Use Marketing Cloud Content Builder to create dynamic content to deliver a targeted message to an audience while remaining efficient. Dynamic content lets you connect attributes of your audience to content, making the information your constituents receive more relevant.
Walk through the materials below to build your knowledge of how eComm approaches CAN-SPAM, the federal law that pertain to you as a communicator of CU. Confirm you understand the basics with a quick quiz.
After ensuring that preferred name personalization is possible given your population, Reports and Data Extensions need to be created (or updated) by an eComm specialist to contain the appropriate preferred name field in Salesforce.
eComm specialists are responsible for creating audiences in Salesforce and Marketing Cloud. This often involves starting with a Salesforce Campaign to be converted to a Salesforce Report.
If you need to send communications to internal audiences (faculty, staff or students) you'll want it delivered to their campus email addresses (eg; @colorado.edu, @ucdenver.edu, @cu.edu or @uccs.edu), To do so, you'll need to send to a Data Extension. Your eComm specialist will create the Data Extension but it's the sender's responsibility to re'Start' it before each send.
Checklists and simple how-tos are an easy and effective method to ensure a quality product goes out the door every single time. eComm's most successful users embrace checklists regardless of how many successful emails or events they have already sent or hosted.
Creating a good looking email in Marketing Cloud is one thing, but ensuring it displays well across inboxes is a greater challenge. Learn to apply three best practices when using text blocks to have confidence in how it renders for recipients.
We know how cluttered your Marketing Cloud account can get if you are a frequent sender. Use these different types of folders (and other tips) to stay organized.
To help minimize the potential for CAN-SPAM violations, eComm has the ability to automatically refresh data extensions that have been found to be non-compliant (i.e., not refreshed/imported before their use in an email send). Non-compliant data extensions can be identified and added to the process in two ways. Learn more.
