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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

E-Commerce Integrations

In the previous chapter, Chapter 13, we covered how to set up a store in the Mailchimp application if you don’t already have an existing e-commerce footprint. In this chapter, however, if you are already using another shopping or e-commerce platform, we’ll go over some of the benefits of connecting that platform to your Mailchimp account and what some of the most common and popular integrations are.

In this chapter, we’ll go over the following:

  • Featured commerce integrations
  • The movement of information between platforms
  • How to expand your marketing efforts with your commerce data

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I want to be sure to clarify what we mean by integration within the context of Mailchimp. Integration here is used to refer to an application serving as an intermediary to pass data from one platform to another. These integrations can be developed by Mailchimp or another developer (for example,...