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How to use Signals to detect intent?

Automatically detect opportunities and continuously feed your audiences, using intent signals.

Written by Cynthia Cazeres
Updated this week

Overview

Signals is La Growth Machine’s intent signal detection system.

Instead of starting from a static list or a one-off search, you start from an intent signal (an observable event) combined with a clear persona (your ICP criteria).

LGM then detects new leads that trigger these signals and automatically adds them to your selected audience.

Key benefits

  • Time savings. No more recurring manual research and checks

  • Better timing. Reach out when intent is strongest

  • More relevant leads. Strict persona. Real signal. Less noise

  • Always fresh audiences. Continuous import. Your sequences never run dry

How Signals works

The concept

A Signal = an intent trigger.

Example. A job change, an interaction on a post, an event registration, a visit to key pages, a form submission, or entering a CRM list.

LGM detects these signals, filters them using your ICP criteria, then adds the right leads to your audience.

You define:

  1. A signal type (what triggers it).

  2. A persona (who you target).

  3. A destination audience (where leads are added).

  4. Exclusions (to avoid duplicates, existing customers, already contacted leads).

Then, LGM continuously detects and automatically imports new matching leads.


How to set up a Signal

Before you start

  • Have an Identity ready in LGM.

  • Define the audience that will receive the leads.

  • Choose the intent signal that best fits your use case.

Step 1. Start the setup

  1. Go to Audience.

  2. Click Create an audience.

  3. Select Configure a signal.

Step 2. Choose the intent signal

Select the signal type you want to activate, for example:

  • Event participation

  • Post-engagement

  • New opportunity in my company followers

  • Job change

  • Recently hired

  • New opportunity in your network

  • ICP match

  • Hot leads

  • Website visit

  • Form submission

Step 3. Choose the identity

  • In Identity to use to import, select the identity.

Step 4. Define your persona

Choose targeting criteria to ensure lead quality. In V1:

  • Job title

  • Function

  • Seniority

  • Industry

  • Company size

  • Location

Step 5. Enable auto-enrichment

  1. In Enrichment, enable Auto-enrich my leads if you want enrichment at import.

  2. Choose the level you want. Example Full enrich and Verified Emails, depending on your setup.

Step 6. Exclude unwanted leads

Enable exclusions if needed:

  • Skip already contacted leads

  • Skip leads in Hubspot list (or your CRM equivalent)

Step 7. Choose the destination audience

  1. In Import leads in, select an existing audience.

  2. Or create a new one.

Step 8. Confirm

Click Create Signal. Then, every new lead that triggers the signal and matches your persona is automatically added to the audience.


Types of intent signals

1) Change signals

Job change

Detects leads who have just changed roles. Great timing to start a useful conversation.

Example opener. “New role. New context. What are you trying to optimize first?”

Recently hired

Targets leads who have been in their role for less than a year. They are often in audit and optimization mode.

Example opener. “After a few months, you see what really blocks progress. Are you reviewing your processes right now?”

New opportunity in my network

Identifies job changes among your 1st-degree LinkedIn connections. Trust already exists.

New opportunity in your company followers

Identifies job changes among your company followers.

2) Engagement signals

Like and comment a post

Automatically imports new leads who engage with a specific LinkedIn post, as long as they match your ICP.

Register for an event

Continuously captures new registrants to a LinkedIn event, filtered by your ICP.

New followers in my company followers.

Detects prospects who follow your company page or show active curiosity. The context is already “warm”.

Hot leads

Detects leads who visited your profile and match your persona.

3) ICP match signals

New lead matches my persona

Continuous monitoring of Sales Navigator criteria. As soon as a profile matches your strict criteria (promotion, company size change, etc.), it gets imported.

4) Inbound signals

Website visit

Imports prospects who visit key pages on your website, depending on your integration.

Form submission

Imports prospects who submit a form, depending on your integration.


Best practices

Pick a signal that matches your goal

  • Outbound “timing”. Job change or Recently hired

  • Outbound “engagement”. Post-engagement or Event participation

  • Inbound. Website visit or Form submission

  • Sales ops. Dynamic CRM lists

Segment audiences by intent

One audience. One signal. One message.

Example. A “Job change” audience should not use the same angle as a “Form submission” audience.

Keep exclusions enabled

Enable Skip already contacted leads and CRM exclusions to avoid duplicates.


Availability

Signals is currently in Bêta for all our users.

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