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Sending Welcome Emails With MailChimp

April 14th, 2009 | by Ben

Ever since we launched MailChimp’s autoresponders, we’ve received a lot of good feedback from customers. We really just intended to build an easy way for you to send a nice sequence of tips to new subscribers, but it’s turning into the fastest-uptake campaign-type we’ve ever built.

Anyway, one weird thing about this is that some customers are telling us, “Cool, now I can send customized welcome emails when people subscribe to my list.”

That’s something you could always do with MailChimp (see: Personalize Welcome Emails With Custom Offers). You can customize your welcome emails to look any way you want. You can translate them to over 30 different languages. We highly recommend you insert the *| LIST:RECENT |* merge tag into them, so that new subscribers see a list of your most recent campaigns. Here’s a nice tutorial on customizing your welcome emails.

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Posted in Using MailChimp | 2 Comments »

2 Comments

    • TC/The Copywriter Underground says:

      Love the autoresponders and other 4.1 upgrades, but what did you do with the signup form function that allowed me to designate the width of the signup form?

      Did that get moved, or simply go away?

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    • Aarron Walter says:

      The old mini signup form designer was replaced by the new embed code generator. Forms generated by the embed code tool do not have a specified width so they can fill the space in which they are placed.

      In v4.1.1 (coming out very soon), we’re adding a width field where you can define the width of your form. For now, you can set the width of your form by adding a selector to your style sheet like this:

      #mc-embedded-subscribe-form {width:200px;}

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