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Bulk Importing your Evergrowth Plays to Hubspot

Learn how to quickly and easily take your Evergrowth email plays and import them to your CRM for efficient and effective outreach

Updated over 2 months ago

This guide takes you through the simplest way to take plays generated by your Evergrowth Play agents and transfer them en-masse to HubSpot.

This will allow you to contact your prospects at scale using deep and broad research weaved into expertly crafted Plays from Evergrowth

Prerequisites

In order for you to have Plays to export from Evergrowth, it goes without saying that you create your Play templates

Technical setup ⚙️

Part 1 - Set up your Plays in Evergrowth.

Setting up the Plays is the first step in preparing for scalable HubSpot email sequence draft generation.

Step 1) Head to Playbook > Plays

Step 2) Click Add new > Start from scratch

Step 3) Configure the Play settings like Name, Tags and Instructions

Step 4) Ensure you enable the "Use this play as Sequence play" selection

Step 5) Click ➕Add Step for each step you need to add to the sequence

Step 6) Click Create to save your Play Sequence

Once you hit create, these sequence steps will appear in your Plays list in the below format:

  • [Play Name] - Step 1

  • [Play Name] - Step 2

  • [Play Name] - Step 3

A comprehensive guide on how to build Plays can be found here:

Part 2 - Create HubSpot fields for your Plays

These new plays (or any plays that you want to use in sequence on HubSpot) need a dedicated field in HubSpot to import the content to.

We recommend using the same name for your fields in HubSpot as you used in Evergrowth.

I.e. from our previous configuration screenshot:

  • HubSpot sequence - Step 1

  • HubSpot sequence - Step 2

  • HubSpot sequence - Step 3

Note: These fields MUST be created as “rich text" so the Evergrowth emails transfer correctly with proper formatting being retained.

Part 3 - Create a list view of Contacts inside HubSpot

For easy tracking & oversight of your sequence-eligible Contacts in HubSpot, we suggest creating a dedicated filtered view for your campaign/s.

The criteria should be all contacts inside HubSpot that have your Play Sequence fields populated.

This simplest way to do this is to select your fields as “is known”:

Don’t forget to save this list view!

Pro Tip: Additional fields can be added later on to expand the utility of this liste view.

Initially, it will be used so you have an easy way to view Contacts with sequences available, but could also help you check whether these Contacts:

  • Have already recently received messaging

  • Are currently enrolled in other sequences

  • Are existing customers or in a "do not contact" list


Preparing your Plays 🛠️

This part will show you how to get both systems & Draft Plays ready to start sending Plays/Sequences.

Part 1 - Create your Sequence on HubSpot

At this point, the Evergrowth Sequence steps should be available in HubSpot, you just need to include them in a new Sequence.

To do this, you can start setting up a HubSpot sequence as usual.

To include a Play from Evergrowth, generate a new template, then in the body of an email, click Personalize and select your Evergrowth Play from the Contact fields.

💡 NB: Plays will exist in HubSpot as fully generated emails.

Once included in a HubSpot email template, they will populate the whole body of the email, you do not need to surround them with hardcoded email snippets like old-school email sequences!

Part 2 - Create Play Templates in Evergrowth

It is important to make sure that, for the Plays that you are working on here (or creating for a specific sequence), you’ve performed Steps 1 & 2 of this guide's "Technical Setup" so they can be imported to HubSpot.

Part 3 - Generate your Plays in Evergrowth

There are a few methods to generate Plays for a desired Contact/list of Contacts:

It is important to remember that, in most cases, Plays use context found by your Evergrowth Research Agents to generate personalized drafts.

Therefore at the point of generating a play, you need to either:

a) Make sure that there already exists enough research context for your Contacts

OR

b) Combine Research Agents with Play-generation Agents in a dedicated workflow which performs both processes in coordination!

Option A: Generate Plays as part of a Workflow

There are several advantages to creating a dedicated workflow for your Sequences.

Mainly, you can combine all the tasks needed by Evergrowth agents in one place, so they work in sync.

For example, a workflow that uses specific Research Agents on selected accounts then uses this research to generate specific Plays for selected contacts would look like this:

The part of a Workflow where specific Research Agents have been enabled:

The part of a Workflow where Sequence-Plays have been enabled at the end:

More about workflows and how to set them up, can be found here:

Once you have created a dedicated workflow, it can be launched from these places:

1) During a CSV Upload for Accounts (NB. This needs the Contact Finder Agent to be included in your Workflow)

2) During a CSV Upload for Contacts

3) Within the Linkedin/Crunchbase Dataset Search:

4) Directly from the Contact/Account Repositories for a selected set of records:

Pro Tip: You can filter your Repository lists views, then select all the results from your filtered list before launching the Play-generation workflows

Option B: Generate Plays manually

Plays can also be generated manually for any contact inside Evergrowth from these places:

1) Within an Account record by selecting individual/multiple/all contacts:

2) With the Contacts Repository, selecting a list of contacts:

Pro Tip: As above, you can filter these repository lists views, then select all the results from your filtered list before launching the Play-generation Agents


Importing & Sending Out Sequences 🚀

Part 1 - Export your Evergrowth Plays

Step 1) In Evergrowth, go to your Contacts Repository

Step 2) Filter your repository to the set of Contacts where you generated Plays in the previous section

Step 3) Select the Contacts from your list and click Export

Step 4) In the Export Contacts settings view, expand the >Plays row and ☑️ check those Plays you wish to export

Also ensure the >Contact Details: Email has been checked too!

Step 5) Click Start to launch the export task

Step 6) Head to the Agent Task Feed and switch to the Exports tab to monitor (and eventually download) your export!

Part 2 - Bulk Import your Plays into HubSpot

Step 1) In HubSpot, go to CRM > Contacts

Step 2) Click Import, then Start an Import

Step 3) Choose Import File From Computer, then select Contacts and choose your Evergrowth File

If your Evergrowth Plays were named correctly, the HubSpot import process should have been able to infer the mapping for you here

Step 4) Click Finish to launch the import process

See HubSpot's article here for more guidance on this import process

Part 3 - Enroll Your HubSpot Contacts into Sequence

Now you’ve generated your Evergrowth Plays and imported these to your HubSpot Contacts, you can select and enrolled these into a sequence, en masse.

This is where the above saved list view comes in handy!

Pro Tip: Before launching sequences like this, ensure that you’ve excluded Contacts that are already enrolled in a sequence or that have been flagged as “do not contact”

Additional Reading 📚

Learn how to configure our HubSpot Integration so that it transfers the Plays from Evergrowth to HubSpot for you

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