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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

This chapter discussed taking the next steps to ensure that your content is specific and relevant to the people in your audience and the tools available for identifying different subsets of people. This is because we know that a more engaged audience generally results in higher metrics and revenue.

In this chapter, we have gained a sense of why we want to be using groups, tags, and segments and how targeting more specific content can lead to more engagement. We also nailed down how to set up groups and determine the reasons we might want either a visible group option or hidden groups. There is some difference between groups and tags, and we learned how tags can be used to build up contact data and how that helps us to get the best initial use of segments. Finally, we learned how to use segments in the audience interface and enable the app to update and maintain these for us.

Now that we know the basics of segmenting, let’s next take a look at how we can use it...