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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

The types of information that are accessible in Mailchimp’s reporting

If you’re not new to Mailchimp, the reporting you’re most likely familiar with is Campaign reporting. Mailchimp was first known for its marketing email channel and still is to some extent, though it offers a lot more now. But, because it was the first and certainly the most well-known channel in the product, when they log into their accounts, lots of Mailchimp users click on Campaigns in the left-hand navigation menu instinctively, as shown in Figure 10.1:

Figure 10.1 – Campaigns menu and submenu

Figure 10.1 – Campaigns menu and submenu

This takes you right to the top of the Campaigns list, which is where you can see all the campaigns drafted and sent for a particular audience in your account. And specifically, when we are looking at the sent campaigns, we can see that some basic, at-a-glance stats appear to give us a little taste of how that campaign did.

The platform will serve up the percentage...