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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 basics of automation and events

The central benefit of automation is to let the platform you’re using perform the repetitive tasks you currently manually carry out, leaving you to focus on other things to support your business. For example, if you find yourself sending a monthly welcome email to people who are new to your business that month, why not let the platform do that for you? The content of your welcome emails to new subscribers is likely to be pretty consistent, so setting up a single welcome email or email series would save you a great deal of time. You could even schedule it to send more frequently than once a month; immediately or with a defined delay, whatever works for you. In that scenario, you reap the benefit of engaging your new audience members more quickly without an investment of time.

Like a lot of things we’ve talked about, the idea is that this kind of feature can save you time following some up-front investment of effort. But with this...