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Process | Execution Time | Notes |
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Adding a prospect to an Automation Campaign | 1 to 2 minutes | Step 1 of the Automation Campaign wizard |
Running the first action | Up to 1 minute | This is the first action in Step 2 of the Automation Campaign wizard |
Subsequent actions | 1 minute | Each additional action is separated by 1 minute from the first action |
| Send Email action | 1 minute | When the Send Email action is applied the action is scheduled; but, requires an additional minute to deliver the email. |
Changes in a CRM which trigger action | Up to 5 minutes | For example, an Automation Campaign that monitors the change of a Salesforce.com Campaign Status. The change will be reflected in Lead Liaison within 5 minutes. |
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Answer: (20,000 prospects) x (8 actions) = total of 160,000 actions to be applied. Up to 500 actions are applied every minute. To calculate the time required for the automation to complete we take (160,000 actions) / (500 actions per minute) = 320 minutes, which will take approximately 5 hours and 20 minutes to complete.
Let consider another scenario. In the second scenario, what if there were only 10 prospects in Step 1 and 8 actions in Step 2? What's the formula for each scenario? Assume all 8 actions are Lead Scoring actions.
Answer: (10 prospects) x (8 actions) = total of 80 actions to be applied. Since 80 is < 500 (max per minute) each action would be applied to all prospects within 1 minute. Keep in mind it would take 8 minutes to run all 8 actions since each action within an automation runs every minute.
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