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Two Minute Tuesday: Rollup “Call Plans”

In this week’s Two Minute Tuesday video, we’re looking at the ‘Plan’ feature in the Rollup lists, which combines the Rollup and Schedule into a valuable tool for tracking your phone call lists for sourcing and business development.

In this week’s Two Minute Tuesday video, we’re looking at the ‘Plan’ feature in the Rollup lists, which combines the Rollup and Schedule into a valuable tool for tracking your phone call lists for sourcing and business development.

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Video Transcript

Itā€™s time for another Two Minute Tuesday, Main Sequenceā€™s series of short videos with tips, tricks, and tutorials to help make you a more powerful PCRecruiter user.

One of the primary uses of Rollup Lists in PCR is to keep track of your calling plans. In this weekā€™s video, weā€™re going to look at the Plan feature, which helps you to keep track of who youā€™re planning to call each day, who you reached, and who you didnā€™t, by placing some or all of a list on your Schedule.

Every Plan starts with a Rollup list of contacts. Weā€™ve talked about Rollups in an earlier Two Minute Tuesday. To use the Plan, we need to properly configure the Stages on our Rollups. The ā€˜Configureā€™ option is in the Action menu at the upper right corner. Weā€™re going to work with the Stage Setup tab.

There are nineteen configurable Stages in Rollups, which you can use to track a variety of selection and ranking tasks. Weā€™ll discuss this screen in more depth in a future video, but the key item for this process is the ā€˜Merge Planā€™ column, which includes a simple Yes or No dropdown for each Stage. We want to set this to ā€œYesā€ for any Stage that requires future action ā€“ such as leaving a voicemail, or if the contact wasnā€™t able to chat when we reached them. Stages that are dead-ends, such as wrong numbers or lack of interest, can be left at the ā€œNoā€ setting.

Now that weā€™ve got that set, letā€™s walk through using the Plan. Hereā€™s a list of Developers in Chicago that I plan to call. There are 400 people on this list, and I want to try to reach 20 of them each day. Letā€™s see how the Plan feature can help.

First, weā€™ll select the current page, which contains 20 contacts. Now weā€™re going to use the ā€˜Planā€™ option in the Action menu. Here, weā€™ll select the date and a chunk of time in which we plan to try and reach these contacts. We can add notes about the project, a reminder alarm, and so on, before saving. If we click ā€˜Scheduleā€™ and view the desired date, weā€™ll find our Plan holding the selected time slot.

When itā€™s time to execute the Plan, weā€™ll click ā€˜Open Planā€™. We are now looking at the first selected subset of our Chicago Developers Rollup. Itā€™s the same Rollup List, and all of the records remain on the list, but this Plan view is filtered to show only this Planā€™s selected contacts. As we make the calls, we use our configured Stages to record the outcomes.

When weā€™ve contacted everyone, or when weā€™ve reached the end of the time weā€™d allotted, we select ā€˜Merge Planā€™ from the Action menu. Now we will see our Chicago Developers Rollup List, minus anyone who has been given a Stage with a ā€œNoā€ merge setting. Now, we can select a group of results from this filtered view and create a fresh Plan to schedule more calls.

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