Build a CRM-Ready Contact List from One Gmail Label
8apps Team ·
Your inbox already knows who your contacts are. Here's how to turn one Gmail label into a clean, deduplicated sheet your CRM can import – columns, cleanup and all.
Sales & Marketing
10 articles
Why Your Ad-Platform Match Rate Is Low
8apps Team ·
The upload worked, the audience is tiny. Work through these causes in order – most low match rates are one formatting mistake, found in under ten minutes.
Event Follow-Up: Every Email About X, in One Sheet
8apps Team ·
After a webinar or launch, the follow-up window is days, not weeks. Here's how to pull everyone who emailed you about it into one deduplicated sheet while it still matters.
Format Phone Numbers to E.164 in Google Sheets
8apps Team ·
E.164 is the format ad platforms and APIs expect – and the one spreadsheets quietly destroy. Here's how to get +6591234567 out of whatever your column holds now.
Prepare a Google Ads Customer Match List in Sheets
8apps Team ·
The upload succeeds either way – the match rate is what fails. Here's the Sheets-to-Customer-Match workflow with Google's own formatting rules at each step.
Prepare a Meta Custom Audience File from Google Sheets
8apps Team ·
Meta's phone format is not Google's – the same number needs two different hashes. Here's the Sheets workflow that follows Meta's documented rules exactly.
Recruiters: Turn Candidate Emails into a Pipeline Sheet
8apps Team ·
Every candidate you've ever spoken to is in your Gmail – and not in your ATS. Here's how to get them into one deduplicated sheet, scoped by label or search.
Share a Customer List with Your Agency – Without the PII
8apps Team ·
Your agency needs the audience, not the addresses. Hash the list in Sheets before it leaves your hands – matching still works, and the raw data stays home.
How to Hash Phone Numbers and Emails in Google Sheets
8apps Team ·
Sheets has no built-in SHA-256 function. Here is how to hash a customer list properly - and why the same phone number needs two different hashes for Google Ads and Meta.
How to Build a Sales Contact List from Email Conversations
8apps Team ·
Learn how to extract email contacts from Gmail conversations into Google Sheets in minutes. A step-by-step guide to building a sales contact list using Contact Extractor by 8apps.