Comments on: NEW! Advanced Merge Tags

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:58:59 +0000

Working to set up dynamic content/merge tags based on data customers provide… Do I need to have fields for all data in the sign up form?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:43:11 +0000

I have been sending out newsletters with First / Last Name personalisation but for customers where this information is missing in the subscriber list outlook breaks their email. There is an option to add a predefined value so that if the first/last name is missing it puts in the set predefined value (ie. Customer) but only for mailchimp template forms.

Can I set predefined values for the First Name and Last Name fields when in ADVANCED mode?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:26:42 +0000

Is there any way to bring in data from another source (i.e. our shopping cart database) and include that data as a mergefield/tag in our mailchimp newsletters?

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:10:51 +0000

Hmm, to be honest, I’ve never tried. I doubt we set it up to work that way, but you could always run a small test to see for yourself. Plug in the code, then do a pop-up preview. In the bottom of the pop-up window, you’ll see a button to “preview merge tags” for each recipient. You’ll see if the merge tags perform the way you want.

I do know that it’s something you can do in the segmentation options, whenever you specify a list. We let you segment by “if email address contains” there.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:43:42 +0000

Is it possible to do something like *|IF:EMAIL CONTAINS ‘aol’|* blah *|END:IF|*
How can i do this?
This is the same question as Stephen in this post.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:52:58 +0000

I’m having the same problem – the two links that get inserted in my footer via merge tags show up as the default blue because the css specified for my footer links don’t get inlined on those two anchor tags.

Anyone have a way around this?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:27:17 +0000

Take a look at the IF:INTERESTED dynamic merge tags over at: http://blog.mailchimp.com/merge/

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:14:48 +0000

Hey. Is there any way to run more complex ‘interests’ conditions for dynamic content? i.e. at the moment I notice that you can show particular content for those who are interested in Interest 1 OR interest 2 by using -*|INTERESTED:Interest1,Interest2|*

But can you show particular content for those who are interested in Interest 1 AND Interest 2?

Can you go even more complex than this and run a condition like – Interested in Interest 1AND Interest 2 OR Interest3?

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:33:10 +0000

We use a separate field for the preferred language of the client, and create conditional mails delivering English, German, or Spanish text to the appropriate receiver, using merge tags (we have in-house translators for all texts, so we don’t use the automatic translation functions)

Example *|IF:MERGE6=ES|* Spanish mailing text blah blah blah… *|END:IF|*

The problem we have is that our lists are updated from a number of sources – Social netwoking sites, our own signup forms and CRM systems. Each may represent the language as “en”(lowercase) or “EN” (uppercase).

Rather than sort all of that out in every system, I’d like to know if there is a way to combine conditional tags with formatting tags such as:
*|IF:UPPER:MERGE6=ES|*

I tried it but it didn’t work. Is there a better way?

By: Chester McLaughlin

Chester McLaughlin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:02:44 +0000

Is it possible that they’re a different color because they’re visited links (i.e. links you’ve already visited in that browser )?