Email Marketing, Business & Monkeys
Introducing Pictaculous, our latest experiment from the MailChimp Lab.
Snap a picture of something colorful:
Email it to colors [at] mailchimp.com, and then wait for a reply:
We’ll email you the hex colors, suggested color themes from Kuler and COLOURlovers, and we’ll attach an Adobe color palette file.
If you’re curious, here’s the backstory…
MailChimp widget on Nokia
A little while back we launched a Yahoo Mobile Widget for MailChimp. It was a handy little way to access your MailChimp stats while on the go. We really weren’t sure if anyone would use it, but we wanted to tinker with Yahoo’s Blueprint anyway.
A couple days ago we checked up on it, and it looks like we spiked at over 600+ users, then leveled off to a little over 500 users now. What a pleasant surprise!
If you’re a MailChimp customer who’s always on the go, be sure to check out these mobile-related features:
We just launched a new feature in MailChimp, where we automatically generate a mobile friendly version of your email campaign, and send it to your mobile subscribers.
For example, if your HTML email looks like this:
Each and every email campaign sent out with MailChimp is given a permanent, unique address in our Campaign Archive. This is the location we link to from the campaign header text: Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. (click to view the example shown at left)
In MailChimp v3.4, we’ve added an elegant new feature that will automatically translate your campaigns into a mobile friendly version when viewed in a mobile browser. It’s automatic and the feature just works! There is no need to change your opt-in form to provide a mobile option under “preferred format” because we’ve built this functionality into the system for you.
At left, you’ll see an email campaign sent from Soup Studios just as it appeared in my iPhone mail. All I have to do to view the mobile device optimized version is click on the “View it in your browser” link in the email header. This automatically opens the link in my iPhone’s Safari browser– which MailChimp can detect– and displays a mobile version of the campaign. Pretty cool stuff, huh? (see screen shot below) (more…)
As the first service to offer iPhone and Yahoo! Mobile access for email marketing, we would be remiss in not keeping up with the current trends in mobile technology. MailChimp is happy to announce that we have extended mobile access to all Google Android devices. From your T-Mobile G1 (or future Android enabled device), just navigate over to http://m.mailchimp.com and you will be redirected to the account login page. You can access your campaigns, check stats and even subscribe people on the fly.
You’re welcome.
MailChimp widget on Nokia
We recently launched MailChimp for the iPhone. But for those of you who aren’t iPhone users, you can still use MailChimp on your mobile device, thanks to Yahoo’s Blueprint. The new platform makes it really easy to create a mobile app that works on a wide variety of phones. Really cool stuff.
To give it a try, go to beta.m.yahoo.com and then look for the little widget icon: 
This will take you to Yahoo’s widget gallery. You can search for “mailchimp” and then download the app. Then just login to your MailChimp account.
MailChimp Campaign Stats on iPhone
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 MailChimp account where you can create a full blown HTML Email campaign. Think of it as “MailChimp Lite.” It’s a way for you to log in to your account, quickly check the stats (Mmmmm, pie charts) for your recent campaigns, read your “Chimp Chatter” to find out what’s going on with your email marketing, and it’s a handy way to subscribe people you meet (such as at trade shows and events) to your email lists.
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