How can leads be captured within Salesforce?
a. Web to Lead
b. Lead Import
Lead assignment rules
Change the owner of a newly created or reassigned lead based on a set of rules defined by the system administrator
Executed sequentially
Multiple sets of assignment rules, only one can be active at a time e.g. uploaded from marketing vs website submission
Default lead owner - when no rules are matched
Web-to-Lead: Name 4 steps to setting up Web-to-Lead?
Generates a contact form that can be integrated within an existing website
Each form submission create a lead record in Salesforce
Web-to-Lead: Limitations
Relationships:
Cannot capture lookup relationship fields, with the exception of the Campaign field. When the campaign field is included with a web-to-lead submission, the lead will be automatically joined to the specified campaign.
Validation:
The web-to-lead form generated by Salesforce does not restrict data entered into the form. Any validation (e.g. required, email) must be added to the generated HTML code
Daily Limits:
500 per day. Can contact Salesforce to have the limit increased. Or, use another method to capture leads.
Lead Auto-Response Rules
Which email template used in reply to web-to-lead submission
Multiple sets allowed, only one active at a time e.g. Response set just for holidays
Pre Lead Conversion: Lead flow
Typically, leads are converted when they have been identified as qualified sales prospects.
Common lead flow is as follows:
Lead Conversion:
Name 3 object records that are created from lead?
Name 2 other things that happen to the Lead record?
Lead Conversion: Custom Field Mapping
Note: A custom lead field can only be mapped to a single field on either contact, account, or opportunity. For instance, could not map “Lead.Product Interest” to both “Account.Product Interest” and “Opportunity.Product Interest”.
A workaround for this is to create a formula field that replicates the value of the original field. Then map the formula field to the second field.
Lead Conversion: What if the account/contact/opportunity already exists?
Opportunity: Option “Do not create a new opportunity on conversion”. There is no way to convert a lead to an existing opportunity
Account: Accounts listed with the same name as the field “Company” on the lead record. If an account name contains the company’s name, then you will have the option to use the existing account record.
Contact: If you attach the lead to an existing account and the lead name matches the name of an existing contact, then you will also have the option to use the existing contact record:
Lead Conversion: Considerations
Sales Processes and Opportunity Stages: Name 5 fields on Opportunity Stages object?
Bonus Point: How is Expected Revenue calculated?
When you define an opportunity stage, several other variables must be defined in addition to stage name:
Probability represents the likelihood that an opportunity will be sold, and is used to calculate expected revenue.
Expected Revenue = Amount x Probability / 100
Sales Processes and Opportunity Stages: Sales Processes
Determine which opportunity stages are selectable when record types are enabled
A sales process is not required if record types are not enabled (all stages are available)
Forecasts
Used to predict future sales within an organisation
Forecast data is aggregated from each user’s opportunity records, and the related forecast category of each opportunity’s stage
Can be overridden without updating the source opportunity records
Quotas
Used to set target sales goals for forecast users
Allows organisations to establish greater accountability for meeting sales expectations.
Campaigns: What license is required to create a campaign?
User must have the “Marketing User” feature license as well as corresponding object-level security
Campaigns: 5 ways to add a campaign?
Campaigns: Email Marketing and Marketing Automation within Salesforce
To add email marketing or marketing automation functionality to Salesforce, you will need to use a 3rd party vendor.
Salesforce provides very basic mass email functionality (use the mass email wizards on the Leads or Contacts tab), but it is a) limited to 1,000 emails or less per day and b) not CAN-SPAM compliant.
Campaign Hierarchy: When should you use a campaign hierarchy?
If you want to track statistics about a group of campaigns
e.g. Running a series of webinars. Need a snapshot view of how each webinar is performing individually, as well as the series as a whole
Campaign Hierarchy: 3 steps to configure campaign hierarchy?
Campaign Hierarchy: How many levels of Campaign Hierarchies can you create?
You can have up to 5 levels in your campaign hierarchy
Note: There is no limit to the number of campaigns within the hierarchy itself
Campaign Influence: What is campaign influence?
Campaign influence allows you to associate one opportunity to multiple campaigns
However…
1) An opportunity can have only one primary campaign
2) Only the primary campaign influences campaign rollup summary fields and ROI calculations on the related campaign
Campaign Influence: How can you set up campaign influence in an org?
Add the campaign influence related list to the appropriate opportunity page layout(s)
Campaign Influence: What is automatic campaign association?
When a contact role is added to an opportunity, automatic campaign association will add that contact’s campaigns to the campaign influence related list on the opportunity
Campaign Influence: 4 considerations for automatic campaign association?