Segmenting contact lists allows you to divide your contacts into groups on the basis of specific, shared characteristics. This lets you create a target audience and makes sure your campaign reaches the right demographic. 

Here is our definitive guide to audience segmentation.

This article takes you through the process of segmenting your contact lists based on ‘User Properties’. These refer to the different properties or attributes that are recorded in your contact list.  

Step 1: Go to the Contacts Page

Step 2: Click on Create Segment

Step 3: Enter the name of your choice in the Name Segment field

Step 4: Use All Contacts or choose contacts of your choice to Segment from the Choose contacts to segment dropdown

Step 5: Choose Dynamic or Static Segment as per your requirement in the Select segment type section

Step 6: Choose User Property in the Select Condition drop down inside the Create Conditions section

Step 7: Choose the property on which you want to segment from the Select Property dropdown
 

Step 8: In the next step, select the operator as per your requirement and input the values required for the operation

Please note that all the properties will be stored as String by default and the operators available for Segmentation are as below

Step 9: Use the ‘+Add’ or ‘+Or’ options to add more conditions in a similar way

Step 10: Click ‘Create Segment’. The segmented contact list will appear in your contacts.