Competitive Messaging

Tutorial: How Do I Add Filters To Competitive Messaging Workbooks?

 

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32 STEPS

1. This tutorial will teach you how to add filters to your Messaging workbook.

Adding filters allows you to customize your analysis.

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2. For this example, let's analyze email communications that mention Dresses over the past three months.

Your competitors of interest are Zara and Mango and your own business is H&M in the United Kingdom Region.

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3. First, click Regions.

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4. Type UK.

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5. Select United Kingdom (UK)

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6. Click Retailers.

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7. Type Zara.

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8. Select Zara.

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9. Once you have selected all your retailers, click Close.

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10. Click Genders.

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11. Some retailers don't separate emails by gender. All is selected by default, keeping this selected ensures you are capturing all mentions of dresses.

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12. Click Close.

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13. Click Channels.

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14. Select Email.

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15. Click Close.

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16. Next click Categories.

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17. If you are analyzing competitors that sell homeware and beauty, this filter allows you to isolate a specific category.

This example is analyzing dresses so let's select Apparel.

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18. Select Apparel.

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19. Click Close.

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20. Next, click Keywords.

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21. Type Dresses.

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22. Click Add.

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23. Click Close.

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24. The Date filter will default to analyze the Past month.

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25. Click X to remove it.

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26. Click Date.

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27. Select Past 3 months.

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28. Click Add.

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29. Click Close.

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30. Click Updates to navigate to the individual email.

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31. Click on an email card to see its contents.

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32. Where Dresses is mentioned will be highlighted in the email.

You have now completed the tutorial.

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