Ultimative Anleitung zur Verwendung von Mailchimp und WordPress (2024)

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1. Francesco

   Thanks for the post!!

   Quick question..

   Is it possible to create a newsletter that dinamically takes my last 3 post? Or I should put them manually everytime?

   This is a features the plugin „Newsletter“ has native and it’s really useful.

   Every helps is really appreciated
   Francesco

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2. Vana

   Exactly what I needed!
   Thank you so much! You are the best.

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3. Will

   Great article. Need help! Installed mailchimp subscriber form on my blog. I am getting notification the confirmation email is sent for double opt. Yet am not receiving the link and no emails are being added to the mailchimp list. Beyond frustrated! Any help appreciated. Seems to be a issue on many help forums.

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4. Shelley

   I have two different opt-in forms on my site, both connected to mail chimp. I have some subscribers going to mail chimp email list and some on wordpress. Any idea why this is happening?

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5. Mackenzie Waters

   This was exactly what I needed and walked me through the process so easily! Thank you!

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6. Chris

   The only reservation I have about switching from FeedBurner is that if someone unsubscribes from the RSS driving posts, but they still want to get the newsletter (or vice versa), then there is no way to accommodate that (that I can tell).

   I would like my readers to have control over which content they get but not be completely committed to „all of the above“ only.

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7. MartinR

   Many Thanks! I just followed these instructions to create a free MailChimp account, create a Subscribe form for posts on my self hosted WordPress site, and start a „campaign“ which will email my latest post to subscribers. This is exactly what I was looking for. Again, thanks, great article!

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   • Sunday

     I followed all the instruction, but I am asked to register a custom email account with an organisation to be paid before I can continue. Where did I missed it?

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8. James Clewlow

   I followed all of the instructions correctly but when I copy and paste the link into the text widget in the sidebar it comes up as a massive link on my website.

   Please help!

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   • MartinR

     in that above writeup I typed:

     …Code button to add a „“ at the beginning and a „“ at end of the pasted link/block, SAVE, then remove the beginning and ending „“ tags, SAVE again…

     But the „code“ tags I typed in the 1st reply got interpreted as actual HTML – you would actually see the code tags without all the spaces – hope that makes sense…

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     • MartinR

       This editor keeps interpreting what I’m trying to type as actual code tags so I’ll just say:

       If you follow the first reply – what I did was add a beginning and ending code tag to surround the pasted link – via the Code button, SAVE, then remove them, SAVE again, all was well.

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9. Camille

   Hi I followed these instructions and this morning I got the email but my latest blog post isn’t in it. It’s just the template but I though it would pull the latest blog posts into the email. Just curious if you have a resource that could help me on this. Mail chimp doesn’t seem to have anything on their website. Thanks!

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10. John E.

    Hi, and thanks for a great article. I’m currently using Mailpoet but thinking of moving to Mailchimp. I want to use the RSS campaign feature, but I also want to include evergreen articles that I occasionally update, but don’t appear as new in the RSS feed. Is there any way to do this with Mailchimp? Or at least drop them manually into a template? Many thanks in advance

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11. Dylan

    Thank you so much for this! Exactly what I needed!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hey Dylan,

      Glad you found it useful. You should also check out our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials.

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12. Stephanie O

    After pasting the Mailchimp signup code on Wordpress ‚text‘ widget, half of the text is showing And the form appears as a text, as in you cannot click anything and the space to enter your email address/name is invisible!..

    I have a wordpress.com website with the Textbook theme.

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    • Andrew Gilbert

      I have this same problem! Do I have to have a premium account for this to work?

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      • Ella

        Hi,

        When you paste the signup code, a part of it dictates the style of the form which might clash with the style of your page, is easy just omit/delete this part:

        #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }
        /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block.
        We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */

        Hope it help,
        Ella

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13. Nik Cree

    Do you know of any plugins or methods to send the full post to MailChimp rather than the Excerpt. I have ‚Full Text‘ rather than ‚Summary‘ selected in Reading Settings, but it is still the excerpt that is going to MailChimp. Any ideas how to get the Full Post instead?

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    • Stef J

      Were you able to find an answer or solution to this? I’m struggling with the same issue.

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      • Nik Cree

        Yes – it is a setting inside the MailChimp newsletter builder.

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14. portia lambert

    I have copied and pasted my form code into the widget side bar etc and its not coming up on my website. help please!

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15. Gerald

    i want my susbcriber to pay to my paypal before they subscribe
    can i achieve this with mailchimp?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      The default MailChimp forms do not have a payment option. You should check out WPForms it comes with payment options like Stripe and PayPal and also supports MailChimp.

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16. Jim Farthing

    I am trying to get mailchimp and wp on the same page, so to speak. I can setup a form to have people sign up for my updates through mailchimp with no problem. I can get people to sign up for my forum with no problem.

    Having people sign up for my site and add them to mailchimp at the same time, big problem. I just cannot seem to get that one down.

    I really want to use one form so that my visitors do not have to fill out two forms, one to have access to my forums and one to get on my mailing list.

    What am I missing? I have tried setting up the mailchimp for wp plugin with no success, I am using ultimate membership pro and have filled out the mailchimp info there with no success.

    So at this point I am pulling my hair out so any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
    Jim

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    • Sancheo

      I have that exact problem as well! Just so need to get this sorted already :/ May we find our answers soon

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      • MPdev

        I am having this issue as well. Have you already checked out the Mailchimp site?

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17. Anu

    Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I’m a mailchimp noob and this was very helpful.

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18. Marisa Moon

    I’m new to this RSS Feed concept, but upon setting it up I began to wonder if the wordpress site will still be emailing my subscribers when a new post is published. I don’t want my subscribers getting two emails on the same post. Is there a way to disable the wordpress post emails so I can just use Mail Chimp?
    Another question I have is about the mail chimp campaign design. After adding the RSS Header and Items, I’m still left with a rather short description and excerpt of the post. Do I have to update the campaign with a photo from the particular blog post each time before it goes out (if I want photos in it)? I use a lot of photos in my blog post, so this RSS campaign will fall flat without the photo content. But what’s the point of this auto-sending feature if I have to go in and add the content again.
    Anyways, thank you for the info. I hope to find the answers, especially about the first question.

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    • Jordan White

      Marisa,
      Did you figure out how to stop Wordpress from sending those automatic „new post“ emails? I am having the same problem. Now that I have mailchimp, I don’t want my subscribers getting too emails.

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19. LM

    Great article and i looooove your site as I set up my new blog. I am planning to sign up for MailChimp. And although i know you recommend OptinMonster, I saw that Mailchimp also has a optin plug-in for Wordpress. Do you have any thoughts on it? I’m at the stage where I don’t want to have to pay for anything else and OptimMonster has a monthly fee. I see that as an upgrade opportunity.

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    • Marisa Moon

      I don’t remember many of the differences, but I ended up going with PopUp Ally which is a free wordpress plugin. I found it had more features than mail chimp was offering and, even though it had less than optin monster, it was free. Hope this helps! I think for us new bloggers, who don’t have thousands of hits a day, we shouldn’t worry about the „monster“ plugins out there just yet unless we’re ready to pay for it.

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      • Andrea

        Thank you so much! I’m looking for a free pop-up plugin too, so I’ll try the one you suggested first

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20. Marcel

    Good Tutorial. I have one problem though:

    I have the double opt-in option enabled but when clicking the opt in link in the email the subscription is not directly confirmed but the user has the prove he is human. How can I disable that?

    Many Thanks.

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    • Marisa Moon

      I had this same problem. I don’t think you can change it or disable it (according to mail chimp). This is what I wrote two subscribers who complained about not being able to confirm: After trying the subscription myself on several browsers, laptops, and mobile devices, I found out that the trouble is really when using a mobile device. Were you using a mobile device when you had trouble subscribing? In the screen shot attached it shows you that I cannot edit the „robot“ test, so i am stuck with it. But the other image I attached is to help explain a few ways you might be able to overcome the issue. When you are asked to select images to prove you’re not a robot, the images can be blurry, they can also reappear once you’ve already clicked them, and you have to continue to click the photos even if new ones appear. Then, once you’ve clicked all of the photos that reappear (as you can see explained at the top and bottom of my photo), you click „verify“. But if you click „verify“ before letting the photos run their course, then you will have to try again. If you want to skip the photographs all together, then you can click the little headphone icon that is to the left of „Verify“, and you will be taken to a screen where you can listen to people speak a sequence of numbers that you have to type out and submit. It might be easier!

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21. Tracy

    Great tutorial, as always!

    I am the process of starting to use Mailchimp but was a little concerned that currently, my new blog posts are automatically sent out by Jetpack. Do I need to disable this to ensure there is no duplication?

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22. Constance Sohodski

    This is a great tutorial, but I have a question it doesn’t answer. I am in the process of creating my account. MailChimp warns me against using a gmail account, and I understand why. However, I can’t figure out how to set up an email account associated with my wordpress site. Can anyone help?

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23. April G

    Hi. I’m using Mailchimp to write a newsletter and I looked up how to embed a link to a website withtin text. But when I click on the text it doesn’t take me to the website in my code. Do you know what could be the problem?

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24. Angela Dvorak

    Hi!
    I used this article successfully to set up my RSS email campaign, but then it just stopped working. The feed URL appeared to be bad. I validated it using an RSS validator and it works, but Mail Chimp is still saying its not valid. Any ideas on why that might be? I checked for typos and syntax and just not finding the source of the issue.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      We are not sure what could be causing this issue. Try disabling all your plugins and switching to a default theme. After that try to add your RSS in MailChimp. If the issue is revolved then this mean that a plugin or theme on your website is causing the issue. Alternately, you can also rechout to MailChimp support and see what they have to say.

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25. Saeful

    Thanks for the tutorial
    very helpful especially for me as a beginner blogger
    regards

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Saeful, glad you found it helpful. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for more WordPress tips and tutorials.

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26. Melinda

    I am following the instructions for setting up the embedded form but I’m not getting any kind of link to paste…I’ve tried several times using the set up as shown in the tutorial. What do I need to do to see this code to use on my WP site?

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27. Pat Mingarelli

    Is there way to send an RSS email from MailChimp that shows a partial post and the featured image?

    Thanks!

    Pat M

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28. Florine

    Hey, I have the same problem as Kate Armstrong and the suggested solutions did not work. I tried using a different form (slim/ naked) and also to disable Javaskript, still it only shows plain text or code, no subscribe button. Do you have any idea what the problem might be and how to solve it?
    Thanks!

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29. Kamran

    Sir i configure it as per your instructions , but post is not showing in the mail box , there are only facebook , twitter i cons are shown but Post is not , plz help what is the problem

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30. Kathryn

    This post was so helpful! I’d been sending out blank emails because I wasn’t sure how the actual RSS heading and text was supposed to go into my campaign (total newbie), and this step-by-step was just what I needed.

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31. Emily

    Hi! Thank you for such a helpful post! I have the mailchimp add-on and have made one form with it but now when i click through the tab (gravity forms: Mailchimp) it gives me the following error message:
    You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
    I am logged on as administrator of the wordpress page. Is this something that is typical?
    Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us!
    Emily

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32. wiziwiz

    How to set up daily and weekly option to subscribers?

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33. Zaida Picazo

    Hello,

    Great post!! Thank you!!

    I have a question before set it up. Will the email sent all the post are in the RSS feed or it will know which ones were sent before and it won’t send them?
    I have the doubt about if mailchimp will know which post were sent already and it doesn’t have to add them in the mail.

    Hope you can reply me.

    Thank uou very much in advance,
    Zaida

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    • WPBeginner Support

      It will send the latest post.

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      Admin

34. Jamil

    I am just missing the text fields showing on the blog being able to enter the words in them. Every other step has worked. This for wordpress.com, running on the intergalactic theme. Anything that may need to be edited in the code? Thank you so much!

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35. John Campbell

    I have two different websites that I own and manage, and am thinking about creating two more.
    Do I need a Mailchimp account for each one? Or will one account do? The two that I own a very niche content oriented, and don’t drive a lot of traffic, but I want to implement a consistent email campaign to change that, by not letting visitors leave the site without at least subscribing, and then keeping in touch with them on a weekly, or monthly basis.

    So…Do I just need just one master account, and then separate my target recipients by website addresses? Or does each website need its own mailchimp account?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You can create multiple email lists under one MailChimp account.

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36. Jan

    Help! I am a total newbie trying to set up an e-mail responder via mailchimp with an RSS feed. I can follow your instructions until I get through the RSS info above. Then the instructions say to click NEXT in the bottom corner. There is no NEXT in any bottom corner. I have a „Save and Exit“ drop down box at the right top of the screen, but the dropdown box takes me somewhere totally different than your tutorial. Can you please update your tutorial so I can follow it? Yours is the best tutorial I’ve found until this frustration & I’ve spent hours already trying to get past this step. Why is it what I see never matches the screen shots in tutorials?

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37. Regina

    I am having a similar problem as Kate Armstrong. I manage to remove the code, but the box/es to sign up in don’t appear. All you get is the text.
    I’m using the Edin theme. Please help, we’re about to launch!

    Love your site, it has helped a lot!

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38. Tarun Jagwani

    Thank you for this post, been struggling with the RSS feed.
    Still had a question though
    I have managed to get my rss feed working, but i want to send an entire blog post (with image) to the reader and am unable to to this?
    For some reason on the excerpt is showing.
    *|RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL|* is the code that i am using.
    Have I missed something?

    Thank you for your help in advance.

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39. Ruben Martinez

    A M A Z I N G tutorial,
    Congrats, i can follow step by step with no problems. You are winning a new subscribers. Congrats again.

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40. Diana

    Thanks for this article, great info. I’ve been working with the templates in MailChimp and testing the WordPress RSS feature to generate an email to subscribers when I have a new post.

    Am I right to assume I’d have to always login to MailChimp and customize a different template if I want to show more post content than what the RSS description will display?

    I was using the Newsletter WP plugin and decided I’d better work on building a mail list and decided to install Mailchimp for WordPress. I just want to show more copy from my post when I generate the email to subscribers.

    Thanks in advance!

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41. Kate armstrong

    Getting a problem with this: copying and pasting the html into the text widget results in seeing the html code on my website, not seeing the sign up form. Really grateful for help!!!

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You shouldn’t have this issue. Can you switch to a default theme for testing and then add the form to a text widget? If that does not work try removing all unnecessary fields from form, disable JavaScript.

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      • Robert Kezer

        I am having the same problem as Kate Armstrong. I copy the code over and get html showing not a signup link.

        I have tried this with both my lists, and same results. Also with different forms and with java enabled and disabled. I have a basic default page. You can see the problem on right side at robertakezer (dot) com.

        Thanks for the help!
        Bob

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      • Todd Mictchell

        I am having the same problem as Kate and Robert. Any help with clarifying this would be appreciated.

        Thank you!

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        • WPBeginner Support

          Try slim or naked embedded form code.

42. Brooke

    Is it possible to add mailchimp to a .com site? I’ve tried and researched with no success… Seems like it only works with .org

    Thanks

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43. Lara

    My blog posts come in different templates – some have a single image while some have blocks of image groups. Do I have to design a permanent template for my RSS email send-outs and can’t each blog post be sent out just as they look?
    Thanks.

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44. Vicki

    We have been using Constant Contact for several years now. However, it usually goes into the promotional tab for a gmail accounts. I have been considering a switch to MailChimp. Do you think the switch is worth a new learning curve or would you suggest remaining with Constant Contact?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      You can try reaching out to their support and see if there is something you can do. Otherwise you can always switch. We don’t think that learning curve will be a big issue.

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    • Timothy Marsh

      To Vicki, I am trying out Mailchimp at the moment, and it also went into the gmail promotions tab.

      Error: I tried copy and pasting as instructed and nothing shows. So I created a second text widget and put in some basic HTML to check it and the test text widget appeared fine. I also have a twitter widget working fine.

      Any idea why the mailchimp code fails? I used all default settings.

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45. Daniel

    with reference to follow new Posts using the JetPack plugin . Do we argument this with say MailChimp emails . Dow we need both features enabled on a blog. I can’t make up my mind whether I need both.

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46. Mike Foate

    Howdy,
    I think Mailchimp is pretty good. I have used it for awhile and have under 100 subscribers.

    I use the rrs feed to email feature.

    One thing I do not care for is I can not tell which Mailchimp email templates are responsive. It seems to make sense to send responsive email in today’s world. I wish Mailchimp would either make all the email templates responsive or at least categorize them.

    I also like the feature where you can have your email campaign automatically published to your Facebook page.

    Happy trails, cowboy Mike

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47. Jeff

    Thanks for the tutorial. You had everything I needed until it got to the RSS sending out either daily, weekly, or monthly. I was hoping there was a way to have the email sent immediately whenever I publish a new post. I imagine there must be.

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    • Debbie

      I have this question as well!
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      • Heather

        DEBBIE: Did you ever find a solution? I have same question.

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48. Lisa

    Is there anyway I can import my MailChimp templates to Wordpress so that I can email from there with my contacts lists?

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49. abhishek

    Thank man I was looking for this guide for so long and finally you posted a tutorial thanx very much and keep the work going on

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50. Howard Lee Harkness

    While MailChimp claims in their TOS that some affiliate marketing is permissible with their service, I have discovered that they will INSTANTLY and automatically shut down your account if you include a link in your email that they consider „spammy“ — and they are the sole judge of what is spammy. I got my account locked for including a link to a product which I gave as an example of something I did not consider worth buying.

    I am planning to move to a different email service provider.

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    • Patti Winters

      Howard – That is a bit scary. Do they consider Amazon links spammy? I’m using Constant Contact and was thinking of changing to MailChimp, but maybe should reconsider. Who else are you looking at?

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