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How do conditions work?

If-campaigns — campaigns with conditions — give you more freedom to create follow-up sequences determined by a chosen criterion.

Weronika Wróblewska avatar
Written by Weronika Wróblewska
Updated over a year ago

With If-campaigns, we divided the process of creating a campaign into 3 parts:

1. PATH - create a sequence of emails
2. PROSPECTS - import and add your recipients
3. SUMMARY - preview and send or save the campaign

3 steps of campaign editor: Path, Prospects and Summary

Moreover, we introduced features that help you manage your campaigns for better results:

Condition — determined which email sequence will be sent to prospects who opened your message and those who didn't

Path YES and Path NO — depending on the action a prospect takes, they will be sent a respective follow-up sequence

Updated follow-up settings — send your follow-ups also within hours after your previous email was sent

NONRESPONSIVE — a local status that is assigned to prospects who don't respond to any message within that campaign


Step 1: Create a Path

Here you can read what features you can use to enhance your campaign's performance.

ADD CONDITION

You can add one condition at any place in your email sequence. This condition splits your Path into another two: Path YES and Path NO.

Simply put, now you can decide what email your prospects will receive next. If the prospects perform the action determined by the condition, Woodpecker will send them emails from Path YES. If not, then Woodpecker will send the sequence from Path NO.

What is the condition?

A condition defines the action your prospect takes, which triggers the next email from your sequence to be sent.

Gif with choosing the values for condition

So if your prospect does A → Path YES starts. If a prospect doesn't do A, as expected → Path NO begins.

There are 4 types of conditions to choose from:

Open-based

  • If a prospect has opened an email more than X times — specify how many times (X) you want a prospect to open your email for a condition to be met. X stands for the number and it can be changed.

  • If a prospect has opened an email once — it's enough that a prospect opened your email at least once for a condition to be met.

Click-based

  • If a prospect has clicked on a link more than X times — add a tracking link in the previous mail and specify how many times (X) you want a prospect to click on a link in your email for a condition to be met.
    X stands for the number and it can be changed.

  • If a prospect has clicked on a link once — a condition is met when your prospect clicks the link in your email at least once.

Task-based

If there was a task created for a prospect and how it is resolved — add a manual task to your campaign before the condition and based on your action, whether you'll mark it as 'Done' or 'Skipped', the prospect will go to path YES or NO.

Snippet-based

  • If a prospect has a snippet X that equals your variable - you can specify a value in a custom field that when matched exactly with your variable, will move the prospect to path YES.

  • If a prospect has a snippet X that contains your variable - you can specify a value in a custom field that, when partly matched with your variable, will move the prospect to path YES.

  • If a prospect has a snippet X that is not empty - you can create different emails for prospects that have some data in custom filed, as those will meet the condition and go to path YES.

Gif with entering a value for a snippet-based condition

REMOVE CONDITION

  1. Hover over the condition so the red X appears.

  2. Click X and then confirm with the red button "Yes, I'm sure".

Gif with removing a condition from campaign

What will happen to the emails in the sequence?

Removing the condition will delete all emails from Path NO.

When is removing conditions disabled?

You can't remove the condition when some of your prospects have already met it and the emails were sent to them.

A condition with an information that you can't delete it due to sent messages

Keep in mind that adding a condition to a running campaign by accident can split it into two paths, and you won't be able to delete it if even one message is sent after the condition is met.


YES/NO

By adding a condition you create 2 Paths: Path YES and Path NO.

Path YES

For the prospects who opened your email within a certain time (days or hours).

  • If the selected condition is met, that is if your prospect opened your email more than X times, Woodpecker will send them the message from the Path YES next.

Email 2 in YES path

Path NO

For those recipients who didn't open your email within a certain time.

  • If your prospect didn't open your email within the time you set in the time window (specified in days or hours), the follow-up from Path NO will be sent to them.

Email 2 in NO path

Here's what your campaign looks like after adding a condition. Switch between the Paths by clicking YES and NO.

Gif with switching between YES and NO paths

Now you can add more emails to each sequence. When all of the emails are sent and no response is registered from a prospect, they are marked with a NONRESPONSIVE status.

This is a local status, which means that you can see it only within the campaign. Learn more.

the last step of your campaign with "Add email" option and "Mark as nonresponsive" as the end

Step 2: Add prospects

First, add your prospects manually or import them either from a CSV, XLS, or XLSX file or Prospects database.

Gif with choosing which way to add prospects to a campaign

In the example below, you can see 3 prospects who were added to the campaign. You can filter them by Status, Campaign, whether they were contacted or not, the file they were Imported from, and the Tags. Learn more about tagging your prospects.

Prospects step in campaign editor

Step 3: Summary

See an overview of your campaign:

Summary of a campaign

Send from

The email address you use for sending this campaign.

Emails

How many emails you have in each Path.

Prospects

The number of prospects, who were added to the campaign.

Preview

We encourage you to preview your campaign even before sending a test email.

  • Take a look at your emails and check what they will look like once they are sent.

  • Preview Path YES and Path NO by switching between them.

  • Paths are marked in green and blue colors respectively so you can quickly distinguish one from another.

  • Customize your email and fix the errors. Learn more »

Gif of switching between conditions in preview

STATISTICS

Once you hit the "Send" button, your campaign will be running successfully. You can quickly see all the details by clicking the "Actions" tab.

  • Click Export as .csv to download these stats in a file. See more about exporting data from Woodpecker »

  • To see all the emails in the sequence click the arrow on the right of either Path YES (marked in green) or Path NO (in blue).

  • Expand to see the details: email copy, Delivery time, or time zone.

You can learn more on how to use cold email stats from our Quickstart 2 »

Gif of switching between paths in campaign view

LAST ACTIVITY

Check "Last Activity" to see which Path was sent to a particular prospect. Click the arrow right next to the Interest level smileys to see the details. Hover over the condition icons to preview your prospect's journey.

Last activity in Prospects list with conditions
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