Predictive lead scoring ("PLS") has grown into a hot topic in 2014. SiriusDecisions reports that there are nearly 14 times more B2B organizations using PLS today than in 2011. If you are thinking about PLS but are unsure where to start, join this webinar as we cover how can you implement PLS in your Marketo and see improvements in your conversion and win rates.
3. Your speakers
Farkhanda Zhublawar
Director of Customer Success
Fliptop
Jessica Cross
Director of Marketing
Fliptop
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4. Today’s Webinar Agenda
1. Traditional vs. Predictive Lead Scoring
2. Marrying Predictive and Traditional Lead Scoring
3. The Fliptop Framework
4. Integrating in your Marketo
5. Q&A
To submit questions during the webinar, please tweet them:
#predictiveleadscoring @fliptop
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5. Traditional lead scoring looks at just a few data points
Industry
Job title
Location
Budget
Company size
Marketing activity
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6. Employees Total
Gender
Uses PHP
Open Military-Specific Jobs
Industry Code
Open Legal Jobs
Industry
Age
Open Job Postings
Uses Perl
JavaScript Menus
Market Value
Job title
Cross-Browser Compatibility
Funding
Location
Budget
Company size
Technology Stack
Email address
Marketing activity
Hiring
Open job postings
Lead Scoring
Open Job Postings
Social Presence
Youtube URL
Social gender
Website form
Tech SEO
Content Delivery Network
Uses Apache
LinkedIn URL
Founded Year
Email List
Tech SEO
Company Type
Invested Capital
Youtube views
Traffic Rank
Engine Optimizer
Facebook Advertiser
CRM Software
Uses Python
Age group
Accepts Payments
Tech Media
Social Occupation
Facebook Shares
Company Age
Stocks
Facebook Likes
Twitter URL
Net Income
Employees Total
Twitter Match Score
Social Profile Photo
Paid Analytics
Influence Score
Social Presence
Website form
Social Profile Photo
Open Job Postings
Funding
Business Twitter Followers
iPhone App
iPhone App Rating
Android App
Influence Score
Android App Rating
Has Website
NAICS Code
USSIC Code
UKSIC Code
Industry Ranking
Cash Balance
Market Capitalization
Sales Growth Percentage
Includes Videos
Engine Optimizer
Age Group Publicly listed
Open Management Jobs
Employee Count
Uses DNS
Has Disposable Email Invalid Phone Number Non-Business Email
Uses .NET
Uses Data Feeds
Has Forms
Uses PHP
Uses JavaScript
Uses Slideshows
Javascript Menus
Name server Parked Domain
Includes Videos
Employee Count Open Job Postings
Influence Score
Uses Java
Name server
Engine Optimizer
Uses Data Feeds
Content Delivery Network
Uses Nginx
Uses Tooltip
Uses Wordpress
Employee Count
Open Production Jobs
Android App
Hiring
Traffic Rank
Social Occupation Net Income
Uses Slideshows
Parked Domain
Open Job Postings
Uses Ajax
Uses .NET
Publicly listed
Non-Business Email
Uses DNS
Engine Optimizer
Uses Ajax
Uses Apache
Includes Videos
Open Job Postings
Social Profile Photo
Uses Tooltip
Has Forms
Uses DNS
Uses Apache
Open Other jobs Invested Capital
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7. Traditional vs. Predictive Lead Scoring
Traditional Lead Scoring Predictive Lead Scoring
Limited Data LOTS of Data
Guessing at manual scores Statistically generated scores
No Direct Linkage to Sales Tied to Historical Sales Outcomes
Requires manual review Updates automatically
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8. Predictive Lead Scoring Can Improve:
• Lead and opportunity conversion rates
• Lead and opportunity velocity
• Marketing and sales efficiencies
• Sales forecasting
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9. How Do Predictive and Traditional Lead
Scores Work Together?
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12. Money in the Bank
• High Predictive Lead Score
– SpendGrade A
• High Activity Score
– Lead is interested in your solution
• e.g. Target buyer that requests a demo
• Action
– Send directly to sales
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13. • High Predictive Lead Score
– SpendGrade A + B
• Little to no activity score
• e.g. list upload of target buyers
• Action
– Sales should prospect these leads
– Marketing should create content/events to
activate these leads
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Diamonds in the Rough
14. • Low Predictive Lead Score
– SpendGrade C + D
• High Activity Score
– Could include students, researchers,
competitors
– These leads will rarely buy
• Action
– Keep in nurture queue
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Heavy Clickers
15. • Low Predictive Lead Score
– SpendGrade C + D
• Low activity score
• Action
– Keep in nurture queue
– They can turn into Heavy Clickers
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Zombies
16. The Predictive Lead Scoring Framework
Focus your
sales reps here
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17. The Predictive Lead Scoring Framework
Focus your
sales reps in
this order
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26. “Using Fliptop we were able
to improve our lead to MQL
conversion rate from 8% to
17%. That’s a 2x
improvement.”
Joe Lucas
Director of Demand Gen
& Marketing Operations
Case Study
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27. Q&A – 10 Minutes
Thank you.
Contact us for your own predictive lead scoring model
info@fliptop.com
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Farkhanda Zhublawar
Director of
Customer Success
Jessica Cross
Director of Marketing
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28. Conventional lead scoring looks at just a few data
points
Industry
Job title
Location
Budget
Company size
Marketing activity
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29. Employees Total
Gender
Uses PHP
Open Military-Specific Jobs
Industry Code
Open Legal Jobs
Industry
Age
Open Job Postings
Uses Perl
JavaScript Menus
Market Value
Job title
Cross-Browser Compatibility
Funding
Location
Budget
Company size
Technology Stack
Email address
Marketing activity
Hiring
Open job postings
Lead Scoring
Open Job Postings
Social Presence
Youtube URL
Social gender
Website form
Tech SEO
Content Delivery Network
Uses Apache
LinkedIn URL
Founded Year
Email List
Tech SEO
Company Type
Invested Capital
Youtube views
Traffic Rank
Engine Optimizer
Facebook Advertiser
CRM Software
Uses Python
Age group
Accepts Payments
Tech Media
Social Occupation
Facebook Shares
Company Age
Stocks
Facebook Likes
Twitter URL
Net Income
Employees Total
Twitter Match Score
Social Profile Photo
Paid Analytics
Influence Score
Social Presence
Website form
Social Profile Photo
Open Job Postings
Funding
Business Twitter Followers
iPhone App
iPhone App Rating
Android App
Influence Score
Android App Rating
Has Website
NAICS Code
USSIC Code
UKSIC Code
Industry Ranking
Cash Balance
Market Capitalization
Sales Growth Percentage
Includes Videos
Engine Optimizer
Age Group Publicly listed
Open Management Jobs
Employee Count
Uses DNS
Has Disposable Email Invalid Phone Number Non-Business Email
Uses .NET
Uses Data Feeds
Has Forms
Uses PHP
Uses JavaScript
Uses Slideshows
Javascript Menus
Name server Parked Domain
Includes Videos
Employee Count Open Job Postings
Influence Score
Uses Java
Name server
Engine Optimizer
Uses Data Feeds
Content Delivery Network
Uses Nginx
Uses Tooltip
Uses Wordpress
Employee Count
Open Production Jobs
Android App
Hiring
Traffic Rank
Social Occupation Net Income
Uses Slideshows
Parked Domain
Open Job Postings
Uses Ajax
Uses .NET
Publicly listed
Non-Business Email
Uses DNS
Engine Optimizer
Uses Ajax
Uses Apache
Includes Videos
Open Job Postings
Social Profile Photo
Uses Tooltip
Has Forms
Uses DNS
Uses Apache
Open Other jobs Invested Capital
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30. How we build your model
Historical Sales
Machine Learning
Model Tournament
3,500+ Signals / 40+ Data Sources
31. How we build your model
Model is ready
3,500+ Signals / 40+ Data Sources
Scored Lead
33. Traditional Lead Scoring
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All Names
Engaged
Prospect & Recycled
Source: www.marketo.com
Lead
Sales Lead
Opportunity
Customer
Behaviors
• Early stage content: +3
• Attend webinar: +5
• Visit any webpage/blog: +1
• Visit careers pages: -10
Demographics
• Pricing pages:
• +10 regular, +15 detailed
• Watch demos:
• +5 overview, +10 detailed
• Mid-stage content: +8
• Late-stage content: +12
• Searches for “Marketo”: +8
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34. Target Persona With Traditional Score
VP of Sales
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Lead Score
• Job Title: +20
• Attend webinar: +5
• Visit any webpage/blog: +1
• Visit careers pages: -10
• Possible Score = 16
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35. Target Persona With Traditional Score
Social Media Manager
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Lead Score
• Early stage content: +3
• Attend webinar: +5
• Visit any webpage/blog: +1
• Watch demos: +5
• Mid-stage content: +8
• Late-stage content: +12
• Possible Score = 34
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36. Predictive = Fit First approach
Social Media Manager VP of Sales
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Welcome. Good morning good afternoon and good evening. Thank you for joining us today for our webinar. We are eager to share with you the science behind predictive lead scoring.
Before we go any further, I have a couple housekeeping items. Want to make sure everyone can hear me and see the slides.
Please raise your hand in the go to webinar dashboard if you can hear us.
Please raise your hand in the go to webinar dashboard if you can see us. Great. Let’s get started
Your speakers today are Farkhanda Zhublawar, director of customer success for fliptop. Previously she worked at Demandbase, Epocrates, and Equilar. Farkhanda’s focus on building customer relationships forever. And ever.
My name is Jessica Cross and I’m the director of marketing here at Fliptop. Previously, I worked at DNN Software, Bazaarvoice, and PowerReviews. I’m also a Marketo Champion and have built at least 4 lead scoring models in my time.
On today’s agenda I’m going to cover what most of us on the call know as lead scoring as advocated by marketing automation solutions.
We are interested to hear your thoughts on the matter so please tweet along with us using the hashtag #predictiveleadscoring. You can also post your questions directly in the GoToWebinar module. We will try to get to as many of them at the end
We will be sending out slides and recording to all registrants in the days after this webinar.
The conventional lead scoring that I have been talking about up till now typically takes into consideration 20-30 demographic indicators into what builds a score.
By mining the data inside your CRM and data available on the public web, predictive lead scoring can factor in 500+ different data points to build a scoring model.
By mining the data inside your CRM and data available on the public web, predictive lead scoring can factor in 3500+ different data points to build a scoring model.
Not just about data here are the other problems we can solve
Other uses cases for pls and ways our clients are leveraging PLS
You guys are like eHarmony for sales for marketing
Some of our customers start with a very simple approach to incorporating predictive lead scores within their organization. It can be as basic as routing rules. Grade as go to AEs, Grade Bs goes to SDRs. And Cs and Ds get put into a slow track nurturing queue.
For some of our sophisticate customers like to take this a step further and layer activity scoring on top of the fliptop predictive grades in order to better prioritize their leads. Lets share with you the our framework for how we recommend you layer to the two scores together.
ON the y axis we have the Fliptop SpendGrade from D to A, D being the least likely to convert into an opportunity and A being the most likely.
ON the x axis we have your Marketo activity score, ranging from low to high activity. We purposefully did not put numbers in here because every one of our clients assigns different scores to the wide range of activities that a lead can take. Again, that’s why we recommend using predictive score and activity score in conjunction.
Added to that X and Y axis, on this graph we have four icons.
You’re probably wondering what the icons mean, well they are the four groupings of leads, money in the bank, diamonds in the rough, heavy clickers, and zombies. Next I will go through our explanation of each of these groupings.
Now we will jump into what each one of those groupings means and how to treat each group of leads.
These are leads with a high predictive score for us that means Spendgrade A + B, and little to no activity score.
The example of this is say you upload a large list of leads. With activity lead scoring these leads would have no score. With Fliptop, you would be able to assign a predictive score based on their likely hood of converting to an opportunity and doing business with you.
These leads should be assigned to sales reps who can prospect, say SDR
How you handle these leads can very from organization to organization and depend on the type of product you sell. Based on their predictive score they have a very low probability of turning into a customer for you
However, There could be opportunities for you to serve this market with a different product or service.
If you have an influx or an abundance of leads we recommend you focus your sales reps time on just the diamonds in the rough and money in the bank. According to Fliptop Grades these are the leads that have the highest propensity of converting into a customer for you.
Zombies and heavy clickers may never turn into business so it does not benefit the sales reps time to call those leads.
For the clients that don’t have the challenge of too many leads to handle, we recommend following this frame work to prioritize leads in the order of, money in the bank first, then diamonds in the rough, after that sales reps can call through the heavy clickers and if you’re really having a slow day zombies.
We used that score a threshold, again the number can vary from instance to another.
We used that score a threshold, again the number can vary from instance to another.
Let’s talk about how our customers are implementing this framework
InsideView built strict 5 minute SLAs on what we consider to be “Money in the Bank” category of leads, this means SpendGrade A with high activity score.
Then they gave the Outbound sales team the “Diamonds in the rough” to prospect in to. Using this methodology they were able to improve their Lead to MQL conversion rate from 8 to 17% in about a quarter’s time. They also decreased the time it took for a lead to convert to an MQL by 3x. All of this resulted in more pipeline for the sales.
Read more about InsideView and Fliptop partnership on our website. We published a story and video.
If you are interested in replicating the success that Insideview has seen, contact us for your own predictive lead scoring model.
We will
The conventional lead scoring that I have been talking about up till now typically takes into consideration 20-30 demographic indicators into what builds a score.
By mining the data inside your CRM and data available on the public web, predictive lead scoring can factor in 500+ different data points to build a scoring model.
By mining the data inside your CRM and data available on the public web, predictive lead scoring can factor in 3500+ different data points to build a scoring model.
Most of us on the call are familiar with this image. This is Marketo’s depiction of how lead scoring works to tell us how leads are moving through the funnel.
Make icon for social media manager, make it CLAIRE
With traditional lead scoring you can have a lead with hundreds of points. If they visit the site every day and download all your content they could rack up a score of 100, say even 1,000. But what does that actually mean in terms of its sales readiness and propensity to buy?
Unless you have built a more sophisticated lead scoring, I’m sure many of you on this call suffer from this problem.