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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How to create and target segments created in your CRM

Updated over 2 weeks ago

You can use Outfunnel to sync all contacts or a sub-section of contacts from any of the supported marketing platform, database app or CRM to another app. Outfunnel uses the connected app's built-in segmenting functionality and we call these contact sources.

Contact sources per app

  • Pipedrive: person filters

  • Hubspot: active and static lists

  • Copper: tags, contact types, lead statuses

  • Mailchimp: lists, tags, segments

  • Klaviyo: lists, segments

  • Brevo: lists, segments

  • ActiveCampaign: lists, tags, segments

  • Mailerlite: groups, segments

The basics of segment-based data syncing

  • Any new contacts that match the source segment get synced to the destination app (ie a list or just to the general database)

  • Any contacts that get removed from the source segment are removed from the list/unsubscribed from the target app. Outfunnel does not delete contacts.

  • Fields changes are synced as long as a contact matches the source segment

  • Data syncs over at different intervals. Read more

  • Recently created segments. When you create a new segment in your app, click on Refresh list in the segment selection dropdown to see it. It make take up to a few minutes for it to show.

  • Multiple email address logic. If a contact in the CRM that matches the segment has multiple email addresses associated with them, Outfunnel will only use the primary email address (the first one from the list). If you'd like to use a different email address, please make sure to change the order of the addresses on the contact.

How to set up segments

Pipedrive

In Pipedrive terminology, segments are called filters. Outfunnel supports Pipedrive People filters where you can use person, organization, deal, and activity fields as conditions, giving you powerful control over creating segments (organization or deal filters are not supported). For example, you could create filters that show you:

  • People who work in the software industry and have open deals

  • All clients who have not had any activities recorded for the past 3 months

  • All people who have an active deal in a specific stage and are based in New York

For example, the People filter below lists all contacts with an open deal in a specific pipeline and stage, and with the Organisation industry in Real Estate.

💡 Make sure the filter visibility is set to Shared (and not Private)

HubSpot

In HubSpot terminology, segments are called lists. With HubSpot lists you can use person, company, deal, and 3rd party application fields as conditions, giving you powerful control over creating segments. For example, you could create lists that show you:

  • People who work in the software industry and have open deals

  • All clients who have not had any activities recorded for the past 3 months

  • All people who have an active deal in a specific stage and are based in New York

Please note that there are two types of lists in your HubSpot account: active lists and static lists.

  • Active lists automatically update their members based on its criteria.

  • Static lists are snapshots of the contacts who meet a set criteria at the point when the list is saved.

Copper

If you use Copper CRM you can sync contacts that match a specific Contact tag, Lead Status or Contact Type

For example, you could:

  • Focus your top-of-funnel marketing content on fresh leads, by targeting new, unqualified leads

  • Create an agency-focused campaign and target them with relevant content

  • Target all leads that are “ultra-valuable”

This gives you a lot of flexibility to create segments based on your preferred workflow within Copper, particularly when paired with Copper’s workflow automation feature - which we'll dive into further down.

The simplest way to start segmenting your contacts it to apply any of the segmentation options (contact tag, contact type or lead status) manually. You can do this one-by-one, in bulk via the interface, or in bulk when you're importing contacts.

Before diving into using any of these though, we strongly suggest you take the time to define your workflow - whether you're going to be using automation or not. Make sure you’re really clear about:

  1. What each lead status represents (and whether you’re going to use leads at all in Copper) – perhaps each status represents a stage in the qualification/disqualification pipeline?

  2. What each contact type means – for example, each contact type could be show potential vs existing customer, or maybe the type of business.

  3. What you’re going to use tags for – a top tip here is: keep the list manageable and the tags themselves short and sweet

If you wanted to automate part of the segmentation process, you’ll need to use Copper’s workflow automation tool (note that workflow automation is available on with professional and business plans).

For example, you could tag all leads worth over $1m as “tag1” and then use that as a segment in Outfunnel. In Copper, you could create the segment by adding tags like this:

Once active, this workflow automation will then check the value of each lead and, if it’s >$1m, it’ll tag it as “tag1”.

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