Mailchimp Manual

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1 MailChimp // Creating an Email Newsletter Guide to creating an online newsletter

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Our Manual for the museum on how to use mailchimp

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MailChimp // Creating an Email Newsletter

Guide to creating an online

newsletter

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CONTENTS

Creating a new list

setting up a new list 3

adding email addresses to a list 4

deleting email addresses from a list 6

deleting a list 7

Share your newsletter on twitter 20

Creating A new campaign

Step by step campaign builder 15

Creating a new Design template

Template designer 8

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Creating a new list

setting up a new list

> Once on the dashboard se lec t e i ther ‘ l i s t ’ o r ‘ c rea te a l i s t ’

> Set up your l i s t by comple t ing the de ta i l s> Save

> Your new l i s t i s success fu l l y c rea ted

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Creating a new list

Adding email addresses to a list

> I f you have a l i s t o f peop le you wou ld l i ke to up load, type them up on Mic rosof t exce l

> Se lec t copy /pas te f rom exce l> Impor t L is t

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> I f you wou ld l i ke to ind iv idua l l y add peop le to a l i s t se lec t “add peop le”

> Enter the persons de ta i l s> Subscr ibe

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Creating a new list

deleting email addresses from a list

> To de le te someone f rom a l i s t se lec t ‘ remove peop le ’

> E i ther type in there emai l address and unsubscr ibe OR se lec t ‘ v iew a l l ’

> De le te

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Creating a new list

deleting a list

> Se lce t L is ts on the top nav iga t ion bar> De le te L is t

> Conf i rm De le t ion

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Creating a new Design template

Template designer

> Once on the dashboard se lec t my templa tes

> Se lec t ‘New tempate ’

> Se lec t the one you want to use

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Creating a new Design template

Template designer

> To Up load your header image se lec t ‘add ’ (make sure i t has been prev ious ly s ized to 600p ixe ls w ide)

> Up load an image f rom your computer> I f you are happy w i th the prev iew se lec t ‘ save ’

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Creating a new Design template

Template designer

> You can now change the background co lour by c l i ck ing ins ide the background box

> Now add a border to the en t i re page, se lec t ‘border ’ and then en ter in your des i red l ine we igh t

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Template designer

> Se lec t the ‘Header ’ bar> Se lec t ‘ top bar ’ and change ‘background ’ to your des i red co lour by c l i ck ing in the background box> You can a lso change the tex t a l ignment to le f t , r igh t o r cen t re and add a border i f you w ish> These op t ions are a lso ava i lab le fo r the body, s ide co lumn and foo ter wh ich can be se lec ted a long the nav iga t ion bar

> Wi th in the body and s ide co lumn bars you can change the head ing fon t s izes , and tex t co lour e tc

Creating a new Design template

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Template designer

> Next c l i ck ins ide the des i red tex t box to ed i t the conten t

> Here you can ed i t the subhead ing and conten t s ize , fon t and co lour

Creating a new Design template

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Template designer

> You can a lso add images w i th in the tex t by se lec t ing the inser t image bu t ton (ensure tha t you have c l i cked on the area you want your image to be p laced)

> Choose the image f i le f rom your computer> Send i t to the Server

> Se lec t the ‘ image in fo bar ’> Change the w id th o f the image (you can come back here la te r i f you dec ide the image is the wrong s ize)

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Creating a new Design template

Template designer

> Check over a l l your se t t ings un t i l you are happy w i th i t

> Se lec t save and ex i t> Name templa te and ‘Save as . . . ”> F in ished

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Creating A new campaign

Step by step campaign builder

> Once on the dashboard se lec t e i ther ‘ campaigns ’ o r ‘ c rea te a campaign ’

> Se lec t regu la r o l ’ campaign

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Step by step campaign builder

> Se lec t the l i s t you wou ld l i ke the News le t te r to go to , the PapakuraMuseum l i s t i s the l i s t assoc ia ted w i th s ign ups f rom the webs i te> Next

> Inser t Campaign In fo rmat ion> Next

Creating A new campaign

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Creating A new campaign

Step by step campaign builder

> Se lec t the templa te you want to use (You can eas i l y change the images a l ready in templa tes)> Next

> A l te rna t ive ly you can s ta r t f rom scra tch and se lec t new emai l , i f you don ’ t want to use one o f your templa tes> Next

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Creating A new campaign

Step by step campaign builder

> Th is i s a templa te a l ready se t up , re fe r back to Templa te Des igner pg 8 , to learn how to ed i t / change images, tex t and co lours> When you have f in ished the news le t te r se lec t ‘nex t ’

> Th is i s the p la in tex t fo rmat o f your news le t te r> Se lec t ‘nex t ’

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Step by step campaign builder

> Th is i s the f ina l s tep , make sure a l l the sec t ions have a g reen t i ck > Se lec t ‘Popup prev iew’ to doub le check every th ing looks good and you are happy w i th the conten t> I f you wou ld l i ke ‘Send tes t ’ to yorse l f to once aga in check every th ing looks good> F ina l l y se lec t ‘Send Now’

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share your newsletter on twitter

> Af te r you have sent your news l t te r, th is w indow wi l l appear, a l te rna t ive ly se lec t ‘ campaigns ’ then ‘soc ia l share ’ l i ke in the second image> Se lec t ‘ share on soc ia l med ia s i tes ’

> Enter your tw i t te r log in de ta i l s a long w i th message> Post i t