Overview

Lead Liaison offers lead scoring to help qualify leads based on their interests and activities. Prospects are scored according to specific activities that indicate interest in a certain solution. Scoring values are represented by a number, ranging from 0 to 1,000. To use only custom scoring, make sure you set your out of the box Lead Scores to 0; otherwise, your custom scores will be added to your out of the box scores in cumulation. 

Setting Up Lead Scoring

The optimal way to set up custom lead scoring is by using Fulfillment Actions. Fulfillment Actions can be added to multiple assets to create very granular-level scoring systems. For example, scoring specific document downloads, form submissions, email clicks, etc. with unique values. Case in point, perhaps your "Demo Request Form" is a key indicator of buying activity. You might want to give that form submission more points than other form submissions. 

Using Fulfillment Actions

In the below example we'll add a custom Lead Score to a form submission. To learn more about Fulfillment Actions reference this guide.

• Navigate to Content > Web Forms
• Hover over the form you want to uniquely score
• Click the down tab to the right and select Actions (Submission)
• In the popup window, select the Change Lead Score action as shown below and click Save

Using Automation

To set up a lead scoring process do the following:

• Click Settings > App Setup > Lead Qualification > Lead Scoring > Add Custom Scoring

At this stage, decide if you want to score existing prospects in the Lead Liaison database or only new prospects that enter your database. Typically, you'll only need to score Known prospects. Known prospects are people in the database with an email address. 

Each section in the configuration popup is described below:

• Name = The name of the Lead Scoring Process. The name entered here will also be the name of the Campaign. 
• Stage = Existing or new prospects. 
  • Existing Prospects = Existing prospects in the Lead Liaison database. This is a good way to profile your existing database for your sales team. 
  • New Prospects = Selects only new prospects that enter the system. 
• Type = Known, Unknown or both. 
  • Known = Prospects with an email address. 
  • Unknown = Prospects without an email address. 
  • Both = Both Known and Unknown prospects. 

Score Your Database

To score your existing prospect database do the following:

• Click Settings > App Setup > Lead Qualification > Lead Scoring > Add Custom Scoring
• Enter a Name for the lead scoring process. The name will also be the Campaign name. 
• Select Existing Prospects in the Stage section
• Select Known in the Type section
• Based on your configuration, the software will launch a three step process and load a template. In Step 1, the Known Lead filter is added. Known Lead means only score prospects with an email address. Since no other filter(s) exist, all prospects in your database will be scored. 

• Click the Next button

• By default, the system loads the Change Lead Score action. Use + to increase the lead score. Use - to decrease the lead score and use = to set the lead score.

• To add filter criteria to the action click the Add Condition button (optional)

• Click the Next button
• By default, the system will run your scoring process across your entire database once after clicking the Activate button. If you prefer to activate the lead scoring process at some point in the future set the start date accordingly before clicking the Activate button

Score New Prospects

To score your existing prospect database do the following:

• Click Settings > App Setup > Lead Qualification > Lead Scoring > Add Custom Scoring
• Enter a Name for the lead scoring process. The name will also be the Campaign name. 
• Select New Prospects in the Stage section
• Select Known in the Type section
• Based on your configuration, the software will launch a three step process and load a template. In Step 1, Known Lead and Create Date are loaded. Known Lead means only score prospects with an email address. Create Date within 1 day will only select new prospects that have been created within the day. 

• Click the Next button
• By default, the system loads the Change Lead Score action. Use + to increase the lead score. Use - to decrease the lead score and use = to set the lead score. 
• To add filter criteria to the action click the Add Condition button (optional)

• Click the Next button
• By default, the system will continually match prospects every hour after clicking the Activate button. If you prefer to activate the lead scoring process at some point in the future set the start date accordingly before clicking the Activate button

Managing Lead Scoring Processes set up via Automation

To manage your lead scoring processes do the following:

• Click Settings > App Setup > Lead Qualification > Lead Scoring
• View the Custom section

Notify your Team of Hot Leads

A common best practice is to keep prospects in the marketing pipeline until they are ready for sales. There are two ways to do this:

1. Use Score Thresholds. This is by far the most common way. When a Prospect crosses a Score Threshold run a Fulfillment Action that executes your actions. One of those actions could be another automation!
2. Set up an automation that passes a lead to sales or sends them an alert when the prospect reaches a certain lead score threshold. To set this up, create a new automation with filter "Lead Score > X", and add a Send Alert action to notify the lead owner (if there is no marketing pipeline or the lead owner is not marketing) or add the lead to a Lead Distribution process and distribute the lead to your sales team accordingly. 

Score Trends

When scores increase, decrease or get set to a specific value Lead Liaison adds a green up arrow, down red arrow, or orange equal sign (respectively). This signal makes it easy to see at a glance if engagement is on the rise or if it has fallen off. Score Trends can be seen in most places where the score is shown. Below are two examples:

Example 1: From the Prospects page, Prospects > All Prospects

Example 2: From the Prospect Profile page