Einstein Engagement Scoring: A Journey towards Customer Engagement
Tags: einsteinengagement, salesforce, ai, marketingcloud
Published: 2024-02-15 11:15:29

## **Introduction**

The evolution of **Customer Relationship Management**(CRM),has come a long way with Salesforce's Einstein Engagement. From effective lead prioritization to  interactions which are personalized for each of the customers, it has achieved a new peak. The most basic ideology behind the Einstein Engagement scoring is facilitating the management and the sales team to understand and focus on the most promising potential customers which is achieved using the capability of **Artificial Intelligence**. In this blog, we will set out on a journey to understand about the Einstein Engagement Scoring - a transformative feature that will revolutionize the understanding on how this Engagement Scoring helps businesses in understanding and leveraging the customer engagement.

To begin with, the first question that comes to our mind regarding the Einstein Engagement Scoring is ,what is the special feature which helps it to surpass the most conventional Lead scoring approaches. The answer is, the combination of the machine learning algorithms which has the capability to understand the client interactions from each- and - every channel. To forecast the client engagement, it makes use of the sophisticated machine learning techniques along with the data analysis methodologies. And the outcome is an engagement score that facilitates a more  successful customer relationship management (CRM) process.

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**Exploring the Features**

**Einstein Engagement** is a composition of features which is mainly designed to understand the preferences and perceptions of the leads. It integrates seamlessly with the Salesforce CRM,  which offers an immediate understanding  which aligns with our business needs and objectives. These business objectives  can be explained better using the features that are explained below:-

## **Einstein Engagement Scoring Dashboard**

**1) For Email**

Einstein Engagement Scoring dashboard for Email is an user- friendly screen that displays how effectively the emails are working . This helps in understanding the customer interactions with the email. Using this customer interaction data such as email open rates, click-through rates, and other engagement metrics the machine learning algorithms assigns scores to different email interactions. Higher the scores indicates stronger engagement of the customers to the mails.


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**The features of dashboard are explained below:-**

**Predicted Email Engagement-** This  helps in forecasting how subscribers are likely to interact with emails in the upcoming next 7 days. Using this forecast subscribers are mainly categorized into 4 different personas, such as dormant/winback, window shopper, selective subscriber, or loyalist, which provides the insights into their engagement patterns.

**Subscriber retention Prediction-** This feature analyzes the likelihood of subscribers remaining subscribed to the email  over the next 7 days. 

**Email Open Prediction-** It predicts the chances of the subscribers to open an email within the next 7 days. The opening rates of the mails by the subscribers provides an understanding of the likelihood of the subscriber remaining subscribed to the emails.

**Email Click Prediction-** This feature estimates the likelihood of subscribers clicking on an email within the next 7 days. It helps in improving the email content which in turn helps in more effective email campaigns.

**Web Conversion Prediction-** It estimates the chances of the subscribers getting converted to leads, whether through making a purchase or downloading content, in the next 7 days.

**2) For Mobile**

Einstein engagement scoring applies the scoring method to analyze and assess consumer engagement on mobile devices. This involves user interactions and behaviors which utilize mobile platforms or applications to interact with the business.

In order to provide the insights on user interactions, sessions, and overall engagement inside the mobile environment, the scoring procedure has been modified to understand the characteristics which are associated with mobile engagement.

**The features of dashboard are explained below:-**

**Predicted App Engagement-** This is one all-inclusive indicator for assessing how users interact with a mobile application is predicted app engagement. It includes the time spent in the app, anticipated app sessions, direct opens, and inferred opens (views without clicking).

**Predicted App Sessions-** It makes an knowledge -based conclusion as to how many sessions a user will probably make in a mobile application. This predictive metric helps the companies in forecasting the frequency of user engagement and provides insightful information about the user behaviour.  

**Predicted Push Message Direct Opens-** It calculates the probability whether their audience would open a mobile app straight after receiving a push notification. It offers perceptions on how well the push alerts work to encourage instantaneous user interaction.

**Predicted Push Message Inferred Opens-** Even if the subscribers choose not to read the messages directly, it forecasts the likelihood that  consumers will access a mobile app within 24 hours of getting a push notification. This provides information about how the push notifications affect user engagement which is delayed.

**Predicted Time in App-** This number gives sales and marketing teams a general idea of how long the audience are likely to spend using their mobile application on average. It considers user engagement behaviors including the length of sessions, the frequency of the app opens, and the general usage patterns of the app.

## **Einstein Engagement Scoring Personas**

The Einstein Engagement Scoring Personas feature  assesses the customer's engagement with the brand and their likelihood of making a purchase. This analysis is done based on the contact's email engagement data over the past 90 days, taking into account the metrics like the number of emails sent, clicks, and opens. The Einstein Engagement Personas are categorized into distinct personas based on the  detailed number:-

**Window shoppers-** Subscribers who frequently peruse emails but seldom click are referred to as "window shoppers."

**Loyalists-** They are the most active subscribers, who are likely to click through and open your communications.

**Selective subscribers-** Subscribers that are selective are those who check emails less frequently but click on links more frequently when they do.

**Winback/Dormant-**  Subscribers with low click engagement and low open rates.

## Einstein Engagement Scoring Thresholds

"Audience Health" in Einstein Engagement Scoring measures the collective engagement of all the subscribers, based on the key performance indicators (KPIs). It categorizes the overall engagement quality across all subscribers into four categories:-

**Excellent-** A rating of "Excellent" denotes high levels of subscriber engagement, as evidenced by actions such as website conversions, link clicks, and email opens.

**Good-** While not at the top level, a "Good" score indicates a strong degree of subscriber involvement with active interactions indicating a healthy and good audience response.

**Fair-**  The engagement level of subscribers may be modest, suggesting room for improvement in terms of interactions and total engagement metrics.

**Poor-** "Poor" grade signals indicate difficulties in grabbing readers' attention and lower subscriber engagement levels.

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For understanding the whole concept of Einstein Engagement Scoring, let's analyze a Use- Case where we get to develop a customized email content for the three different personas: "Deal Seekers," "Frequent Shoppers," and "Occasional Buyers."

We will use Journey Builder for the above mentioned use-case, then drag and drop the Einstein Split activity into the Journey canvas. This will allow us to use Einstein Engagement Scoring data to group customers into meaningful journeys.

The four Persona Types that are accessible will help in deciding the division once we select the Persona Split. Clients will follow the route that corresponds with their Persona, which will enable us to tailor information and interact with them via the relevant channels.

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To be concluded , the Einstein Scoring Engagement lets us emphasize the  possibilities by incorporating artificial intelligence with email analytics, which not only determines  customer interest but also tailor the strategies for maximum impact enabling the marketers to cater to the personalization leads for more audiences and improve the customer experience leading to a significant outcome.

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