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Digital Marketing with Drupal

By : José Fernandes
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Digital Marketing with Drupal

By: José Fernandes

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open-source platform for building ambitious digital experiences. With this practical guide to digital marketing, developers working with Drupal will be able to put their knowledge to work and boost the performance of their online marketing campaigns. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will take you through the most popular digital marketing techniques and how to apply them, including content marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, SEO, SEM, CRM, and marketing automation, and the latest developments in website personalization and AI marketing. Once you've learned the fundamentals of digital marketing, you'll see how to apply them to your Drupal website or online store. In addition, you'll discover how Drupal can help you better manage your tasks and automate some of them. The book will help you discover the free modules available, how to use them, and how to integrate Drupal with external marketing-related platforms and services. By the end of this Drupal digital marketing book, you'll be able to build and deploy a complete digital marketing platform on top of Drupal to reach a greater audience and achieve online success.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Digital Marketing
4
Section 2: Market Your Drupal Website
11
Section 3: Boost Drupal's Digital Marketing to New Heights

Team management with Drupal

The Burndown module is a more general and agile project management tool. It's a great tool to help your team manage the myriad of tasks that a digital marketing team needs to do. It's very flexible, allowing you to manage your own and your customers' digital marketing workflows with its Kanban-style layout.

You can manage individual clients, represented as projects, or have only one project – if you are only marketing your own brand. Each digital marketing channel task can be identified by a channel tag, using Drupal's taxonomy system.

Let's see how to install, configure, and use the Burndown module to manage marketing-related tasks:

  1. Install the Burndown module as usual (https://www.drupal.org/project/burndown).
  2. Next, you need to create a project at /burndown/project.

Figure 9.8 – Creation of a new project

There are many ways you can organize your work, but one of the...