Comments on: NEW! Advanced Merge Tags

By: Greg Olson

Greg Olson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:29:31 +0000

+1 on being able to show a future date for coupons with an expiration date. I need to do this also. Right now I am just saying “offer expires 1 month after *|DATE:M. d Y|*”. I would rather use “offer expires *|DATE:M(+1). d Y|*” or something like that.

By: Majdi Haroun

Majdi Haroun — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:20 +0000

I am planning on using RSS to create campaigns. My question is how to I using merge tags pick up and display specific XML rags from my feed beyond what the cheat sheet shows. eg if my feed has a field called longdescription. How can I used that?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:28:56 +0000

I’m trying to alter the “final welcome email” based on the current month. We offer a different special each month. The *|IF|* conditional doesn’t seem to play nicely with *|DATE:|*

Here’s an example of what I’m trying to do:

All I end up getting is the “Generic Special” text regardless of how I modify the Date in the If tag.

Any thoughts?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:06:50 +0000

Lisa, you could use the optional AIM Reports add-on to see who clicked on which links:
http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/aim-reports/

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:02:19 +0000

Is it possible to use these merge tags to create a customized hyperlink for each recipient? Or is there another way to track which recipients click on a hyperlink in an email?

By: Max

Max — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:13 +0000

I show you 2 screens, at this adress:
http://www.0815ag.de/bilder/chimp/first.jpg

http://www.0815ag.de/bilder/chimp/second.jpg

By: Max

Max — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:58:02 +0000

Hi,
i’ve in my signupform something like this
Title (with checkboxes Mr. & Mrs), then firstname & lastname.
In german i need two different salution if is a man or a woman
Sehr geehrter Firstname Lastname (Men)
Sehr geehrte Firstname Lastname

How can i relize it?
Thanks

Max

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:03:58 +0000

Thanks Ben and Rusty. I was hoping to find a solution that wouldn’t involve my IT guy. Yes Rusty, in response to your comment
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That is exactly what we’re trying to do. If we get further along I will certainly post here, thank you both for your help.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:58:03 +0000

@Stu – I don’t think the “if contains” is possible with our current merge tags. Only if-equal. That’s the kinda logic you’d need to pre-process on your end, then you could pass all appropriate fields over to MailChimp via the API.

I could be mistaken. If so, the nerds here (apparently) monitor my comments, and always jump in to correct me when I say something wrong. Which is quite often.

By: Rusty Zipper

Rusty Zipper — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:30:02 +0000

Ben,

I had asked Bill about something similar in chat & I think we had determined it wouldn’t be possible because this would amount to a unique email for each contact. We had thought about doing this via a unique RSS feed for each contact. We would be very interested if you could elaborate on possible approaches to this. Our only thought here was to use dynamic merge tags to pass a unique ID to a script on our web server that served up an image dynamically for the customer & pass the same unique ID to the target URL, which would then generate the recommendations page. We’d love to include more robust content in the email itself though.

Thanks