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Time-saving automation ideas for your marketing team

  • Last Updated : January 24, 2025
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Let's say your marketing team is gearing up for a big product launch. The campaign will involve email outreach, social media posts, ad targeting, and tracking leads through multiple platforms. The clock is ticking, and your team is bogged down by manual tasks—copying lead data from one app to another, scheduling posts across platforms, and ensuring email lists are updated in real time. Despite everyone’s best efforts, errors creep in, deadlines are missed, and the team feels overwhelmed.
Sound familiar?

This is a common challenge for many marketing teams juggling multiple tools and workflows. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way.

Marketing automation offers a solution, enabling businesses to connect apps, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline operations for better efficiency. With the right marketing automation tools, your marketing team can focus on strategy and creativity instead of administrative tasks.

Zoho Flow is one such tool that can transform the way your team works. By automating workflows and connecting your favorite marketing apps, Zoho Flow empowers you to save time and eliminate errors.

Here are a few practical, time-saving automation ideas to help you automate important marketing tasks that can solve common marketing challenges using Zoho Flow.

Lead generation

While there are different sources available to generate leads like forms, social media, webinars, and more, you must have all those leads added as contacts in your CRM for your further marketing activities. CRM marketing automation can help you eliminate the manual effort involved in transferring leads from any of your apps to CRM.

Here are a few CRM marketing automation ideas to streamline lead generation using Zoho Flow.

Forms

Connect form builder applications like Zoho Forms or Google Forms with CRM applications like Zoho CRM, SalesForce, or HubSpot to automatically add form entries as contacts in your CRM.

 

Create leads in Zoho CRM and subscribers in MailChimp from Zoho Form responses.

 

Social media

Similarly, by integrating your social media platforms, like X or YouTube, with your CRM applications, you will be able to add any new followers or new engagements with your posts or ads as leads in your CRM.

eCommerce

Another simple yet effective CRM marketing automation idea is to have your ecommerce platforms like Shopify or WooCommerce integrated with CRM apps like Zoho CRM. This will ensure that any lead that creates an order in your ecommerce platform is automatically a part of your CRM app.

 

Add new Zoho CRM contacts to Shopify

 

Webinars and other events

Be it webinars or any other offline or online event, it is important to have a way to collect lead information. To automate this process, integrate event management applications like EventBrite with your CRM apps.

 

Add new Eventbrite attendees to Zoho CRM as contacts
Create Hubspot tasks for new Eventbrite events

 

Email marketing

Email marketing is still considered to be one of the most efficient marketing methods, offering businesses the opportunity to communicate with your leads directly and customize content based on their behavior. Here are a few email marketing processes that you can automate using Zoho Flow to save time and effort.

Add leads to mailing lists

Whenever a new lead registers for your business, you would ideally want to have them as a part of your email marketing plans. To do so, you must add them to your mailing list. This process can be automated by integrating different applications like form builders, CRMs, and ecommerce platforms with email marketing apps like MailChimp.

 

Create leads in Zoho CRM and subscribers in MailChimp from Zoho Form responses.
Add a new subscriber to Mailchimp when an appointment is made in Zoho Bookings
Add or update subscribers in Mailchimp when a new order is created in WooCommerce

 

Reminder emails

When someone abandons a cart in your ecommerce platform, a reminder email can be one of the ways to help them get back to it. Similarly, when an event is supposed to happen, sending out reminder emails a week or a day before the event can help you generate more registrations.

Confirmation emails

When a sale is complete, sending out confirmation emails about the completion by integrating ecommerce platforms like Shopify with mailing applications like Zoho Mail can help. Also, a similar integration between Shopify or WooCommerce and Zoho Books can send out instant invoices when a sale is complete.

 

Create an invoice in Zoho Books when a new order is created in WooCommerce

 

Communication

Communication is key when it comes to marketing. Communication with your leads, as well as within your organization, can be beneficial as it will ensure clarity for all parties involved.

Communicate with leads

Offering the opportunity for your leads to communicate with your business at any given time can boost your chances of converting leads. By integrating ecommerce platforms like Shopify with desk applications like Zoho Desk, every time a new inquiry is raised, they can be instantly addressed, as a ticket will automatically be created in your desk app.

Communication between teams

By integrating various applications within your organization, like CRM, desk applications, ecommerce platforms, with messaging applications like Zoho Cliq or Slack, every time there is an update in any of these apps, you or your team will get notified, helping you plan your next steps.

 

Send a message in Zoho Cliq when calls details are updated in Bigin
Post a message in Zoho Cliq when an appointment gets canceled in Zoho Bookings
Send Slack messages when Zoho CRM deals reach a specific stage

 

Analytics

By integrating your lead generation applications, like forms builders, event management, and other such applications, with BI applications like Zoho Analytics, you will be able to find a pattern within your available leads, helping you create content catered to each set of audiences. A similar integration between your CRM applications and BI applications can also result in the same.

 

 

Marketing Automation

Zoho Marketing Automation is a multi-channel marketing solution that can help you run all of your marketing activities across multiple channels—like email, social media, and SMS—and track their performances. It can also help you create conventional email campaigns by creating journeys, email sequences, and more.

With the help of Zoho Flow, you can integrate Zoho Marketing Automation with other apps to streamline your marketing process more efficiently. For example, by integrating Zoho Marketing Automation with appointment scheduling apps like Zoho Bookings or Checkfront, any new appointment bookings will be added as leads in your Zoho Marketing Automation platform.

 

Add new Checkfront customers as leads in Zoho Marketing Automation

 

These are a few time saving marketing automation ideas that can help you save time and effort. Zoho Flow is an integration platform that offers integrations between more than 1,000 applications, letting you create customized workflows with your marketing automation tools, helping you streamline marketing.

Sign up with Zoho Flow and start integrating today.

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