Did you and your team create an awesome email that you want to share with another unit at CU? With Marketing Cloud there is no need to re-invent the wheel. Provide a few key pieces of information to your eComm specialist and they can share the email between the two units.
Email journeys deliver personalized and engaging communications to constituents using automation through the Journey Builder tool in Marketing Cloud. Journeys can be as complicated as a series of emails sent over a year with various decision splits to as simple as a single email sent once a year.
The eComm Help Ticket is a robust resource designed specifically for eComm and is constantly updated. Check out an overview of the process (including a peek of the back end), benefits to those requesting help and those providing support, plus common missteps to avoid.
Person of Interest or POI data is used for Contacts with a non-traditional, close affiliation with CU. As of August 2024, POIs make up 47K+ Contacts. Some examples include Security / Training, Volunteer and Student-Athlete.
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.
Effective email marketing is data-driven and should not be viewed as set it and forget it. As an email marketer, looking at reliable metrics when analyzing your email marketing performance is essential. Using your own data as a benchmark is the best practice for determining if you are meeting your goals or need to optimize to improve performance.
Upgrades occur all the time, but it doesn't always alter email marketing practices. Many email client upgrades over the last few years will enhance privacy for recipients, gradually resulting in inflated, artificial engagement rates for email marketers. With a key piece of reportable data becoming more unreliable, we must reconsider how success is measured.
Beginning on February 1, 2022, Marketing Cloud will require multi-factor authentication (MFA) upon login as an additional security precaution. Learn more about MFA and how to enable it in this wiki.
