The event creates different contexts. An attendee who watched the offer, a person who left after ten minutes, a no-show, a replay viewer, a buyer, and someone who asked for help should not receive the same message. Use the smallest reliable segmentation your systems support, then make every path useful and stop promotional messages when the person converts or opts out.
What you will learn
- Define post-event segments
- Write a useful replay path
- Prevent conflicting sales and marketing messages
Core concepts
Behavioral state: Use attendance, duration, replay activity, questions, offer action, qualification, purchase, and preference as signals—without pretending they reveal intent perfectly.
Replay usefulness: Include a summary, chapters or timestamps, resource, access window, and support route. Do not force a full rewatch to find one tool.
Suppression: Buyers, active opportunities, unsubscribed contacts, and disqualified leads need explicit rules so automation does not keep pitching them.
The practical method
Choose only states the platform and CRM can identify reliably.
Send the promised resource, replay terms, summary, and support.
Attendees receive application help; no-shows get a concise orientation; offer actors get the next decision; buyers get onboarding.
Define when a human follows up, what context they see, and when marketing pauses.
Use test contacts to verify conversion, unsubscribe, booking, and replay states.
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1. Define the states Choose only states the platform and CRM can identify reliably.
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2. Write the universal delivery Send the promised resource, replay terms, summary, and support.
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3. Branch by context Attendees receive application help; no-shows get a concise orientation; offer actors get the next decision; buyers get onboarding.
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4. Set sales ownership Define when a human follows up, what context they see, and when marketing pauses.
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5. Test every transition Use test contacts to verify conversion, unsubscribe, booking, and replay states.
Worked example
Everyone receives ‘Sorry we missed you,’ including attendees and new customers. The revised workflow creates six states, sends the resource to all eligible contacts, gives no-shows a five-minute summary, gives attendees an application example, routes requests to sales, and suppresses buyers into onboarding.
Build the template
Create this working artifact before moving to the next lesson:
- Segment definition
- Entry evidence
- Message job
- Exit condition
- Owner
Quality checklist
- Segments are based on reliable data
- Every promise is delivered
- Buyers leave the pitch sequence
- Sales sees event context
- Preferences win over automation
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