Comments on: Automatic inventory alerts by email http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/automatic-inventory-alerts-by-email/ MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/automatic-inventory-alerts-by-email/comment-page-1/#comment-3892 Ben Sun, 17 May 2009 16:51:23 +0000 http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/?p=3395#comment-3892 Ugly shoe update: Bingo! Inventory email alert pointed me to their "Sanuk Boutique" where I browsed around and bingo: http://www.zappos.com/product/7338107/color/5132 perfectly ugly! Ugly shoe update: Bingo!

Inventory email alert pointed me to their “Sanuk Boutique” where I browsed around and bingo:

http://www.zappos.com/product/7338107/color/5132

perfectly ugly!

]]> By: Jordan Foutz http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/automatic-inventory-alerts-by-email/comment-page-1/#comment-3890 Jordan Foutz Sun, 17 May 2009 06:45:39 +0000 http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/?p=3395#comment-3890 This feature alone is the type of thing that would get me to use the service. I also hear there is a cool Mailchimp compatibility with Foxycart which we promote in our little design shop. Thx for the heads up on this feature! This feature alone is the type of thing that would get me to use the service. I also hear there is a cool Mailchimp compatibility with Foxycart which we promote in our little design shop. Thx for the heads up on this feature!

]]> By: Ben http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/automatic-inventory-alerts-by-email/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Ben Fri, 15 May 2009 10:54:01 +0000 http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/?p=3395#comment-3862 @Josh - Ah, sending an inventory alert per-SKU would be ideal. What I meant was that in MailChimp, RSS-to-email works by having users subscribe to lists. As an RSS feed gets updated, that list would receive an email. So you'd need to setup lots of individual lists per SKU in MailChimp. Or I guess one master "alert" list with lots of SKU-interest groups. Possible, but lots of work. I'd consider doing it for a hanful of SKUs that are high-demand and always selling out, maybe. But doing it by brand or product category might be more feasible. @Josh – Ah, sending an inventory alert per-SKU would be ideal. What I meant was that in MailChimp, RSS-to-email works by having users subscribe to lists. As an RSS feed gets updated, that list would receive an email. So you’d need to setup lots of individual lists per SKU in MailChimp. Or I guess one master “alert” list with lots of SKU-interest groups. Possible, but lots of work. I’d consider doing it for a hanful of SKUs that are high-demand and always selling out, maybe. But doing it by brand or product category might be more feasible.

]]> By: Josh Colter http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/automatic-inventory-alerts-by-email/comment-page-1/#comment-3859 Josh Colter Thu, 14 May 2009 15:03:32 +0000 http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/?p=3395#comment-3859 Why do you recommend not using this per-SKU? This approach seems like it might be a nice solution to the out-of-stock problem for retailers. You could trigger an email to a customer as soon as the inventory is available. Why do you recommend not using this per-SKU? This approach seems like it might be a nice solution to the out-of-stock problem for retailers. You could trigger an email to a customer as soon as the inventory is available.

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