Do you use a CMS to publish news to your website? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could magically turn those web pages into HTML emails, then send them through MailChimp? Booyah:
Select the “Import from URL” tab when you build a MailChimp campaign, then give us the URL to your web page. We’ll surf across the world wide cybertubes, grab the web page, turn it into an HTML email, and then stick a proper unsubscribe link in the footer (if you didn’t already put one there).
Be sure to read Part 2 of this feature for Advanced Tricks (email stylesheets and conditional content)
Is version 4 up now or what?
I notice no difference whatsoever..
@Robin – That’s actually good news for us. Whew. Yes, v4 is up. It wasn’t a dramatic redesign of the interface. Just lots of powerful new features here and there.
Here’s a list of most of the features:
http://tinyurl.com/8t8y7j
I’m currently blogging about them one at a time, so I can go into detail with each. Stay tuned!
[...] MailChimp grabs the URL to build your email, we’ll find the email-specific stylesheet, and use that [...]
Hi,
I was wondering, if you use this feature in combination with autoresponders, what happens if for some reason the page is not available? Do you get a notifcation that content was not able to be grabbed? I’m hoping a blank email isn’t sent.
Additionally, is there any tags that can be included to stop the email sending, if, for eg, my cms fails and doesn’t include the mail content section? There would still be content, but it would only be navigation and footers, so technically the page wouldn’t fail to load.
Is it possible to automate this, and send a daily or weekly newsletter using a URL?
Hi Ben,
Is it possible to create a campaign this way via the API?
What about going the other way? I want to create an archive of my campaigns (newsletters) on my website.
You could pull them in via RSS:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/rss-feeds-of-your-mailchimp-campaigns/
and there is a plugin that will pull archives into WordPress:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-archive-to-wordpress-plugin/
I have created an html form that I would like to turn into a mailChimp template, but I am having trouble. I was able to get it in but I am unable to just edit certain sections, without completely loading a new form. Can you help with this?
Looking for help designing a template to look like my store. I tried this tool and it didn’t work to well.
You may want to try contacting one of the MailChimp experts here: http://experts.mailchimp.com to get some custom design work done.