contacts in cc get 'lead status' automaticaly

[purdeyh]

Whenever contacts put other/new contacts in the cc, they are created as a new contact in Hubspot. This is a great feature. But these contacts are created as a 'lead'. I think it's better to created them as a different status, for instance as a 'subscriber'? Do you agree?

[nicolebrenner · Accepted solution]

Hi @purdeyh, thanks for the feedback. The "Log in CRM" feature will add new contacts as a lead because that is the first step in Lifecycle stages. 

If you'd like to adjust this for all of those contacts, I would recommend making a filter for "Original Source Drill-Down 2 contains BCC_TO_CRM" 

This will allow you to isolate those contacts, and you can then bulk edit their lifecycle stage. It's a little extra work, but will help you quickly and efficiently update the lifecycle stage of these contacts. 

I hope this recommendation helps! 

[Saper]

How does this help with the CC emails? Are contacts created from CC emails also tagged under "BCC_TO_CRM"? I don't think so. As of this discussion https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Prevent-CC-d-email-addresses-from-being-created-as-co... there is apparently no way of filtering contacts created from CC emails or preventing creation of them in the first place.

And frankly, one thing that is extremely frustrating on this forum is to see the HubSpot product team or the moderators coming up with completely irrelevant solutions to very real problems rather than focusing on the issue and coming up with a real resolve.

[jj12stars]

I can set up this filter, but how do I keep them from being synced to Salesforce? 

[jennysowyrda]

Hi @jj12stars,

Have you set up a salesforce inclusion list? This will ensure that only the contacts you want synced to salesforce are. 

Thank you,

Jenny

[purdeyh]

Thanks Nicole,

This is very helpfull!

Purdey