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How to Start an Action Flow in Symbo
How to Start an Action Flow in Symbo

This article outlines how to start an action flow, where you can efficiently and effectively engage with your prospects.

Updated over a year ago

Introduction:

This help doc is about how to engage with prospects through "Action Flow" in Symbo. In the above video, we briefly explain how to add prospects to a sequence, and focus on how to complete those sequence actions in a seamless way.

Step 1: Adding Prospects to a Sequence

There are a few ways to engage prospects in a sequence. This step outlines just one of those ways. The additional ways will be covered in another video and help doc.

First, go to the "People" tab on the left-hand side of the navigation bar. Select all the prospects that you want to add to a sequence, then click the "Add to sequence" button located in the top right of the people table.

In the pop-up, select the sequence that you want to add them to. If a warning pops up indicating that some of the prospects do not have email addresses attached to their profiles, they will not be able to be engaged in a sequence with email steps.

How to start an action flow - selecting a sequence

Step 2: Starting an Action Flow

To start an action flow, go to the "Actions" tab on the left-hand side of the navigation bar. Before entering into an action flow, you need to select either the individuals for whom you want to perform actions or select a filter chip or apply a filter. Once individuals are selected or a filter is applied, click "Start Actions."

How to start an action flow - starting an action flow

This will up the prospect view for the first prospect in the Action Flow, putting you in an action flow state. The action flow state is indicated by a yellow banner located at the top of your screen that tells you what you have to do, when you have to do it, and how many activities you have to do.

how to start an action flow - prospect view inside an action flow

Step 3: Completing Action Steps

In the prospect view, depending on what action is schedule click on the button that will say "Call Now", "Send Email", or "Complete" to complete the sequence action. Provided you have your CRM integrated, all actions completed inside of Symbo will log to your CRM keeping you focused on reaching out more than data entry.

how to start an action flow - Call step

Once you complete the step, the banner will turn green so that you can move on to the next prospect in the action flow.

how to start an action flow - moving on to the next action

Step 4: Ending an Action Flow

To end an action flow, complete all the actions that are scheduled to go out or click on the banner and then click "End Actions."

how to start an action flow - ending the action flow

Conclusion:

In conclusion, Symbo allows you to engage prospects and complete actions in a seamless way. All actions that you complete in Symbo, such as phone calls, emails, and tasks, are automatically logged back into your CRM for a detailed record of the actions taken for those prospects. If you have any questions you can reach out to us at [email protected] or start a chat with us.

how to start and action flow - Sending a message to support

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