Email Marketing eCRM: CRM and Marketing Automation
Learn how to use advanced email marketing tools such as CRM and marketing automation for effective digital marketing.
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2 weeksWeekly study
3 hours
Email Marketing eCRM: CRM and Marketing Automation
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Explore the role of CRM and marketing automation to improve your email marketing
To get the most out of your email marketing, you need the right tools to store your email lists, create and send email campaigns, and track your results.
On this two-week course, you will be guided through the technology options available to you, from selecting the right systems to making the best use of their functionality, helping you work smarter with email marketing.
Discover the right email service provider for your business
There are lots of different email service providers (ESPs), from the basic through to highly sophisticated ones. These tools can store your customer data, tag characteristics, put people into lists, build rules to trigger emails, score email leads, and more. The course will help you explore what these tools do, how they’re used, and the overlap and differences between them.
You’ll learn about the role of customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation and how you can use them to dramatically improve your user journeys and maximise your organisational goals.
Understand how to get the most from CRM and marketing automation
You will also learn how to implement an effective approach to automation to improve reach, engagement, and conversion. Topics include identifying opportunities to collect data, triggered email and workflows, chat-bots, personalisation, ad targeting, testing, measurement, and iteration.
By the end, you’ll understand the role of ESPs, CRM, and marketing automation, how to choose the right platform for your business, and how to get the most from them.
Learn from digital marketing experts, Target Internet with The Open University
You’ll benefit from practical training content created by experts who have provided expertise to brands including the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oreal, and Warner Bros.
What topics will you cover?
- CRM and marketing automation in perspective
- The ESP, CRM and marketing automation overlap
- Opportunities for data collection
- Triggered email and workflows
- Going beyond email – content, chatbots and targeting
- Testing, measurement and iteration
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Evaluate the different use cases and ways of using CRM and automation to improve user journeys and maximise organisational goals
- Explain the role of measurement and data to create an approach of on-going campaign improvement
- Explain how to use CRM and automation systems for email, as well as how they can be used for chat-bots, personalisation, and ad targeting
- Explore the differences between ESPs, CRM, and marketing automation platforms
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for those who are interested in deepening their understanding of email marketing as part of their overall approach to digital marketing.
It will be of particular interest to anyone wishing to further their studies and practical knowledge of marketing, communications, and business.
Who will you learn with?
MD TargetInternet.com - helping upskill the world's leading organisations in Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.
Host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, a global top 20 business podcast.
Who developed the course?
The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
Target Internet
Target Internet delivers digital training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide. As publishers of the global Digital Marketing Skills Benchmark and the Digital Marketing Podcast, they have unrivalled access to market insights and expertise.
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- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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