Send targeted email newsletters using Mailchimp by tagging contacts

You can create and assign MailChimp Tags from within Makerble.

What are tags on MailChimp?

A summary of how it works

  1. Choose your target audience on Makerble by using the Contact Filters on the New Broadcast page

  2. Create a new Mailchimp Tag from within Makerble (find out more - opens on Mailchimp)

  3. From Makerble: Tag your target audience with your newly created Mailchimp Tag

  4. From Mailchimp you have two options to send a campaign. You can:

    1. Either send a Mailchimp Email Campaign to the contacts who have that Tag (find out more - opens on Mailchimp)

    2. Or create a Mailchimp Automation that automatically sends a sequence of one or more campaigns to contacts who have been given that Mailchimp Tag

      1. Mailchimp have two methods for creating automations; Customer Journeys (new) and Classic Automations.

      2. Find out more about how to create a Customer Journey on Mailchimp (opens on Mailchimp)

      3. Find out more about Mailchimp Classic Automations (opens on Mailchimp)

Steps: how to create and assign MailChimp Tags to contacts

  1. Press the envelope button in your top menu

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  2. You arrive in the Messaging App

  3. Select Message Contacts

  4. Select Broadcasts

  5. You arrive on the Manage Broadcasts page

  6. Press New Broadcast button

  7. In the Choose a format dropdown menu, select Mailchimp

  8. Select the Audience-Project using the Audience-Project connection dropdown

  9. Once the Audience is selected the contacts will appear on the left side.

  10. Select the contacts you want to send the newsletter to by checking the box next to the name.

  11. You can use the De/Select All button at the top of the contacts as well to select and deselect all the contacts

  12. On the right side, now select a Mailchimp tag from the Mailchimp tag dropdown.

  13. You can also create a new tag by clicking the Create a Mailchimp Tag option

     

  14. It will open a pop up.

  15. Write the tag name in the text box. A default tag name will be present in the text box for the tag name. You can edit the name or provide your own.

     

  16. Click the Create Mailchimp Tag button to save the Tag.

  17. Select the tag from the Mailchimp Tag dropdown now.

  18. Click the Save to Mailchimp button to complete the process

  19. You can now go to Mailchimp and see that this Tag has been added to the selected contacts

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