The Need for Immediate Facebook Lead Notifications
While Facebook’s (Meta’s) ad network plays a pivotal role in generating leads, it’s surprising that the platform doesn’t instantly and automatically send Facebook lead email notifications, including the lead data, whenever someone responds to your lead ad. This lack of immediate notification could potentially result in a delay in following up with leads, potentially causing a missed opportunity to engage with potential customers at a critical time.
Research consistently points out the importance of timely lead responses. In fact, waiting over an hour can drastically reduce your conversion rates. Every moment counts if you aim to get the most from your Facebook ad spend.
Imagine getting all Facebook lead ad details in your inbox instantly. No more logging into Facebook’s lead center or downloading lead CSV’s. Sharing with your team or stakeholders becomes seamless.
Also, if you’re an agency running Facebook lead ad campaigns for a client, setting up lead ad email notifications means you don’t have to send your clients a CSV, or ask them to login to Facebook and download their leads.
LeadSync: The Solution for Facebook Lead Ad Notifications
The following video tutorial will show you how LeadSync simplifies the process of setting up lead notifications, ensuring you get lead ad responses in your email inbox within minutes!
You’ll be able to receive leads (almost) instantly to your email account, Gmail or any other email service. The delivery time usually takes one to two minutes.
Fast Setup Option: Facebook Lead ad email alerts using LeadSync
Here’s a step by step guide to what’s covered in the video:
Step-by-step Guide to Setting Up Email Alerts with LeadSync
- Sign up to a 14 day free trial of LeadSync.
- Add a Facebook account that has admin access to the Page you’re using for you Facebook lead ads. We use your personal account to access Page leads, so you must be a Page Admin. There is a option to access leads via business manager if you are setting lead ad campaigns up for a client.
- Click on Connections and then the Add Connection button
- Select “Email” from the connections drop down box, then add your email details and name your connection
- Click Update connection.
- Now go to the Lead Forms section and click on Add Facebook Lead Form.
- Select your Page from the drop down, then wait for LeadSync.me to access your Page.
NOTE: You need to be a direct Page Admin to see your page in the drop-down menu. - Once your Page forms have loaded, select the form, then select the email connection you want your leads to be sent to. Make sure you select the correct lead form that you’re using in your Facebook ads.
- Click Update Notifications to save your changes.
Inside a LeadSync Email Alert
The instant automatic lead notification email includes all the data your Facebook lead form captures including:
- Full Name
- Contact: Email and Phone Number
- Additional data: Form/Page Name, Date, and Time of Submission
You can customize the lead email alerts you receive in the Message Settings area in your LeadSync account.
What does the Lead Notification Email Contain?
The lead notification email will contain all the data that was gathered in your Facebook lead form. Here’s an example of a lead form along with the email notification that gets sent after it’s submitted.
As you can see in the form example above, the responder is asked for:
- First Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number
The email notification that LeadSync sends contains all the data above plus:
- Form name
- Page name
- Submission date
- Submission time
Beyond Email: Integrating Facebook Leads with Other Platforms
If you want to get a little more sophisticated with how you process leads, LeadSync has other data integration options too:
Send Facebook Leads to CRMs
Using a CRM for your business? Get you Facebook leads into popular CRM platforms including:
- ActiveCampaign
- AgileCRM
- Autopilot
- Copper
- DocEngage
- Follow Up Boss
- Hubspot
- Keap (Infusionsoft)
- Ontraport
- Slack
- ServiceBridge
- SharpSpring
- Zoho CRM
Email Marketing Platform Integrations
Need to send leads to an email marketing platform? Have you leads sent to:
- Mailchimp
- Aweber
- Constant Contact
- ConvertKit
- Customer.io
- GetResponse
- Iterable
- VerticalResponse
- Campaign Monitor
- Mailer Lite
- SendinBlue
Send Facebook Leads to Google Sheets
One of the great features of LeadSync is that you can add new Facebook leads to a Google Sheet, and receive an email alert at the same time. This means you don’t have to download a CSV and update a spreadsheet.
Receive Facebook Lead Alerts via SMS
If Email or CRM’s aren’t your thing and you want instant SMS notifications, LeadSync has this feature too. With the SMS notifications feature, you’ll receive an SMS alert within minutes of a lead being submitted.
Automatically Send Email & SMS Responses to Facebook Leads
You’re not always in a position to respond to a new lead with a phone call so LeadSync has an option to send an email autoresponder or SMS autoresponder, so long as you’ve asked for an email or mobile phone number in your lead form. Here’s how.
Case Studies and Inspiration
Meta have an excellent index of lead ad campaign case studies from businesses in a variety of industries. If you need some inspiration or ideas for your own campaign, checkout their lead ad case studies section.
Other Options for Managing Your Facebook Leads
Of course, you don’t have to use LeadSync to generate facebook lead notification emails, there are other tools and services that help you access and manage your leads.
- Zapier. Zapier has a Facebook lead ads to email connector. This is a premium feature and starts at US$29.99 per month.
- Meta Lead Ads Center: You can manage leads generated via meta ads using the lead ad center.
Why Choose LeadSync for Meta (formerly Facebook) Lead Ad Integration?
Handling over 150,000 notifications for more than 2,000 pages monthly, LeadSync has been a trusted lead ad solution since Meta introduced lead ads in 2016. We offer unlimited email alerts (unlike Zapier) and have integrations with 30+ popular apps.
Luke is the founder of LeadSync and, as a Digital Marketer, has been helping businesses run lead generation campaigns since 2016.