Email Marketing Flashcards
What is email marketing?
Email marketing is a tool that helps send mass emails, track replies, and reports on them.
What is marketing automation?
Marketing automation is a solution that allows you to more effectively market on multiple channels online (such as email, social media, website and automate) repetitive tasks.
What is the difference between email marketing and marketing automation?
Email marketing is a tool - controlling only email sending. While marketing automation is a comprehensive strategy - automating the process of interacting with prospects and customers through all channels.
Website, social media, emails
What is permission based marketing?
Permission based marketing is based on customers and prospects who have consented to receiving emails
How does email marketing relate to marketing automation?
Email marketing is a tool used in a larger marketing automation strategy.
What are permission-based emails?
Emails that are requested and relevant
what is spam or unsolicited emails?
Spam is unsolicited commercial email, junk mail, or bulk mail that hasn’t been requested by the recipient.
how to comply with CAN-SPAM guidelines?
- Don’t use false or misleading header information
- Identify the message as an ad.
- Tell recipients where you’re located.
- Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you.
What email authentication does pardot use?
(SPF) Sender Policy Framework
(DKIM) DomainKeys Identified Mail
Why do people mark legal emails as spam?
- Time: Too much time has passed between collecting the email and sending it, and your recipients forgot they were subscribed.
- Consent: Your email lists are not fully subscribed.
- Volume: You send too many emails too often.
- In-Person Signups: Your prospects signed up at a trade show or other event and don’t remember signing up.
- Partner lists: You’re sending to a partner or co-marketing list, and recipients don’t associate the dots between your emails and the list they initially signed up for.
How can I avoid false spam complaints?
- Send an email to your prospects soon after they sign up.
- Use a confirmed subscription process.
- Never use purchased lists.
- If you’re emailing potential customers who registered at a trade show or other event, remind them how you got their email address.
- Ask subscribers how often they want to receive your emails.
- Request permission to send emails and document it. If requesting permission to send email over the phone, send a personalized email after the call thanking the prospect for signing up.
how would you Keep your deliverability rates high?
By managing your lists well and avoiding emailing unengaged prospects. using a dynamic list to suppress unengaged leads from receiving emails from Pardot.
What would poor database maintenance habits affect?
score and the deliverability of your emails
What are the benefits of keeping good database maintenance habits?
- keep you connected with the most engaged prospects
- protect your sending reputation
- help increase your return on investment (ROI)
What ways could you keep good database maintenance habits?
- Re-engage dormant leads
- Delete old leads
- Ask potential customers to resubscribe
- Use a list cleaning service
Select the correct strategy for growing your opt-in audience by using the email you’re already sending
build in “forward to a friend” functionality in your email campaign
How would you define the audience for your email?
you can use different criteria and field values in Pardot’s automation tools to segment your prospects in a variety of ways
How would you create the audience for your email?
Automation tools
- automation rules
- segmentation rules
- completion actions
- page actions
- Dynamic lists
How would you Customization and personalization your emails?
Variable tags
Dynamic content
What is a variable tag?
Variable tags you use content from your prospect records to personalize your emails.
variable tags are populated based on the field values found on the prospect record.
What is dynamic content?
Dynamic content ensures subscribers receive messages targeted to their interests.
content is displayed according to rules that you define based on values within a subscriber’s record