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Importing leads from social media campaigns

Purpose

 1.1. Automate lead capture, aggregation, and syncing from social media paid/organic campaigns into CRM or marketing databases.
 1.2. Enable automated lead validation, deduplication, and status tagging.
 1.3. Automate customer follow-up via email/SMS or assignment to sales pipelines.
 1.4. Streamline automating reporting and analytics by importing real-time lead flows.
 1.5. Centralize omnichannel lead sources into one automatable workflow for sprinkler system contractors’ corporate teams.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. New lead submitted via social ad forms (instant forms, lead gen, native ads).
 2.2. Social media webhook notifications for ad form completions.
 2.3. Periodic polling for new leads in social management APIs.
 2.4. Manual import or file upload of leads by marketing teams.
 2.5. Custom events such as campaign launches, ad status changes, or budget thresholds.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Facebook (Meta) Lead Ads
  • Feature: Leads endpoint API (webhook for new leads)
  • Sample: Configure webhook URL, subscribe to “leadgen” fields

 3.2. LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms
  • Feature: Lead Form Data API
  • Sample: Configure data pull with “Retrieve Lead Data” endpoint

 3.3. Google Ads Lead Form Extensions
  • Feature: Google Ads API, LeadFormSubmission resource
  • Sample: Query “leadFormSubmission” for account/campaign and auto-import

 3.4. Instagram
  • Feature: Graph API (Connected to Facebook Business)
  • Sample: Activate Instagram in Business Manager, subscribe to lead generation events

 3.5. Twitter (X) Lead Generation Cards
  • Feature: Ads API, Lead Generation Card endpoint
  • Sample: Use callback URL for “Leads Collected” webhook event

 3.6. TikTok Lead Generation
  • Feature: TikTok Marketing API (Lead Ads)
  • Sample: Pull “Lead Ads” reports, subscribe to webhook

 3.7. Zapier
  • Feature: Zap trigger “New Lead in Facebook Lead Ads/TikTok Lead”
  • Sample: Zap webhook trigger, automate push to CRM

 3.8. HubSpot
  • Feature: CRM API for lead creation
  • Sample: "Create Contact" endpoint for automating imported leads

 3.9. Salesforce
  • Feature: REST API “Create Lead”
  • Sample: Configure automator to consume API and create new lead records

 3.10. Pipedrive
  • Feature: API “Person” and “Lead” endpoints
  • Sample: POST to /deals or /persons with social data payload

 3.11. ActiveCampaign
  • Feature: API “Create/Update Contact”
  • Sample: Automate POST to contacts endpoint

 3.12. Mailchimp
  • Feature: Add Subscriber via API
  • Sample: POST to /lists/{list_id}/members for automating opt-in leads

 3.13. Google Sheets
  • Feature: Sheets API “Append Values”
  • Sample: Automator to append new row per incoming lead

 3.14. Microsoft Excel (Office 365)
  • Feature: Office Scripts, Power Automate
  • Sample: Office Script triggered to insert API-pushed row for each lead

 3.15. Slack
  • Feature: Incoming Webhooks
  • Sample: Automated send to channel for new leads captured

 3.16. Trello
  • Feature: API “Create Card”
  • Sample: Auto-generate board cards for each new social media lead

 3.17. Google Drive
  • Feature: API file creation
  • Sample: Auto-create CSV, automate uploads of daily lead batch

 3.18. Monday.com
  • Feature: “Item Create” API
  • Sample: Automator pushes lead as board item

 3.19. Notion
  • Feature: API “Create Page”
  • Sample: Automate social lead data structuring as new page

 3.20. Airtable
  • Feature: API “Create Record”
  • Sample: Automate POST to capture lead details per form submission

 3.21. Marketo
  • Feature: Lead Import API
  • Sample: Bulk lead import automation with program membership updates

 3.22. Intercom
  • Feature: Contacts API
  • Sample: Automate add/update lead profiles based on social campaign data

Benefits

 4.1. Automatedly aggregate multi-channel leads and reduce manual data entry.
 4.2. Increase lead engagement speed by automating first-contact steps.
 4.3. Eliminate errors via automated, consistent data formatting and deduplication.
 4.4. Enable real-time analytics and automated lead source performance reporting.
 4.5. Automate assignment and notify sales teams or route leads efficiently.
 4.6. Scalable automation across multiple campaign channels and platforms.
 4.7. Enhance compliance and record-keeping by auto-archiving social leads.
 4.8. Boost conversion rates by automating nurturing and follow-up routines.

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