Think Outside the Inbox: Email Marketing is the fourth of seven courses in the Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate. This course will explore how to execute a successful email marketing campaign. Email marketing is one of the oldest and most proven digital marketing channels, and it is an essential component of an overall digital marketing strategy. Email is a primary channel for many businesses in reaching existing customers, encouraging interaction with the business, driving purchases, and building loyalty. In this course, you’ll explore email marketing and cover topics like: creating an email marketing strategy, executing email campaigns, and measuring the results of those campaigns. You’ll also learn how to use mailing lists and utilize automation and workflows.
Think Outside the Inbox: Email Marketing
This course is part of Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
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Understand how email marketing fits into a digital marketing strategy
Write effective email copy, subject lines, and preview text
Test, execute, and optimize an email marketing campaign
Measure and analyze email campaign results
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There are 5 modules in this course
You will explore what email marketing is, how it works, and why it’s useful. You’ll also learn the importance of email marketing to meet business goals. Then, you’ll use the PESTLE and SWOT frameworks to set SMART email marketing goals. To wrap up module 1, you’ll learn best practices in email marketing and how to apply them.
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You will examine the most common types of marketing emails. First, you’ll learn about emails that greet customers, like acquisition emails and welcome emails. Next, you’ll learn about emails that entice subscribers, such as newsletters and promotional emails. You’ll focus on emails that keep customers, known as retention emails. Then, you’ll explore how to craft catchy email copy, write sample subject lines, and create preview text for marketing emails.
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You will learn about useful tools for email marketing. You’ll determine how to create and segment email lists. You’ll also learn how to write effective emails that engage with customers. After that, you'll explore email marketing tools like HubSpot and Mailchimp and learn how they work. Then, you’ll explore crisis management and how to correct mistakes in email marketing.
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You will learn about the key metrics in email marketing, such as open rate, click-through rate, unsubscribe rate, complaint rate, conversion rate, bounce rate, and more. You’ll examine how to measure, track, and analyze email campaign results. Then, you’ll learn how to effectively present email campaign results to stakeholders by creating an email marketing campaign report.
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You will create, manage, track, and complete a mock email marketing campaign. You’ll be given a fictional business to build the email campaign around, and you’ll employ all the strategies, tools, and tricks you’ve learned during this course to complete the campaign. First, you’ll set SMART goals for your campaign. Then, you’ll segment your email list and complete an email series. Finally, you’ll complete the campaign and end the course by analyzing the results of the campaign and presenting them to stakeholders.
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Reviewed on Jun 4, 2023
I liked the course it did cover a lot of information . I feel there could have been more material and assignments to make you more familiar and confident. I will surely recommend it to others.
Reviewed on Sep 25, 2022
I've learn the complete concept of Email Marketing through this course, and most important is able to get lots of template for goal setting , data reporting purpose. Thanks Coursera :)
Reviewed on Oct 7, 2022
I'll say this is my best ourse so far. I enjoyed myself throughout the entire process. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me , as an e mail marketer. Thank you Miriam.
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Frequently asked questions
Digital marketing is about connecting people and brands online. Digital marketing uses social media, display advertising, email, search engines, and other online channels to attract and engage customers, encourage them to make purchases, and build customer loyalty.
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Digital marketing and e-commerce specialists perform a variety of tasks related to advertising and selling online. Different companies define these roles in various ways, but there is often overlap between them. Some common responsibilities include planning and creating ads and other content for websites, social media, and email; optimizing content for search engines; analyzing data to gain marketing insights; managing online stores; and creating and updating product listings.
During the pandemic, hiring for digital marketing and e-commerce related jobs boomed as more businesses moved online—between February and April 2020, e-commerce grew more than it had in the previous decade. Research shows that there were 40,000+ digital marketing and e-commerce job openings in the past 12 months in the U.S., and the number of available roles is projected to grow in the coming years. The rise of automation, machine learning, and new technologies in e-commerce and digital marketing means candidates will be expected to demonstrate knowledge in the use of digital technologies, which is currently a skills gap that leaves roles unfilled. People can prepare for jobs in these fields through this new entry-level Google Career Certificate.