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How to Build a Lead Scoring System in Marketo

November 27, 2012 By Josh Hill

Lead scoring is one of the first systems new marketing automation users want to build in Marketo. Building a great lead scoring system is easy once you take the time to do these four main steps:

  1. Find out what demographics and behaviors matter to Sales.
  2. Translate those preferences into relative ranks.
  3. Translate those ranks into scores.
  4. Use Marketo to build relevant Smart Lists and Workflows.

But wait, it isn’t that simple, is it? No, building a lead scoring system is not done in 4 steps. Lead scoring systems are one of the first things people do with marketing automation because it is a clear action to move forward. Watch this Marketo webinar on Scoring Leads and Using Lead Tokens.

Here’s how you can put lead scoring theory into practice in your own Marketo instance. This is a major win for anyone moving to inbound marketing with Marketo. You’ll show Sales and your manager that progress toward Sales-Marketing Alignment is happening and you’ll learn a ton about Marketo too.

Resources

  • Reinventing Lead Scoring: How to use Data Science to Market Better  [Adobe Marketo Session / Video + Slides]
  • Taking Lead Scoring to the Next Level [Blog]
  • How to Set up Marketo Behavior Lead Scoring Batch Campaigns
  • Demographic Gating: How to Score and Quality Leads More Efficiently [Video + Blog]
  • How to Build a Lead Scoring System in Marketo [2012, Slideshare]
  • How to Build a Lead Scoring System in Marketo [2012, PDF/Note: links in the pdf are not working right now.]

Filed Under: Marketo User Guide

Comments

  1. Carina says

    November 29, 2012 at 2:50 am

    2nd paragraph “entire Guide to scoring” links to the lead nurturing pdf.

  2. Josh Hill says

    November 29, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Oh yes I was, thanks. Which page is that?

  3. Josh Hill says

    November 30, 2012 at 8:54 am

    I fixed the link. Thanks Carina!

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