We are a business directory (bloo.com.au) and work with capsule as our CRM & and freshbooks for billing and mailchimp for mail. Capsule is our central repository for our customer data but it gets it's data through an API with bloo.com.au. Can anyone advise of the best way to tag and manage these customers we have so that I can set up communication campaigns depending on the type of customer they are and also what products they have with us. Here is an example of the types of customers;
Type Examples;
New FREE listings
Edited FREE listings
New Paid Listings
Product Example;
basic, premium or ultimate listing (paid)
website
SEO
SEM
Is there a product that will enable a "less technical" member of my team to manage this. What is best practice here. Any help would be much appreciated.
Hello!
Great question. An answer here will be working off some assumptions but I think this can be addressed fairly directly.
If Capsule knows the listing type as fed from your site and it has the email address you're looking to mail with you'd want to build a report to output each of those variables. Difficulty level... probably 6/10 for most CRM users.
Once the reports are built they would dump to a CSV table(s). These could be batched and identified by a keycode given to Mailchimp or you could upload them to X number of different individual campaigns.
Depending on the frequency you need this process to occur you could probably do an API with Mailchimp and feed this same information to the same places though I'd expect to pay for it. The CSV dump is way more practical for most applications though, especially if you aren't updating your mailing file in real time.
We deal with stuff like this all the time for clients - if I can help with specific process design let's set up a call.
