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MailChimp’s Social Features

Monday, October 26th, 2009

MailChimp is chock full of social features and integrations to make it easier to share with your network. And according to industry benchmark studies, social share links increase both the reach and the click rate of email campaigns. If you’re not using these features yet, you might want to consider checking them out.

One-click Social Share

We’ve made it super simple to connect MailChimp with Twitter, allowing you to automatically tweet a link to your campaign as soon as you hit the send button. Just go to your Account settings, and click on Integrations. Under Twitter, just click the big authorize connection button and oAuth will take it from there. This is a safer and better way of integrating with Twitter because it means you no longer have to enter your Twitter username and password directly into MailChimp.

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Using Posterous To Drive Facebook Fan Engagement

Monday, October 19th, 2009

posterous-mediumIn June of this year I decided to set up an offshoot of the MailChimp blog on Posterous. The site bills itself as “a dead simple way to post everything online using email.”

With a full-blown Wordpress blog, in addition to our Facebook Fan Page and Twitter account, you might be wondering why in the world I’d want another site to maintain. The simple answer: the more I use Posterous, the more I love it! — Especially for the particular niche it serves. (more on that after the jump)

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Using flickr in email campaigns

Friday, October 16th, 2009

A couple days ago I mentioned the interesting use of flickr in Steve’s App Sketchbook email campaign. This morning I got this Halloween-ish email from ChoppingBlock that also used flickr in an interesting way: they invite you to post a high-res image from flickr to your blog, to see if you can name all the spooky characters in their latest tshirt:

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Twitter and Facebook seem to be getting all the attention from email marketers now (see: Sharing with Twitter v. Facebook), but don’t forget flickr, because it can be a great way to get your subscribers to contribute to your conversation with photos!

Trends in Email: Sharing via Facebook and Twitter

Friday, July 10th, 2009

email_socialshareWe analyzed all emails sent in the last year (roughly one billion), and found that more and more people are including links in their emails to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It’s quite interesting how Twitter sharing is growing at a faster rate than Facebook, and it seems that small businesses are really discovering the value in both platforms.

MailChimp provides a one-click feature for subscribers to share their completed email campaigns via the primary social networks. Currently 9% of campaigns (roughly 90 million emails) are shared via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or Delicious.

Facebook Vanity URLs

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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In case you missed it, last Saturday at 12:01 AM EST Facebook gave both individuals and fan pages the ability to register their own vanity URLs. The main reason this is awesome is that it allows you to market your Facebook page much more easily. Instead of a long string of letters and numbers, you now have the benefit of something short and tidy. Like facebook.com/mailchimp. During the recent NBA Finals, for example, I noticed brands like Vitamin Water promoting their fan page URLs instead of their main company website in their commercials. And this type of cross promotion is definitely working! Vitamin Water currently boasts over 500,000 Facebook fans.

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Using Facebook Fan Pages and Email

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Here’s another quick tip from Aarron. After he sent his wife’s email campaign for Soup Studios (which we just showcased here on our blog), he jumped over to her Facebook Fan Page, selected the “Send an Update to Fans” option:

and then sent her fans a link to her campaign archive. If you’re an artist that’s using MailChimp and Facebook, you might want to consider combining the two.

Here’s how to find your campaign’s archive link (hint: it’s not the link at the top of the email that you sent to yourself)…

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Adding Social Sharing Links to Your MailChimp Campaigns

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Here’s a nice example of a MailChimp customer (T in the Park) using the new social sharing links in their email newsletter footer:

This is a relatively new feature at MailChimp that lets your subscribers share your campaign via twitter, facebook, digg, reddit, linked in, and other social sites. If you’d like to add this to your MailChimp campaigns too, just insert this little tag: *|MC:SHARE|* in your footer (or wherever you want) and we’ll do the rest.

Another cool merge tag to try: *|TRANSLATE:EMAIL_LANG|*

http://www.mailchimp.com/nonrestrictiveocean.php