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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|*

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Posted in Email Design, Using MailChimp | 8 Comments »

Have You Seen This Chimp?

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Chimpnapped!

It all started innocently enough this past Friday, October 3.  MailChimp Co Founder Ben Chestnut was to give a presentation on the basics of email marketing at this year’s Webmaster Jam Session.  In an effort to showcase the newly acquired life-size MailChimp (and pull off some subliminal marketing at the same time), Ben brought Frederick Von Chimpenheimer IV plus two cases of bananas with him to the Loudermilk Center in Atlanta.  Had we known then what we know now, Freddie might  have stayed safe from the hands of his ruthless abductors!  Allow me to recount for you the harrowing saga surrounding our dearly beloved missing MailChimp.

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Posted in MailChimp News, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

TwitterKeys for Email Marketing

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

TwitterKeys is a service developed by the folks over at The Next Web Blog that allows you to insert certain Unicode characters in your tweets. Instead of posting that you have a conference call and coffee date before you head to the airport this afternoon, you might tweet something like “☎ then ♨ before ☞ ✈” To address the challenge of trying to remember all these great characters, @bomega and @sandervdv created a bookmarklet that brings up (more…)

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Posted in Emarketing, Business, MailChimp Labs | 6 Comments »

MailChimp Twitter Updates

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

We’ll be launching the new MailChimp soon, and it’s going to be a huge server migration.

How will we keep customers up to date on the progress of our server outage? We can’t post updates on our website. It’ll be temporarily down. We can’t send you emails. It’ll be temporarily down.

Twitter is where we’ll be posting minute-by-minute updates on what’s going on during server migration (and whatever else is happening at The MailChimp Intergalactic Headquarters):

http://www.twitter.com/mailchimp

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Posted in MailChimp News, MailChimp Upgrade | No Comments »

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