Featured app • Popl

The first follow-up usually gets the deal

Eight in ten buyers go with the vendor who reaches them first after an event, and the average team takes nine days. That gap is where the budget goes. Popl closes it by scanning any badge, business card, or LinkedIn QR code with one app, filling in the missing email, title, and phone number from its data partners, then pushing the finished record into your CRM before anyone has left the hall. It also fixes the quieter problem underneath: around 60% of qualified event leads never reach the CRM at all, and half of what does arrive is too incomplete to act on. One customer traced $6M in qualified pipeline back to it.

What is it:

An event lead capture platform that scans any badge, enriches the contact automatically, and syncs it straight to your CRM.

Who is it for:

Sales and marketing teams working trade shows and conferences, who want the leads usable before the flight home.

Alternative to:

Cvent LeadCapture, iCapture, Captello, the scanner the organiser rents you, or a rubber band around a stack of business cards.

Why we like it:

We like Popl because one app works at every event, so nobody has to relearn a different rented scanner each time.

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