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Advanced Outreach - dropping campaign recipients timely


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We have several campaigns running now with Advanced Outreach (AO). Some are sequential email campaigns. Some are 3 steps sends with some logic to resend or escalate key correspondence when the recipient does not read.



Challenged to ensure all is fine with GDPR, we did some testing and confirmed that the list of recipients remains constant through-out an outreach. As a result, while we may get a demand from the recipient to be removed from our mailing list, this person will continue to receive the rest of the AO unless we manually drop the recipient. For example:



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day 1                                     day 8                                day 15

Mail letter 1                if not read, mail again              if not read, escalate to CSM



Say the power list contains 10 people. Mail 1 goes out.

On day 5, 1 person opts-out 

Even though the power list is refreshed daily at a specific time (before the run is not available for AO), the person continues the cycle until it ends



We need to manually intervene to drop the recipient for this person not to receive further mail



Are there any plans of improving AO so it refreshes truly the participants status?

Or is the solution to build single step AOs with dependencies between them?



This manual process is so prone to errors/delays that would could get us penalties.
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Best answer by abhishek_sivaraman 26 May 2018, 08:35

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I understand that the first set of recipients gathered in AO are used to the exception of those who opt-out via the link presented on the email. It does not matter if in the meanwhile, some selection criterias are no longer respected.



Thank you Abhishek for the workaround. As we have 3 variables to respect and soon a 4th one, and testing opens, you can appreciate the complexity of the resulting outreach. We want the emails to take place at regular intervals and no sooner. We are forced to insert waits in between each tests as adjacent conditional waits are not allowed. I am concerned about hitting an unexpected limit as we rebuild our larger campaigns... can you advise on the limit?



As discussed with Alex and Steve Friday, enhancing AO for the ability to identify variables to respect all the way through the AO run would be a great solution.
Hi Diane,



Just to follow up and give an alternate solution in case you dont use Unsubscribed emails from Gainsight as the criteria and have some other field which maintains the value , you can take the following steps - 



Let us assume that you have a field on the contact object "isGDPRCompliant" which is updated whenever someone opts out manually from your emails. In order to solve the use case you have listed above, you can configure a journey as below



Use Case is the same as you have mentioned above - 

day 1                                     day 8                                day 15

Mail letter 1                if not read, mail again              if not read, escalate to CSM







a. As part of Source Configuration , use the field isGDPRCompliant to bring in the contacts who qualify for the journey. This will ensure the first email Mail Letter 1 will go appropriately to the customers



b. Wait for 8 days by setting a delay timer.



c. Use a conditional wait and create a calculated field. Calculated Fields are used to refer the value of the variable live in the journey and take appropriate actions based on the value at that point of time. More details can be found here.



Define a calculated field - 





Use it in conditional wait and set a timer of 30 minutes.





d. What this does is that it checks for the participant is GDPR Compliant or not . If yes, the next email is sent , if not the participant journey ends.



e. If the second email is not read, then configure condition to escalate to CSM either via email or CTA and then end the journey



Hope it helps! If you are facing issues , let me know I can jump on a call to help regarding this.



Thanks

Abhishek S
Hi,



When a user/contact unsubscribes from emails , then we do not send emails to the user/contact and they are part of Unsubscribed emails object. How does the opt out happen in this above scenario which you mentioned?



Thanks

Abhishek S

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