Plan your email marketing campaigns effectively to maximise reach and engagement

Do you want your emails to reach inboxes and engage your audiences to take action?

On this two-week course, you’ll learn how to plan and implement proven best-practice and tactics to help you get the most from your email marketing.

Drive your business objectives with successful email campaigns

You’ll gain the skills and knowledge to build effective email campaigns that drive your business objectives and create value for your audience.

Exploring key stages in the process, you’ll learn how to take your campaigns from start to finish. From campaign planning, collecting data, opt-in rules, segmentation, targeting, and deliverability, through to content, design, and measuring effectiveness.

Learn how to use proven email marketing tools and techniques

You will learn to create and design emails that work. Emails that are persuasive, timely, and drive action, with a clean design and clear structure that can be displayed in different email clients. You’ll also consider the onward journey and how your emails tie in with other marketing activities, such as your website, landing pages, or social media.

Looking at how to measure the effectiveness of your email marketing, you’ll learn about key measures such as open rates, click-through rates, and conversions, and explore the role of testing and using data to continually improve performance.

Acquire email marketing skills to improve campaigns and boost your CV

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to plan effective email campaigns by following best practice approaches and how to deliver campaigns that drive engagement.

You’ll learn with experts Target Internet, who will share their expertise from working with brands such as the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oreal, and Warner Bros.

What topics will you cover?

Email marketing campaign planning
Opt-in rules and data collection
Segmentation and targeting
Deliverability
Designing emails that work
The role of testing in email
Measuring email effectiveness

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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...

Explore how to build campaigns that drive engagement
Explore the role of deliverability and maximise delivery rates
Identify how to measure the effectiveness of email marketing and use this data to take an approach of on-going improvement
Demonstrate how to plan effective email campaigns by following a best-practice approach to opt-in, segmentation and targeting

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?

Daniel Rowles

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
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World 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.

About this ExpertTrack

Learn how to build high-performing email marketing campaigns, from targeting the right audience to email analytics and analysis.

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