Looking for an easier way to migrate email templates as you prepare to move into a Salesforce marketing automation platform (MAP) from a legacy system?
You’ve already decided to migrate to a Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement or Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot). It took countless hours of analysis and planning — involving practically everyone on your marketing team — to get to this point. And it’ll take months more to get it done.
You explored and evaluated several MAPs and selected the ideal one from Salesforce. It’s one that can deliver incredible value for your organization. And it’s the most intelligent decision you could have made.
Or have you?
If your MAP migration happens without a Stensul™ email creation platform added simultaneously to your marketing automation technology stack, this critical initiative will take more time and money than even your sharpest projections suggest.
Here’s how an email creation platform makes migration to a Salesforce MAP faster and more cost effective.
Eliminate the need to recheck or recreate all of your email templates
A Stensul email creation platform lets you reuse your templates regardless of which MAP or email service provider (ESP) you’ve been using. This lets you avoid the cost of paying developers to do that work.
With Stensul, the chance for code to break during the recreation process is zero.
Decrease dependence on external resources for email creation
Because the Stensul email creation platform lets non-technical people create quality, on-brand emails, there’s no need to outsource email creation to an external agency.
If you opt not to handle any email creation, you can still leverage an agency, having them create emails in Stensul in a fraction of the time. With fewer billable hours applied to email creation, you can use the agency for other services — like strategy development.
Even if the agency is miles away from your marketing operation, Stensul gives you visibility into the entire process, at every step for real-time collaboration and instant feedback.
Reduce email creation training time and cost drastically
When your team is exposed to new software and faced with a new, complex system, like a MAP, there’s typically training involved. And lots of it at a hefty cost.
Let’s say the hourly cost rate of a marketer who handles email creation is $100. It generally takes 10 hours to get them comfortable building emails in a new MAP. That’s a minimum of $1,000 per team member.
Now multiply that across your entire team. It will add up fast.
Beyond that, there are inevitable glitches and fumbles when using a new MAP to create emails. When that happens, it’s a bottleneck that causes everything associated with the MAP to grind to a halt. And that’s an additional cost of consequence.
Cut time in half when migrating email to a new MAP
It takes half the time to get marketers up to speed using a new MAP — regardless of brand — when using an email creation platform like Stensul. Consider that most email migrations take two to three months to get set up in a new MAP when Stensul isn’t in place. That makes your return on your investment in the new Salesforce MAP take that much longer, and it will cost more.
If you’re looking to move to a new MAP, like Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Pardot, then consider incorporating a Stensul email creation platform into the process. It will simplify, speed up, and save costs associated with the migration process. What’s more, is it will make email creation far more efficient. Get your copy of “An Introduction to Email Creation Platforms” to learn more.
