# Contact Property Strategy

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/contact-property-strategy/750>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contact-property-strategy/750 "2017-01-17T15:43:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CSG](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/csg/32/30597_2.png) [@CSG](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CSG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contact-property-strategy/750/1 "2017-01-17T15:43:16Z")

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I am pretty new hubspot partner and have a client with several distinct personas and distinct service offerings within each persona.

In order only send information a contact might have an interest in I want to build a Contact Property that will allow us to manually assign properties to a contact or have them self-select via a contact form.

My plan is to build a new contact property called “Area of Interest” with a drop down option to select one or more of the services and add it to the contact us from.

Below is the list of servcies a contact may be interested in. It is pretty long.

Is it too long?

Could I make a few categories like Rehearsal Space with selections under each category?? A Group called Area of Interest and several categories under that?

Monthly Rehearsal

Daily/Hourly Rehearsal

Weekly Rehearsal

Rap Vocal Recording

Band Recording

Recording

Voice-Over/Podcast

Music Video

Guitar/Amp Repair

Commercial Audio

Commercial Video

Drum Practice

Do It Yourself Recording

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**Author:** ![relabidin](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/relabidin/32/10664_2.png) [@relabidin](https://community.hubspot.com/u/relabidin)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contact-property-strategy/750/2 "2017-01-17T21:55:28Z")

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Hi @CSG,

In my opinion, that list of services/areas of interest is not too long at all. I have seen MUCH longer form fields in my day and I would argue that yours is a good length.

That being said, if you wanted to be fancy you could break these areas of interest into categories use [Dependent form fields](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/KCS_Article/Forms/Is-it-possible-to-make-a-form-field-dynamically-appear-as-a-result-of-an-answer-to-another-question) to display each individual service depending on which area of interest is selected.

For example, you could create a Contact property _Area of Interest_ and one of the options could be _Rehearsal_, and if someone selects that option another form field will pop out with all of your rehearsal options.

I definitely recommend checking out that help article I linked to above for details on using dependent form fields, but in my opinion, I think your list is not too long and you can use it as is.

Rami

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**Author:** ![CSG](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/csg/32/30597_2.png) [@CSG](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CSG)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contact-property-strategy/750/3 "2017-01-17T22:47:41Z")

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This is exacltly what I need. Although based on your feedback I might just keep it simple and use that list as is if it is not too long.

Thanks