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Marketing Automation with Mailchimp

By : Margarita J. Caraballo
Book Image

Marketing Automation with Mailchimp

By: Margarita J. Caraballo

Overview of this book

Are you looking for an all-in-one comprehensive guide to implementing Mailchimp channels and automation for your business? Then Marketing Automation with Mailchimp can be your go-to guide. You’ll start by learning common terms used in the Mailchimp environment, as well as about account setup and audience management for businesses. After that, you’ll find out how to set up channels, where you’ll actively interact with your contacts and begin to add new ones. Additionally, you’ll gain an understanding of how to set up a consistent marketing presence in the form of emails and websites and the benefits of determining a brand identity. You’ll also explore advanced Mailchimp features to optimize platform utilization using analytics, reporting, A/B and multivariate testing, the customer journey builder, and the Mailchimp e-commerce store. Toward the end, you’ll discover some important shopping, payment, and CRM integrations that can be connected to your Mailchimp platform for custom business needs. With this book, you’ll gain insights into real-world use cases to implement a marketing strategy to extend your existing work. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to implement Mailchimp marketing automation seamlessly into your business to grow your customer base and revenue.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Mailchimp
3
Part 2:Getting Set Up
8
Part 3:Basic Channels
13
Part 4:Refine and Automate
18
Part 5:Get Smarter and Connect

Understanding Reports and Analytics

I believe that the best marketing strategies are refined over time. As you get to know your audience a little better or even as the audience grows, you might find that what keeps people engaged over time might change. And the best way to adjust and pivot is to look at the data that your platforms are giving you. I’m a fairly data-driven person, meaning that I like to accumulate and slice my data to extrapolate what an ideal next step or experiment might be.

This can be a bit of a double-edged sword in the sense that I used to get decision paralysis; faced with so many options and possibilities, I would overthink and overanalyze every data point. In this chapter, I’d like to help you cut through the noise, look at your data holistically, and help make sure you’re not stuck obsessing where I might have obsessed in the past.

We’ll be going over the following topics:

  • The types of information that are accessible...