Arkli Integrates with MailChimp to Extend Campaign Management Suite

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 17, 2011

MailChimp today announced Arkli Social Campaign Manager integration with the MailChimp email platform, providing new tools for MailChimp users to create and manage integrated marketing campaigns with MailChimp email, videos, blogs and social media. Using Arkli, marketers can effectively integrate email into their integrated marketing campaigns. Arkli also allows marketers to share these campaigns before they launch to engage supporters who can amplify the message. This new integration makes it easy to import MailChimp email campaigns, and then schedule multiple YouTube videos, blog posts, Facebook updates and Tweets as a complete integrated campaign.

Arkli specializes in efficient and affordable integrated campaign management. The addition of MailChimp means users can seamlessly transfer content from MailChimp campaigns into other social media avenues– Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, and Blogger are all easily accessible from within Arkli Social Campaign Manager.

MailChimp is one of the leaders when it comes to integrating email and social media, says Michael Potter, CEO of Arkli. This integration means that MailChimp users can take that social integration a step further by managing a sustained, integrated campaign that continues for days or weeks.

Arkli makes it easy to create integrated marketing campaigns by scheduling posts and social interactions, sharing campaigns and seeing and replying to comments within Arkli’s Social Campaign Manager interface. These features ensure that content is published precisely when and where customers want. Arkli also compiles and displays statistics for all campaigns, giving users an accurate picture of campaign impact and marketing ROI.

MailChimp offers powerful email marketing solutions for any size enterprise. It continues to prioritize innovation, sponsoring its own $ 1 Million Integration Fund to encourage developers’ efforts to expand MailChimps features. Current integrations include Google Analytics, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal.

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 750,000 subscribers worldwide, sending 1.5 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, SurveyGizmo, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. Plus, they provide a directory of third-party API Experts who can help customers set up the specific integration needed for their business. And best of all, prices start at free.

About Arkli

Arkli Social Campaign Manager is an online tool that allows marketers to seamlessly manage integrated campaigns across all their online channels. Using Arkli, marketers can effectively create, publish and measure integrated marketing campaigns that combine email, videos, blogs and social media. Arkli also allows marketers to share these campaigns before they launch to engage supporters that can amplify the message. Based in Ottawa, Canada, Arkli manages integrated campaigns for agencies and brands around the world.

Links:

MailChimp: http://www.mailchimp.com

Arkli: http://www.arkli.com

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MailChimp Announces Integration With Orchard CMS

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 16, 2011

MailChimp today announced the integration of Orchard CMS, providing an easy path for site owners to support email signups and build their lists. Emails are a natural tie in to CMSs and publishing, providing an excellent path for publishers to continue the conversation with their readers after they have left the website.

UK-based start-up, Pianola, developed the Mailchimp sign-up form module and recently released it to the Orchard CMS community. Orchard is new open-source content management system developed by a team at Microsoft to run on ASP.NET MVC.

Ive really enjoyed working with ASP.NET MVC since it came out,” Pianola lead developer Richard Garside said. When I heard it was at the heart of Orchard, Microsofts new Open Source CMS, I wanted to be involved early on. A really nice community of people have built up around Orchard and its good to play a small part by contributing modules to the project. The MailChimp module will help us, but its also great to be able to share it with others too.

Founder and CEO of Pianola, James Ward said: Were big fans of Mailchimps capabilities so the decision to use the service to build our list was a no-brainer. Our coming soon site is built using Orchard. Rather than hard code the sign-up form straight into our site we decided to create it as a reusable module and release it to the community so that others could integrate Mailchimp easily into their own Orchard sites too.

Pianola is a new online application providing smart tools for bridge club managers and players. It allows managers to maintain their membership list synchronized in one place, publish results online, easily upload play data to their national bridge organization in just a couple of clicks, issue membership renewals and keep accounts.

Players can use Pianola to find partners, record, track and analyze their performance in their own personalized history, and share, compare and discuss their game with other players online.

Learn more about Pianola at http://www.pianola.net.

Download the Mailchimp Module for Orchard from http://orchardproject.net.

Check out this integration and many more on MailChimps Integrations Directory: http://connect.mailchimp.com.

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 825,000 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, SurveyGizmo, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Announces Integration with Mail Designer

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 14, 2011

MailChimp today announced a comprehensive integration with the Mail Designer desktop application developed by equinux. This integration provides a seamless path for MailChimp subscribers to create and edit templates in the Mail Designer application, export the template to MailChimp with one click and then continue editing the content in MailChimp. Mail Designer excels in providing design power and flexibility and at a level any user can understand. The combination of these two applications makes is possible for anyone to truly look like a professional designer creating personalized campaigns.

“Mail Designer 1.1 is an important step in the roadmap for professional users. With the help of an API, Mail Designer now allows users to create attractive newsletters for sending to large subscriber lists, says Till Schadde. “By integrating MailChimp with Mail Designer 1.1, we are able to leverage the creative ability of Mail Designer with one of the world’s largest email marketing services.”

“We are constantly looking for ways to make the email creation process easier for our subscribers,” says Neil Bainton, COO at MailChimp. “Mail Designer is an awesome application and integrates elegantly with our service. It even includes support for MailChimp merge tags.”

Any Mail Designer newsletter can be easily transferred to MailChimp. A new interface has been created allowing MailChimp users to log in directly from Mail Designer. Once logged in, Mail Designer will transfer the selected design to the users MailChimp account where it can be sent and tested taking advantage of MailChimp’s innovation in testing and sending technology. Mail Designer’s API has been designed from the outset to be open and third parties can integrate other newsletter systems and services.

Price and Availability

Registered users can update to Mail Designer 1.1 free of charge using built-in automatic update feature. Mail Designer is available from $ 69.95 US (59.95) in the equinux Online Store.

Links

http://www.equinux.com/us/products/maildesigner/mailchimp.html

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/mail-designer

About Mail Designer

Mail Designer is the perfect Mac App to create customized mail templates and newsletters. With Mail Designer, you can easily and intuitively create stunning Mail Designs. Charming invitations, insightful newsletters and irresistible offers – Mac Users, agencies and businesses can choose from a variety of pre-defined templates and fine tune the design based on their target groups and ideas. Editable text elements combined with dynamic text and image drop zones offer limitless creative freedom. A slew of intuitive tools and features have been designed to make your mailings pop. Each layout you make is saved as a template and can be sent and used again and again as often as you like.

http://www.equinux.com/maildesigner

About MailChimp

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.

About equinux

equinux designs and develops leading Mac, iPad, and iPhone solutions for professional and private environments. equinux’ enterprise solutions include the market leading VPN client for Mac, VPN Tracker, as well as the iPhone and iPad provisioning and management solution, TARMAC. Private users benefit from a full range of mail, media and lifestyle focused products. With the mobile TV-hotspot tizi, equinux offers innovative accessories for iPad and iPhone. Our products are well regarded and have been honored by multiple Apple Design Awards over the years. equinux is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has an office in South San Francisco, California.

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MailChimp Announces Ability to Include Signup Option Directly in Images

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 18, 2011

MailChimp today announced its integration with ThingLink, the leading provider of image engagement tools. ThingLink turns any image into a navigational platform for connecting people to services, products, information, entertainment, and each other. The addition of MailChimp to ThingLink lets users add a rich email newsletter sign-up tag to any image, anywhere on the internet.

ThingLink turns an image into an interactive experience, and this MailChimp integration allows people to transform images on their blog or website into an opportunity for email list sign-up. This feature removes seams, bringing companies and individuals closer to their followers. Published images with the ThingLink/MailChimp tag can boost subscription rates, expanding the reach of email campaigns and continuing conversations beyond the website.

ThingLink is a powerful new tool that extends brands and presents new revenue opportunities to individuals and enterprises alike. The platform currently supports a who’s who of leading content hosting and social media companies, bringing music, video, shopping experiences, and more directly into images everywhere. ThingLinks Rich Media Tags can be applied to any image and already allow the embedding of links from some of the worlds leading social content platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, Wikipedia, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and many more.

It’s easy to get this new integration going after users sign up for ThingLink and MailChimp accounts. They’ll then get their MailChimp “signup form link code” from their “Lists” section on MailChimp, copy that, and head over to ThingLink. There users pick an image to tag, and paste their MailChimp “signup form link code” into ThingLink’s editor field. They’ll then get started tagging images with their MailChimp signup widget, or any other tags they see fit. Users can choose to tag all of the images on their blog or site with this, or can pick out the individual images they need.

ThingLink’s standard service is completely free, with no ads to clutter up its tags. It has its own real-time analytics, works on mobile devices and is compatible with any site. It’s also simple to install on blog platforms like WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr.

Links

http://thinglinkblog.com/2011/10/18/mailchimp-users-can-now-add-a-signup-option-to-any-thinglink-image/

http://mailchimpthinglink.tumblr.com/

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/signup-option-in-images

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About ThingLink:

ThingLink develops tools for image interaction that allow content sharing via online images. ThingLink technology changes the way people interact with photos by transforming them into a surface for advertising, commerce, entertainment, search and social connection. Brands, publishers and bloggers utilize ThingLink in their images to share links, drive traffic, and set up image-based advertising campaigns. ThingLink has offices in San Francisco, New York and Helsinki.

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MailChimp Simplifies the Boss Approval Process

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 19, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of the OnStage application, a collaborative email campaign editing solution. OnStage provides a single location for MailChimp subscribers to showcase email campaigns prior to sending. It streamlines the email campaign feedback process, allowing for quicker and closer collaboration between colleagues.

A common bottleneck in the creation of email campaigns is the review process. An email draft is carefully crafted, a test email is sent, but now it must be looked over by several sets of eyes, many of which will want to see some changes. The revisions are made, but this leads to another round of review. The flurry of emails back and forth can be cumbersome, and details can be overlooked in the noise. OnStage eliminates this email game of telephone tag.

OnStage lets email creators present an email draft to their boss and colleagues all at once. The email draft is pulled directly from the creator’s MailChimp Campaign, displaying it for all participants in the presentation. The audience can then converse about it in OnStage’s “Peanut Gallery,” proposing changes and giving real time critique with its chat function. The chat can be easily filtered, letting the creator focus on one or two voices in the conversation. OnStage also provides a simple, collaborative to-do list that saves key feedback points, and easily lays out requested changes. The to-do list is easily updated and augmented by the creator and users alike. Annotated changes can be added to the campaign when users click exactly on the part of the email campaign that needs fixing and writing in their thoughts or solutions. These points are then automatically added to the to-do list.

After the initial showcase, suggested changes are then made to the original email, after which its creator can head back to OnStage for another round of feedback. This process can be repeated as many times as needed until it’s given the go ahead for sending.

This is a nifty way to keep the conversation in one place, facilitating close, easy collaboration.

The service is completely free. All it takes is a MailChimp account, an email campaign, and someone(s) who likes to edit other people’s work.

To get started, head over to onstageapp.com. Once there, a user will log in with their MailChimp credentials. They can then pick a campaign to showcase and invite participants. After everyone arrives via a unique link, the collaborative process begins.

OnStage was developed by MailChimp Labs. MailChimp Labs has released a slew of innovative, at times irreverent, email apps and projects, including Chimpadeedee, Omnivore, the Email Genome Project, and LOLCode.

Links:

http://www.onstageapp.com/login

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/onstage

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Announces Integration with Quickbooks

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 26, 2011

MailChimp today announced an integration with Quickbooks, the leading financial software for small businesses. Now hundreds of thousands of Quickbooks desktop users will be able to create and sync lists from their Quickbooks account to their list in MailChimp. The integration also allows users to pass customer segments created in Quickbooks to MailChimp.

The integration works using a syncing application called Autofy, developed by Propelware. Users can set up specific lists in Quickbooks that they want to sync with MailChimp and Autofy handles all the hard work. By facilitating the segmentation of customers to specific groups like has purchased in the last 30 days, Autofy helps users send relevant, more targeted emails to their customers and clients.

We are very excited that Quickbooks 4 million users now have an easy way to create and sync lists into a MailChimp account, helping them make the most out of their own data, said Amy Ellis, Head of Integrations and Partnerships at MailChimp. Targeting campaigns based on purchase history is a great way to ensure that email communications are relevant and engaging for the subscriber. Were happy we can provide another integration that makes sending effective email campaigns a little bit easier.

This integration is the latest to launch as part of MailChimps $ 1 million integration fund. The integration fund aims to help third-party developers prioritize integrations that build on MailChimps email technology platform. This Quickbooks integration will join the roughly 100 integrations that have launched since the fund was announced in Q4 of 2010. To view a complete listing of MailChimp integrations visit http://connect.mailchimp.com

Autofy is provided free of charge and is currently available to the public in beta at http://propelware.com/autofyformailchimp.aspx. The MailChimp Autofy application is compatible with Quickbooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise 2008 and newer U.S. Editions. It also runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Links:

http://propelware.com/autofyformailchimp.aspx

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/quickbooks-integration

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Offers Free Email Marketing

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 1, 2009

MailChimp today announced the introduction of its Forever Free pricing plan for its popular email marketing services. Now anyone can join the more than 125,000 MailChimp subscribers with full application access and best-in-class email delivery. The new plan allows subscribers to send up to 500 emails per campaign and 3,000 emails per month at no cost. Other providers charge $ 10 to $ 15 per month for a similar service. The plan is not a trial and never expires. For the first time the full power of email marketing is available to everyone, anywhere in the world, at no charge.

“We’ve always seen email first as a publishing tool and second as a marketing tool,” said Ben Chestnut, Co-Founder of MailChimp. “We’re aiming to empower smaller groups like artists, musicians, nonprofits, small businesses and hand-crafters to communicate effectively at no cost. That’s why we’re calling this Power to the People. We want to give everyone all the tools they need to send professional, permission-based email campaigns.”

Email is the best way for groups to stay in touch. Many organizations currently use Microsoft’s Outlook to send out regular email updates and to manage subscriber lists. While Outlook is well suited for personal emails, it was not designed for sending email campaigns. A further complication is that many internet service providers limit the number of emails an individual email account can send per day. MailChimp provides all the tools needed to manage the email campaign process including list building, designing HTML emails, sending, and tracking campaign performance.

“The new plan is perfect for smaller organizations like us, who don’t have a big marketing budget and are still building up their list, but want to start communicating now.” – Julia Cordero (a.k.a. Killy Wabbit), Head of Marketing, Atlanta Rollergirls

MailChimp makes it easy for anyone to look like a pro. The user-friendly template design tool makes it easy for subscribers to create their own attractive HTML emails, or use pre-built templates and just add content and images. MailChimp automates the entire list management process. They provide sign-up forms that can be easily customized and embedded into your web site, blog and social sites. They also automatically manage the unsubscribe process and remove invalid addresses immediately. MailChimp offers extensive reporting tools including opens and clicks reporting as well as a map showing where in the world readers open the email campaign. Through their powerful API, MailChimp also integrates with many third party applications including Salesforce, WordPress, and Google Analytics.

About:

MailChimp, a leading do-it-yourself marketing service, provides tools to over 125,000 small businesses, design agencies, non-profits, restaurants, and e-Commerce organizations worldwide. Customers can create professional, eye-catching HTML emails in minutes with easy-to-use web based tools. MailChimp delivers more than 200 millions emails per month from over 70 countries and in 26 languages, including Cyrillic, Mandarin and Japanese.

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MailChimp Announces Email Advertising Integration with LaunchBit

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 14, 2012

MailChimp today announced an integration with LaunchBit, an advertising network for email. This service connects high quality email publishers and advertisers. Companies can reach into developed, niche markets through a trusted source, publishers are compensated, and subscribers hear about products and services relevant to their interests. LaunchBit’s integration with MailChimp streamlines this process.

Email is one of the most effective channels through which businesses can connect with people. However, the process of partnering companies with relevant email newsletters can be inefficient. For publishers, it can be time consuming and difficult to sell ads. Plus many existing ad networks just drop random ad content into an otherwise stellar newsletter, and for a publisher who has worked hard to gain an audience’s trust, this can be a disaster. For advertisers, it can be equally tough to find complementary newsletters, ensuring reach to the right audiences.

LaunchBit organizes publishers and advertisers, so it’s simple for a business to contact a relevant newsletter, or for a publisher to select an advertiser or promotional partner for themselves. The ads are text based with just a small image so a promotion feels more like extra content, rather than an intrusive advertisement. LaunchBit also screens both publishers and advertisers to guarantee the quality of the newsletter and of the advertisement.

“We’re excited to partner with MailChimp to help newsletter publishers monetize their emails with great-looking advertising.” says Elizabeth Yin, LaunchBit CEO. “The future of advertising is really just quality content, and we think this is a first step in that direction.”

LaunchBit managed ads are text-based with a small image, rather than a full-scale banner ad, and match the tone of the given newsletter. Publishers have full control over which ads are published, can pick and choose which advertisers to partner with, and can accept or reject any partnership offer.

To start the process, a publisher first syncs his or her MailChimp account with LaunchBit, and then just needs to insert a short line of HTML with merge tags into their MailChimp template to enable advertising in their newsletter. A publisher can then select advertising partners within LaunchBit, and the selected ad content will be automatically placed into the appropriate spot within the email in MailChimp.

One publisher using LaunchBit since their launch is Hacker Newsletter, started by Kale Davis. LaunchBit has been a great partner to work with and has allowed me to focus on creating great issues instead of finding advertisers. says Kale. Their new integration with MailChimp makes it even easier and the relevant advertisers add more value for the subscribers of my newsletter.

MailChimp users can visit here (http://www.launchbit.com/mailchimp/) for more info. Advertisers and publishers can apply to join LaunchBit here http://www.launchbit.com/apply-to-join/

Links:

http://www.launchbit.com/mailchimp/

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/monetize-and-promote-your-email-newsletter

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.3 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.5 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About LaunchBit

LaunchBit is an ad network for email. It enables publishers to monetize their email newsletters and allows advertisers to reach their target audiences. It can also help newsletter publishers swap ads with complementary companies to help them grow their customer base. LaunchBit sets a high standard for accepting both publishers and advertisers to ensure a network that helps quality companies.

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Storify Offers MailChimp Integration

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 10, 2011

Storify, a new application for storytelling with social media, announced today that it has integrated with MailChimp, providing an easy way for Storify users to publish and distribute their stories via email.

We love this application, commented Ben Chestnut, co-founder and CEO of MailChimp. MailChimp is all about helping our subscribers send useful content to their readers. But putting together stories for your newsletters can be hard. With Storify, anyone can easily curate information from the social Web and add personal commentary. We really see this as the cure to writers block.

Storify is a free application still in private beta that allows users to create stories from social media, offering a unified search interface for Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Google Search and other sources. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, writers can select and remix story elements, and add their own text to provide analysis and context. Stories can be published on Storifys Web site, embedded on any blog or site, or accessed through an API. For an example of a Storify story, see the featured story on events in Egypt.

Early users of Storify have included major media companies such as The Washington Post, NPR, PBS, the Los Angeles Times, ReadWriteWeb along with other bloggers and individuals.

To foster such partnerships, Mailchimp has launched an Integration Fund and is accepting applications from anyone interested in building on the MailChimp platform. Interested parties should complete a short form online to begin the application process.

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 600,000 subscribers worldwide and sending 1 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. With headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, MailChimp has 10 years of experience providing a fast and robust application for creating, targeting, delivering and tracking their email-marketing efforts. Customers enjoy cutting-edge features, like designer templates, advanced social segmentation and data, geo targeting, and free reports with every campaign. MailChimp’s platform provides an open API used by more than 100,000 subscribers. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, SurveyGizmo, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. Plus, they provide a directory of third-party API Experts who can help customers set up the specific integration needed for their business. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Inbox Inspection Now Free for Monthly Subscribers

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 02, 2011

MailChimp today announced that its popular Inbox Inspection tool is now offered free of charge for all monthly subscribers. Inbox Inspections are a critical tool for good email marketing, providing an accurate representation of how an email campaign will actually look in a readers email inbox. Since its original launch in 2007 more than 100,000 Inbox Inspection reports have been created. Inbox Inspection reports are now powered by Litmus, a leader in email rendering.

Were excited to partner with Litmus to power Inbox Inspections, commented Ben Chestnut, MailChimp Co-Founder and CEO. We are able to reduce our costs enough that we can offer the reports free of charge to our paid, monthly subscribers. We hope that more of our customers will take advantage of this feature now that it is free.

Individual Inbox Inspection reports can also be purchased at $ 3 per test for Forever Free and Pay As You Go subscribers.

Litmus excels in fast rendering times and support for mobile devices. Litmus currently offers more than 34 variants of email clients as well as 12 spam filter checks. In addition to the standard desktop and web-based clients in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, Litmus also supports iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile 6.5 views. To date Litmus had prepared over 45 million previews.

While web technologies continue to develop to make it easier for designers to convey their message, email clients still rely on web technology from the 1990s. To ensure an email message displays properly, its critical to collect screenshots from actual email clients to understand the readers experience. Inbox Inspection powered by Litmus makes this fast, easy, and now free.

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 800,000 subscribers worldwide, sending 1.5 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, SurveyGizmo, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

Links:

http://blog.mailchimp.com/inbox-inspections-now-free/

http://litmus.com

http://mailchimp.com/features/inbox-inspector/

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MailChimp Announces Integration with HootSuite

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

MailChimp today announced an integration with market-leading social media management system HootSuite, joining HootSuites newly-announced App Directory.

The MailChimp app for HootSuite allows users to view and search for recent campaigns, share campaigns to social networks, view campaign results and more. The app is available immediately to HootSuites close to 4 million Free, Pro and Enterprise clients.

While we offer social capabilities and tracking inside our own application we know that the most important thing for small businesses is convenience, says Amy Ellis, MailChimp Head of Integrations and Partnerships. So many small businesses use HootSuite to manage and measure their brands presence on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and more. Were excited that this integration will allow them to manage the sharing of their email campaigns across those networks as well.

Businesses today are social. Success depends on connecting with customers instantly across multiple social media channels and networks. The growth of our App Directory gives clients an impressive arsenal of tools to do this, all in a single place, says HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes. Our goal, as we close in on six million users by end of year, is to continue aggressively integrating leading apps, turning our dashboard into the mother of all SaaS resources for the social business.

The MailChimp integration with HootSuite is the latest to launch from MailChimps $ 1 million integration fund. The integration fund aims to help third-party developers prioritize integrations that build on MailChimps email technology platform. This HootSuite integration will join the roughly 300 integrations that have launched since the fund was announced in Q4 of 2010. To view a complete listing of MailChimp integrations visit http://connect.mailchimp.com.

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.6 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.8 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

Links:

Integrations Directory: http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/hootsuite-integration

HootSuite Blog Post: http://blog.hootsuite.com/fourth-app-directory

Landing Page: http://hootsuite.com/appdirectory

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MailChimp adds free text-to-subscribe integration for UK & International businesses

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 04, 2011

MailChimp today announced the release of MobileChimp, the latest integration to launch out of the email technology platforms $ 1 million Integration Fund. MobileChimp provides MailChimp users in the US, UK, Australia, Spain, France and the Netherlands with a totally free option for mobile list building. Subscriptions gathered via text message are automatically added to the users designated MailChimp list via the API, making text-to-subscribe easy for any business to use.

Text-to-subscribe allows anyone interested in receiving email campaigns from a MailChimp user to text a keyword plus their email address to a designated code that is specific to each country. The keyword is chosen by the MailChimp user and is specific to their MailChimp list. This one-step process is easy for the subscriber and allows them to receive an email confirming their subscription rather than an additional text message.

The MobileChimp integration was developed by the UK-based web development agency, XAMP. XAMP developers are responsible for building a platform that sends and receives millions of text messages every month throughout the UK and worldwide. MobileChimp is built on that platform and maintained by XAMP.

Anyone can try out the service now by texting CHIMP + your email address to 447786 200236 to subscribe to MobileChimps regular newsletters.

XAMPs free offering allows users to designate an unlimited number of keywords for each list. Upgrading to a paid plan allows for using a short code specific to your country rather than a long code.

In addition to basic text-to-subscribe services, MobileChimp will automatically add new subscribers’ mobile phone numbers to their subscriber information in MailChimp. Plus, MobileChimps reporting tools track subscription rates by keyword. MobileChimp users can also choose to receive a push notification whenever a new subscriber signs up for their list through MobileChimp.

MailChimp users can start using MobileChimp today by visiting mobilechimp.co.uk. For more information on this and other integrations visit the Integrations Directory – http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/mobilechimp-text-to-subscribe

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Adds Billing in International Currencies

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 20, 2011

MailChimp announced today support for billing in British Pounds and Euro, providing greater transparency and lower transaction fees for MailChimp subscribers living outside the United States. Reflecting the growing international customer base, MailChimp looks to add additional currency support in the coming months.

The new billing solution provided by Chase Paymentech allows MailChimp to bill customers in foreign currencies at the time of the actual transaction. Previously foreign card holders would be billed in US dollars and would see a conversion rate in their monthly statement as well as a service charge of the conversion from US dollars. When a subscriber activates billing in British Pound or Euros the actual conversion rate is set at the time of the billing and the subscriber will see a charge in their local currency without a conversion service charge.

To provide the best conversion rates to subscribers, MailChimp makes the conversion from US dollars to British Pounds or Euros at the time of the transaction, rather than setting a fixed price in the other currencies. In this way subscribers will get the best conversion rate available at that point in time. Rather than seeing a fixed billing amount each month, the actual billable amount in British Pounds and Euros will vary slightly each month based on the actual exchange rate available at the time of billing.

Currently 45% of MailChimps subscribers on paid plans live outside the United States. The British Pound/Euro zone represents 28% of MailChimp subscribers. MailChimps 10 top cities worldwide are: New York, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago, Brisbane, and Auckland.

The launch of foreign currency billing is part of a broader program to expand the internationalization of the MailChimp application. Planned for Q1 2012 is the launch of a Spanish language version of MailChimp.

Links:

http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-v6-4-live-facebook-integration-international-currency/

http://blog.mailchimp.com/taking-your-web-app-international/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Announces the Release of the Ultimate List Segmentation Tool

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 25, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of Hairball, a new desktop application to manage complex email list segmentation. MailChimp currently limits the number of options for list segmentation inside the web application. Subscribers with complex list profiles as well as large lists often require more filtering options than are available inside the application. Now with Hairball subscribers can create unlimited segments of their list and easily transfer these new segments to their MailChimp account.

Hairball is an Adobe Air application that allows users to import their MailChimp account data onto their desktop computer and build as many segments as they’d like within the offline app. After the lists segments are completed (Hairball even supports segments within segments), Hairball then re-syncs with MailChimp online and creates new static segments inside the MailChimp application for sending a campaign.

To use Hairball, first install Adobe Air on your desktop (http://get.adobe.com/air/). Then download Hairball from MailChimp ( see links below by operating system), enter in the appropriate account info and MailChimp API Key, and then start picking lists to download into Hairball. Subscribers can also download campaign activity reports (who opened and who clicked on previous campaigns).

Hairball has been tested with lists of up to 10 million email addresses and for accounts with over 2 years sending history. This application was created in part to meet the needs of our largest senders — currently MailChimps largest customer sends over 40 million emails each month.

Download:

Mac: http://beaker.mailchimp.com/hairball/Hairball.air

Windows: http://beaker.mailchimp.com/hairball/Hairball.exe

Linux: http://beaker.mailchimp.com/hairball/Hairball.linux.air

Links:

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/ultimate-segmentation-tool

http://blog.mailchimp.com/introducing-hairball-an-air-app-for-really-complicated-mailchimp-lists/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Launches Status Page to Keep Users Up to Speed

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 26, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of its MailChimp status page. This page displays access times across 26 servers distributed around the world. As MailChimps subscriber base has grown it has become essential to monitor the users experience around the world. This tool now makes this information available directly to all subscribers.

The MailChimp Status Page gives more than a red light, green light rundown of the servers, providing users with an accurate display of how fast MailChimp is performing in certain key geographic regions. Manchester, Sydney, New Orleans, New York, and Buenos Aires are just a few of the many locations.

In the spring of 2010 MailChimp began using Akamais Web Application Accelerator solution to improve performance for remote subscribers. Currently more than 45% of MailChimp subscribers are international. Before deploying the Akamai solution solution, it was difficult for subscribers in New Zealand to complete their tasks using the MailChimp web application. With the Akamais accelerator service, the application performs well around the world with all of MailChimps servers based in the US. Currently MailChimp has data centers in Virginia and New York and in November will be adding three new data centers (one in New York and two in Dallas) to support the continuing subscriber growth.

The Status Page is run using the application monitoring service provided by Webmetrics (http://www.webmetrics.com/). This service strategically places computers across the globe and performs a preset series of actions within MailChimp. The service times the average completion of these operations. The Webmetrics service logs in, checks the dashboard, opens a campaign screen, opens the reports screen, views a campaign report, returns to the dashboard, and then logs out. The average times are then displayed next to the current cycle times at each location. For example, one can see Atlanta’s last cycle took 5.62 seconds, but the average for Atlanta is 7.05 seconds. This makes for an easy point of reference for users, who can see if it’s them or if it’s MailChimp that’s running slowly. If MailChimp appears to be running fine, there’s a connection speed test module located on the status page to test the user’s Internet connection quickly and efficiently.

MailChimp’s performance status can always be checked via @mailchimpstatus on twitter.

Links:

http://status.mailchimp.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/MailChimpstatus

http://www.webmetrics.com/

http://www.akamai.com/waa

http://blog.mailchimp.com/speeding-up-mailchimp-with-akamai/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Announces Launch of Transactional Email Service

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 27, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of a new transactional email service called Mandrill. Subscribers can now send transactional, one-to-one emails via MailChimps delivery platform using the new Mandrill API calls or by using traditional SMTP protocols. Setup is a snap and sending results are displayed in the subscribers MailChimp account under reports.

Monthly MailChimp subscribers can sign up to participate in the Mandrill beta test at the link below. Access will be turned on per individual account during the testing period.

http://eepurl.com/gDrMT

Historically MailChimp has focused on the challenges of bulk email, sending one email to thousands of recipients. MailChimps largest customer sends 65 million emails each month and in November MailChimp expects to send well in excess of 2 billion emails. Mandrill was created to provide a one-stop email solution for customers seeking to handle both bulk and one-to-one emails with a single service provider.

The Mandrill API supports message tagging so senders can track open and click performance on their transactional emails, as well as bounces. Mandrill also supports a standard SMTP interface for sending messages. Tags for tracking messages sent via SMTP can be included in the message header.

Mandrill utilizes a next generation email technology platform developed in-house to support the email delivery needs of integrators and web apps outside of MailChimp. The sending path is designed to maximize delivery speed. To ensure the best delivery, Mandrill will require a warm up period as new MailChimp subscribers begin to send via this service. In addition, Mandrill requires verification of each sending address to be used for transactional emails.

Links:

http://mandrill.com

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/transactional-email-service-mandrill

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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MailChimp Integration for Paid Email Subscriptions

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

MailChimp today announced an integration with MediaPass (http://www.mediapass.com), a leading subscription solution for websites. With MailChimp Sync, customers using MediaPass to power digital subscriptions to their content, can effectively manage email campaigns for premium members.

Our publishers have been asking for an easy way to integrate a premium content model with their email strategy. Developing this feature with MailChimp not only gives our customers a powerful marketing tool, but now they can easily offer robust subscriber benefits via premium newsletters and emails, said Matt Mitchell, CEO of MediaPass.

MediaPass publishers with a MailChimp account can access the MailChimp Sync feature in their publisher console. They enable the feature by signing in with their MailChimp login, select the MailChimp list to update whenever a user signs up for a subscription, and MediaPass handles the rest even unsubscribes. MailChimp Sync was developed by MediaPass and is offered to any website at no additional cost with a free MediaPass account (http://publisher.mediapass.com/SignUp1.aspx).

MediaPass offers simple javascript code that is easily added to any website or CMS, to instantly enable a premium subscription model. MediaPass is a full-service subscription solution with customizable features and secure billing management. Merchant processing, fraud protection, and subscriber support are provided to all MediaPass publishers, and also available for any site using MailChimp Sync. MediaPass is one of the latest companies selected by the MailChimp Integration Fund.

Links:

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/mailchimp-sync-for-mediapass-subscriptions

http://www.mediapass.com

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.3 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.5 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About MediaPass

MediaPass is a leading subscription solution for websites and works on any platform or CMS. Using MediaPass, a website can sell recurring subscriptions to their online content, without the resources and costs typically associated with in-house development. Founded by experts in online subscription models, MediaPass aims to service the growing world of web publishers who are frustrated with the limitations of an advertising-based revenue model and desire a simple, yet customizable subscription product.

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MailChimp Announces Email Signup in Video Player

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

MailChimp today announced an integration with Viewbix, a company that adds dynamic interactive apps to videos to create a rich and actionable viewing experience. The integration allows Viewbix users to seamlessly and effortlessly leverage the power of MailChimp to increase subscription for relevant, targeted email campaigns.

The MailChimp integration with Viewbix is a compelling combination for business owners, facilitating growth by allowing them to leverage their viewers engagement and maximize their reach by showcasing previous newsletters and email campaigns and allowing for sign up from directly within the video.

Businesses are taking advantage of the significant power of video to attract and engage new and existing customers.The MailChimp app will allow viewers to peruse selected newsletters as well as to subscribe to future campaigns, all within the video unit. The MailChimp interactive app is available free to all Viewbix users who have a MailChimp account, and can be added to any Viewbix video in less than two minutes.

Links:

http://www.viewbix.com/v//cc949568-bfb3-41bc-9b66-48d50c7aa032

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/viewbix-mailchimp-app

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.3 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.5 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About Viewbix

Viewbix provides a powerful solution for adding dynamic, interactive content to video that engages viewers and drives interaction. Viewbix supports dozens of apps to create a rich viewing experience that can be shared across the web, mobile and social platforms. Based on a freemium model, the Viewbix base product is free, with a small monthly fee for advanced features such as branded players, premium apps, and detailed analytics.

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MailChimp Integrates with Aviary to Simplify Image Editing

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 02, 2012

MailChimp today announced its integration with Aviary, a web-based photo editing solution. Now when users create and format emails, they can seamlessly edit, fix, and get creative with their photos, using Aviary, all within MailChimp.

Aviary is a simple, powerful, and attractive platform. It’s also an upgrade over MailChimp’s previous image editing interface. This new integration’s extensive feature-set means users no longer have to wait for Photoshop to load or mess around with iPhoto while in the midst of writing an email. The email writing process can proceed without the distracting and disruptive need for external software.

“Our goal with MailChimp is to empower our customers with sophisticated tools that are easy to use,” says MailChimp UX Lead Aarron Walter. “Thanks to Aviary, our users can now edit photos inline as they design emails. Aviary is both powerful and simple, which is perfect for MailChimp.”

And for MailChimp users, image editing is a snap with Aviary. Photo cropping, resizing, and rotation are easy. This is great for getting pictures to fit perfectly into MailChimp’s variety of email templates. Aviary also provides more advanced tools for MailChimp users. Photo auto-enhance allows for magic one-click photo improvement. There are adjustment sliders to change a photos saturation, contrast, and brightness, plus creative filters for adding effects such as vintage, soft-focus, and monochrome.

“We work hard to democratize creativity by bringing advanced photo editing to our partners and their customers,” says Aviary VP of Business Paul Murphy. “This integration with MailChimp is a great example of our creative tools improving MailChimps already awesome product.”

Since 2007, Aviary has been working to bring creative image editing to the masses online. They’ve focused the last two years on turning that system into a platform for partners to easily combine with their mobile and web apps. Now they partner with hundreds of companies to bring creative tools into other services’ existing workflows.

Links:

http://mailchimp.com

http://aviary.com

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.4 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.5 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

About Aviary

Our mission is to power the world’s creativity.

Our founders have been helping artists be creative online for years, with Worth1000.com and Aviary Advanced. Now that our artists are happy, we’re focusing on truly helping everyone in the world be more creative with our quick photo editor, which can be embedded in any web or mobile app for a beautiful, seamless editing experience wherever you are.

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MailChimp Announces Expanded Zendesk Integration

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 20, 2012

MailChimp today announced an expanded integration with Zendesk, a major online support desk solution. The new integration helps support team members manage and keep track of how customers have interacted with MailChimp email campaigns, all from within Zendesk.

This information is accessed alongside all the other information Zendesk has aggregated regarding a customers history or support ticket. The additional data gives a support team member using Zendesk a better picture of what communications the customer has received and how theyve interacted with them. Agents can also immediately subscribe or unsubscribe a customer from any of the company’s MailChimp email lists without leaving the Zendesk platform.

Zendesk is a web-based support desk solution. It is used by over 15,000 companies including OpenTable, Sears, Groupon, and Dropbox. Zendesk allows companies to scale their support desk as needed, track support team efficiency, and improve the customer support experience. It is comprehensive, integrates with others, and is simple to customize. It also can manage a multi-channel customer support system, which is where MailChimp comes in.

Currently, Zendesk support team members can assist customers via twitter, live chat, phone, email, and more. They coordinate these different channels within the Zendesk interface and can share all relevant customer information between support team members. And since it’s an online based solution, Zendesk can be accessed anywhere.

This update was developed by Myndbend Multimedia.

Links:

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/zendesk

http://www.myndbend.com/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.4 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.5 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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