Archive for the ‘MailChimp Upgrade’ Category
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Strongmail reports that AOL is filtering email based on your hard bounces. The basic idea is if you've got way too many hard bounces, you've got bad list hygiene, and they don't want you sending email to their servers.
If you're using MailChimp's managed lists, we automagically clean hard bounces from ...
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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 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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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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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I thought for sure Gmail would fix the cellpadding problem that popped up last November, but I guess they did all that on purpose. Oh well.
So we just upgraded our HTML Email template designer to work for Gmail. It uses inline-CSS to add the padding for proper Gmail rendering. In ...
Posted in Email Design, MailChimp News, MailChimp Upgrade | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Just before the holidays, (sometime around December 17th-ish) Comcast changed their spam filtering process.
The bad news is that some of you may have experienced a larger than normal hard bounce rate to your recipients who use Comcast, and as a result, saw a lot of your recipients unsubscribed from your ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
We just launched a set of free new features for MailChimp users:
MonkeyRewards Program - Stick a MailChimp badge in your emails and signup forms, get $30 credit for referrals
Authentication - One-click and your email will pass DKIM, SenderID, SPF, and Domain Keys authentication
Google Analytics Integration - If you (or your ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
When we launched our new patent-pending A/B email testing feature, most of our customers would respond with, "What's A/B testing?" When we explained how A/B testing works, and how MailChimp makes it totally automatic (and free), they'd respond with, "Holy $#@%. Why would I not do A/B testing for every ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
As announced in our recent System Alert, we've changed our interface so that our advanced customers who use their own templates (copy-paste their own code) now get access to all the cool new features available to our built-in templates users.
The change takes place December 31st (maybe sooner if the QA ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Whew, 2007 was a busy year for MailChimp. Just in case you missed any of our updates, here's a roundup of the most recent new features we've launched...
API Totally Redone
If you ever thought to yourself, "Man, it would be really cool if MailChimp could somehow sync up with my ...
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