Browse Contacts

The iContact Email Marketing software's "Browse Contacts" feature is very straightforward. This function allows you to take a look on the email addresses included in your list(s). The "Browse Contacts" page should also allow you to edit each contact's profile and view their history. A contact's history contain information such as when the contact was added to list(s), sent messages, bounced messages, and so on. This page should also allow you to do certain functions like (or put the contacts to a certain status) "Copy", "Move", "Unsubscribe", "Delete", "Export", "Do not contact".


01. To go to the "Browse Contacts" page you must first click on the "Contacts" tab, which should take you to the "Contacts" tab page. A dark blue bar should also appear just below the "Contacts" tab that you just clicked, and should give you more options; "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms"
02. Clicking on this "Browse Contacts" option should bring you to your iContact Email Marketing software's "Browse Contacts" page.
03. This portion provides you a drop down selection to choose which list(s) or segment(s) you want to browse.
04. This part should display some sort of summary about the total number of contacts you have in your account. How many of them are subscribed, got bounced, placed themselves in "Do Not Contact", and so on.
05. A convenient "display limiter" that allows you to set the number of contacts you want to iContact Email Marketing software to display for browsing. At the time of this writing, it gives you option to display 20, 50, 100, or 200 contacts at a time.
06. Just below the "display limiter", the contacts are display along with information such as first names, last names, the date they were added to the list you are browsing.
07. Left pane shows the email addresses of your contacts.
08. This is the icon for the "Edit Contact Profile". Clicking on this icon takes you to a page where you can modify your contacts' first name, last name, and so on.
09. This is the icon for the "View Contact History". Clicking on this icon takes you to a page where you see when your contacts were added, if they unsubscribed, and so on.
10. This part shows the "Actions" that you can do to your contacts' information.

The Contacts Tab

A number of cool features can be tapped when you access the "Contacts" tab. Features such as lists creation, contact search, adding contact(s) to one or more lists, segments creation and more. The "Contacts" tab is the second mostly clicked tab in your iContact Email Marketing Software.


You may access the "Contacts" tab by clicking on the upper part of your iContact Email Marketing Software where it shows "Contacts". This should be in between the "Home" and "Email" tabs.


01. This is the link that you need to click to take advantage of the features the "Contacts" tab contain.
02. The "My Lists" portion takes you to a page that would allow you to view or create list(s).
03. The "Add Contacts" takes you to that part in your iContact Email Marketing software that will allow you to upload your contacts' email addresses or create a sign-up form for your Facebook or HTML-based websites.
04. This "Search My Contacts" category allows you to go to that part in your iContact Email Marketing software to search for a specific email address by typing it on a search box, or browse the email addresses contained in your list(s).
05. "My Segments" would then allow you to go to a page where you can create or edit your iContact Email Marketing software segments. Segments are a powerful tool for targeting specific subscribers.
06. The dark-blue bar that gives you the options under the "Contacts" tab. As of this writing, it shows "Lists", "Add Contacts", "Browse Contacts", "Search Contacts", "Segments", "Sign-up Forms".




To wrap things up, the "Contacts" tab is what you will most likely access if you are doing these tasks:

• Browse your list(s) and its respective contacts.
• Create / edit / delete your list(s).
• Create / edit / delete segments.
• Create sign-up forms that you can use with your Facebook or HTML-based websites. Other platforms like WordPress would need a third party widget / API.
• Edit your contacts' personal information such as first nasme, last names, and so on.
• Search a contact by typing in their email address.
• Upload the email addresses of your contacts to any list(s) of your preference.
• View your contacts' history.

Segments

The iContact "Segments" page is where you create your segments. Segments are a powerful tool for targeting specific subscribers. You use segments to create targeted lists based on subscriber data. For example, you would like to send different email messages / newsletters to your male and female contacts but all of them (male and female contacts) are in just one list. Let's say these are your contacts' email addresses:

Male Contacts	Female Contacts
abc@abc.com	wxy@wxy.com
bcd@bcd.com	xyz@xyz.com

If these email addresses are all contained in just 1 list, and (as mentioned above), to send a different email message for male contacts (abc@abc.com and bcd@bcd.com) and for female contacts (wxy@wxy.com and xyz@xyz.com) you can either create 2 separate lists and move them to the list that represent their genders or create some custom field and segments that will accomplish the task for you. This is just an overview on what you can expect from this cool iContact Email Marketing software feature.


The "My Segments" page can be accessed by clicking on the "Contacts" tab and choosing the "Segments" option that is located on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab, represented respectively by the 01 and 02 below.


01. The iContact Email Marketing Software "Contacts" tab.
02. The "Segments" option located on the dark blue bar just below the "Contacts" tab.
03. This is the part where you will see all the segments that you have created.
04. This "Create A New Segment" button is the one to click should you need to create a new segment.