When it comes to Infusionsoft campaigns your contacts can have one of three statuses, they are either Active, Queued, or Done.
Active and Done are fairly straightforward, but understanding queued contacts isn’t quite as straightforward.
(More on those status types here)
When you’re looking at the reporting tab of the campaign, queued contacts are represented by the orange number you see in each sequence – in the image below there are 1.3.k queued contacts (and 360 active ones).
Okay, Queued Contacts are contacts that are in a sequence, but they haven’t moved on – right?
So they’re just kinda hanging out – which on its surface seems pretty straight forward, but there are two reasons why I think getting super clear on this concept matters.
Why do Queued Contacts matter?
Two main reasons – they represent risk, and also opportunity.
Why are they risky?
If you don’t understand what queued contacts are and how they behave, then you could inadvertently trigger automation to someone for whom it isn’t appropriate, or that they aren’t expecting.
Beyond just being embarrassing, this can also adversely affect your relationship with that contact, and your email reputation in general.
What about that opportunity?
If you understand that goals act as milestones in your campaigns, and they’re designed to help people progress along the journey you’ve built for them, then you can think of queued contacts as the people who for one reason or another stalled out before they hit the next milestone.
There are plenty of reasons why this might happen, but when I see queued contacts in my campaigns I think of it as a place where contacts are getting stuck and treat it as an opportunity to add another touch point.
Pro Tip: Unless they move on or you remove them, contacts can stay queued indefinitely – so, if you’re adding new steps to a sequence which contains queued contacts make sure you’re clear on which contacts could be affected, and whether or not that’s what you would like to have happen.
Here’s an article from the Infusionsoft help center that digs into making changes to sequences with queued contacts.
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