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Advanced Segment Configuration

What are Whitelist (aka White-List / White List) Segments used for 

• White-list allows you to ignore the inactive status (unsubscribe, hard bounce and complaint) of a contact, as well as ignore suppression lists, for a set of contacts (up to 100), in order to ensure that your internal staff/stakeholders will receive your email messages.
• Other than email, no other condition can be used in a Whitelist Segment.
• Whitelist segments can also be used for sending to 3rd party inbox delivery seed lists (e.g., Return Path, 250ok, and others). The reasons you'll want to enter those into a Whitelist segments, is that you want to ignore any accidental HB, Unsub (or complaint, less likely) of these email addresses, so that they will continue to be used for monitoring inbox placement.

How to Setup a Whitelist Segment  

• Under the Advanced Configuration of the Segment, simply check the 'Whitelist Segment' option:
  • You might want to check the optional "Include by default" option, which will include this segment by default to every campaign, so that your staff members/stake holders will receive a copy of each email message from each campaign you send from Ongage.
    

• Add the desired staff members/stake holders to this segment:
  
  
  
• Click 'Save'.
  
  
• If you chose not to include the segment by default, then you can always select it from the campaign configuration screen in the following manner:
  

Segment Quota aka Segment Sample

 Many users will typically find it more straightforward to use the Campaign Quota feature instead of this Segment Quota feature. For more about that, see Campaign Quota in our online Campaign help page.

• This option enables marketers to automatically include or exclude the currently edited segment, when creating a new campaign/event.  It will only apply to new campaigns or events.
  
• On the campaign configuration page you can always deselect this automatically selected segment.
  

Segmentation Examples

How to Create Segment that includes all members that registered in the last week and didn't open any emails:

• From "System Fields" select "Created date"
• In the criteria area select "less then" Relative 8 Days

• From "Behavioral: select "Opened"
• In the criteria area mark "Not Opened"
  

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How to Create Segment of all contacts that were successfully delivered to in the last week

Successfully delivered emails, are all those that were sent to and did not hard-bounce nor soft-bounce. Since hard-bounced are anyway automatically deactivated, and not sent to, a segment of all successfully sent to, will be – all "Sent" AND NOT "Soft Bounce":

 Note: successfully delivered to, does not necessarily mean, it reached their Inbox. For that we recommend monitoring behavioral opens and clicks as a KPI that infers on Inbox placement (and/or any other folder that recipients check their emails in).

How to Cool Down and Automatically Exclude Soft Bounces from the Last X Days

Intro

Typically such a Segment is used to "cool down" soft bounces for X amount of days, so as not to retarged them over and again on a daily basis, a practice that mailbox providers (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) consider to be poor practice and can lower your reputation.

X is typically set to 1-7 days, where many marketers will choose a value of 1-3 days.

How to Setup

New Segment >> Soft Bounce >> Select Time Range as per your use case (For Example “Less than or equal to 4 days”)

To automatically exclude these soft bounced contacts, check the following option and this segment will automatically be added to the exclude segments in the campaign configuration page. Even if you choose to automatically select this segment, in the campaign configuration page, you can still decide to deselect it if you like. 

How to Auto-Sunset Contacts using the Default Exclude Option 

Intro

The Auto-Sunset is a process of excluding non-active users from your mailings. This can be achieved in Ongage by creating a default exclude Segment which includes contacts in your list who have Not-Opened your campaigns in the last X days.

X is typically 10-90 days depending upon how strong you want to implement your Sunset policy. Many marketers will choose a value between 30-60 days.

How to Setup

• Go to Segments >> New Segment >> Behavioral >> Add Criteria of NOT OPENED in Last X Days, For example Not opened in “Less than or equal to 40 Days”.
• Also, you need to add another Criteria of SENT with "More Than X days" range, For example “SENT More Than 20 times in the past 40 Days”.
  
  
  
  
• To exclude the segment from all of your campaigns, you can do it by checking the Include/ Exclude Segment by default and Select the “Use this Segment in the “Exclude Segments” section by default”.
  
  
  

Behavioral Time Frames

All behavioral segmentation options contain following time frame options.

• Custom:The custom time frame allows you to select contacts Sent between any static date range along with time of the selected date. For example 20 February 00:00 to 25th April 00:00 OR 20 February 09:00 to 20 February 09:00.
  
  
  
• Less than or equal to: Indicates the time frame of Sent in last X days including the Xth day you have entered.
• Between: Indicates the time frame inside the indicated span. For example, Sent anywhere between 30 to 15 days/weeks/months ago.
• More than: Covers the time frame prior to the indicated X point in time. For example, Sent “More Than” 90 Days means all Sent occurred prior to 90 Days ago and backwards upto 2 years. It provides no information on what happened in period from present up until 90 days ago, so contacts in that latter time-frame might have been sent to or not.

Advanced Grouping Logic 

Check "Enable And/OR Grouping" to enable grouping criteria as illustrated in the expalantion of this feature. 

Add Criteria for OR  Values of the Same List Field

Built into any List Field criterion is the "Add Criteria" option, which enables marketers to indicate several OR values. So that there's no need to select the list field multiple times. Simply add all OR values diretly from the 'Add Criteria' button. This feature offers another shrotcut, if you have a bunch of values, instead of typing each one in, you can enter them in one line as comma separated values. You can do this for up to 1,000 values, anything  beyond that, you should use the External Segment Criteria feature described below.   

External Segment Criteria

 Not to be confused with external segments in section below, this is a CSV list of external criteria.

• External segment criteria is typically used for values like Zip Codes. Let's say you have a list of 10,000 Zip Codes that you'd like to target, you don't want to create a segment with 10,000 OR conditions.
• In such a case, compile all Zip codes into a CVS file, select the list field you'll use for the criteria,  and upload the CSV via the 'Browse' button.
  
• Also, one will typically want to uncheck the 'Case Sensitive' option.
•  This feature should typically not be used for emails (i.e., the email list field). If you want to target a group of emails (aka contacts) you uploaded, you could use the Import ID, or some other list field value that is common to that set of emails, e.g., state = NY or gender = female, etc.

What are External Segments

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