Master the essential skills to transform your email marketing from manual sends to intelligent automation. This Short Course was created to help digital marketing professionals accomplish scalable, data-driven email campaigns that nurture leads automatically while delivering measurable results.
Automate, Evaluate, and Optimize Email Marketing
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Automate, Evaluate, and Optimize Email Marketing
This course is part of Digital Marketing Operations & Analytics Specialization
Instructor: John Whitworth
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Beginner level
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1 hour to complete
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What you'll learn
Email automation success depends on strategic sequence design, personalization, and rigorous quality assurance testing before launch.
Performance optimization is an iterative process that requires systematic comparison against industry benchmarks rather than internal metrics alone.
Effective marketing automation combines technical execution with analytical thinking to deliver consistent engagement improvements.
Sustainable email marketing growth comes from building repeatable processes for both campaign creation and performance evaluation.
Skills you'll gain
- Benchmarking
- Marketing Effectiveness
- Performance Analysis
- Automation
- Marketing Automation
- Marketing Analytics
- Email Marketing
- Performance Measurement
- Customer Engagement
- Performance Metric
- Email Automation
- HubSpot CRM
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Campaign Management
- Quality Assurance
- Personalized Service
- Content Performance Analysis
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January 2026
Taught in English
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This course is part of the Digital Marketing Operations & Analytics Specialization
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There are 2 modules in this course
Learners will master the technical execution of email automation by building multi-part sequences with personalization tokens and conducting comprehensive quality assurance testing.
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1 video1 reading2 assignments
Learners will develop systematic approaches to analyzing email campaign performance using industry benchmarks and implementing data-driven optimization strategies.
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2 readings3 assignments
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