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		<title>Autoresponder idea: customize your welcome message</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tips, Tricks, Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Using MailChimp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing through some of MarketingSherpa&#8217;s 2008 Email Marketing Award winners, and came across this automated email campaign from Les Roches School of Hotel Mgt.
In a nutshell, they have a &#8220;request more info&#8221; form on their website (see below), where visitors could indicate which school they were interested in attending:

Then, when Les Roches sent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;">I was browsing through some of MarketingSherpa&#8217;s <a href="http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=30374" target="_blank">2008 Email Marketing Award winners</a>, and came across <a href="http://www.marketingsherpa.com/emaw2008/6.html" target="_blank">this automated email campaign</a> from <a href="http://www.lesroches.edu/" target="_blank">Les Roches School of Hotel Mgt.</a></em></div>
<div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;">In a nutshell, they have a &#8220;request more info&#8221; <a href="http://www.lesroches.edu/les_roches_bluche/en/en-en/index.cfm?page=/les_roches_bluche/home/request-info" target="_blank">form on their website</a> (see below), where visitors could indicate which school they were interested in attending:</div>
<div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/les-roches-interest-groups1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1874" style="border: 0pt none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="les-roches-interest-groups1" src="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/les-roches-interest-groups1.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="111" /></a></div>
<div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;">Then, when Les Roches sent their welcome email, it was customized with content that was specific to the recipient&#8217;s interests:</div>
<div style="padding: 1em 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.marketingsherpa.com/emaw2008/6.html"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1872 alignnone" style="border: 0pt none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="les-roches" src="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/les-roches-300x161.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="161" /></a></div>
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<p>You can do that really easily in MailChimp.
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Start by adding <strong>interest groups</strong> to your signup form. Then, <strong>customize your welcome email</strong> that gets sent whenever someone subscribes to your list. In the welcome email, use <strong>MailChimp&#8217;s dynamic content merge tags</strong> to swap out content based on interest. Here&#8217;s how to do all that:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/personalize-your-welcome-emails-with-custom-freebies/">Personalizing Your Welcome Emails</a> in MailChimp</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s a merge tag tricks video, where we cover some of those advanced dynamic content merge tags (about 5:30 into the tutorial):</p>
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