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.
Most communicators agree that email personalization leads to higher engagement rates among constituents. But what happens when first name personalization goes awry and we end up alienating the exact audience with whom we want to engage?
Ready to elevate your constituent's experience with your email? Consider using an attribute (such as preferred name) to personalize your communication.
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.
Although CU communicators engage with over 1.5 million contacts through Salesforce and Marketing Cloud, each contact represents an important member of the CU family. Contacts have their own interests, relationships with CU, and email preferences. Let your constituents know that they are important and recognized by using first name or salutation personalization tags in your email.
You might notice data in Salesforce that needs changed. This could be merging of duplicates or updating an email address, name or address. Learn about why these duplicates occur, how they are merged and how to update email/name/address information.
Leverage numerous sets of CU, CU Anschutz and UCCS branded templates to increase the effectiveness of your communications. Each set contains numerous templates each so you can vary your email design (ie. a newsletter vs. an invite) while maintaining a similar look and feel.
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.
