Tip of the Week – Use Pull Distribution

Pull Distribution Strategy is a customizable Lead distribution with the ability to set Criteria (rules) for Users to Pull Leads from a Pull Screen.

Do you know which distribution strategies like Push, Pull, SharkTank, Round Robin, or Shotgun work best for your team?

Let’s talk about lead routing options, in partucular Pull Distribution, and how in can be developed and used with ClickPoint.

Pull Distribution will optimize the volume of Leads a User can contact efficiently, making it possible to add appointments, notes and disposition the Lead to mark the accurate placement of the Lead in the Sales Workflow.

With Pull Distribution, create multiple specific Criteria, allowing division of certain Leads to Users, thus optimizing contact on Leads. Work Leads from a Pull screen dedicated to Click Call Close; Click the Lead, Call the Lead and Close the Lead!

Once you’re logged in to ClickPoint, go to:

• More
• Settings

Image 1.1 More Settings

• Setup Lead Routing / Step 2: Setup Lead Distribution

Image 1.2 Setup Lead Distribution

• Choose the Record Type you’re creating the distribution for
• Choose Pull and select Add Strategy
• Name the newly created Distribution
• Click Create

Image 1.3 Add Strategy

Note: All areas with the “Save” button do require the button to be clicked in order to enable the ‘save’ of newly added or edited information.

Note: Distribution will remain Disabled until marked as Enabled by clicking the Disabled button; this will now Enable the Distribution.

Settings – Add or change the name of the Distribution, click Save when complete

Pull Distribution Type – Choose where to distribute Leads from; Parent, Corporate or even certain Branches or a Specific Account. This will tell the Distribution what location to Pull the leads from.

Priorities

This is Lead priority, what’s the most important type of Lead and how should it be pulled? Your business requirements or business practices come in to play heavily here, this allows the choice of what Leads are Pulled First.

• Grip Icons for drag and drop gives the ability to change priority easily

Pull Count – Lowest First OR Highest First – should Users pull Leads with the lowest Pull Count first or Leads with the Highest Pull Count first?

• Lowest Pulls = lowest amount of pulls per Lead – this means a Lead with the lowest number of Pulls will be called first; this is beneficial for those Leads that must meet a required amount of attempts to contact.
• Highest Pulls = highest amount of pulls per Lead – this means a Lead with the highest number of Pulls will be called first; this is beneficial for those Leads that need to have as many attempt contacts as possible.

Date Added – Newest First / Oldest First – should Users pull Leads that are newest or oldest in ClickPoint?

• Newest = New Lead – this means the newest leads added will be Pulled first
• Oldest = Older Leads – this means the oldest leads will be be Pulled first

Image 1.4 Priorities

Criteria

There are 3 pieces of Criteria you are required to edit and/or delete, in addition you will have the ability to add more Criteria.

DoNotPhone Equals ‘False’ – this will remain as criteria, as this protects your account from calling Leads which have marked themselves as Do Not Phone, this cannot be removed.

MaxAge Less than ’10’ – This dictates that maximum number of days a lead has aged to be eligible for pull. Example: As a User, I only want to talk to leads that have been added within 10 days.

System Status In ‘New Lead, Waiting and Contacted’ – Three System Status are used for Pull, if a Lead is in one of the following System Statues they are Pullable Leads by default; New, Waiting and Contacted. Edit this to change the System Status default by clicking on the Edit button (pencil icon).

Image 1.5 Criteria

Note: To allow unlimited, leave the Max limit empty (instead of setting numbered limits).

Click Add for additional Criteria

Field – Static Fields (fields that cannot be changed or edited, ClickPoint fields) or Lead Fields (these are the custom Lead fields specific to your Lead data)

Operator – In or Not In / Contains / Equals, this will determine what operation you are including with the criteria you are setting.

Value – select the value of what your criteria is, this is dependent on what Fields and Operators you are selecting.

Click OK to Save.

Image 1.6 Add Criteria

State Hours

Specify hours for every day of the week in each State, if State hours are not set or not added, All States will be callable at any time. To prevent Users from calling a Lead outside of legal State Calling hours you must set State Hours. If certain Users have permission (licensed in certain states and not others) to call Leads in certain States, Global Criteria can be used once the Recipient (User) has been added to the Distribution (see below in Recipients).

• Click Add to create State Calling Hours
• Once complete click Save
• Copy tool to allow copy from one distribution to another

Image 1.7 State Hours

Shifts

An additional tool is the ability to set up different Shifts for the Distribution. This is beneficial for those with varying Shifts or in a Call Center type environment. For example, if you have a team of Users that work Leads for a morning shift and other Users that work Leads for an afternoon shift you have the ability to separate these. This is not a necessary step for configuring Pull Distribution, however this is a great tool to use for specifics on Shift hours if needed.

• Select your Time Zone, this is the Time Zone where you are located
• Click the Add button, a box will display below to create the Shifts
• Name the shift, such as Morning, Afternoon, etc.
• Select your the Days of the week, as well as chose the Open and Close hours
• You can Add multiple Shifts
• Notice the Delete button, once you click Delete you will need to Save to completely delete the Shift.
• Once complete click Save

Image 1.8 Shifts

Recipients

• Click Add to create a Recipient (User) list for Distribution
• Add all Recipients required for Pull
• Ability to delete User easily
• Tool to create User Criteria (good for those who are licensed in certain States or those you’d like to segregate from regions or States)
• Filter tool for locating the User easily

Image 1.9 Recipients

Once complete with creating or editing/changing the Pull Distribution, you must always choose to Purge and Rebuild Queue or Rebuild Queue.

Purge and Rebuild Queue – Selecting this option will clear the queue of Leads, rebuild the queue with Leads and restrict leads for Pull during this process. Once the Leads have been cleared and new Leads are added to the queue, you can Pull; however, the amount of Leads available for Pull while rebuilding can be minimal, especially dependent on the number of Leads.

Rebuild Queue – Selecting this option will rebuild the queue and allow Leads for Pull during the Rebuild. Example: Changing or adding Criteria to Pull and allowing Leads with the prior Criteria for Pull, while the Leads with the new Criteria are being added to the queue

After selecting Purge and Rebuild or Rebuild Queue, a progress bar will display, should you have a large number of Leads, refreshing the page is recommended, especially if watching the progress status

Image 1.10 Rebuild Queue Buttons