Comments on: Table of Contents Merge Tag

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:55:25 +0000

Okay I figured it out. You actually have to select *|RSSITEM:TITLE|* and then apply the Title style to it in the editor.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:51:34 +0000

Just won't render for me. Are there any common mistakes I might be making? I'm using it in a RSS campaign, along with: *|RSSITEMS:|* *|RSSITEM:TITLE|* *|RSSITEM:CONTENT|* comment | *|RSSITEM:DATE|* *|END:RSSITEMS|*

By: Deirdre Rusling

Deirdre Rusling — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:12:59 +0000

Every time I log on I find you’ve added some new cool feature This one will be a real timesaver – thanks!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:21:40 +0000

This is a great feature, but there are a couple of things that would make it even more useful for me:

-if a title is long enough that it wraps to the next row, another bullet point is added. I don’t see any way to prevent this from occurring.

-Would like to see some options about the style of the bullets – i.e. using dashes instead of points

Thanks!

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:35:51 +0000

We are having a simular issue. The TOC works great, but only seems to pull titles from the main body and not the side column. How can the TOC include both?

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:28:11 +0000

Amanda – I’m trying to figure out the merge tags.

I want to be able to hyperlink the word “profile” to each members mypage.

what I got using the url: mergetag was the entire string http://www.blabla.cm/bla/bla/bla when I sent the actual email.

How do i fix the problem where it will hyperlink the word “profile” to their page, without it displaying the page address?

Thanks
Tammy

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:18:50 +0000

thank you Ben; I want to learn how to do this to get the most of the mail chimp experience!

Any other suggestions on whatever will drive more traffic to the site are welcome!

Tammy

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:26:17 +0000

Hi Tammy,

You’d use what we call “merge tags.” When you import a database of subscribers (such as from an Excel spreadsheet), each column of data gets its own merge tag. For example, “First name” might be *|FNAME|*

If you import a spreadsheet with lots of custom fields, like “mypage” or “customerID” then you can specify what each field’s merge tag is named. then, you’d insert that merge tag into your content.

For more info, you might search around http://mailchimp.com/help‘ for “merge tag”

I also just heard that our video guy is working on some merge tag videos over at http://mailchimpacademy.blip.tv/

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:55:43 +0000

how do i customize the emails? for example i want to insert their first name in the greeting and maybe their mypage in another paragraph…

thanks
tammy

By: WereBear

WereBear — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:48 +0000

I used it in my sidebar column, and it was wonderful! Even took the longer titles… which prompted me to shorten them.

However, it quit before including the sixth title. I took it as a stylistic comment, but it might be a bug.