# Changing Lead Status in Workflow

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/changing-lead-status-in-workflow/127675>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\
**Tags:** professional\
**Created:** [March 10, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/changing-lead-status-in-workflow/127675 "2025-03-10T19:18:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BCygan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@BCygan](https://community.hubspot.com/u/BCygan)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/changing-lead-status-in-workflow/127675/1 "2025-03-10T19:18:09Z")

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I have a newsletter going out and a workflow to make each new contact a marketing contact, which changes their lead status to a lead in SFDC. Is there a way to not mark them as a lead for this form? By and large, we want the new contacts marked as a lead is they are set as a marketing contact, but in this case, we are only getting unqualified leads. We just don’t want them to show-up as a lead.

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**Author:** ![kennedyp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@kennedyp](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kennedyp)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/changing-lead-status-in-workflow/127675/2 "2025-03-11T00:33:20Z")

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Hi @BCygan! Welcome to the Community-- happy to have you here 😊

I understand that when you have a new contact fill out a form, a workflow will set them as a marketing contact. Subsequently, the contact’s Lifecycle Stage is also set to Lead. This syncs to Salesforce and sets them as a Lead in Salesforce as well. Am I following?

We need to clarify at what point we want the automation to stop. Do you want the contact set as a Lead in their HubSpot lifecycle stage and for that to _not_ sync to Salesforce?