Comments on: MailChimp v4.2 Sneak Peek

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:55:44 +0000

Not sure what blog software you’re using, but some of them allow you to setup new categories, which get their own separate RSS feeds. You could setup a new category on your blog called “email updates,” or “eNews” and use that in your MailChimp RSS-to-email campaign. Only the blog posts under that category would go out.

For the posts you’d need to manually send, you could of course log in to MailChimp and setup a regular old email. But one way you could speed up that process would be to *email* the content to MailChimp, then log in, tweak the videos, etc., and hit send. That’s our “email beamer” feature (http://blip.tv/file/2047688). Hmm, if you have an “email this” button or link on your blog posts, I wonder if you could publish a blog post, hit “share via email” and send it to MailChimp from there.

There are also some really, really insanely complex rules you can setup for RSS feeds at:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

then, send that feed through to MailChimp.

Anyway, just a few alternatives to ponder.

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:46:28 +0000

The other reason I need to send “on demand” from RSS is because I don’t want every blog post being sent automatically. Sometimes I post nothing but a YouTube embedded video, which will just send a blank email to subscribers. For those cases, I need to send a custom email with a screenshot of the video instead of automatically sending an email from the RSS feed.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:40:02 +0000

Second that notion; On Demand is the reason why I’m still using feedblitz.

By: Tim Schmoyer

Tim Schmoyer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:09:50 +0000

I’m using Feedblitz right now to send my RSS email campaigns because I often use the “on demand” option to broadcast blog posts that are time sensitive. I love what I see of mailchimp, but can’t switch services until the “send on demand” from RSS option is available. Any ETA on that?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:56:15 +0000

Just started using the update, and loving it. Keep it up!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:05:15 +0000

Hi Stephem, here are the instructions – http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/hidden-content-merge-tag/

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:00:09 +0000

Kim – since you are using the API, if you can deal with using the lists Welcome Email, you can now trigger that email via the API when you are managing your own optin process: http://eepurl.com/ckUo

If not, a transactional campaign may work for you as well:
http://eepurl.com/Ara

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:14:12 +0000

Instructions are coming. “I just can’t blog it fast enough captain! I can’t defy the laws of physics!”

By: stephem

stephem — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:06:55 +0000

Where are the instructions for using the hide-this tag?

By: Andre Lancaster

Andre Lancaster — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:33:03 +0000

Wonderful. I’m very thrilled about the upgrade of the Subscriber History feature!

MonkeyLove,