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The B2B Event Lead Capture and Follow-Up Platform — Turn Business Card Chaos into Pipeline in Real Time

Built forB2B sales reps, field sales teams, event marketing managers, and VP-level sales leaders at companies that attend 5-50+ trade shows and conferences per year and need to capture, enrich, and follow up with event leads faster than their competitors

ValidatedUpdated 20264-phase launch plan3 market signals

The scorecard

Revenue Potential

8/10

High

$29-$49/rep/month with teams of 5-50 reps = $145-$2,450/team/month; $25B annual B2B event spend means even 0.1% market capture is significant; enterprise deals with 100+ rep licenses create $50K+ ARR accounts

Virality

8/10

High

Product-led growth built into the use case — when one rep outperforms teammates at an event because of faster follow-up, the entire team wants the tool; every trade show booth interaction is a potential demo; CRM marketplace listing provides continuous discovery

Execution

6/10

Medium

Badge and card scanning OCR is mature technology; CRM integrations are well-documented; contact enrichment APIs are plug-and-play; main challenges are offline reliability at trade shows and maintaining scan accuracy across hundreds of different badge formats

The idea

Sales reps at conferences and trade shows scan badges or business cards, add voice notes, tag lead quality, and the platform auto-enriches contact data, creates CRM records, and triggers personalized follow-up sequences within hours of the conversation — while the lead still remembers who you are. Companies spend $25 billion annually on B2B events and trade shows but 80-87% of leads collected are never followed up because reps stuff business cards in their pockets, the data sits in a spreadsheet

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What you unlock

4 phases

Execution plan, weeks 1–24

5 channels

With strategies + tactics

4 competitors

Analyzed + positioning

3 signals

Real Reddit / X / news posts

Full offer

Pricing + lead magnets

Trend data

Interest over 12+ months

Execution plan

1

MVP & Event Testing

Months 1-3
  • Build mobile app with universal badge/card scanning using computer vision (Google ML Kit + custom OCR models), voice note recording, and lead tagging interface
  • Integrate with Clearbit and Apollo for real-time contact enrichment — appending company, title, LinkedIn profile, and firmographic data to scanned leads
  • Build bidirectional CRM sync with HubSpot and Salesforce for automatic contact creation and event-tagged lead records
  • Test at 3-5 real trade shows with 20 beta sales reps, measuring scan accuracy, enrichment match rate, and follow-up speed

Phase 2: AI Follow-Up Engine · Months 3-6

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Phase 3: Platform & Integrations · Months 6-9

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Phase 4: Enterprise & Scale · Months 9-12

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What real people are saying

Salesforce AppExchange

Event lead capture apps consistently rank in the top 20 most-searched categories on AppExchange; existing solutions have 100s of reviews but average 3.5/5 stars — indicating demand for a better product

+ 2 more market signals

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Top marketing channel

LinkedIn Ads + Organic

Target VP Sales, VP Marketing, Event Marketing Managers, and Field Sales Directors at companies with 50-5,000 employees. Run ads timed around major trade show seasons (January CES, March SXSW, Q3/Q4 industry conferences). Share 'event ROI' data posts: 'Companies using LeadSnap follow up with leads 12x faster and convert 3x more pipeline from events.'

+ 4 more marketing channels with strategies

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