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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

Why opens and clicks?

General stats overview

You may have noticed in your account (or if you haven’t sent a campaign yet, you may notice in Figure 10.3) that there are additional opens and clicks stats listed under the four horizontal featured data points. There are a further eight data points, including Total opens and Total clicks. You may wonder, though, why these sometimes appear different from the highlighted opens and clicks. The answer is to provide some more nuance to the way you might analyze your report and the behavior of your audience.

The differences are as follows:

  • Opened: This provides us with unique opens. This means that if I am a member of your audience and I open the campaign email three times, I would only account for one of these unique opens.
  • Total opens: This is the precise number of times the campaign email has been opened and the assets of the campaign loaded. So, if I opened it three times as a member of your audience, it would include...