If you or your business is looking to take your email campaigns International (we sure are trying!), there’s a good chance you are going to need to do that in a different language. Accordingly, MailChimp has a new integration with Straker Translations. This semi-automated translation service lets you translate your campaigns into pretty much any language you could want (they do over 140).
Our friend Lev Tsypin at ThinkShout has just put the finishing touches on a complete rewrite of the Drupal module for MailChimp. It has a completely redesigned interface with a lot of fundamental changes under the hood to make use of some of the new goodies that Drupal 7 provides.
You know the hardest part about (and therefore the secret of) good email marketing? Telling a good story. Those quarterly newsletters you write should all come together to tell the story of your brand. If your story is all about saving money, then your daily email coupons should tell that story. Starving artist? That automatic email campaign you hooked up to your flickr or dribbble should tell your story (in pictures).
But curating a story for your emails is hard. Sometimes, I want to make a point in my email newsletters, and I end up spending days just writing the back story for it on our blog. Other times, the story is scattered across Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, etc. Finding them, bookmarking them, clipping and saving them into your story can be a pain.
There’s now an app for this painful process. It’s called Storify. And Storify now integrates with MailChimp…
Flickr is one of the most well known online photo sharing networks for both amateurs and professionals. And because they’ve been around since 2004, it’s also one of the most widely used.
In the MailChimp V5 release, we’ve made it super easy to link your Flickr photos to your MailChimp account, pull them into your image gallery, and use ‘em in your email campaigns. Read More
