who sent more emails rank higher on the leaderboard.

Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Emails sent leaderboard widget

Leaderboard: Calls completed

Monitor the number of calls your teammates completed in the last 30 days. Teammates with more completed calls rank higher on the leaderboard.

Click filters to adjust the time range for this leaderboard to the last 7 days, 4 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months.

Click ... to view the full report or download the data via a CSV file.

Calls completed leaderboard widget

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Create Custom Home Layouts

Apollo provides 2 default home layouts:

  • Generate Pipeline: Track the performance of your prospecting activities, with insights on emails, calls, and sequences to improve how your team engages with prospects.
  • Win & Close: Track performance related to your ability to win and close sales deals, with insights on pending tasks, quota attainment, and win rates.

You and your team likely have additional use cases that you want to report on. You can customize the layout of your home dashboard and add or delete widgets to tailor the dashboard to your needs, displaying only the data relevant to you.

To create a custom layout:

  1. Launch Apollo and go to Home.
  2. Click Customize.

Customize button highlighted on home page

  1. Click + to open the widget library and discover additional widgets to add to your layout.

Add widgets button highlighted for customizing home layout

  1. To add a new widget, drag it from the widget library and drop it in your main layout. A gray box will appear to let you know you can place the widget. Click x to close the widget library when you're done.

Widget library highlighted during layout customization

  1. Drag and drop widgets throughout your layout to reorganize them. All widgets can take up a single row in your home layout, or you can stack multiple widgets into the same row for better visibility.

Drag and drop highlighted for home widgets during customization

  1. Click the trash can to remove a widget from your layout. You can re-add it from the widget library later if you need.

Trash can highlighted for removing widget from layout

  1. When you're done customizing your layout, click Save as new. Give your new layout a name, then click Save.

Save layout button highlighted with new name creation for new home layout

  1. Click on the layout name at the top of your dashboard to switch between layouts:
    • System: Default layouts built by Apollo.
    • Your layouts: Your custom layouts.
    • Favorites: Default and custom layouts that you marked as favorites.

Layout selection for home page

  1. Hover over a layout and click the pencil to edit the layout. Click ... to favorite, duplicate, rename, or delete a layout.

Edit options highlighted for layout

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Additional Resources

Now that you're familiar with your home dashboard, take action in Apollo to start seeing insights for emails, calls, sequences, tasks, and deals.

Learn more about each of these sales activities with the following articles:

Sequences, Emails, and Calls:

Tasks:

Deals:

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