Marketing Automation Flashcards
4 automation tools
triggered emails, automation studio, journey builder, api
Define triggered emails
one-off emails designed for immediate engagement, typically based on a data event occurring outside of SFMC. ie, shipping notices, purchse confirmations, welcome emails, registration confirmations
Define automation studio
runs on processes set up to run behind the scenes
Define journey builder
allows you to create 1 on 1 customer interactions at scale
Define API
programmatic source of automation, requires a developer
Steps to create a triggered email
Complete preparation (email, send classification, list or DE), create triggered email definition, put trigger in place via the API, start triggered send
Steps to create an automation
Starting sources, workflow
2 kinds of starting sources
Scheduled, file drop
Scheduled starting source
based on a schedule you define
File drop starting source
starts as soon as a file is placed on the FTP
How to create a file drop
configure folder on FTP, use filename pattern
Personalization strings available for filenaming
%%Year%%, %%Month%%, %%Day%%, %%Hour%%, %%Minute%%, %%Second%%
Build automation workflow using:
steps and activities
All activities within one step…
run concurrently, must execute successfully before beginning the next step
2 kinds of send activities
Send email activity, salesforce send email activity