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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

Expanded/advanced reporting features

While you can find the vast majority of your bread-and-butter report-related data points on the Overview page, as you start to get more sophisticated with how you think about your audience as a whole, you may want to start leveraging some of the advanced features available within the platform. The first I want to go back to is Content Optimizer.

Note about access to Content Optimizer

Due to this being a more advanced reporting feature, to access this, you will need to be on a Standard Marketing plan or higher. It is not available through Mailchimp’s Free plan.

As I noted earlier in this chapter, this is a relatively new feature to the reporting section of the platform but, particularly as you grow your experimentation muscle, it can be a really handy tool. In Figure 10.8, we can see an example of the initial analysis of the content of a campaign on the Overview page of the report. But as I alluded to earlier, we can see a slightly...