{"id":80,"date":"2017-05-03T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datrm.in\/?p=80"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:25:05","slug":"mailchimp-marketing-automation-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contactdrive.sitecenter.us\/mailchimp-marketing-automation-now-free\/","title":{"rendered":"MailChimp marketing automation: now free"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the easiest ways to leverage ContactDrive’s awesome marketing automation features is to connect your account with MailChimp. And now, MailChimp just made their own tools even easier — and cheaper.\n

The popular email marketing provider just announced that their marketing automation features, previously only available on a paid plan, are now included with even their free offerings.\n

This means that ContactDrive users interested in really leveraging our tools to build better relationships now have more — and more affordable — options to achieve their goals. Check out how MailChimp describes it in their announcement post:\n

Whether you operate an online store, head a nonprofit, or run a creative side project, automation makes it easy to send the right message to the right people at exactly the right time, giving you a competitive edge without burning a hole in your budget.\n

As competition increases to break through, marketing automation is so critical to quickly reaching the right audiences with the right message through the right channels.\n

To help you get started, we walk through the steps of setting up an automated workflow in this blog post. MailChimp has some great resources about their automation tools here.\n

How does marketing automation work?\n

What can you do with a smart automation strategy? A few approaches might be to:\n