Hey @StPatrick
Just to add to @karstenkoehler’s points.
What is the end goal here? You said you wanted to migrate “these contacts to another automation program?”, to do what exactly? My questions would be:
- What are you automating with those contacts that you can’t automate in HubSpot?
- What is the cost of Zapier and the other automation program?
- What is the cost of your time (or a team members time) to manage this additional overhead?
- Is that cheaper than paying for additional marketing contacts? Buzzword - total cost of ownership.
As Karsten said, you can (and should) manage unsubscribes in HubSpot. The easiest way to do that is via the GDPR settings in HubSpot and checking the “legal basis required” checkbox.
This means if someone unsubscribed from a specific subscription type, they won’t receive those emails. You could also create a simple Workflow that changes a contact’s marketing-contact status when they unsubscribed. I don’t think there is a generic setting for this in HubSpot, correct me if I’m wrong @karstenkoehler.
Frank