Data Management Best Practices – Populate State with Inferred State Information

[Brian_Law_MKTO]

Here is an example of a data management campaign to populate an empty State field with the Inferred State value. In this case I only wanted to populate the State field for certain countries. Simply remove Country and Inferred Country if you want to populate the State field for all countries. Notice I set the Source Type to Web form fillout since I wanted the Lead is Create trigger to only fire when the record is created via a web form.

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Populate State with Inferred State Value

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{{lead.Inferred State Region}}

If necessary you can use the ‘Add Choice’ logic in the Change Data Value flow step to change the abbreviation to the full name of the state. Remember to create two different campaigns and put the most popular states at the top as noted in this article for better system performance.

Notes:

• Run the campaign as a daily batch campaign if you don't need low latency.
• Information about using Inferred State.
• Information about using Inferred Country.

[Casey_Grimes]

Just a quick note: with mobile networks, the tower (and thus your resulting GeoIP) can bounce around a bit and throw things off. For instance, despite being in Philadelphia and not traveling to either, I've recorded my mobile IP coming out of New York and Boston in the past 60 days. It may be worth it to add an Interesting Moment or field to note that inferred regions are a best guess and not 100% accurate.