Propstream: Avoiding Duplicates

[Bryan Igboke]

I know propstream will not allow you to pull a property twice within the same list, which is great. Though, when I pull 2 separate lists in a similar area there is a chance that the property shows up on both lists. I also have the list automator and know that it can show you whenever a property appears on multiple lists, campaigns, etc.

My question is if there is a way that I can know that a property is a duplicate before I actually pull it. I ask this because my plan is to market to 10,000 new contacts per month, but last time I pulled 2 separate lists and many on the 2nd list were duplicates so I only ended up marketing to around 7,000 contacts. I just want to find a way to know if I am about to pull a duplicate that I already have the information for so I don't waste one of my 10,000 contacts per month on it. Please let me know if this makes sense and if there are any solutions / workarounds you guys know of!

[James Heller]

Love this question - when you like to maximize your dollars, you think about things like this!

Propstream actually won’t double count your saves or exports if there is a duplicate property. The problem comes when you skip trace, you’ll run each lists and those duplicates will get skip traced twice (and you’ll pay twice). 

There is an answer! Scroll to the far right and you will see an “on lists” column that will show how many lists a particular property is on. Filter on anything more than one and delete those entries from one list or the other