Email Marketing, Business & Monkeys
One of the things that makes MailChimp special is that we try to make email marketing a little fun. It’s been a secret to our success, really.
(Queue the dark clouds and thunder sound effects)
But some people want MailChimp’s power without all the jokes (some people like the jokes, but their clients don’t).
So we launched a new feature: Party-pooper mode…
I was working on a MailChimp email campaign, and wanted to spruce up my header a little bit for Halloween. However, I don’t have Photoshop on my laptop (even if I did, I’m too lazy to wait for it to boot up).
This is where our integration with Picnik comes in really handy:
Also see: 6 free spooky Halloween email templates
I just stumbled upon this nice Halloween email campaign from Block Club, a graphic design firm in Buffalo NY.
MailChimp comes with all kinds of powerful, easy-to-use, and free email template tools that make email design easy.
But Block Club is a graphic and web design firm, and this is a “design tips & tricks” publication.
So their emails have got to look really nice and custom-made.
I noticed a few “power tricks” in their email template, and asked them if I could showcase them here…
From time to time, we like to showcase a MailChimp customer’s email campaign. I just came across this email from Metal Clay Guru, and wanted to point out some nice things about their design…
Six free Halloween email templates are now live in MailChimp:
6 free Halloween email templates from MailChimp
Learn more about the artists and designers that created them here.
This weekend we’re launching MailChimp v4.3.3, and it’s packed with some really cool new features…
We’ll also be doing some major server upgrade work, so it means we may have a few hours of downtime this weekend…
Like I said, we’re already getting into the Halloween spirit here at MailChimp. Our super cool Halloween email templates are now available in the app (go check ‘em out!).
Also, you know how Freddie (btw, MailChimp’s full name is Frederick von Chimpenheimer the IVth) talks to you while you’re using the app? A lot of those one-liners came from our own customers, from all over the world.
We’ve actually had a lot of success getting our customers to submit funny one-liners, so we’re going to try this again with a fun Halloween promotion…
Smith-Harmon is one of the most famous email design agencies around. I’ve talked about some of their design tips in seminars and here in the blog (like this article about 250px boxes). They design emails for companies like Intuit, Costco, Williams-Sonoma, and Pottery Barn. They know a thing or two about email design trends.
So if you’re thinking about revamping your email marketing for the holidays, you might want to check out their free PDF Guide: “Get Ready for the Holidays”
Their guide covers a wide range of topics, including:
If you like their tips, you should also bookmark their Retail Email Blog, where they cover all the trendy topics in the world of email design.
I vaaant to send your EEEmail! MailChimp Halloween poster
We’ve got some cool stuff planned around this Halloween (in addition to the cool vampire-chimp poster to the right).
A little while back, we launched our new HTML Email Template Language. This makes it super easy for web designers to code their own emails, then load them into MailChimp as built-in templates for their clients.
To showcase how cool this is, we commissioned some well-known artists and designers to create some spooky Halloween email templates for all our customers. Their work has appeared in WIRED and Paste magazines, BoingBoing, SXSW, Threadless, and even a Nintendo game.
Here are a few examples of what’s coming sometime next week…
Just wanted to update all our friends who won MailChimp t-shirts during our recent twitter / facebook giveaway, and are anxiously awaiting their prize. Um yeah, 1,000 t-shirts take a really, really long time to pack.
So yesterday, we had a t-shirt packing party where the whole company folded and packed.
Even our Unicorn intern pitched in…
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