# Lead Pool Management **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\ **Tags:** best-practices\ **Created:** [March 26, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734 "2025-03-26T19:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stacks42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Stacks42](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Stacks42)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734/1 "2025-03-26T19:39:37Z")
I have a large list of contacts that I want to assign to an open lead pool. They haven’t been contacted in over 100 days. I have decided I will assign them to a default contact owner. However, none of them have lead records. Does it make sense to bulk create leads? Or has anyone have success with just leaving the contacts in the pool for reps to go in and work and create the lead manually right then? Otherwise the lead will just sit out there until someone starts to work it. But this could affect reporting and inflate the time sitting in the “new” lead stage. What do you guys think? ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734/2 "2025-03-26T19:55:48Z")
Hi @Stacks42, That mainly depends on what your goal is - do you want these contacts to be worked or not? If yes, create leads and make sure they’re followed up with. The fact that the time in a lead stage might go up is really just a way of measuring things. Whether you’re measuring the time or not doesn’t change that these contacts/leads aren’t currently being worked. So in my opinion this mostly depends on whether the sales team has the capacity to reach out these records and whether you want to make it a priority. Do you expect that that working these contacts will contribute to goal attainment? Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![Stacks42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Stacks42](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Stacks42)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734/3 "2025-03-26T20:22:26Z")
Good ideas, @karstenkoehler Some more context: They are previously qualified leads that got cold. We want the reps to be able to pick and choose a contact to call and then the contact record and lead would go in their name after a call or email is logged. But not including sequence emails. Feasible? ---
**Author:** ![Stacks42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Stacks42](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Stacks42)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734/4 "2025-03-26T20:26:23Z")
I’m not sure how I would keep them from going in and assigning them all to themselves or just mass enrolling them all in sequences or something… ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/lead-pool-management/128734/5 "2025-03-27T05:00:52Z")
@Stacks42 why let the reps pick at all, why not simply assign/rotate them to sales reps directly? That would seem like the fairest option to me.