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- Details how contact tags are assigned to contacts based on specific campaign actions or behaviors.
- Describes the benefits of tagging, including search, targeted campaign enrollment, and group management of contacts.
- Explains how to manage tags and their associated contacts, including adding, editing, deleting, and exporting tag data.
- Discusses using tags to enroll contacts in campaigns and segment audiences for targeted outreach.
A contact tag is an attribute that is assigned to a contact (recipient) from a campaign, based on a set of conditions having been met (e.g., they've clicked a link, submitted a Landing Page, accumulated over 100 points). Some examples of contact tags are "Engaged," "Prospect," and "Member."
NOTE: You can create as many contact tags as needed for your account. These tags can be used with Campaigns, Engagement Campaigns, and Landing Page Campaigns, and they can be managed on the respective Admin-interface pages.
Benefits of tagging
After a contact has been tagged, you can:
- Search for contacts who have been tagged. For example, in your Contacts > List, you can quickly find all contacts who share a tag.
- Use tags as criteria for campaign enrollment. For example, you can target all contacts with a specific tag to be invited to an upcoming webinar. This is easily achieved by using this tag as the enrollment option for your webinar campaign.
Manage tags
- Access the Admin interface.
- Navigate to Campaigns > List.
NOTE: You can also access your tags via Landing Pages > List or the Engagement page.
- In the upper right, click the gear icon and select Recipient Tags.
Use the resulting dialog to add, edit, and delete your account's tags and the contacts with those tags, as described in the sections that follow.
Create a tag
- Click Add new.
- In the next panel, give the tag a name and, optionally, a description.
- Click Save.
Edit a tag
- Select a tag and click Edit.
- In the next panel, update the name and/or description.
- Click Save.
Delete a tag
WARNING: This action is immediate and irreversible. You are not presented a confirmation and you cannot reverse a tag deletion.
- Select a tag and click Delete.
Manage a tag's contacts
Select a tag and click Show Contacts to access the list of all contacts who have been assigned that tag.
- View details: Select a contact and click Details to view the contact's details.
- View history: Select a contact and click History to view information about when this contact was tagged.
- Add to a group: Click Add All to Group to simultaneously add these tagged contacts to a group. In the resulting dialog, choose a group (or create one) and click Select. This makes it easy to quickly create groups of contacts based on your tags for use in campaigns.
- Export the list: Click Export to download a .csv file of the current list. Navigate to where you want to store the file, give it a memorable name, and click Save.
Tag contacts via a campaign
Tags can be assigned to contacts through a variety of campaigns. One of the most valuable use-cases is a Segmentation campaign, which allows you to tag users who perform a specified action. In the following example, all contacts who are in the NYC Members group and who open the Hello 1 message will be assigned the 3 - Member tag.
These contacts will be added to the list of contacts for the 3 - Member tag and can be managed as described in the previous section.
Enroll contacts based on tags
Contacts who have been assigned a tag can easily be enrolled in a campaign based on their having that tag.
- When creating or editing a campaign, select Contacts who receive a tag from the "who is in the campaign" dropdown.
- Click the Select Tag(s) link to open the selection dialog.
- Use the check boxes to select one or more tags; click Select.
NOTE: If you select one tag, its name will display. If you select multiple tags, "at least one of and the number of tags you selected" will display.