# Creating your first Segment

### How to create a segment

1. Set one or more **Filters** - you can use the filters to filter in or out leads with specific properties
2. Click **Apply** to verify if the filters you have set produce a meaningful result.
3. If you think the results are interesting or meaningful for you or your team, click **Save.**
4. First You need to give your segment a **name**, and choose to make it **private** or **public** within your account.
5. Additionally, you can choose to have the segment **emailed** to you and your team in either **HTML** format (designed) or as an **CSV** (spreadsheet)

Please see the screen shot below which gives you a visual representation of the steps

<figure><img src="https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/565e1cb7c697915b26a5c214/images/596e33f22c7d3a73488b3222/file-9FhRfnL5JH.png" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>