Think Outside the Inbox: Email Marketing is the fourth of seven courses in the Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate. This course will explore how to execute a successful email marketing campaign. Email marketing is one of the oldest and most proven digital marketing channels, and it is an essential component of an overall digital marketing strategy. Email is a primary channel for many businesses in reaching existing customers, encouraging interaction with the business, driving purchases, and building loyalty. In this course, you’ll explore email marketing and cover topics like: creating an email marketing strategy, executing email campaigns, and measuring the results of those campaigns. You’ll also learn how to use mailing lists and utilize automation and workflows.
This course is part of the Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
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What you will learn
Understand how email marketing fits into a digital marketing strategy
Write effective email copy, subject lines, and preview text
Test, execute, and optimize an email marketing campaign
Measure and analyze email campaign results
Skills you will gain
- Email Writing
- Email list segmentation
- Email marketing strategy
- Email marketing analytics
- Contact management
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction to think outside the inbox: email marketing
You will explore what email marketing is, how it works, and why it’s useful. You’ll also learn the importance of email marketing to meet business goals. Then, you’ll use the PESTLE and SWOT frameworks to set SMART email marketing goals. To wrap up week 1, you’ll learn best practices in email marketing and how to apply them.
Types of email marketing
You will examine the most common types of marketing emails. First, you’ll learn about emails that greet customers, like acquisition emails and welcome emails. Next, you’ll learn about emails that entice subscribers, such as newsletters and promotional emails. You’ll focus on emails that keep customers, known as retention emails. Then, you’ll explore how to craft catchy email copy, write sample subject lines, and create preview text for marketing emails.
Useful tools for email marketing
You will learn about useful tools for email marketing. You’ll determine how to create and segment email lists. You’ll also learn how to write effective emails that engage with customers. After that, you'll explore email marketing tools like HubSpot and Mailchimp and learn how they work. Then, you’ll explore crisis management and how to correct mistakes in email marketing.
Collect and analyze email campaign data
You will learn about the key metrics in email marketing, such as open rate, click-through rate, unsubscribe rate, complaint rate, conversion rate, bounce rate, and more. You’ll examine how to measure, track, and analyze email campaign results. Then, you’ll learn how to effectively present email campaign results to stakeholders by creating an email marketing campaign report.
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TOP REVIEWS FROM THINK OUTSIDE THE INBOX: EMAIL MARKETING
Very good course on email marketing and why it is so important in the field.
The best marketing training I've ever taken. Loved this course!
This course is very fun and it really brought out my potential as a marketer!
interesting stats, great examples with images, quiz questions related to content but challenging, provide several usable tools
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