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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

When do I delete?

The direct answer to that question should be made carefully and with forethought. Deletion actions are permanent and cannot be reversed.

It’s a feature that was added in response to users’ need to stay compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR was adopted in spring 2016 and became enforceable in spring 2018, which meant that businesses and organizations that collect or utilize personally identifiable information of people located in the EU needed tools to help them stay compliant. Mailchimp offers tools to add to your sign-up forms to gather GDPR-compliant consent in the event that you have EU contacts, but it also offers a GDPR-compliant deletion mechanism, which is more relevant to this chapter.

The way this deletion deviates from archiving and unsubscribing is that it will delete all information associated with the contact profile and anonymize their email address in your reports. Once a contact...