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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

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed all the campaign reporting features and how they could be leveraged to better understand your audience members. We went over some of the basic definitions of what you can find in the reports and what stats were available to you. More importantly, though, we talked a bit about how you could actually leverage that information over time and think of your reporting data as part of an overall story –similar to how we’re thinking of your marketing as a journey as well. Data helps you paint a story about your audience and how they engage with you. Then we dug a bit deeper into some advanced features of Mailchimp’s platform that help to do some of the heavy lifting for you, such as reviewing the common variables inside your campaign (CTAs, for example). We also looked at how to automate the comparison of campaigns.

Next, in the same vein of experimenting with content to drive engagement, we’ll be looking at some campaign experimentation...