How to create and leverage opportunities in Affinity
What is an opportunity?
While there are people and organization contacts in Affinity, opportunity contacts are special hybrids that can hold any number of specific people and/or organizations for a particular purpose.
Opportunities are particularly useful for enterprise sales teams and VCs that commonly invest in the same company across multiple rounds and/or for different purposes.
How do I create an opportunity?
To start creating opportunities, you’ll first need to create a new opportunity list (see Create a new list (Build from scratch)). Once you have done so, there are three different ways to create an opportunity:
- Click + Create new
- Click the blue "+" button in an opportunity list
- Click the "+" icon on a contact's profile page
How to leverage opportunity lists
Track multiple opportunities tied to an organization
With opportunities, you can track the communication history with the specific stakeholders for each individual opportunity associated with an organization.
Track communication with stakeholders at large organizations
Track the communication history with specific people at a large organization. An organization’s contact page will show the entire history of communication between individuals at your firm and the organization. On the other hand, opportunities will help you easily access and track the communication history with just the individuals associated with the opportunity.
With the opportunities you create, you will be able to keep track of the value of a deal, who’s owning the opportunity in your organization, and where it is in your pipeline using Affinity's default "Status" field.
Along with these default fields, you can create custom fields with any other information that is crucial to your firm’s pipeline. Below is a screenshot with sample data to show what an opportunity list might look like:
