Segment overview
Segment is your window into your customer data. In this article, we’ll take a tour of Lexer Segment to help you get started.
Functions of Segment
Segment offers a variety of functions:
- Group your customers into meaningful segments based on any combination of ecommerce, CRM, email, and service attributes.
- Analyze the aggregated statistics for your segments, and dive deeper for insights.
- Pivot your data by Attributes, Segments, Profiles, Channels and Sources.
Segment Builder
All great insights start with a question, and that question is created in the Segment Builder.
Using the Attribute Picker, you can create basic and complex customer queries. Simply search for, and select, the attributes you wish to add to your segment. You can also filter your attributes to make your search more specific by hovering over the attribute and clicking the > button.
You also have the ability to add more than one filter to your attribute by typing a word (or phrase) into the search bar and then selecting Add X results.
Once you've finished adding your attributes, your search results are displayed on the right, and are broken into five different reports.
Attributes
Analyze the aggregate attribute values across the customers who match your search. Click on an attribute to dive deeper and export results for custom analysis.
Segments
Segments returns the number of profiles in your search result that match all of your configured segments. You can narrow your results by clicking + to add a segment to your search, or download the results from the top right corner of the page.
Profiles
Profiles returns a sample of the customers who belong to the segment you're searching. Click on a profile to view their segments, attributes and a rich engagement history.
Channels
Channels are your configured Activations (i.e. Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads) and will return a count of the number of profiles that have a link attribute (i.e. Email) that you can use for targeting on that platform.
Sources
Sources represent where your data has come from. Each source will return a count of profiles that have at least one attribute from that source.
End of the tour
That concludes our tour. If you want to dive deeper into Segment, just keep going through this section on Learn; there’s heaps more content!