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Recommendations
for Lead Scoring
West UC & Assurance
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Presenters
Jim McLemore
Senior Manager, Marketing Technology
West Unified Communications
Sean Baker
Senior Marketing Technology Analyst
Assurance
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Lead Scoring Key Challenges
“I need
more Hot
Leads!”
“These leads
suck!”
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Lead Scoring Key Challenges
My Data is so
confusing!
My page tags /
tag groups are
confusing!
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Lead Scoring Key Challenges
Setting Expectations Measuring Success
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Defining What’s Hot
• Work with Sales
• Focus on Quality over Quantity
• Use Metrics that measure lead
quality not quantity.
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Defining Success
• Use Metrics that measure lead
quality not quantity.
– Lead conversion time
– Lead SAL rates
– Qualification Rates
– Opportunity rates
– Time to close
– % of leads closed Won
– Sales happiness with lead quality.
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Getting More Hot Leads
• Your HOT leads are a % of your
total leads.
• To get more you need to drive
more into the top of the funnel.
• Improving lead sources may
increase your % of Hot leads.
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Turning Warm into Hot
• Marketing is responsible for
Turning Cold/Warm leads into
hot!
– Profile Cold (C-D)
• Buy Updated information
• Ask for updated information
• Offer/contest for new information
• Clean/Standardize data
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Turning Warm into Hot
– Engagement Cold (3-4)
• Nurturing
• Sales Signature rule – Faux
Forward
• Improve Content Quality
• Reduce Form Length
• Faux Form submit – C-suite click
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Product Limitations
• Ability to auto escalate based on certain engagement
• Multi-factor scoring – C-suite clicks = HOT
• No Negative scoring (Career page, title=student)
• Must score everyone
• Can’t view folder hierarchy in lead scoring tool
Editor's Notes
NOTE: THIS TEMPLATE IS FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY.
Need More A1 Leads - Sales/Leadership may ask you for more leads.
You could easily move your “standard engagement scale” to mark more of these leads as hot. But how do you determine the trade-off between quality and quantity?
-Sean story about needing more “hot leads” to meet #goals.
These Lead Sucks – Degrading your scale is likely to lower your lead quality and make Sales frustrated at your leads…or worse ignore them.
Think of this as a balancing act between lead quality and lead volume.
Data Quality issues will make scoring difficult. Especially with profile scores.
For engagement scores page tagging and tag groups are important and folder structures.
The key to implementing a successful Lead Scoring program is to set realistic expectations and ensure you are using the appropriate metrics to measure success.
Lead scoring is intended to:
Improve lead quality
Categorize leads so you know which to follow up with what.
Profile Fit, High Engagement – Sales ready
Profile misfit, High engagement – nurture – check for updated profile information, try to identify other stackholders/title.
Profile Fit – Low Engagement – Nurture, Nurture Nurture
Profile misfit, low engagement – low priority, back burner. May also want to add to a group to eventually cleanse from your data.