Exporting a List of Optouts

26. March 2014

Voodoo tracks and stores Optouts (unsubscribes) automatically, so as long as you’re broadcasting your email campaigns from Voodoo, you never need to worry about this.  You don’t even have to update your records.

If you must synchronize Optouts between multiple email systems, you might occasionally want to export Optouts from Voodoo.

Here’s how (it's actually easier than it sounds):

In your Voodoo Campaign Manager:

  •  Select Contact Lists
  •  Click Manage Contacts for the list you want (probably your Master List, or perhaps a particular campaign list)
  •  Click the "Optout" column header (probably twice) until all the contacts with Optouts checked appear at top of list
  •  At bottom right of the resulting list, click Show # (and choose the closest option to the number of opt outs so all Optout contacts are visible)
  •  At top left of list, click the selection box next to First Name.  This selects all of the visible contacts. 
  •  Select or deselect contacts as needed so you have only Optout contacts selected.
  •  Now choose Export selected contact(s) to Excel (option near bottom of page) and you’re done.

 

By the way, in the resulting Excel spreadsheet, you'll see the Optout column will have a TRUE label showing the contact has opted out.

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