Lead Enhancement Module Contactability Scoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Businesses face challenges in acquiring accurate and complete contact information for potential customers, leading to increased costs and reduced effectiveness in converting leads due to incomplete or incorrect data, as well as duplicate entries across multiple lead lists.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a lead enhancement module that processes lead records by validating data, appending additional information, and determining contactability scores through multiple data sources to improve the accuracy and uniqueness of contact information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If businesses acquire leads from multiple sources including marketing efforts and lead brokers, then the quantity of potential customers increases, but the accuracy and completeness of contact information deteriorates due to incomplete or incorrect data and duplicate entries

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of leadsVSAvoidaccuracy of contact information
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary validation and enhancement of lead records before they are used for contact attempts. By pre-processing leads to verify contact information, check for duplicates, and enrich data from multiple sources, the system ensures high accuracy is achieved before the critical contact action, resolving the contradiction between acquiring large quantities of leads and maintaining contact information accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The lead enhancement module acts as an intermediary between raw lead acquisition and contact execution. This intermediate processing layer validates, deduplicates, and enriches lead data, serving as a buffer that maintains data quality regardless of the volume or source diversity of incoming leads

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If businesses attempt to contact all leads in lead lists, then the coverage of potential customers increases, but the productivity decreases due to contacting duplicate leads multiple times and wasting resources on invalid contact information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoverage of potential customersVSAvoidefficiency of contact operations
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and removes duplicate lead records from lead lists before contact operations. By identifying and eliminating redundant entries through duplicate detection algorithms that compare lead records across multiple sources, the system ensures each potential customer is contacted only once, maintaining full coverage while eliminating wasteful重复 contact attempts

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where contact results are fed back into the lead database to update lead status and prevent future duplicate contact attempts. This feedback loop continuously improves productivity by learning from past contact outcomes and adjusting subsequent contact strategies accordingly

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8135607B2System and method of enhancing leads by determining contactability scores
Publication Date: 2012.03.13 EXPERIAN MARKETING SOLUTIONS INC
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AI summary

A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. In one embodiment, the client specifies which of a plurality of enhancements should be applied to lead records received from the particular client. In one embodiment, the lead enhancement module returns a contactability score for each lead record, indicated a likelihood that the individual identified in the lead may be contacted using the contact information provided in the lead record and/or additional contract information located by the lead enhancement module. In one embodiment, data items associated with the individual that are returned to the client are selected based on a vertical market of the client. In one embodiment, custom models that are defined on a per client basis are applied to lead records that are received from the particular client.