Streamlining PQL Lead Scoring with Coefficient and AI

Last Modified: August 21, 2023 - 6 min read

Hannah Recker
How to Streamline PQL Scoring with Coefficient and GPT

In sales and marketing, knowing your leads and their behaviors is critical. PQL scoring is a method that helps businesses identify leads who have shown buying intent by engaging with your product.

But the intricate process of data analysis and the task of attributing a Product Qualified Lead (PQL) score can be intimidating because of the following:

  • Scattered data across multiple systems, making it difficult to gain a comprehensive view of leads.
  • Time-consuming processes that delay insights and slow down decision-making.
  • Lack of product engagement activity used in traditional lead-scoring methods, leading to missed opportunities and a seemingly heavy lift required to shift to PQL scoring.

Whether your company is solely focused on product-led or attempting to experiment with a product-led motion, you’re in luck. PQL scoring can actually be fairly simple and implemented today.

This blog post will guide you on how you can utilize Coefficient and AI to compute a PQL score from your database and directly load it into your CRM, so your team can focus efforts on the highest potential leads.

How-to-Guide: Streamlining Product Qualified Lead Scoring

Coefficient is a free Google Sheets add-on that allows you to connect your business systems to Google Sheets and sync real-time data into your spreadsheet.

Before you start cleaning your data, install Coefficient.

Open Google Sheets. Click Extensions in the top ribbon and select ‘Add-ons’ -> ‘Get add-ons.’

get the coefficient extension

Input “Coefficient” in the Google Workspace Marketplace search menu and select the Coefficient app.

install the coefficient data connector from the workspace marketplace

Click ‘Allow’ to grant Coefficient access to your Google account.  

grant coefficient permission to access your account

Return to your spreadsheet menu and start Coefficient by clicking Extensions -> Coefficient -> Launch.

Launch Coefficient from your spreadsheet

Now you can start pulling data from your database into Google Sheets. In this example, we’ll pull Snowflake data into Google Sheets. Click ‘Import from…’ on the Coefficient sidebar to do this.

select your data source

Select Snowflake as your data source.

choose snowflake as your data source

Provide the required credentials to set up the Google Sheets Snowflake connection.

log into snowflake

Coefficient lets you connect Snowflake to Google Sheets through two main methods: Tables and columns or through custom SQL queries.

Note: In this example, we’ve already imported our data. Check out this blog for a full tutorial on how to export your Snowflake Data into Google Sheets.  

Once the data is imported, we’ll create a formula to calculate the PQL score based on the lead’s activities using GPT Copilot’s Formula Builder.

calculate PQL score following lead activities

Select ‘GPT Copillot’ from the Coefficient menu.

select gptcopilot from the menu

Click ‘Formula Builder.’

select formula builder

Next, we’ll describe the formula we want the Formula Builder to create for us, using three variables: Last_Login_Data, Imports_Created, and Shared_Reports.

In our example, we’ve assigned a scoring system:

  • If a user in the activity database has logged in, created an import, or shared a report, their PQL Score will be 5.
  • If they’ve only logged in and created an import without sharing a report, their PQL score will be 3.
  • If they’ve only logged in without any activity, their PQL score will be 1.
  • If they haven’t done anything, their score will be 0.

Describe the criteria to the Formula Builder using the text box: “calculate a PQL score that looks to see whether column C3, D3, and E3 are empty. If all three columns are empty, then PQL score is 0. If two of the three columns is blank, then the PQL score is 1. If one of the three columns are blank, then PQL score is 3. Otherwise the PQL score is 5. Source dataset is in ‘Product Activity by Customer’!A3:E3.”

Click ‘Build.’

describe the formula you want to build

Copy and paste the formula into the empty cell below ‘PQL Score.’

copy the formula and paste it into the menu

Click the checkmark in the pop-up to apply the formula to the entire column automatically.

accept the autofill to apply the formula to the column

Now that you’ve calculated the PQL score, you’ll want to export the data to Salesforce so your Sales Team knows which leads are the most promising and should be prioritized.

In this example, our Salesforce contacts are in the second tab of our sheet alongside a blank column without any PQL Scores, indicating we need to update this information in Salesforce.

open the salesforce contacts tab

Now, we’ll use the Formula Builder to create a formula that will connect our data sets by Contact ID: “Look up a Snowflake User’s Salesforce Contact ID by using their Snowflake User ID to return the Salesforce Contact ID. The Snowflake User ID is on tab Product Activity by Customer in cell A3. The Salesforce Contact ID is on tab ‘ Salesforce Contacts’ in column B.”

Click ‘Build.’

use the formula builder to connect the two tabs

Copy the formula and paste it into the empty cell below ‘Salesforce ID.’

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copy and paste the formula in the open cell

Accept the suggestion to autofill the entire column once more.

accept the autofill once more

Now let’s export this data to Salesforce to update the PQL score.

Return to the Coefficient menu and click ‘Export to…’

now export the data to salesforce

Click ‘Salesforce’ as the source.

choose coefficient as your destination

Select â€˜Row 2’ in the Header row dropdown.

select the header rows

Select ‘Contact’ as your object and ‘Update’ as your action and click ‘Next.’

choose contact as your object

Scroll down to the Salesforce ID in the Field Mappings menu.

map each field accordingly

Map the Salesforce ID to ‘Contact ID.’

map salesforce pql score and contact ID

Click â€˜Next.’

click next

Confirm your information is entered correctly, and click â€˜Export…’

confirm your data is correct and click confirm

Choose to update ‘All rows on sheet’ and click â€˜Next…’

update all rows on sheet

Wait for your data to update.

wait for your data to update

Click ‘Done’ when the update is complete.

Return to the Salesforce Contacts tab to verify the update.  

check the salesforce tab to confirm the update

Click ‘Refresh’ at the top of the screen.

click refresh to confirm pql score update

And with just a few clicks and the Coefficient Formula Builder, you’ve analyzed Snowflake product activity to assign a PQL score and upload it to Salesforce.

pql score is now updated in salesforce

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Effortlessly Prioritize Leads Using Coefficient and ChatGPT to Calculate a PQL Score

With the combined power of Coefficient and GPT, analyzing data to assign leads a PQL score has never been easier. Plus, you can seamlessly push these updates to Salesforce in just a few clicks without leaving your spreadsheet.

Ready to get started? Install Coefficient for free today and see firsthand how it can streamline your marketing and sales Operations.

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Hannah Recker Growth Marketer
Hannah Recker was a data-driven growth marketer before partying in the data became a thing. In her 12 years experience, she's become fascinated with the way data enablement amongst teams can truly make or break a business. This fascination drove her to taking a deep dive into the data industry over the past 4 years in her work at StreamSets and Coefficient.
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