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Campaign & Account Notifications

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Some of our customers have been asking for an automatic email notification to tell them when their campaign’s been sent. They just want a little extra confirmation and feedback. So we added that in our recent upgrade, plus a weekly account status email:

status-emails

To turn them on, go to your Account Settings -> Contact Info

and check the boxes for the alerts you want.

You can also get alerts via RSS using Chimp Chatter, and you can access stats about campaigns on your iPhone.

364 Free Holiday Email Templates Available

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
More than 300 new HTML email templates for the holidays added to MailChimp

364 new HTML email templates for the holidays added to MailChimp

A little while back, we partnered with TemplateZone to provide MailChimp customers with 101 free HTML email templates. It was downloaded over 25,000 times, so we think people are liking this application.

We’re excited to announce that they just added 364 more holiday templates for MailChimp customers, completely free!

All you have to do is go download the holiday add-on pack and install it…

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Target Emails by Purchase Activity

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

You can now segment your MailChimp lists based on purchase activity (product purchase, amount spent, or product category):

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Segment your list based on customer purchase activity

There are several different ways you can use this new segmentation feature…

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Sending GoToWebinar Invitations Easier With MailChimp

Friday, October 30th, 2009

gotomeeting-logoIf you use GoToMeeting to host webinars, we just made it one-click-easy to send invitations to your MailChimp subscribers.

We’re really excited about this one, because it’s our first integration-via-bookmarklet we’ve ever tried.

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Segmenting your email campaign based on subscriber engagement

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

We just added the ability to segment based on subscriber engagement:

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So now you can send a special campaign to your most loyal customers. Or, send a “come-back” campaign to the inactive members on your list before you clean them out.

Here’s why this feature is so important.

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RSS-to-email Scheduling in MailChimp

Monday, October 26th, 2009

rss-themMailChimp’s RSS-to-email tool is an awesome feature that helps you automate your email marketing. Every time you post something to your blog (or anything that generates an RSS feed, like ecommerce stores), and MailChimp will automatically send an email to your subscribers.

We just made this feature even more awesome by adding more scheduling options…

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Party Pooper Mode – How to Hide MailChimp

Monday, October 26th, 2009

party-pooper-thmOne of the things that makes MailChimp special is that we try to make email marketing a little fun. It’s been a secret to our success, really.

(Queue the dark clouds and thunder sound effects)

But some people want MailChimp’s power without all the jokes (some people like the jokes, but their clients don’t).

So we launched a new feature: Party-pooper mode…

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What’s Coming in MailChimp v4.3.3

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

This weekend we’re launching MailChimp v4.3.3, and it’s packed with some really cool new features…

  • 50 new built-in templates, plus a revamped template gallery to accommodate all of MailChimp’s template options
  • YouTube merge tag – generates a video player thumbnail then links to your video
  • Segment by engagement – Create campaigns and target your most engaged subscribers
  • Segment by purchase activity – Send targeted campaigns to people who’ve bought stuff from you
  • RSS-to-email scheduling – Select time of day, day of week for RSS-to-email campaigns.
  • RSS-to-email subscriber count shows in feedburner stats
  • Auto-translation on signup forms – Signup forms will auto-detect and auto-translate to the language of user

We’ll also be doing some major server upgrade work, so it means we may have a few hours of downtime this weekend…

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Creating your own email templates in MailChimp

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

MailChimp has a template language that allows you to upload your own HTML email and turn it into a built-in template within our app (there are even Dreamweaver and Textmate plugins!). It’s great for designers who want to setup a MailChimp account for their client. It’s groundbreaking, so we knew we needed an amazing, Hollywood-slick video to show it off:

http://www.mailchimp.com/nonrestrictiveocean.php