Three effective methods for managing multilingual email marketing campaigns

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Three effective methods for managing multilingual email marketing campaigns

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The way in which we manage campaigns will be highly determined by the capabilities offered by our technology provider, whether it is an Email Service Provider or a Marketing Cloud. But having a highly capable platform is not enough to achieve optimized management of an international Email and Marketing Automation program with multiple language versions. It is necessary to be imaginative and approach campaign management with an innovative mindset that exploits the full potential of technology. Below, we present three possible ways to manage an international or multilingual email marketing program.

1. N campaigns to N segments
This is the most common method when we have few germany mobile phone number list countries to manage, as it is quick and easy. It involves creating a different campaign for each market. It will consist of uploading the HTMLs for each country, with their respective language versions, utms, subjects, preheaders, links, etc., to the individual campaign created on the platform . All the content is directly inserted into the html and we have a campaign for each country. It is a simple and effective method, but when the number of versions (countries) exceeds 5 or 6, the total time consumed increases to such an extent that management efficiency decreases.


2. 1 campaign to 1 segment group with unique HTMLs per language version
In this model, a single campaign will be created on the delivery platform. The campaign contains query codes to call the different HTML for each country (html, subject, utm, links, etc.). The criteria for selecting which content each user should receive will normally be the country/language field in the database associated with the user's email. The main work will be to create the HTMLs corresponding to each market and upload them to the platform beforehand . We will also create an html that will be the one we will load in the campaign and that will make the query and determine which html to select based on the user's data. We will do the same with the subjects.


We will list all the subjects for each country and apply a conditional query to display one or the other depending on the user's country/language. In the particular case of UTMs, depending on the platform, management can be done in such a way that a UTM is built dynamically by combining the name of the campaign, generic and common for all versions, with the specific country/language of the user. In this way, visits and conversions can be differentiated for each country, from a single campaign.

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3. 1 campaign to 1 segment group with content management on the platform
In this case, we find a logic similar to the previous one, with the difference that we will not have the HTMLs created in advance for each of the countries, but rather these will be fed from a data table uploaded to the platform and will be created dynamically as the campaign is sent. The basis of this way of managing international campaigns is the use of the customization functionalities by variables of the sending platform. In most cases, the sending platforms allow the use of conditionals to define the content to be displayed according to the value of a field in the database.

With this option, content creation is done on the platform, so in our HTML we will have different variables to fill in the texts, links, and images for each country based on the data available in the campaign table. Common elements can already be pre-loaded in the HTML and in the case that there are specific content blocks for some markets, we can create sections with conditionals so that this entire block is shown only to users from a specific country/language.
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