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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

Popular CRM and connectivity integrations and why to connect them

CRM software is generally utilized to maintain information about a business’s sales, transactions, accounting, and other operational data so that it’s centrally accessible. From a growth standpoint, CRMs are designed to help you to conceptualize your engagement funnel with customers. If you think about your overall customer ecosystem, somewhere in your funnel there might be people who are prospective clients of yours. Let’s say we sell a physical product in wholesale quantities, and there are people who have reached out to us expressing an interest in carrying our product on their website or in a physical store.

These types of contacts may exist in our CRM as a prospect, but would not be in our marketing funnel currently because they have not provided consent to receive marketing (for email marketing, you must receive consent to abide by CAN-SPAM and other anti-spam laws). However, as we work...