This is my own question or request: Chrysti has done such a great job of explaining how to use MailChimp for newsletters. I actually got it set up for us! Looking at what a few of you had done really helped me in that, too. Would you be willing to share actual examples of how you use MailChimp? Please link in the comments!
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I would like to learn how to use MailChimp when we are in the US this summer. I read the blog post about it and it helped alot. However, I'm a hand-on learner so if I can find someone to walk me through it in the States that would be great. Phyllis, you mentioned that it helped you to see some newsletters. Is that on this website? Looking forward to reading/seeing more about this! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I'm hoping to get here. I clicked through to the blogs of some of the commenters on Chrysti's first post and found some examples myself, but I hope people will share them more accessibly here! :-)
DeleteHere is what i have so far myself:
http://fylliska.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
Under the photos, the "Join our mailing list!" and "Winter 2012-2013" links are MailChimp.
We offer monthly and weekly prayer updates which we send out through mail chimp. this has been the favorite thing our donors have appreciated from us is communication. We have a link on our blog for folks to sign up and this communication is in addition to our quarterly mailer. We have friends that use it to update folks when they have posted to a blog. When folks sign up for electronic communication it also opens the door for us to mail them a newsletter each quarter
ReplyDeleteWe just started using MailChimp for our updates, but I'm not sure how to link it here. Some of their terminology they use for things to set up a newsletter are confusing, so I am very thankful for some of the online helps that were posted here not too long ago!
ReplyDeleteWe just started using MailChimp,and while we have yet to send out a newsletter, we've done our prayer update, and our in country missions news letter (for other missionaries in our org.) with it. We've been really pleased with it so far! I am going to try and show two examples for you. Here's our prayer update Praying for the Kampers - http://eepurl.com/xrLv5 and here's our in country LAM newsletter LAM Costa Rica Noticias - http://eepurl.com/xCQRv (Now we'll see if that works :)
ReplyDeleteJust copy those urls into your browser and it will take you there. :)
DeleteThis is the "Newsletter" page of our blog where people can browse the archives of past (print-version) newsletters, and also where they can sign up to be on our Mail-Chimp list to receive future updates by email:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rustyandlaura.blogspot.com/p/newsletters.html
We do a quarterly (print-version) newsletter that goes to everyone in our address book. I upload it to a public folder in my Google Docs account and then link it to the MailChimp email. Here is an example of that:
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7bb11da11c89f5e0beacf3131&id=c590b7b9c3
We also do a monthly (well, it is supposed to be monthly) prayer update that goes out to family, close friends, personal financial supporters, and anyone else that wants to receive it. Here is an example of that:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7bb11da11c89f5e0beacf3131&id=f93b56738f
I also have our MailChimp account linked to our Facebook pages (both our personal pages and our family ministry page), so every time we send a MailChimp email, a link is automatically posted to Facebook. This is easy to set up and a way to increase readership.
I also wanted to mention that when we were on a mission team, we had a team Mail Chimp account. Every team family could log in and send their newsletters through this one single account. Our team newsletters were also sent out from this account. We had our list segmented so that our team newsletters went to everyone, but then subscribers could choose which family updates they wanted to receive. It made it nice because we all had a lot of common acquaintances, but doing everything through MailChimp meant that people weren't receiving more than one copy of the team newsletter, for example. Or family updates from the team families they didn't know or didn't have a connection with. I hope this makes sense. MailChimp is great for individual families, but it also works very well for teams or groups.
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this idea. When I can get to my computer, I'll come back and post some links :-) And check out some of your links too!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this idea. When I can get to my computer, I'll come back and post some links :-) And check out some of your links too!
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