Email Marketing, Business & Monkeys
In June of this year I decided to set up an offshoot of the MailChimp blog on Posterous. The site bills itself as “a dead simple way to post everything online using email.”
With a full-blown Wordpress blog, in addition to our Facebook Fan Page and Twitter account, you might be wondering why in the world I’d want another site to maintain. The simple answer: the more I use Posterous, the more I love it! — Especially for the particular niche it serves. (more on that after the jump)
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…
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…
Interested in going to Blogworld in Las Vegas but weren’t able to register in time? Why not let MailChimp send you!
We’re giving away one registration, and all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling us why we should pick you! Of course you’ll still be responsible for your hotel and travel expenses, but we’ll make sure you can get into the only industry-wide trade show for the blogging and new media communities. You’ll have up to 24 hours, or until there are 150 comments on this post– whichever comes first– to convince us you’re the person most deserving of the free registration. The winner will be announced late on Tuesday afternoon, and we’ll contact you via email. (So make sure you use a valid email address when you comment on this post.)
And of course, if you’ll be attending Blogworld October 15-17 or just happen to live in Las Vegas, don’t forget to find Chief Twitter Officer Amanda and say hello. She’ll have a limited number of MailChimp tshirts, stickers and pins to give away. Keep an eye on the MailChimp Twitter feed as well as our Facebook page for more details during the conference.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday (September 22 & 23) MailChimp will be at the Twitter Conference in Los Angeles.
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, and Tony Robbins will both be keynote speakers at the event. Other presenters will be covering a range of topics, from branding to social gaming, tweeting celebrities and beyond. We definitely look forward to stuffing our brains full of new and interesting information and are also excited about meeting some of our users on the west coast. If you’re in the area and want to say hi, just give us a shout.
As MailChimp’s list of social media features continues growing, it seems only natural for us to attend the Twitter Conference. Especially with our new Twitter Template and our recent research showing that Twitter is being used more frequently than Facebook in email marketing. Oh, and you also know that you can track tweets and re-tweets about your email campaigns in your MailChimp dashboard, right? Hey, and don’t forget about our built-in integration with Twitter and other social sites, mmkay?
In honor of our Forever Free plan, we’re giving away 1,000 MailChimp T-shirts between now and the end of September! These are all new, very comfortable and they feature the original Jon Hicks MailChimp sketch.
All you have to do is stay tuned to our Twitter feed and Facebook updates for a chance to win. As soon as you see the link posted in either of these locations, it means that the T-shirt form is live. Just give us some basic contact info, and your shirt size of course, and we’ll get your new favorite T-shirt in the mail in no time!
It doesn’t matter where in the world you’re located, we will gladly send you a shirt. We love international chimps too!
And in case there’s any confusion, this offer does not include chimp arm covers, bananas, or our models Leif and Stephanie. Oh, and no purchase necessary. Because then it wouldn’t be free.
Since we started doing our MailChimp webinars every Wednesday, the audience keeps growing and growing.
So we’re going to be expanding it to Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am and 4pm (ET). Raul, one of our customer service ninjas here at MailChimp, also hosts the webinars in Spanish.
See the full webinar schedule here and if you can’t make it, try our online video podcast.
A little while ago, we launched a “social sharing” merge tag:
When placed, it inserted a large row of social sites that your readers could share your newsletters with. One request we started receiving immediately after launching this was the ability to specify individual social sites (not all of them at once).
You can do that now. Here’s how…
We analyzed all emails sent in the last year (roughly one billion), and found that more and more people are including links in their emails to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It’s quite interesting how Twitter sharing is growing at a faster rate than Facebook, and it seems that small businesses are really discovering the value in both platforms.
MailChimp provides a one-click feature for subscribers to share their completed email campaigns via the primary social networks. Currently 9% of campaigns (roughly 90 million emails) are shared via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or Delicious.
Now that you’ve set up your Facebook fan page, you’re thinking, “wouldn’t it be great if I could get my fans to signup for my email newsletter?” Now you can! We found this tutorial from the Return on Subscriber blog extremely helpful in getting us started.
To begin, you need to make sure that you have two things: 1. a Facebook fan page, and 2. the HTML code from MailChimp that allows you to embed your sign-up form on a web page.
Free HTML Templates →Templates tested in all major email clients, ready for customizing.
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View Pricing Plans →MailChimp offers flexible plans for every budget.
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