Best practice: Managing marketing contact status & opt-in

Hi everyone,
How do you manage the relationship between marketing contact status and opt-in? What’s the best practice here? For example, if someone has given consent (opt-in), should I also mark them as a marketing contact, or do you recommend managing these two aspects separately?
Thanks!

Hi @ozgesilla,

This depends mostly if you plan on emailing all of the contacts who are opted in – if you do, then yes, you should set these contacts as marketing contacts, as long as they don’t meet one of these criteria:

  • Email hard bounce reason is known
  • Invalid email is equal to True
  • Email domain is equal to any of of [competitors]
  • Email is unknown

If you don’t plan on emailing opted in contacts, then a more sophisticed logic might apply. In that case, please share a bit more context and I can elaborate.

Best regards!