One of my most popular articles on this website has been instructions on how to add an attachment to a Mailchimp email campaign. A question that often arises is if the file attachment may be edited after the sending of the email campaign. If the attachment is saved to the Mailchimp Content Studio then unfortunately […]
Archives for June 2019
Learn Mailchimp Online with this Course
Last December I recorded a series of Mailchimp videos intended to teach people how to use Mailchimp for their marketing. The videos have been made available online for free. Some of the videos were originally sold as an online Mailchimp class therefore there are references to certificates and so on (the certificates won’t be sent […]
How To Make Mailchimp Images Load Faster
Images are notoriously slow to load in email messages and websites. Unfortunately images are very large in file-size meaning much more data needs to be downloaded for an image as opposed to text. Three Ways to Improve Image Load Speed Happily there are a few things we can do to make images load more quickly. […]
Mailchimp Header Size Guide
I often get asked in my Mailchimp classes what the dimensions of a Mailchimp email campaign header image should be. Below I address this question. What is the Mailchimp Header When referring to the header of an email campaign, most people are concerned with the area into which a logo is placed. Message headers (often […]
Identify Unique Values in Excel or Google Sheets
I often work with large lists of email addresses when helping Mailchimp clients with their email marketing needs. Occasionally I need to identify unique values only in a list. For example a list of 100,000 contacts may have duplicate contacts and I need to quickly identify records where the email address isn’t duplicated. Fortunately it […]
The Reason for Yahoo Hard Bounces in Mailchimp
I’ve been working with a client recently that suddenly started to get large numbers of hard bounces from the email campaigns she sent from Mailchimp. I thought I’d share the reason for this as it may assist others. The client in question sends email campaigns regularly to tens of thousands of recipients. Her open and […]
