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Segmentation is powerful feature that helps you to target a target audience based on their attributes and/or activities. Email marketing becomes very powerful when you send the right message, to the right person, at the right time. Therefore, we strongly recommend you to segment your audience based on their interests and activities to build a long-lasting successful email marketing operation.

There are two types of segments:

Segments work in realtime. When you setup a segment with one or many rules, the audience of the segment is calculated on-demand. For example, if you have a repeating campaign which gets executed every day at 9 AM and if that campaign targets a segment with “subscribers who have subscribed yesterday” rule, every time the campaign is executed, the audience will change based on the rule.

This makes segments very powerful and time saver for your high-precision targeted email campaigns.

Rules in segments are sequentially filtered. Below, you can see a diagram that represents how rules are structured and executed.

A segment can have one or many rules. These rules are connected to each other with “AND” or “OR” conditions.

For example; the following segment will target any subscriber with a Gmail address and from the United States:

Here’s another example segment which targets anyone from the United States or Canada with a gmail address:

In order to create a segment, login to the user area, click “Lists” on the top menu and go into any list you would like to create a segment. On the left side menu, click “Segments” link:

Click “Create” link to create a new segment and start setting up your segment.

The first thing you need to do is to name your segment. Make is enough explanatory for your own use.

Choose how to apply rule matching to your segment rules. Match “all rules” (which means AND operator) or Match “any rules” (which means OR operator). Here’s an example to both of these options:

Match “All Rules”

Match “Any Rule”

The next step is to set rules for your segment. You can set as many rules as you need:

Once you are done with your segment rules, click “Create” button and your segment will be ready to be used with your email campaigns.

Trailing segment is a segment based on dynamic rules. For example, “subscribers who have subscribed yesterday” is a trailing segment because every new day, it includes a different set of auto responders.

Some examples to trailing segments:

Below, you can see an example rule which targets anyone who has subscribed yesterday:

Here’s another segment which targets any subscriber who has opened an email at least 1 time in the last 30 days:

Trailing segments can contain both static rules (ex: email address contains “gmail.com”) and trailing rules (ex: subscribed yesterday). With the help of trailing segments, you can create evergreen email marketing campaigns that run forever.

You can enable randomizer for any segment by checking “Pick random audience matching the segment rules” option. Once it’s checked, Octeth will ask you the audience size to pick randomly:

Randomized segments can be very helpful to “experiment” your email campaigns on a smaller target segment audience. To maximize the effectivity of your experiments, these smaller groups are randomly picked.

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