Exporting your Engaged Candiates
An "Engaged" audience refers to In-Market Candidates who visit one or more Franchise Development sites. You will receive real-time alerts when these candidates visit your Franchise Development website. This is the ideal stage to begin your sales process. Depending on visit volume and frequency, these visitors may qualify as leads.
Exporting Engaged Visitors
To export your engaged visitors, log in to your Franchise Ninja dashboard and navigate to the Engaged stage.
- Select Engaged from the pipeline stages.
- Click Search Engaged.
- Review or update your search criteria as needed.
- Click Search to display matching visitors.
- Select Export.
- Choose your preferred export format (CSV, Excel or Query JSON)
The date range is automatically set to the most recent week, but you can customize the date criteria before running your search.

Search Criteria Options
If you are looking for a specific type of candidate, you can use the available filters to narrow your results before exporting.
Available filters include:
Location Criteria
Financial Criteria
- Net Worth
- Annual Income
- Own Home
Marketing Criteria
- Domains
- Referral Source
- Keyword
- Page Viewed
- AI Sales Rep Created Session
Personal Criteria
- Name
- Age Range
- Email Address
- Gender
- Married
- Has Children
Applying filters before exporting allows you to create targeted candidate lists based on the characteristics that matter most to your franchise opportunity.
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