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Build automations with triggers, filters and goals to streamline your marketing, sales, workflows and more in Ontraport.
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Lessons for Automations
With automations, you can create expert funnels and processes to streamline your marketing, sales, workflows and more. Here’s an overview of how it all works.
You'll learn
- How automations work
- How automations move contacts through your customer journey
- To use Performance Mode to track automations in real-time
- The power of automation elements like goals, triggers and actions
- The kinds of records you can use in your automations (Spoiler: It’s not just contacts!)
Take a quick tour through Ontraport’s Automation Builder to get acquainted with the tools and elements you’ll need to get started.
You'll learn
- Where to find the Automation Builder in Ontraport
- How to add a trigger that kicks off every automation
- Ways to tweak and rearrange your automation maps
- Where to adjust settings for each step of your automation
- Where to find automation tools like revision history, checklists, team notes and more
- How to save and publish your automations
Learn how triggers add the right contacts to your automations at just the right times.
You'll learn
- The purpose (and power) of triggers
- How to add the right contacts to your automations (and exclude everyone else)
- How to trigger new steps for contacts who are already on your automation maps
- The way to kick off automations at a specific date or time
- How to use triggers to see where your contacts are coming from
- Settings options for new triggers
The “wait” element lets you create pauses between steps in your automations. Here’s a deep dive into using waits and their various settings.
You'll learn
- The purpose of waits in automations
- The five ways to use a wait element
- How to adjust your wait settings based on timezone
- Which settings to adjust before using waits in your automations
Goals represent an action you want contacts to take in your automations, like making a purchase. Find out how they work in this deep dive.
You'll learn
- The purpose of goals in Ontraport automations
- How to create multiple paths for your contacts in an automation using goals
- The difference between goals and triggers
- How to configure your goal settings
- Tips for what should happen when contacts reach a goal (or don’t)
- How goals interact with other elements, like triggers and waits
Create multiple personalized paths on your automation maps with the filter element following this deep dive tutorial.
You'll learn
- The purpose of filters in Ontraport
- When and how to use the five different types of filters: conditions, forks, splits, go-to, and end/exit
- Strategies for split testing emails, pages and more with filters
- How to configure your settings for each type of filter
- How to compare the results of multiple paths on your automation map
- How to end any automation flow
Create a fully functional lead magnet and nurturing automation step-by-step, using all the tools you’ve learned about.
You'll learn
- The strategy behind a lead magnet offer
- The way to use triggers to get your automation rolling
- How to set up a string of relevant follow-up messages
- The strategy for creating a long-term lead nurture funnel
- How to wrap up your automation when a contact makes a purchase
Take a tour of Performance Mode to see your live automation results, where they’re coming from and where to focus your efforts next.
You'll learn
- How to use the six reports available in Performance Mode
- How to view all the contacts at a certain point in your automation map
- How to interpret the data you see in Performance Mode
- How to adjust the date range in your reports
- How to gauge the performance of your emails, pages and more
- When to use each Performance Mode metric
Find out how to test your automations to catch any errors before publishing to your contacts.
You'll learn
- How to avoid common hiccups like wrong emails, bad flow, inconsistency or holes in your system
- The way to test your automation quickly, even if it involves long wait times
- How to use a test contact when testing an automation
- How to see if your contacts can achieve your desired goal successfully
- Questions to ask yourself as you double-check your automation
Ontraport saves past versions of your automation maps so you can troubleshoot any problems that arise later. Take a tour to see how version history works.
You'll learn
- How to find and view previous versions of your automation map
- Strategies for troubleshooting your automations
- How to tweak and publish past versions of an automation if they produced better results
- Where to find date and time stamps for every past version of your automations
- The way to navigate between your version history and live automation maps
You can share your best automations to support other users — or even sell them on the Ontraport Marketplace! Here’s how.
You'll learn
- How to create a Marketplace profile
- The way to prep your automation with notes, checklist items and more
- How to share your automation with the Ontraport community
- How to set who gets access to your automation and whether you want to share it for free
- Ways to use the Content Manager to check and edit your shared automations
- How to find other people’s content on the Marketplace to use for your business
There are more than a dozen actions you can automate with Ontraport. Learn how they work and how to add them to your automations.
You'll learn
- Your options for automated actions
- How to send email and SMS, fire off tasks, change tags and more automatically
- How to configure your settings for actions
- Where to add specific types of actions in your automation maps
- Advanced options for actions
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