What is a Tag in CRM? This is very important question for those who wants to use a CRM with thousands of users and customers records. There are different definitions of tag, but here I will define a tag from a CRM’s point of view, in CRMs a Tag and is a flag that we can set against each and a group of people/records in the CRM to identify their current status, source and to trigger a certain campaign or action.

By the definition above, you can see how important is it to create an accurate and correct tagging structure in CRM to control your user’s flow within CRM. In Infusionsoft by Keap CRM, we also need to carefully decide tagging structure and here are steps that we need to follow in order to create an effective tagging structure

Know your processes and their stages

you need to know exactly what process you want to implementing through Infusionsoft CRM, for example a sale automation process can have different stages where if a sale person can be assigned with a task to call prospect, and based on the call result he should be able to move this prospect in second stage, that can be interested, could not connect, reschedule, and this will be done by applying or removing a tag (Rescheduled Tag) to the record. when you will understand your processes completely you will be able to see what tags are required during those processes and at what stage you will need to add/remove tags. An Infusionsoft by Keap expert help businesses to automate these processes in their routine and they have shared several sample tagging structures on different Infusionsoft by keap communities that you can search and use as guidelines to implement yours

Create and Run your Tags

Once you know what tagging structure you need, you can login to your Infusionsoft CRM and you can create those tags, to make those tags more clear and reasonable, you can create different categories for tags and then can create those tags and can assign them relevant tag category.

There are different ways to apply a tag in Infusionsoft which depends on different things like

1. A new signup through Infusionsoft form
2. Adding a user to a nurture sequence
3. Purchased is made
4. Selling up-sell to customers

Above are some of the many reasons that we need to apply a tag to a user. When someone signup through an Infusionsoft web form there is an option in web form setting that allow us to add a tag to users who will fill out that web form, similarly we can create purchase action set for a specific product to add a tag to customer who will purchase that product through Infusionsoft ecommerce shopping cart indicating that this customer have already purchased this product. And hence we can sell any accessories related to this specific product to this product buyers, by creating an up-sell campaign and adding all customer with that product tag applied.

During these last 10 years of working as Infusionsoft experts, we at Kaya Systems work very closely on these tagging structure to make sure that business owner can have detailed insight of what’s going on in the system and they can make their decisions accordingly.