Starting Monday June 20, we’ll be rolling out some improvements and additions to MailChimp. You’ll start to notice new features on Monday morning, but it’ll take until the end of Tuesday June 21 to propagate to all accounts. We’ll post more details after we go live, but here are some highlights:
Update Subscription Prefs Through Forms
When subscribers want to update their subscription preferences, the only way to do that is by clicking a link in a campaign. In this next release, your subscribers will be able to update their subscription prefs at your subscribe forms by entering their email address. If they’re already on the list, we’ll give them the option to have an email sent to them with a link to update their preferences.
Refined Design of Lists Stats
We’ve given the Lists dashboard a fresh look, making stats easier to read, and creating new pathways into your data.
Chimp Chatter Improvements
We’re refining and improving Chimp Chatter on the dashboard to provide even more insight into what’s happening in your MailChimp account. Since we added better geo-data in the last release, we’re bringing some of that to the surface by showing you the countries where your new subscribers, unsubscribes, and Facebook Likes are coming from.
If you’ve got a popular list, you might’ve found Chatter messages a bit overwhelming at times when a really big batch of people subscribe. Those messages will be easier to read as we’re now truncating long lists of subscribers and linking into a detailed table of your most recent subscribers and unsubscribes.
Six New Newsletter Templates
We’re adding six elegant new templates perfect for your next newsletter. Drop in some images, a bit of content, and just select a color theme to be send ready. Stay tuned for more templates in future releases. We’ve got more in the works.
OAuth 2 Integration With Other Apps
We’re making it even easier for third party apps to integrate with MailChimp by adding OAuth 2 support. OAuth 2 is a standard way for third-party apps to get authorized access to a user’s account without needing to copy/paste API keys or ask users for sensitive usernames and passwords. OAuth 2 support will launch in beta next week. We’ll release more info about it in the not so distant future.
Usability Improvements
As is true with each new release, there are a host of small-ish usability improvements soon to be arriving in MailChimp. If we’ve done our job well, you won’t even notice them. Thanks to some generous users, we’ve run a boat load of usability tests that have helped us refine the setup process, and make important areas of the app a little more discoverable. Want to help us in future usability tests? Get in touch with our user experience team.
Mailchimp, I do love the way you keep innovating and investing time into the product. It’s why I think I will be a customer for LIFE! keep up the good work!
are the templates pictured available now? if so, where will i find them?
They will be available after we launch. Launch begins Monday, and may take until end of day Tuesday for all customers to see the new features.
Update Subscription Prefs Through Forms! Hell ya! This is going to greatly help customer support requests for my clients.
Thank you thank you!
You guys are the BEST! MC just keeps getting better and better. I especially appreciate the attention to creating more elegant, business/professional-looking templates. This will definitely give MC a stronger competitive advantage in the SME market (Small to Medium-Sized Businesses). Keep up the good work!
Will you ever bring back templates with a footer that spans 100% of the width of the template? I’m not a fan of the 60%, left-justified footer space you have now in most of your templates. Thanks!
There are some templates in this batch that have 100% wide footers. We’ll keep that in mind for future templates too.
Thanks for improving the already awesome MailChimp even further!
Looking good the new report dashboard and the list dashboard.
One comment:
Netherlands
37.6%
Belgium
2.5%
Other
2.5%
Where is the other 57,4%?
The Lists overview dashboard will show some of your top subscriber locations, but click through to the Top Locations page to see a full list.
Would love to see a chart of list growth month over month (only showing gains) and or even day over day so that we can easily see what our growth rates are.
Right now the list growth chart shows the entire list with only a tiny sliver at the top of that month’s growth making it very cumbersome to compare months (you have to roll your mouse over each month and jot down the numbers) and impossible to compare days without exporting to excel. And as lists sizes grow, the chart becomes less and less meaningful since the month’s growth is small relative to the overall list size.
Really good ideas, Johnny. Thanks for the feedback. Adding this to our ticket queue to consider for future releases.
Is it going to work with G-mail now? Because it still doesn’t.
Can you give us some more feedback about what’s not working and what specific errors you are seeing so we can troubleshoot?
Do you guys not know about G-mail problems? I have a comic that comes out 2 times a week and ever time it comes to my gmail account the comic and banner on the e-mail never loads. If it is an article… it’s fine. But still no banner even if it’s an article. Very frustrating… but I still use MailChimp because on my wife’s hotmail account it comes out fine. Nobody ever brought up this issue before!? I guess I’m the first.
If you’re referring to how Gmail doesn’t show images by default, that’s not a bug in our templates. That’s just the way Gmail handles all images. There’s a link in Gmail shown above every email with images that reads “Display images below”. Clicking that should show all of your images in your email. You can even click “Always display images from someemail@example.com” to make them show up every time. This is a user setting, though. Most Gmail users are aware of that default, and will allow images from trusted sources.
Thanks for the response…but I went back to check to see what you said and I’ve been doing that. I know about Gmail and how you have to click on this and that to get pictures to show up. But with the mail chimp e-mails that come… no go. They come up as “broken icons.” If I click on them fine, they go to the appropriate place on our site but I wanted to have our fans just get the comic in their in boxes. Go to our site and subscribe to our newsletter from you guys and see for yourself on MONDAY when I post up a new comic. You can delete your account right after.
Hi Magnus, I subscribed to your email list, got your latest campaign today, and I see the broken images. They seem to be hosted on your website, not ours. The IMG src’s are:
http://mandmx.com/New+Thin+Title+BUY+OUR+BOOK.jpg
and
http://www.mandmx.com/comics/2011-06-30+A+Penny+Saved+is+a+Penny+Earned+in+Chinese.jpg
They look like 404 errors, meaning the files aren’t where you’re pointing to. You can change the code, or you can upload your images to MailChimp instead. We use CDNs and may be better equipped to host the images.
How can I change the code to have Mail Chimp look on my server for the files that it needs? I don’t want to have to do an extra step by uploading the comic to our site and mailchimp.
You appear to be coding it correctly so that it pulls assets from your own server. However, the URLs that you’re using appear to be incorrect. I was getting 404 errors, so it means you just need to make sure you’re entering the correct path to your files. If you can’t get it to work, contact our support team. There might be some other issue I’m missing here, and the support team is much more skilled at spotting the details than I am.
Thank you, thank you, MC! Any chance you have multiple signup forms in the works? I’d love to be able to give web visitors different opportunities to sign up for the same list, e.g. with different premium offers.
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