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: Cool Hunting
Each week, Customer Love offers a quick snapshot of one of MailChimp’s awesome users. Who: Cool Hunting What: A daily publication run by people who want to inspire others through design, technology, art, and culture Where: New York City Why we love them: Whether it’s sweet shoes or a hip distillery, elegantly designed chairs or a simple, [...]
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Pinpoint Social Integration
Pinpoint Social aims to ‘take the most powerful social strategies and make them easily accessible to businesses of all shapes and sizes.’ They provide a powerful tool for creating, delivering and tracking promotions and special offers to help drive ‘likes’ or engagement on Facebook. Using Pinpoint Social’s application you can create a promotional tab on [...]
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Read & Trust Uses Paid Newsletters to Foster Quality Content
In November 2010, Boston-based graphic designer and fiction writer Aaron Mahnke decided he’d finally had enough. After years of trial-and-error-plagued internet searches for entertaining and thoughtful content, he’d amassed an online directory of sorts made up of writers he read and trusted. “I began to notice how connected all my favorite online writers were to [...]
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AlterEgo News: Safe sender discount, and Ruby gem for developers
AlterEgo 2-factor security Ruby gem for developers, safe-sender discount for MailChimp users
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MailChimp Getting Started Webinar
Raul and I are teachers at MailChimp Academy. The word “teacher” may have all sorts of connotations for you, from Ben Stein’s nasally economics lectures in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, to that iconic Van Halen song. But we don’t wear pocket protectors or dish out detention slips—we’re more like Jack Black in School Of Rock. [...]
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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 [...]
