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Creating an Electronic Newsletter with MailChimp
Home ; MailChimp Resources ; Initializing the Mailing List ; Design a Signup Form ; Adding to the List Manually ; Creating Extra Email Addresses ; Using the Opt-in Form to Add an Email Account ; Creating A Campaign ; The eLetter Template ; Customizing the Template ; Creating Some Content ; Pre-Delivery ; No, Really. Organize Some Content ; What’s Holding Me up? ; Issue 1 ; The Text Version
Introduction
In these pages I will take you, in detail, through the entire process of using MailChimp to set up an electronic newsletter.
Trot off to MailChimp and set up an account (please read my note on disposable email addresses below). I set up a free account to test-the-waters, and in these notes I plan to show you how I set up an eLetter.
Your Dashboard page should look like this. If it doesn’t, resolve why it doesn’t (at a pinch Talk to Me ) and then we are ready to go.
A Note on Email Addresses
Disposable email addresses are free. Google’s Gmail provides such addresses.
I strongly recommend that you obtain a NEW address for your blogs.
When you lose your password, which you will do, WordPress will invite you to click on a link, key in your email address, and will then generate a new password and email it to you.
You’ve seen this before, right?
Right.
Now consider this: any malicious reader who learns of your public email address could go to your login screen, type in your public email address, and cause WordPress to send you an email advising you that someone is trying to change your password. An annoying email, but it won’t change your password unless YOU click on the link.
If you can use a disposable and cryptic email address for all your online management tools, you reduce the risk of thieves trying to break in.
It’s a bit like having a steering-wheel lock in use in your car.
First Step: MailChimp Resources
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