Well, all left are the must-haves. MailChimp for WordPress joined lately the other plugins on the junk list. On my end, it was never an effective newsletter sign-up display, but the growing opportunities, including the recent release of MailChimp automation, helped me put deactivation on hold.
On the header of your MailChimp account interface, you can find a navigation menu. Click on Campaigns , the first menu item. Next, find and click on Create Campaign. A pop-up window will appear. To test the file you added to the final welcome email, you'll have to go through the signup process.
A welcome message automation is a great way to greet new subscribers and help them get to know you. When the next person signs up for your marketing emails, they'll receive your automated email or email series with linked files to download. Automation settings are directly linked to the audience you are sending to. Once you click Start Workflow , you won't be able to edit the audience, automation type, or email order. You can still edit content, however. To make changes to uneditable portions of an automation, replicate your automation and reconfigure the new copy.
Can you tell us more about your experience today? Sorry we couldn't be more help. Can you tell us about your experience today? Mailchimp provides free file hosting. Upload and share files with your contacts without using traditional attachments. Learn how to customize forms, welcome emails, and other response emails with our Form Builder.
Get the job done with a pro From training to full-service marketing, our community of partners can help you make things happen. In this article, you'll learn about two ways to send a file to new subscribers. Add your file to the final welcome email After someone opts in to receive your email campaigns, you can send them a final welcome email to confirm their subscription and share an exclusive offer or file.
To add a file to your final welcome email, follow these steps. For the record, I am an artist so I linked in a desktop wallpaper of my work [with a quote done up in Canva] and a smartphone wallpaper. Next thing to figure out! Should I create separate lists for each download or use groups? Dear Gretchen Your blog was very helpful. I have been searching about how to get people to subscribe before they download pdfs from my own site. I have assumed people will not want to pay for my journals so I have been offering the whole thing, but would like to know who is downloading what.
I have mail chimp and assumed it would be possible, but until now had found advice using 3 plugins email before download, connect 7 and WordPress download manager. I have been trying to figure this one out for days, so I would appreciate any help you can send my way. You are an angel. I have been trying for days to accomplish this feat and I found you! Thank you for being here for us tech idiots!!!
Definitely sharing this with other newbie bloggers. Hi Gretchen, This was a breath of fresh air after begging Thrive Content Builder landing page plugin to my WP site for days to help me figure this out.
Ready to pull my hair out! Hoping to resolve the glitches by tomorrow! That box was created using Thrive Leads, and points to my ConvertKit email sequence with my freebie. Hi Gretchen, thanks so much for this great info!! Hello Amie!
Thank you so much for this simple straight forward information. I have been struggling with doing this for a long time Thank You. Dear Gretchen, Once again, thank you for this much helpful tutorial. I would appreciate if you would explain how to embed the general sign up form into the web site, or do the same customization with the embedded sing up form. For being so detailed and precise in your explanations. You are my new discovery! Thank you for putting it together.
The fields appear on the page but the button does not. Look for this line in your embed code:. I am just about to launch my website so i do not yet have any subscribers. I wanted to use a free download to entice readers to subscribe from the start. I have just signed up to mail chimp and have tried to follow your instructions above. However i have nothing in my lists? Tia, you can set up your Final Welcome Email before anyone subscribes so that it is in place when they do. Appreciate the clarity of your article.
I do have one question: I am trying to write my blog posts in advance. I want to advertise the opt-in in a post that is scheduled to be published in a couple of weeks.
Heidi, once you set up your MailChimp Final Welcome Email, it will apply to everyone who signs up from that point on. Thank you so much for this! But a very clear and useful guide — I found it very simple, perfect for me who is new to Mailchimp and such! I love this step by step explanation! I see its from , does it still work like this? So thank you again! Great post! I was just wondering about the legal considerations concerning this approach. When you offer a free download after asking for a Name and email address , do you automatically have an explicit optin?
Are you able to save your ebook as a PDF file? That should help the file size. If even then it is very large, try searching for a PDF compression service online there are many free ones and see if that reduces the file size without lowering quality. I was getting ready to pull my hair out until I found this. Thanks for making this simple and straightforward.
Thanks so much! Thank you for this. I suggest a few more instructions, like how to set up the form on wordpress.
That would be useful. This was super simple. Not only did I already have MailChimp but it took me 1 search to find this! Thanks Gretchen. These directions were super easy to follow. Thank you so much! I was at a loss and almost spent money on trying to get my freebie out there. I decided to make a Monthly Calendar for my blog. I had no idea you could upload links to mail chimp without having to pay.
Thanks again! I highly appreciate your tutorials and advices. Best wishes for you Gretchen, and thank you. Hi Gretchen! I guess they could reenter their email address but I hate for them to have to go through those steps again. Is there any easier way? You can also use Automations with a paid MailChimp account.
You can ask your subscribers to put in their email again. When they put in the same email address in the subscription form, it will send them another email. Still a lot of steps. But doable. Thanks so much for this brilliant article, Grethcen.
I am giving away an audioworkshop that is rather large 27 MB. And that is too large for Mailchimp, which I use. Do you know how I can send a file of this size or where I can host it so it is not visible to the public? I am currently using soundcloud as a temporary solution. Thank you so much for your help. Thanks for this! Just what I needed, and even more clear than the Mailchimp instructions!
If you subscribe to our newsletter you will see what we uploaded! Followed your steps and it worked; thank you for sharing the knowledge!
Thank you so much for explaining this in easy to understand terms! I was having such a hard time trying to figure this out on my own. Super helpful post thank you again! This was SO very helpful. Excelent article. Do you know how to solve it? Therein lies the problem. That is where ConvertKit comes in really, really handy. Or else a paid MailChimp account so you can use Automations. Hi, Thanks so much for this article. I had been searching online for a straight forward explanation for this and was so confused until I found this site.
Just two questions. So after following this steps is it correct to say that right now new subscribers whether it is through this opt in or my Facebook sign up button or my newsletter sign up button on the sidebar will be able to download my free printable?
Do I need to go change the link to my free printable in the sign up form if I add another new free printable at a later stage? Is it possible to keep this one active and then also add another one at a later stage? Yes, upon implementation of these steps, any new subscribers to your list will get the freebie in the automation or final welcome email.
If you want to add another new freebie at a later stage, you can add additional links in the automation or final welcome email. This is great advice, thanks Gretchen. How do I keep it from showing up in the confirm subscription page? If it continues to show up, my readers will be able to get my free download without having to actually sign up. You want it in the Final Welcome Email, not the Confirmation options. This is a very helping post. Can you tell me, how can I allow my subscribers to download a pdf file directly without sending them via email.
Hope you understand. Great Job! Thanks for posting. My freebie is best practices for keeping your computer network secure. Is the freebie a PDF? Other email accounts I sent it too work fine I. I was able to email to my other email from the yahoo app on my phone then print it from there? Hi Gretchen Thankyou for this post. I was wanting to add as a freebie a MP3 file and branded cover. Will these instructions work the same with this. Are there any other added things I should know.
So when reading about all the features I might need as an all in one I am not sure how I go about it to then connect it to my wordpress with my maichimp email database collections. I have been doing my best to work these things out myself but would love to have some help in this matter. Regards Celia.
Thank you Gretchen I will certainly look into your information but if it all becomes a bit much i think I might just have to hire your skills. Since finding your site I have begun gathering a list of needs and support I could do with. I am contacting via Australia so wondering if you have an easy online system of payment in place. I do accept online payment via PayPal! This was so helpful!! It took me a while to figure out how to put the file in a hidden place on my WordPress site.
Does this work for specific freebies that are linked to specifically articles? I would love to read that tutorial! Super helpful. I have been wondering how to offer a download for my MailChimp subscribers for eons.
Thanks for this guide, it worked perfectly first time round. Thank you so much for this tutorial! I am planning on giving away my first ever freebie, since I launched by blog recently. I had no idea it was so easy, I was expecting it to be quite difficult to do. Is there a way to have a link automatically download the file instead of opening it? I no longer want the link to be active.
How do I delete it from MailChimp storage? I deleted the campaign but the link in the sent email is still active. Recipients of a campaign can still click the link and access a Mailchimp link to a PDF sent in a previous campaign even though that PDF file was deleted in the Mailchimp content manager. Gary, I am not sure that this works. This will not affect draft or sent campaigns, or active automations that include or link to this file. Sorry Gary I did not read the thread from Chris.
Question now is — can the attachment be accessed in any way, either to delete it or to update it? Thanks Chris. This seems bizarre. There must be plenty of examples where a link is posted but then needs to be updated or changed for other reasons.
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