Learn how to create a static list of hard bounced email contacts in HubSpot to clean up your database. The tutorial walks through the practical steps in HubSpot's email tool to identify and organize bounced addresses efficiently.
When it comes to getting your data cleaned up, you may want to craft the list that is related to hard bounced contacts. Basically anybody that did not receive your emails from previous sense or is not receiving them right now. So we want to make sure to not have that type of, let's call them dirty emails within your database. Now in this video I'm going to show you how you can craft a static bounce contacts list within just a few clicks. And although we do have that YouTube video out there where I explained how you can craft active and static lists, you know, manually within the contacts and lists section, this will give you an edge in coming up with that hard bounce list within just a few clicks. And from the email tool within HubSpot, check this out.
You're going to log into HubSpot and you're going to go to marketing, then email in here you're going to look for a tab. So in this case it's on the right side corner over here, top right. Some instances may have it somewhere down in the middle or in the bottom left corner depending on the subscription type that you have for HubSpot. But in this case it is over here. Email tools and we'll just hit create a list of hard bounce contacts and then we can choose to include global bounces, which is basically email addresses that have bounced from multiple HubSpot customer sent in the past. So that would good if you want to include that in the list and then just label it. There we go. And hard bounds reasons, we can actually see that all of the options, all of the relevant options are selected and we can even choose the time frame right here. But I'm just going to hit to create a list and there we go. So in this case HubSpot will have created automatically a static list for all of our bounce contacts. And actually we may just wait for it to process, but that is pretty much all that it needs to be done.
And there you have it. Keep in mind that this is a static list, so you may want to replicate an active list on your own for the future just so that you know when contacts hit that list. But this is definitely a time saver when it comes to cleaning up dirty emails or dead emails and cleaning up your database and your contact records. Remember, education is great, but the execution is where it's at. So go out there and be the hub hero that your organization needs today.
