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Unlock special deals from MailChimp’s Buddies

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Under the Account page in your MailChimp account, there’s a “Discounts” link:

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If you know the secret code, it unlocks some cool discounts on useful stuff…

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Campaign & Account Notifications

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Some of our customers have been asking for an automatic email notification to tell them when their campaign’s been sent. They just want a little extra confirmation and feedback. So we added that in our recent upgrade, plus a weekly account status email:

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To turn them on, go to your Account Settings -> Contact Info

and check the boxes for the alerts you want.

You can also get alerts via RSS using Chimp Chatter, and you can access stats about campaigns on your iPhone.

364 Free Holiday Email Templates Available

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
More than 300 new HTML email templates for the holidays added to MailChimp

364 new HTML email templates for the holidays added to MailChimp

A little while back, we partnered with TemplateZone to provide MailChimp customers with 101 free HTML email templates. It was downloaded over 25,000 times, so we think people are liking this application.

We’re excited to announce that they just added 364 more holiday templates for MailChimp customers, completely free!

All you have to do is go download the holiday add-on pack and install it…

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Target Emails by Purchase Activity

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

You can now segment your MailChimp lists based on purchase activity (product purchase, amount spent, or product category):

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Segment your list based on customer purchase activity

There are several different ways you can use this new segmentation feature…

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Sending GoToWebinar Invitations Easier With MailChimp

Friday, October 30th, 2009

gotomeeting-logoIf you use GoToMeeting to host webinars, we just made it one-click-easy to send invitations to your MailChimp subscribers.

We’re really excited about this one, because it’s our first integration-via-bookmarklet we’ve ever tried.

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Thanksgiving Subject Line Research

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

While tinkering around with some holiday email ideas, I plugged the words “Thanksgiving” and “Turkey” into our new subject line suggester:

thanksgiving-subject-lines

Obviously these subject lines are a little obfuscated, but you can get a lot of ideas from this tool…

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Automatic Language Detection on Signup Forms

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

auto-translateWe just added automatic language detection to all signup forms.

When activated, it detects the preferred language setting in a visitor’s web browser, then automatically translates your signup form to match (plus your thank you screens, your welcome emails, forward-to-friend pages, etc).

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Segmenting your email campaign based on subscriber engagement

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

We just added the ability to segment based on subscriber engagement:

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So now you can send a special campaign to your most loyal customers. Or, send a “come-back” campaign to the inactive members on your list before you clean them out.

Here’s why this feature is so important.

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RSS-to-email Scheduling in MailChimp

Monday, October 26th, 2009

rss-themMailChimp’s RSS-to-email tool is an awesome feature that helps you automate your email marketing. Every time you post something to your blog (or anything that generates an RSS feed, like ecommerce stores), and MailChimp will automatically send an email to your subscribers.

We just made this feature even more awesome by adding more scheduling options…

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