Lead Management Part 2 (24%) Flashcards
Lead qualification
The process of building your dream-team client roster and then sending it off to your sales team
Score
Measures implicit interest in your product by assigning a points value to activities, such as opening an email, attending a webinar, and submitting a form.
Grade
Measures explicit information provided by the prospect, such as job title, location, and company size.
Why is it crucial to involve sales leadership in order to get an accurate picture of what information is important for scoring and grading?
The leadership team has anecdotal data and tracks purchasing trends year over year. They’ve also built benchmarks and profiles to determine what makes an ideal prospect. Not only is this extremely valuable information for you, it also increases their buy in.
What would be a recommended action for this type of prospect: Chris is enthusiastic about your company, but may not be the best fit for your product. This gives him a decent score, but moderate grade.
Nurture Chris with a drip campaign to conserve resources.
NAVIGATION: How to customize baseline scoring model in Pardot.
Navigate to Pardot Settings | Automation Settings | Scoring. Click Edit Scoring Rules to change any of the rules. After you adjust a rule, Pardot displays the approximate number of prospects affected. The number sometimes changes if prospects complete activities while you’re still setting rules. Click Save changes.
NAVIGATION: How to create an automation rule that increases a prospect’s score if they downloaded a white paper and attended a webinar. There are 12 steps.
- Navigate to Automations | Automation Rules. 2. Click +Add Automation Rules.3. Type a Name and a Description. 4. Check Repeat Rule. 5. Under Rules, select Match Any. 6. Click +Add new rule. 7. Enter Prospect webinar :: attended webinar :: select webinar. 8. Click +Add new rule. 9. Enter Prospect file :: Choose File :: White Paper File Name. 10. Click +Add new action. 11. Enter Adjust Prospect Score :: by :: 25 points. 12. Click Create automation rules.
Give an example of why you would use a Page Action to decrease a Prospect’s score.
Use page actions for the Apply to work at our Company URL and decrease the prospect score by 100 points.
What are the 5 ways you can modify a Prospect’s score?
- Automation rules. 2. Page Actions or Completion Actions. 3. Manually. 4. Engagement studio. 5. Resetting a Prospect score to 0. 6. During Import.
Score decay
Reducing a prospect’s score for inactivity usually by creating an automation rule with Rule Criteria and Choose Rule Action “Adjust Prospect Score: To: 0”
What do Scoring Categories do?
Scoring categories offer additional scores based on which assets your prospects are engaging with.
You must organize your content into ___ in order to use scoring categories.
folders
How do you create a scoring category?
Create a new folder: 1. Content | Folders 2. Click +Add folder. 3. Enter new folder name 4. Click Save. Assign Folder to a Scoring Category: 1. Pardot Settings | Automation Settings | Scoring. 2. Click +Add Scoring Category. 3. Enter name 4. Check Include all historical activity. 5. Choose a folder 6. Click choose Selected 7. Create Scoring Category.
How many Scoring Categories can 1 folder have?
1
How to view a Prospect’s score: Prospect Record?
Prospect Record: Prospects | Prospect List. Click on Prospect name. Scroll down to “Insight” where you’ll see Overall Score and a subset Scoring Category Score.
How to view a Prospect’s score: Reports?
Reports | Scoring Categories. Filter by Scoring Category.
NAVIGATION. How to find Salesforce Organization ID?
Classic: Setup | Under Administer | Company Profile | Company Information. Lightning: Click on Gear Icon | Setup | Company Settings | Company information
Yes/No: When you edit scoring rules, the system rescores all prospects based on all applicable prospect activity.
Yes.
Does rescoring cause prospects to resync with the CRM and affect score-based automations?
Yes.
Yes/No. It’s not possible for a prospect’s score to be negative.
Yes, it is possible. If you have an automation rule action that resets a prospect’s score, the system stores the value difference. When prospects are rescored after editing scoring rules, it’s possible for a prospect’s score to be negative.
How do you know rescoring is finished?
You get an email notification.
The prospect rating is expressed as a letter grade that ranges from what letter to what letter?
F (worst) A+ (best)
What letter grade do all Prospects begin with?
D
By what increments can grades be adjusted?
1/3, 2/3 and 1
What are the 5 criteria that make up the default profile set to measure prospects against?
Company size. Industry. Location. Job title. Department.
NAVIGATION: How to adjust the default profile?
- Prospects | Segmentation | Profiles 2. Select Gear Icon 3. Click Edit 4. Adjust grade weights (1/3, 2/3, 3/3) 5. Save profile.
What’s wrong with creating 1 automation rule to assign a profile and match all criteria? What should I do instead?
The profile rule might not apply changes in time for the rule to fire on the criteria change. You have to use separate automation rules.
NAVIGATION: How to set up Automation Rule to adjust profile based on Company Size?
- Automations | Automation Rules. 2. Click +Add Automation Rules 3. Enter name 4. Rules: Match All. 5. Enter Prospect default field value :: Employees :: is between :: 50 :: and :: 1000. 6. Click +Add new action. 7. Enter Change profile criteria :: Default :: Company Size :: Matches. 8. Click Create automation rules.
Why wouldn’t you see a grade displayed under a prospect?
A grade isn’t displayed until a prospect has matched or not matched the assigned profile’s criteria. You’ve got to use Automation Rules to assign a profile with the action MATCHING.
How do you manually change profile criteria on a prospect record to match or not match?
Thumbs up. Thumbs down.
Yes/No. When a prospect doesn’t match a profile criterion, the grade decreases by the amount specified in the prospect’s assigned profile.
Yes.
Yes/No. You can’t rename or delete the Default profile.
Yes. You can’t regrade it.
What are the 4 ways you can assign a prospect a profile (for grading)?
Manually: edit a prospect and select a profile from dropdown. Completion Action: Set Profile forms and form handlers. Automation rule: e.g., assign a profile when prospect enters a specific Job Title on a form. Adding the profile’s JavaScript code to the page: Click name of profile > Click link to view JavaScript code > Add code to page above piTracker() function
What does the Criteria Does Not Match due to the Grade for an Automation Rule?
Decreases the grade.
What’s a good score threshold to start with?
100
What’s a good grade threshold to start with?
B
How often should you review your thresholds for scoring and grading?
Every 30 days.
NAVIGATION: How to set up an Automation Rule that assigns prospects that meet a score of 100 and a grade of B?
- Automations | Automation Rules 2. Click +Add automation Rules 3. Enter Name 4. Under Rules select “Match All” 5. Click +Add new rule. 6. Enter: Prospect score :: greater than or equal to :: 100 7. Click +Add new rule. 8. Enter Prospect grade::greater than or equal to :: B+ 9. Click +Add new action 10. Select Assign prospect via salesforce.com active assignment rule 11. Click Create automation rules.
Which prospects receive the email when you use a dynamic list as a recipient list?
All prospects on the list when the email is sent.
Why would you mark a dynamic list public?
To display it on your email preference center, so prospects can opt out of the list.
What happens to the resulting lists and the original dynamic list when you split a dynamic list?
If you split a dynamic list, the resulting lists are static, but the original dynamic list isn’t changed.
Can you convert a static list to a dynamic list?
No.
When using the account or opportunity rule criteria, which Prospects does the Dynamic list match?
Only those prospects that have an associated opportunity or account. Prospects without an opportunity or account don’t match the list.
Why should you remove dynamic lists you don’t need?
They use up system resources.
If you unarchive a Dynamic list, what should you wait for before sending?
a confirmation email that the list is restored
How are the prospects divided when you split a list?
Randomly.