Sales Feasibility Study for ISPs: The Hidden Backbone of High-Quality Lead Management

Introduction: Why Feasibility Matters Before the Pitch

In the ISP business, your sales pipeline is only as strong as your feasibility process. A lead may look promising on the surface, but unless it’s technically serviceable, commercially viable, and internally approved — it’s just noise.

This is where a structured Sales Feasibility Study becomes the unsung hero of high-quality sales. It helps ISPs avoid costly mistakes, prevent misaligned commitments, and win deals that are truly deliverable.

CRM360 embeds this discipline into your sales workflow — combining GIS insights, infrastructure visibility, approval workflows, and ROI logic to take feasibility out of spreadsheets and into your CRM.

What Is a Sales Feasibility Study in ISP Operations?

A Sales Feasibility Study is a systematic evaluation of whether a new customer lead can be served effectively and profitably using available ISP resources and infrastructure. It combines technical validation with commercial reasoning to decide whether to pursue, pause, or reject a lead.

In CRM360, feasibility is treated as a core step between lead capture and proposal generation. It helps sales, engineering, finance, and field teams stay aligned on what’s realistically achievable — and what isn’t.

1. Desktop Feasibility

The process begins with desktop feasibility, where GIS mapping tools assess the proximity of the new lead to your network assets. CRM360 integrates with mapping platforms to visualize your fiber rings, PoPs, RF base stations, and potential customer locations.

Each lead is assessed for:

  • Closest network access point
  • Estimated distance to trench or connect
  • Existing route capacity
  • Nearby serviceable customers

This step eliminates leads that are clearly out of reach and flags those that need further on-ground study.

2. Field Feasibility Survey

For leads that pass desktop checks, CRM360 enables the field feasibility process:

  • Field teams conduct trenching viability assessments (for fiber)
  • Verify line of sight or signal strength (for RF)
  • Check rooftop or in-building access
  • Capture photos and GPS-tagged remarks

All data is logged through CRM360’s mobile interface, syncing directly with the lead record.

3. Prioritized Route Path Selection

Every feasible lead can have multiple route options. CRM360 allows ISPs to categorize and rank feasibility types:

PriorityPath TypeDescription
PrimaryOwn FiberHighest reliability, long-term ROI
SecondaryOwn RFCost-effective where trenching isn’t viable
TertiaryTelco/3rd-partyUsed when own infra is unavailable or costly

Each option is evaluated for cost, service level, and reliability. CRM360 enables justification and internal notes for the chosen path, promoting transparency.

4. Wayleave / Right of Way (RoW) Evaluation

Deployment feasibility isn’t just about signal and distance — legal access to lay fiber or mount equipment is critical.

CRM360 includes a dedicated section for capturing RoW details:

  • Whether permission is required
  • Who grants it (RWA, local gov, private owner)
  • Status: Approved / Pending / Denied
  • Estimated cost and impact
  • Uploaded documents or photos

This ensures no feasibility is marked “approved” without considering administrative and legal blockers.

5. Infrastructure Availability Check

Even if the location is technically reachable, CRM360 checks infrastructure readiness:

  • Are there free ports on the OLT or switch?
  • Is IP pool capacity available?
  • Are sufficient devices (ONTs, antennas) in stock?

These checks help avoid overcommitting in already saturated zones. CRM360 ties this into its Inventory and Asset modules for real-time validation.

6. ROI Analysis and BOQ Generation

No feasibility is complete without asking: Will this make money?

CRM360 includes an ROI calculator that uses:

  • Infra cost (fiber run length, equipment, manpower)
  • RoW cost
  • Expected revenue per month (based on plan)
  • Payback period and margin

If the lead meets profitability criteria, CRM360 auto-generates a Bill of Quantity (BOQ). This is useful not just for internal review, but also for proposal, demo prep, and post-sale implementation.

7. Internal Finance and Management Approvals

Some leads — especially those involving high capex or third-party links — require management or finance approvals.

CRM360 enables:

  • Role-based approval routing
  • Auto-triggers for ROI below threshold, BOQ above limit
  • Status tracking (Pending / Approved / Rejected)
  • Justification notes and full audit trail

This prevents ad-hoc decisions and ensures every deal has buy-in from stakeholders.

8. From Feasibility to Qualified Opportunity

Once a lead passes all feasibility checks and internal approvals, CRM360 updates its status to “Proposal Ready”.

The BOQ, feasibility report, photos, and approvals are carried forward into the proposal or demo workflows — ensuring continuity.

This structured handoff avoids back-and-forth between departments and shortens your sales cycle.

9. Reporting & Reusability

All feasibility outcomes — approved, rejected, or on hold — are logged in CRM360. Over time, this builds a powerful data set:

  • Reuse past feasibility for nearby leads
  • Understand rejection trends
  • Monitor RoW-related delays
  • Track sales velocity by feasibility type (fiber vs RF vs telco)

10. Pipeline Readiness & Conversion

Once a lead has passed through all feasibility filters — GIS validation, field survey, RoW, infra checks, ROI, and internal approvals — CRM360 marks it as “Proposal Ready.”

What this means:

  • Sales team gets real-time status change notifications
  • BOQ, route details, and photos are auto-attached to the lead record
  • Demo coordination or proposal generation can begin immediately

This seamless transition ensures no duplication of work and dramatically reduces sales cycle bottlenecks.

✅ A well-qualified lead turns into a well-prepared proposal — fast.

11. Reporting & Historical Lookup

Feasibility is not just a one-time task — it’s valuable operational data.

CRM360 turns this into a goldmine for decision-makers:

  • Which geographies have high RoW failure rates?
  • What % of leads fail due to infra unavailability?
  • What are average costs for feasibility per region?
  • Which sales teams generate high-conversion feasibility?

It also stores historical feasibility data, enabling sales and ops to:

  • Reuse past successful routes
  • Avoid duplicate site visits
  • Predict feasibility outcomes faster based on patterns

This empowers strategic planning and better resource allocation.

Conclusion: The Underrated Power of Sales Feasibility

The biggest mistake ISPs make? Treating feasibility like a checklist — not a system.

Sales feasibility, when done right, protects margins, aligns internal teams, reduces technical rework, and ensures faster deployment. More importantly, it builds trust with the customer — when your promise to deliver is backed by data, diligence, and clarity.

CRM360 transforms feasibility from chaos to clarity.

Because when your feasibility pipeline is clean, your sales pipeline is unstoppable.