Chimp Spotting: Austin City Limits
see the original campaign here
MailChimp is a powerful, easy-to-use email marketing service. You design, me deliver.
[this posterous is run by amanda @ mailchimp]
The past few months have been very exciting here at Squarespace, as we've been working hard on the UI design for the iPhone app. And now it's finally arrived!
The app allows Squarespace customers to control all the contents of their website right from their iPhone.
From the beginning, our focus was to maintain consistency with the established graphic style of Squarespace, without straying too far from Apple standards. While the app is not very complex in terms of navigation, we thoughtfully designed the flow map and every single screen with usability needs in mind. (via)
A guide to integrated CRM/Email marketing with Pearl and MailChimp.
If you've ever sent an email campaign, you know that if your CSS is not coded inline, it is likely to get stripped out by email clients, which can make your email design pretty funky looking. Writing CSS inline can be time consuming, and repetitive. MailChimp has a CSS inline conversion tool built right in that will automatically transform all of your local styles into inline styles. Designers have found it so useful, we thought we'd share it with everyone else - even if you don't have a MailChimp account.
Copy/paste your email code below, click Convert It!, and we'll give you a more email friendly version ready for sending!
On one end of the spectrum, some companies say to themselves “we want our site to look like Apple’s. A really compelling image about our product, with a short explanation right up front.” They expect to impress their customer this way, and while this can actually help, it’s best to evaluate your own customers, objectives, and offerings to be sure this approach is right... On the other end of the spectrum are companies who want their home page to be more like Google. “Just really simple, with one interface element.” This clearly works well for Google, but here’s why... (via)
Over the past couple of years WordPress has grown into much more than just a blogging platform. People are now using it as a CMS (Content Management System) to power many different types of websites. Using WordPress more as a standard CMS often requires some creative thinking when building themes and setting up the structure of categories and content. In this article we present to you 12 very useful plugins that will give your WordPress install extended CMS functionality.
Ever use email to talk to the person sitting one office down? You're not alone. Most people use the Web to talking to people within their own city, not far-flung contacts, according to a new study by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Experimenters studied data from 100,000 participants that were both Facebook users and email users. They found that most Facebook users' friends are within several miles of their location--not too surprising (see graph above). But they also found that emailing followed the same pattern: 41% of the emails that participants sent were within their own city.
Most reports and punditry on the death of email are a bit premature. The good old fashioned mailing list is still a good way to maintain relationships with customers, especially when done well.
The web-based mailing list manager MailChimp offers list management, tracking and analysis, and custom HTML templates for up to 500 subscribers and 3000 emails a month for free. Paid plans kick in at larger subscriber numbers. Featuring integration with WordPress, Twitter, Salesforce and more, MailChimp is the list manager of choice for an impressive list of heavyweights including Mozilla, Intel, Canon, Fujitsu, Staples and more.
Pro Tip: MailChimp has a well-documented API that allows you to integrate the service with your own existing applications, tools, content management system or CRM solution. There’s a growing list of plug-ins already created for a number of platforms.
