Beth Snider 
Kim Elliott 
Bridgette Anderson 
Keith Criswell 
Rhonda Bailey 
Brent Laminack We discovered the insanely great e-mail subscription service MailChimp. Located in Atlanta, they seem light-years ahead of the other e-mail marketing programs we've used. Only problem is that to allow sign-up from a Joomla site, it was necessary to use MailChimp's "insert your HTML here". To simplify your site visitor's ability to sign up for your eBlasts, we created MailChimp Module2. This module allows you to display your MailChimp subscription form natively on your Joomla site. All other MailChimp configuration is performed within your account at MailChimp.com.
Mailchimp recently changed the way 3rd parties integrate with their service (their API). This required a rewrite of the internals of the module which is now available. If you are currently using a previous release of our module, please download the new version.
From the admin site, provide your MailChimp user name and password, and the mailing list id of the list you want the user to subscribe to. From the front side, the user types in his or her email address and clicks the submit button. The module does an AJAX call to the subscription program, so there is no page refresh. We proudly offer you our Joomla MailChimp Module2:
Please review the frequently asked questions and answers, as well as configuration tips about the MailChimp Module2, on the right.
If you would like to hire 3by400 to help you get your MailChimp campaigns going, please log a ticket.
UPDATE 11/9/2011: Major release here:
- uses the new MailChimp 1.3 API
- Fixed a problem retrieving the API key in some installs.
- general cleanup
- supports hidden fields
- install and run both in Joomla 1.5 and 1.7
UPDATE: 9/15/2009: major release here. It does several things better than before:
- uses latest MailChimp API, version 1.2.3
- corrects support for module suffix for styling
- corrects the 'merge_vars' errors
- clears fields after submits
Excellent MailChimp Tools
Here are some great resources, guides, and tools...straight from the head monkey's mouth:
MailChimp Guides - Use the guides to learn how to make your MailChimp sing. These are easy, quick reads that allow you to focus on areas of improvement for your email campaigning.
MailChimp Knowledge Base - In addition to our support FAQs for the MailChimp Module2, you can find MailChimp-specific answers here...or ask MailChimp support a specific question.
MailChimp Online Training - Feeling a little uncertain about how to get started? Although 3by400 offers MailChimp training, MailChimp's online seminars and video tutorials are so thorough and task-specific, we find that most people can easily get started and hum right along on their own after participating in a few of these training sessions.
Still need help? Contact us for customized support or training.
Official MailChimp Blog
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Customer Love: Turntable Kitchen
Every other week, Customer Love offers a quick snapshot of one of MailChimp’s wonderful users. Who: Turntable Kitchen What: A website that pairs locally sourced recipes with great music Where: San Francisco Why we love them: Kasey and Matthew connect food to music, as their tagline goes, but they do so with great design and obvious passion. Plus, [...]
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Hugh MacLeod’s Social Objects and Fantastic Open Rates
We were impressed to find out that Hugh MacLeod‘s MailChimp campaigns consistently maintain a fantastic 40%+ open rate. What does a cartoonist know about email marketing? Well, as it turns out, he doesn’t worry about all the typical “email expert” stuff like A/B testing, sending at different times of day, experimenting with subject lines, etc. Instead, [...]
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Thanks, ReplyTo.
MailChimp's ReplyTo prevents all those "I'm on vacation" auto-replies from flooding your inbox.
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Research: How People Use Mobile Email
Smartphones just outsold desktop computers, and we see people everywhere using them more than their PCs–that's a sign that something paradigm-shifting is going on here. So the MailChimp UX team researched the behavior of people when they read emails on their mobile devices.
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Social Networks and The Changing Face of the MailChimp Customer Community
As a MailChimp user, we value your feedback and think it’s important for you to have an easy way to share your thoughts with us. Frankly, it’s where we get all our ideas, so we don’t just “value” your feedback–we need your feedback. That’s why we set up The Jungle, our private customer community on the Ning platform, [...]
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Most Newsletter Templates are Nonprofit Templates
MailChimp has many pre-designed templates for newsletters. We’re always adding more, too. A handful of these templates are designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, but most aren’t. Here’s the thing, though: Nonprofits can totally use the templates that aren’t specifically designated for nonprofits. This isn’t exactly news. But maybe your micromanager needed to hear it from someone [...]
