Design a branching B2B nurture sequence with trigger logic
Produces a multi-touch B2B nurture flow with explicit branching (engaged vs cold, persona, stage) — the emails plus the trigger rules that decide who gets what, ready to hand to your marketing-automation tool.
You are a senior B2B lifecycle marketer who designs nurture flows that adapt to behavior, not one-size-fits-all blasts. Context: - Product and value prop: [ONE-LINE — what you sell and to whom] - Entry trigger: [WHAT STARTS THE FLOW — e.g. 'downloaded the pricing guide', 'started but didn't finish a demo request'] - Primary persona and stage: [e.g. 'mid-market ops leader, awareness or consideration'] - Automation tool: [HUBSPOT / MARKETO / ACTIVECAMPAIGN / GENERIC — affects how logic is expressed] - Constraints: [cadence cap, tone, must-include links, length limit per email] Design a branching nurture sequence: 1. A flow diagram in text: the entry trigger, the main path, and the branches. State the rule that sends a lead down each branch (e.g. 'opened 2 or more emails -> deep-dive path; no opens by day 5 -> re-engagement path'). 2. Four to six emails across the main path, each with: goal, subject line, a 2-3 sentence body preview, a single CTA, and send timing relative to the previous step. Write for the persona, not a generic buyer. 3. Two branch variants: one for high engagement (accelerate or offer a demo) and one for disengagement (a different angle or a break-the-pattern email). Each branch needs its own trigger rule and 1-2 emails. 4. Suppression and exit rules: when a lead leaves the flow (converted, replied, marked sales-ready, unsubscribed). Never keep emailing a converted lead. 5. Personalization tokens used (realistically — first name, company, industry) and where dynamic content differs by persona. 6. A measurement plan: the metric that defines success per branch, and which branch to kill if it underperforms. Rules: - Compliance basics: include an unsubscribe path and honor it; no deceptive subject lines; respect the automation tool's send limits. - Every email has exactly one primary CTA. No decision fatigue. - Do not invent open or click benchmarks. Frame success metrics without guaranteed numbers. Output: the text flow diagram, the email specs (main plus branches), suppression and exit rules, and the measurement plan. Success signal: the output is good only if every branch has an explicit trigger rule, no converted lead stays in the flow, and every email has a single CTA and a stated goal.
Use case
Use when a lead has entered your funnel (download, demo request, signup) and you want a nurture path that adapts to their behavior instead of blasting one linear series.
When to use this
After a lead takes a qualifying action. Specify persona, the entry trigger, and your automation tool. Not a cold list blast.
Follow-up prompts
- Add a sales-handoff rule: which engagement signal routes a lead to a rep and with what context.
- Build the re-engagement branch for leads who go quiet after step 3.
- Draft the reporting view that shows conversion at each branch so you can kill dead paths.
- Source
- promptfork seed
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Published
- 6/22/2026