Archive for the ‘MailChimp News’ Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Laura Atkins has a lively discussion going on about Postini's lack of response to deliverability/blocking questions.
We've been frustrated and bewildered by random Postini blocks ourselves (see here and here). We gave up on trying to contact Postini a while ago.
But just recently, we had a customer sending tests to their ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Everyone at the office here is having a fun time coming up with random quotes that MailChimp can say whenever you log in (seriously, it's like the longest discussion in our Basecamp account ever).
Here's an example:
and a tribute to lolcats:
What's really creepy is I got a haircut yesterday, then logged ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
The upcoming MailChimp v3 has a nifty little feature on the Dashboard called "Chimp Chatter." When I heard our interface designer and lead engineer discuss how it would be like a Twittery/Facebooky thing that gives you updates, I admit I was a little skeptical. But I kept my mouth shut.
I ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
We'll be launching the new MailChimp soon, and it's going to be a huge server migration.
How will we keep customers up to date on the progress of our server outage? We can't post updates on our website. It'll be temporarily down. We can't send you emails. It'll be temporarily down.
Twitter ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
This article from Chris Anderson got my attention a little while ago: Sorry PR people: you're blocked.
Mainly because in the very first line, Mr. Anderson mentions his spam filter by Cloudmark, a well-respected email security and anti-spam company who also happens to be a MailChimp customer.
Also because PR people have ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Last September, we began work on an all new MailChimp (this would be "v3" if you're keeping track). We codenamed it "tarzan" because the little chimp is slightly more "civilized" now. Every single line of code has been optimized, and new technology has been put in place to make MailChimp's ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
MailChimp holds a Getting Started Webinar every Wednesday. We basically send an invitation to all the new free trials that signed up the previous week, and invite them to watch us run through the basics. Most people end up figuring out MailChimp on their own, but a handful of people ...
Posted in MailChimp News, Stats, Tips, Tricks, Best Practices | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 29th, 2008
This one's for our web designers. Mozilla has got a Firefox 3 t-shirt design contest going on now. Deadline for submission is March 16th, so start your graphics engines...
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/tcontest
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Some of our customers have noticed some delivery delays at Yahoo. We're looking into it, but it does seem like it's happening to everybody right now. Laura from Word to the Wise (aka the ISP Whisperer) has some explanation of the delays.
Update:
Yahoo! has posted an acknowledgment of the situation on ...
Posted in Deliverability, MailChimp News | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
We just added 3 new spam filters to our Inbox Inspector tool: Outlook 2007, Norton Internet Security 2008 and McAfee Security Center 2008.
MailChimp's Inbox Inspector is an add-on that lets you check your email campaign's "score" with all the major spam filters. With one click, you can tell what the ...
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