A very observant subscriber to my Mailchimp training campaign asked what the goal was in the URL when visiting the Mailchimp training page from my latest campaign. Essentially, when clicking the link to the Mailchimp training page from the campaign, the URL looks like http://mailchimp.organicwebcomau.wpcomstaging.com/training/?goal=0_7628fd76a5-5d36f04525-351951009 rather than the usual http://mailchimp.organicwebcomau.wpcomstaging.com/training. What is happening is that I’ve […]
Archives for 2015
New Mailchimp Courses
Great news! We’ve streamlined our Mailchimp training into two trainer-based courses. We’ve delivered alot of Mailchimp training over the past year to all sorts of Australian organizations from NSW Government agencies, charities, large corporates right through to small independent business people. During training we’ve discovered where people need most assistance with Mailchimp. Our training now […]
How to add a user to Mailchimp
In Mailchimp it’s really simple to add people to perform various activities in your account (also called Multi-user accounts). For example you may need assistance from a Mailchimp Expert or you may have someone that creates your campaigns for you. Rather than give out your username and password for your Mailchimp account it’s far more […]
Mailchimp Training
UPDATE: Mailchimp Training Please visit our dedicated training website to view the latest course dates. Learn more Thank you to all attendees who have booked their place on our Mailchimp training scheduled for Sydney in March. All tickets have now sold. We’ll be arranging more public training however feel free to contact me should you […]
How to set default Merge Tag in Mailchimp
Merge tags in Mailchimp help to automatically populate various information into an email campaign. Merge tags may be used for inserting your blog post content into a campaign through to personalising an email with the recipients first name. A question I get asked often in Mailchimp training is how to set a default value for […]
Correct images sizes to use in Mailchimp
Questions relating to image sizes are always asked in Mailchimp training. So just how do we make sure that images are the correct size in our Mailchimp Campaigns? Read on if you’re creating a standard Campaign; if you’re creating an RSS Campaign then read about images from Blogs. Update: Please view the new way to […]
Show your Tweet in WordPress
For any number of reasons you may wish to embed a Tweet in a WordPress page or blog post. Fortunately this is incredibly simple and no HTML knowledge is needed. Just follow the instructions below. How to get the URL of a Tweet First off we need the URL of the Tweet that we want […]
How does Mailchimp send my blog content?
Mailchimp has a really simple means of automating the sending of your blog content as a Campaign (email newsletter); RSS-to-Email. Most blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger, Weebly and Wix automatically create a feed in the form of RSS or Atom. The feed contains the content of your blog posts in a way that Mailchimp […]
What to do about Mailchimp Bounce and List Deletion Warning
So you’ve imported a list of subscribers into Mailchimp and now you see the following message: Bounce and List Deletion Warning Mailchimp’s artificial intelligence system, Omnivore, automatically scanned your recent import. Omnivore flagged the list for having a large number of addresses that may cause complaints, high bounce rates, or blacklistings. Our research shows that […]
How to get Mailchimp Subscriber Popup working in WordPress
I spend an equal amount of my working time on WordPress and Mailchimp related tasks. I’m listed by Mailchimp as an Expert and have worked as a WordPress specialist for quite a few years. It’s rare however that I get to work on a technical challenge involving both at the same time. Today however was […]