Archive for the ‘MailChimp News’ Category
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
When you send HTML email newsletters, you should always include an alternative plain-text version of your message (a version with no pictures, links, or formatting).
Email marketers know that's a best practice, because some people just prefer no-frills email. Some mobile devices (Windows Mobile 5) default to the plain-text version. And ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Foxycart has a MailChimp plugin now, so that you can add email marketing functionality to your e-commerce checkout process.
I really wish Foxycart was around back when we were a web design shop. Seriously, there were sooooo many projects we did for clients that went perfectly fine---until it was time to ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
We just launched a Movable Type plugin for MailChimp.
It lets you add a subscriber box to you or your client's Movable Type blog/website that passes subscription info over to your MailChimp account. You can download it from our MailChimp Plugins page.
TypePad is next.
Want to build your own plugin for MailChimp, ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The new MailChimp V3 has got a quick interface that works more like software on your computer, and less like an old-fashioned web app that has to constantly reload and pull files from a remote server.
We accomplish this "slick-ness" with lots of JavaScript and Ajax.
You probably know that JavaScript and ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Do you find yourself constantly importing lists from your company database into MailChimp? You should use our API to keep MailChimp automatically synced with your system.
We've been really beefing up the API recently, and our customers have been linking MailChimp to their content management systems, customer databases, and e-commerce systems.
They've ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
A little while ago, we wrote about sponsoring a chimp over at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. His name is Burrito, and he was previously being used to experiment with vaccines.
We just got word that Burrito is now safe and sound in the sanctuary (hooray!).
He actually sounds a lot like MailChimp. Here's ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
We've just enabled a slew of new preview screens in our Inbox Inspector tool. For those of you who don't know, MailChimp lets you easily preview how your email campaign will look in 34 different email readers, with images turned on, images turned off, within vertical preview panes, or ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Ever wish there was a simple plugin that allowed you to add MailChimp's list management and delivery power to your CMS, e-commerce cart, or blog? Some crafty MailChimp customers wished the same thing, and have used the powerful MailChimp API to create plugins for Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Zen Cart, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Need some custom HTML email templates designed? Need someone to hook your database up to MailChimp with our API, so you can keep your data in sync? Wish you had a programmer who could hook your CMS up to MailChimp? Just need a consultant who can tell you where to ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
With all the work on V3, we've gotten a little behind on official MailChimp news.
We've joined the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance, alongside companies like Bank of America, IronPort, Verisign, ReturnPath, and Symantec.
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