MailChimp Announces Mobile Customer Relationship App Providing VIP Activity Alerts

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 28, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of a mobile app for tracking VIP activity. The app is called Golden Monkeys and is available as a native application for both iPhone and Android devices. The app keeps track of smart phone users’ designated very important subscribers (VIPs), sending push notifications to their mobile devices, alerting them when those special someones have opened and clicked on a given campaign.

There are times when many MailChimp users need to know if a given list member has opened that product launch bulletin (what does mom and/or that angel investor think of my new API integration? have they even read it yet?). Golden Monkeys means MailChimp users no longer have to dig through their list to find individual profiles to check this status. Its now sent straight to a mobile device via push notification.

The full feature set also presents real-time alerts, activity sharing, and subscriber profiles. Just flip over to “Recent Activity” on one’s mobile device, and there’s a Twitter-esque display of VIPs’ recent opens and clicks. Activity sharing makes it easy to email VIP activity to co-workers, keeping the whole team in the loop. Extended subscriber profiles feature member ratings, and member since information. Plus, a Golden Monkey icon appears on each users profile page within MailChimp upon Golden Monkey installation, making it a one-click process to receive updates and deem a user a “Golden Monkey.” All of this info is password protected, and its security can be augmented via MailChimp’s existing SMS security alert settings.

The app also features a search function, that lets people pick out their VIPs from within MailChimp by segmenting their list based on whatever criteria matters to each user. Users can sort by location using MailChimp’s geolocation data, or by member engagement or customer purchase history (with the use of MailChimp’s eCommerce 360 plugin). Users can then bulk-add these VIPs, and, for example, making it easy to have VIP lists for users located nearby, or users who have recently purchased an item promoted via email.

Setup involves download of GoldenMonkeys for Android or iPhone, and then a quick API entry, or Username/password input. There’s a quick and nifty way to enter in the more secure API key — just snap a quick picture of the API key’s QR code, and it’s good to go.

This release comes straight from MailChimp’s own Mobile Lab that has brought the world Chimpadeedo, Chimpadeedee, Pyow, and its mobile optimized web app. They focus on producing apps quickly, and iterating frequently. The Mobile Lab’s next big project is a new MailChimp mobile app to be released simultaneously on iPhone and Android.

Links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/golden-monkeys/id401065222?mt=8

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mailchimp.goldenmonkeys

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MailChimp supports more than 900,000 subscribers worldwide, sending 1.75 billion emails per month. The MailChimp platform improves the user experience by providing seamless, yet powerful email marketing and publishing features that are easy and affordable enough for a small business to get started, but powerful enough for a large company looking for an enterprise level solution. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. MailChimp is currently the No 1 installed application in the Google Apps Marketplace. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Announces Mobile Customer Relationship App Providing VIP Activity Alerts

FastWebFormula Community Buzzes with Activity, Replete with New Training Materials and Helpful Discussion Threads

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) May 24, 2012

It has only been but a couple of weeks since the launch of Internet business forum FastWebFormula, but members did not waste time getting started. As of the writing of this release, there were already 277members and 4398 posts made. FastWebFormula.com owner and well-known Web marketing expert and coach James Schramko recently delivered a news update on the most important highlights of the latest activities in the community.

Were pretty excited about the affiliate marketing case study thats coming up, the online mogul reports. Ill be showing real statistics from some of my affiliate marketing campaigns. This case study is simply one of the innumerable training materials available to members of the paid coaching community. Two more have been recently added. One member has posted $ 15000 Worth of Success. Schramko shares, The good news is that this customer of ours has put this together within four hours so you can see that the information is working. When applied, you can actually get results. Another one is an outsourcing course put together by another member. It has actually been very popular and is currently receiving great feedback.

One of Schramkos personal favorites among the topics discussed is email segmentation, going through the process of migrating Aweber to OfficeAutopilot. Ive put a lot of thought and strategy behind the way that I segment my emails, shares Schramko. Im going from a 160 separate lists down to just a simple set of tags and groups, which is going to make my email marketing significantly better.

Still on an email-related note, the online business master states that a few members are talking about moving from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail. Now, were talking about how to actually use Google apps as your email server that runs completely separately to where your website is hosted. He urges his viewers to do the same, pointing out that its what he does for his own business for the reason that Google apps are really powerful. It has fantastic spam filtering and a lot of ability to create email groups within your business, he elaborates, adding, And I dont think youre going to blow up Gmail servers any time soon.

Schramko also highlights the discussion on conversion and finding a unique selling position. One of the greatest strategies you can have is to find your point of difference to differentiate from your competition, he asserts.

Other threads talk about podcasts (which is also a popular topic considering that one of the members is a podcasting professional), WordPress plug-ins (Go lean is Schramkos advice), and even headsets (as well as other equipment talk).

Schramko wraps up the news update with a brief account of the local business meet-up in Sydney, recommending such a get-together for members in other areas. He avers, Youll find that community bonding is what really propels your business.

FastWebFormula Community Buzzes with Activity, Replete with New Training Materials and Helpful Discussion Threads