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introduction to
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profile updates
You can use the Profile Updates feature to create forms that will allow recipients to add or update personal information (e.g. gender, location, etc.) or answer additional questions that allow you to better segment them (e.g. by assigning them to groups).
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- Add a new profile update form
- View existing profile update forms
- Edit an existing profile update form
- Personalize the hosted page that displays messages (e.g. "Thanks for updating your profile!")
- Personalize the email that is sent to access a "private" form
When to use
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profile updates
Profile update forms can be used in a variety of circumstance. For example:
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Profile update forms are a fundamental tool in your effort to build a richer recipients database, which will allow you to better segment your customers and send them messages that they are more likely to be interested in.
Where is
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data stored
When you use the Profile Updates feature, data is saved into the recipients database in the Recipients fields that you chose to include in the form. When a recipient updates the information in the form, he/she is updating their profile in the recipients' database.
If one of the fields in the form is used to define the user's association with one or more groups (the field name is "group" and the field values are the group numbers), then that piece of information is stored in terms of the user's belonging to the selected groups. For example, a question on the form could be: "Which sports do you like?" and the answer a series of checkboxes that correspond to groups you have created in your administration console. When users update the form, their association with the checked groups will be updated in the contacts database.