Archive for the ‘MailChimp Upgrade’ Category
Monday, October 13th, 2008
People have been asking us for an email template that combines the simplicity of plain-text emails, but the formatting and trackability of HTML emails (think CNN breaking news emails). So we added a new layout called "Rich Text," which is available in the campaign creation tool.
We think you'll really like ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
We've created a little "chiclet" that you can add to your website that shows off how many subscribers you have on your list (actually, there are 4 different chiclet designs to choose from).
Just add a little snippet of JavaScript code to your web page, and we'll display an automatically updating ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Merge tags allow you to personalize your emails. One of the most basic and common uses of merge tags would be something like, "Hello, *|FNAME|*" inserted as a greeting for your email. The tag *|FNAME|* will insert the user's first name, making for a customized email experience.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
We wanted to make a free HTML email template design tool, but we wanted the templates to---you know---actually look good. We spent considerable time (and money) selecting premium graphics and fonts, and we integrated with Picnik (it's like Photoshop, but it works in your browser), and we created this:
That's just ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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The guys in the MailChimp Lab have just launched a mini-MailChimp for the iPhone.
MailChimp customers: just go to MailChimp.com on your iPhone and sign in (or go straight to admin.mailchimp.com), then we'll redirect you to the iPhone version.
It's not a fully functional ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The entire opt-in process of your MailChimp account (the stuff your users see) has been translated into 8 more languages, and will be available in the upcoming v3.3 release (release date TBD). At the request of our customers, we've added:
Greek
Russian
Finnish
Polish
Hungarian
Romanian
Estonian
Ukrainian
This brings the total number of available languages in MailChimp to ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
We've recently upgraded our Inbox Inspector to include a bunch more email previews from ISPs and webmail services around the world.
You click one button, and bam---we'll screenshot your campaign in a few dozen email readers, and check it in all the major spam filters.
Now we want to get more people ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
We recently launched our automatic RSS-to-email tool, and bloggers are really eating this up. Some of them are asking for the ability to include multiple RSS feeds into one campaign. Okay, we're working on that. In the meantime, you can mash up your multiple RSS feeds into one master feed ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Whenever you send an email campaign in MailChimp, there are these little links in the footer for the forward-to-friend tool, unsubscribe link, update-my-preferences, etc.
Before, if your recipients hovered their mouse over those links, they'd see MailChimp's domains (actually, we made them look pretty generic, like "foward-to-friend.com" or list-manage.com).
Some people told ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Ever since we launched our Google Analytics integration, eRetailers have been eating it up, and sharing all kinds of great ROI stories with us.
One that really caught my attention was APMEX (American Precious Metals Exchange), and how their email campaign got them $157,000 in sales. Wow. And here's another case ...
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