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title: "What is lead scoring? Definition & how it works | bl1nk"
description: "Ranking leads by how likely they are to convert, so a team follows up with the hottest prospects first."
url: https://bl1nk.co/glossary/lead-scoring
language: en
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# What is lead scoring?

Definition

Lead scoring ranks leads by how likely they are to buy, usually as a number or a Hot/Warm/Cold label. It combines who the lead is (role, company, fit) with what they did (profile visits, link clicks, replies) so your team spends its time on the prospects most likely to convert.

Lead scoring exists because attention is finite. When a rep has fifty new contacts, working them in random order wastes the best ones. A score imposes priority: it blends fit signals (seniority, company size, industry match) with behavioral signals (how engaged the person has been) into a single ranking of who to call first.

Traditional lead scoring relied on manual point rules set up in a CRM: brittle, and rarely maintained. AI-based scoring learns from patterns across engagement data instead, updating as a contact re-engages. A lead that revisits your profile or clicks a pricing link can move from Warm to Hot automatically, surfacing the timing that a static rule would miss.

Scoring is only as good as the data feeding it, which is why capture and enrichment matter first. Once every lead is captured with context and enriched with firmographic detail, scoring can rank them meaningfully, and a team can act on a prioritized list instead of an undifferentiated pile.

More terms

- [NFC business card](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/nfc-business-card)
- [vCard](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/vcard)
- [QR business card](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/qr-business-card)
- [Trade-show lead retrieval](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/trade-show-lead-retrieval)

## Related terms.

- [Lead capture Collecting the contact details of someone who showed interest, at the moment they show it, into a system you can act on.](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/lead-capture)
- [Contact enrichment Automatically filling in missing details about a contact (company, role, industry, seniority) from a name or email.](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/contact-enrichment)
- [Digital business card An online profile that holds your contact details and links, shared by NFC tap, QR code, or a link, and updatable any time.](https://bl1nk.co/glossary/digital-business-card)
- [Glossary NFC, vCard, lead capture, explained.](https://bl1nk.co/glossary)

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