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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

Common use cases and recipes

Triggers can be grouped conceptually into families of behavior or logic. These include the following:

  • Audience/contact activity
  • E-commerce activity
  • Date-based events and data
  • Marketing channel activity
  • Integration and API events

Each of these is the broader conceptual group that you should think about when considering what you’re doing manually (or that you’re not doing at all because it would be too much work) that you could let the platform handle for you.

And I want to pause here and really emphasize this question:

What are you not doing because it’s too difficult and time-consuming?

This is the powerful point of automating some of the tasks that Mailchimp can undertake for you. It’s obviously wonderful if you can automate tasks you may have already been doing manually as discussed in some of the earlier examples in this chapter, but if you can create more contact points with your contacts...