Drip Marketing Sync Contacts
In general, "Sync Contacts" is used to "Add", "Remove" and "Update" contacts in your
Drip Marketing campaigns. Swiftpage emarketing
gives you 3 options for "Syncing" your contacts from
your ACT! database to a drip marketing Campaign. Which one of these options you use
will depend on the status of your Drip Campaign and how you manage your contacts in ACT!.
Sync Contacts - Three choices:
Choice #1
Sync Data Only - This option is only available after contacts have been added to your drip campaign via "Add or Remove Contacts" or "Sync to Group".
"Sync Data Only" - Syncs both mail merge data and optional data fields. Mail merge data refers to any mail merge fields located in the email templates used in that particular Drip Campaign. Data fields refer to any fields being used for a "Database Compare" (which can be set in each Stage).
When you select the option to Sync Data Only, you will see the following confirmation screen. Clicking ok replaces the data in your online Drip Campaign with data in your ACT! database. This is a one-way sync.
Choice #2
Add or Remove Contacts - This option allows you to add contacts to or remove contacts from your Drip Marketing Campaign.
Choice #3
Sync to Group - This option "syncs" the contacts in your Drip Marketing Campaign with the contacts in any of your ACT! groups.