Considerations regarding email automation
In this section, we wanted to share some considerations when using email automation that may help give some insights and context to help you in the future:
- When creating an automation, you should make the email content as dynamic as possible (pulling in via AMPscript or lookups or referencing other blocks) to allow for easy changes, updates, and implementation of new content. Do note that with Journey Emails, Triggered Emails, and Transactional Emails, you will need to pause and republish the trigger in order for it to work.
- Along with the email automation, you should utilize either an import process or SQL queries to update and prepare the sendable data as part of the same automation or prior to entry at the least. Relational data that is used should be updated prior to sending and made sure to be completed beforehand as well to keep it as up to date as possible.
- Creating a journey for drip campaigns or other series of emails...