Understanding Finzy's Blacklist Feature: Avoiding Duplicate Connections

In today’s digital networking world, maintaining a clean and relevant connection list is key to building an effective professional network. Finzy offers a powerful feature called the Blacklist to streamline this process, preventing repeated connections with the same profiles and companies.

The Blacklist Feature in Finzy helps you automatically manage and control your network by preventing repeated connection requests. Once a profile has been contacted through a campaign, it gets recorded in the blacklist. This means that if the same profile appears in future campaigns, the system will skip that profile, ensuring you don’t send invitations again and again to the same person.

This feature is enabled by default in the system to avoid redundancy and maintain a smooth user experience.

1. Profiles Already Contacted in Previous Campaigns: If a profile has already been contacted through a previous campaign, the system will automatically prevent sending another connection request to the same prospect.
2. Blacklisted Profiles: Once a profile is contacted, it is added to the blacklist. If the same profile comes up in future campaigns, it is automatically skipped.

The Blacklist Profile feature helps you manage repeated connections at the individual profile level. Once you send a connection request to a prospect, the system automatically records the profile. If that profile tries to come up again in the same campaign or a future campaign, Finzy will automatically skip it.

Key Benefits of Blacklist Profile:

• Automatic Profile Recording: The system automatically records profiles that have been contacted, saving you from manually tracking them.
• Prevents Duplicate Requests: Once a profile is blacklisted, the system ensures it’s not contacted again in future campaigns, saving time and avoiding redundancy.
• Efficient Networking: Helps keep your networking efforts streamlined and focused, ensuring you don’t waste time on profiles you’ve already reached out to.

The Blacklist Company feature allows you to exclude entire organizations from your network. If a profile from a blacklisted company appears in your campaign, the system will automatically skip it. This ensures you don’t waste time reaching out to prospects from companies you wish to avoid.

Key Benefits of Blacklist Company:

• Company-Wide Block: The system ensures that once a company is blacklisted, you won’t interact with profiles from that organization, saving time and maintaining your network's quality.
• Prevents Repeated Requests: If a profile from a blacklisted company appears in future campaigns, the system will automatically skip it, making sure you don't keep reaching out to irrelevant prospects.
• Refined Networking: Allows you to focus on more relevant companies and individuals, filtering out unwanted or irrelevant connections.

Finzy also offers the ability to add team members to your account. If you have a team of, say, 5 members, you can sign up with one admin account and invite the rest of your team members. The Blacklist Feature will be applied across the entire team. This means that if one team member contacts a profile, none of the other members will be able to send a connection request to that same profile. This ensures consistency and avoids multiple members from reaching out to the same prospects.

You can easily add profiles and companies to the blacklist through the Blacklist menu. All you need to do is paste the profile or company URL into the appropriate field, and then click on the "Save" button. Once saved, any future connection requests from these profiles or companies will be automatically skipped by the system.

Finzy also offers a Bulk Import option for adding multiple profiles or companies to your blacklist at once. This is especially useful if you want to exclude a large number of profiles or organizations in a single action.

To use the Bulk Import option, you can upload a file containing the list of URLs (profiles or companies) you want to blacklist. Once uploaded, simply click on the "Save" button, and all the listed profiles or companies will be added to your blacklist. The system will then automatically skip any future connection requests from those profiles or companies.

It’s important to note that the Blacklist Feature is only applicable to invitation campaigns in Finzy. It does not apply to messaging campaigns, so you can continue to message profiles from past campaigns without restriction. However, the Blacklist Feature ensures that invitation efforts are not duplicated, making your campaigns more efficient and targeted.

The Blacklist Feature is a crucial tool in Finzy to help manage and streamline your networking campaigns. By preventing duplicate connection requests, whether from individual profiles or entire companies, it helps keep your outreach focused and efficient. The feature is enabled by default, but you can easily disable it if necessary. By using the Blacklist and Team integration, you can ensure that your network-building efforts remain smooth, effective, and free from redundancy.

Take control of your Finzy experience and use the Blacklist Feature to enhance your campaign's success!