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: Sacred Bones
Each week, Customer Love offers a quick snapshot of one of MailChimp’s awesome users. Who: Sacred Bones What: A record label that specializes in psychedelic and outsider music Where: Brooklyn Why we love them: The music obsessives behind Sacred Bones understand that good things aren’t always easy to find. And by releasing everything from gothic synth-pop (Zola [...]
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Tailor Your Nonprofit’s Newsletter with Merge Tags
Meet Lain. We hired him to teach nonprofits how to use MailChimp, and to help make using MailChimp a better experience for nonprofits. And as the former executive director of a local nonprofit, he knows what’s up. -Ben Merge Tags can look scary to the uninitiated, but these little guys are the secret to any [...]
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Some Crazy MailChimp Numbers
We were digging through our logs recently, and we thought we'd share some interesting MailChimp stats.
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Customer Love: Baratunde Thurston
Each week, Customer Love offers a quick snapshot of one of MailChimp’s awesome users. Who: Baratunde Thurston What: A comedian and writer who loves politics and technology Where: Brooklyn Why we love him: Baratunde Thurston wears many hats. He co-founded a political blog, wrote a book, hosted a show on Discovery Science, currently serves as The Onion‘s Director [...]
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MailChimp and Media Queries
It’s no secret that mobile readership of email is skyrocketing. In May of 2011, Return Path released a study in which showed an 81% increase in mobile viewership over the prior 6-month period. Then, in September, Litmus released its own study which bore out many of the same conclusions. Litmus’ number was a little higher: [...]
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Keeping Our Eyes on Video
A few years ago MailChimp decided to take video seriously. Well, in the beginning, the videos themselves were never very serious, in fact, quite the opposite. But they have always served a very serious purpose, which is to help our customers learn how to use MailChimp, learn about new features and learn about our awesome [...]
