Make.com Marketing Automation: Campaigns, Emails, and Social on Autopilot
Marketing automation in Make.com enables small teams to execute at the scale of large marketing departments. Content publishing, social media scheduling, email campaigns, lead nurturing, and competitive monitoring — all automated and AI-enhanced. This guide covers the complete marketing automation stack for Make.com.
Marketing Automation Stack
Make.com connects all the pieces of modern marketing:
- Content creation: Claude AI generates content; Make.com publishes it
- Social media: Scheduled posting to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- Email marketing: Mailchimp, Brevo, and similar integrate natively
- Analytics: Google Analytics, Semrush, Ahrefs for performance data
- CRM: HubSpot for lead tracking and nurture
Content Marketing Pipeline
From keyword to published article:
- Trigger: Airtable new row (keyword + content brief)
- HTTP (Semrush): Get keyword data — volume, difficulty, SERP features
- HTTP (Claude): Generate 2000-word SEO article
- System: "Write for our blog. Voice: direct, B2B, practical." - User: "Target keyword: {{keyword}}. Brief: {{brief}}"
- HTTP (Claude): Generate meta title, description, social captions (second call)
- WordPress: Create draft post with all content
- Buffer: Schedule social posts for the week after publish
- Slack: Notify content team
Weekly content calendar:
- Schedule: Monday morning
- Airtable: get this week's article topics
- Loop (Iterator): process each topic
- [repeat steps 2-7 above for each topic]
Email Marketing Automation
Welcome sequence for new subscribers:
- Mailchimp trigger: new subscriber
- Claude: personalise welcome based on signup source (blog, webinar, trial, etc.)
- Mailchimp: send personalised welcome email
- Mailchimp: add to appropriate nurture sequence based on source
Newsletter automation:
- Schedule: Friday morning
- RSS: fetch top articles from your team's favourite industry sources
- Iterator + Text Aggregator: compile articles
- Claude: "Filter to the 5 most relevant for our audience. Write a 50-word summary for each."
- Claude (second call): "Write a 200-word newsletter intro that ties these stories together."
- Mailchimp: create newsletter draft with all content
- Slack: notify email marketer to review and schedule
Behaviour-triggered emails:
- Webhook (from your product): user completed onboarding step X
- Route by which step they completed
- Claude: personalise the "next step" email based on what they've done
- Mailchimp: send triggered email
Social Media Automation
Content repurposing:
- WordPress webhook: new post published
- Claude: generate social content variants (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram)
- Buffer: add to social media queue for each platform
LinkedIn thought leadership:
- Schedule: weekly
- Airtable: pull approved content ideas
- Claude: write LinkedIn article (600 words, professional, insightful)
- LinkedIn API (or Buffer): schedule post
Social listening and response:
- Schedule: daily
- HTTP: Brandwatch or Mention API for brand mentions
- Claude: classify sentiment + identify response priority
- Slack: morning digest with priority responses to action
Paid Advertising Automation
Ad copy generation and testing:
- Airtable trigger: new campaign brief
- Claude: generate 5 ad copy variants (headline + description) for A/B testing
- Google Ads API: create responsive search ad with all variants
- Airtable: update record with ad IDs for tracking
Budget monitoring:
- Schedule: daily
- Google Ads API: get campaign spend vs budget
- IF spend > 80% of daily budget: Slack alert to marketing manager
- IF spend > 100%: Google Ads API: pause campaign + urgent Slack alert
SEO Automation
Rank tracking:
- Schedule: Monday morning
- Airtable: list of tracked keywords
- Iterator: for each keyword
- Semrush HTTP: current rank
- Compare to previous week (Airtable)
- Airtable: update rank
- Claude: weekly ranking summary with notable changes
- Slack: post SEO digest
Technical SEO monitoring:
- Schedule: daily
- Google Search Console API: fetch crawl errors
- IF new errors: Slack alert with affected URLs
- Claude: suggest likely fixes for error types
Marketing Analytics
Weekly marketing dashboard email:
- Schedule: Monday 8am
- Google Analytics: sessions, conversions, top pages
- HubSpot: new leads, MQLs, pipeline value
- Buffer: top performing social posts
- Claude: "Write an executive summary of last week's marketing performance. Highlight wins and what to improve."
- Email: send formatted report to marketing leadership
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