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Segment your data using groups
Last updated on: October 9, 2024

Segmenting your contacts based on their interests, demographics or stage in the buying cycle is an essential way to send targeted messaging that brings better results. In Ontraport, you’ll use groups to segment your contacts.

Contact groups are based on tags as well as fields in contact records, and they’re dynamic, meaning they automatically update when the contact qualifies (or no longer qualifies) to be a member of the group.

Think about groups as saved searches: When you create a group, you’re setting up a search for all contacts that meet certain criteria and saving that search with a name so you can go back to it whenever you’d like.

Your groups use the terms “AND” and “OR” as well as negative conditions to search for the contacts you’d like to interact with. These terms are known as boolean operators. Here’s how they work:

Note, negative conditions must be connected by AND to properly exclude values.

Check out this video lesson on segmenting your data into groups.

Once you have a group created, you can select it and perform actions manually that will apply to everyone in the group, such as sending an email, adding/removing a tag, or adding them to a automation map.

Check out this video lesson on segmenting your data using groups.

Create a group

  1. To create a group, go to Contacts.
  2. Click on the Group dropdown menu and select New Group. Name the group.
  3. Select a group permission to limit who can view or edit the group.
  4. Click Add New Condition to start building your group.
    • Choose a contact field, condition, and value for each group criteria you add.
    • To add another field value to a group condition, hover over the condition to be added to and click the add value button.
    • To add another group condition, click Add New Condition
  5. Click Save.
  6. Verify that your new group contains the contacts you know meet the conditions.

Use Case #1

Let’s say you want to see a list of everyone in your database who’s from Canada or Mexico and is a client. You’ll set up your conditions like this:

  • “Country is equal to Canada OR Mexico”
  • “Contact Tags contains Client”

group condition example

Note, you’ll need to have created the Client tag to label which contacts are clients for this to work.

Use Case #2

If you want to create a group of appointments that only show you upcoming meetings and exclude appointments that already happened, you can use the “now” value in your condition. You’ll set up your condition like this:

  • “Appointment date and time on or after now”

now condition example

Share a group

group permissions view

To share a group so other users in your account can see it, adjust the permissions of the group using the dropdown. Select either "Everyone can view and edit" or "Only I can edit, everyone can view."


Delete a group

When you delete a group, you’re deleting your saved search conditions — your contacts will not be deleted.

  1. Go to Contacts and select the group you want to delete from the “Group” dropdown.
  2. Click Edit Group.
  3. Click Delete to confirm you want to delete your group.
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 Pro tips

Tip #1: You can copy your conditions to quickly add several similar rules. Hover over the condition you want to copy, then click .

Your copied condition will appear under your original where you can customize it to fit your needs.

Tip #2: Do not create groups with negative conditions connected with “OR.” Using “OR” with negative conditions will create overly broad groups that are not helpful for segmenting your contacts.

If you make a group with the conditions "State is not California OR Washington OR Oregon," all your contacts will be in that group.

This is because contacts in California fit the condition “State not equal to Washington” or “State not equal to Oregon.” Contacts in Washington fit the condition “State not equal to California” and so on. Contacts who live in other states also fit the condition because they do not live in any of the states listed in your negative group condition. The result is a group that does not filter any contacts because everyone fits the condition.

Tip #3: The group permissions “Everyone can view and edit” and “Only I can edit, everyone can view” share your group with other users in the account. Any changes to how you display your group’s data — new columns in List View or new fields in Card View — will need to be done manually.  

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