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Can HubSpot replace Mailchimp?

By Tim Priebe | August 10, 2022

If you have been using Mailchimp to market your business, you may wonder if HubSpot can replace Mailchimp. Both platforms have their pros and cons, so it can be challenging to decide which one is right for you.

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Attachments and embeds with Mailchimp

By Tim Priebe | May 4, 2022

I love Mailchimp. I have more Freddie figurines than I can count. It’s not that I have hundreds of them; I just have them scattered over multiple locations, including a storage unit. But it’s definitely more than three, which means I have more Freddies than I have children.

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10 benefits of Mailchimp

By Leann Priebe | December 22, 2021

We’ve been using Mailchimp and helping clients with it since 2010. It’s changed a lot, including expanding beyond basic email marketing to a more robust marketing automation platform that you can even use to build a website and launch an e-commerce store. Let’s take a look at a few of the benefits of Mailchimp.

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Five best Mailchimp features

By Jackie Bell | November 10, 2021

We’ve used Mailchimp for years and are huge fans. While it’s not a good fit for every situation, it tends to be easy to use, easy to understand, quick, efficient, and affordable for most organizations. Let’s take a look at what I think are the best Mailchimp features.

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How to create a custom field in Mailchimp

By Jackie Bell | September 15, 2021

Every email list needs an email address for each subscriber. And your list would likely benefit from having a first name and last name as well. But what do you do when you need a custom field like “Company Name?” How can you create something like that in Mailchimp?

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Can you use Mailchimp for free?

By Leann Priebe | August 11, 2021

We’re big Mailchimp fans. While there are certainly more powerful, robust email marketing and marketing automation tools, Mailchimp tends to keep things simple and easy to use. We’ve used them for years. While we help clients with other platforms as well, it’s our email marketing platform of choice in most cases.

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Is Mailchimp any good?

By Jackie Bell | June 9, 2021

If you use email marketing, there’s a likely chance that you’ve heard of Mailchimp—maybe you’re currently using it. We at T&S are big fans of Mailchimp, but that doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone.

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How do I contact Mailchimp for help?

By Leann Priebe | April 21, 2021

We’re big fans of Mailchimp. It’s our platform of choice for email newsletters and plenty of other email marketing as well. We also recommend it to our clients largely because it’s so easy to use. But what do you do when you have a problem? How do you contact Mailchimp for help?

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How to use Mailchimp for email marketing

By Tim Priebe | January 13, 2021

Is Mailchimp easy to use? Most of our clients think so. While many of our clients have us manage all their email marketing, others just have us help them with the initial setup, and then they take care of the ongoing work themselves.
 If you’re a DIYer, how do you actually use Mailchimp for email marketing?

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Animated GIFs in Mailchimp, Facebook, and WordPress!

By Leann Priebe | October 7, 2020

Animated GIFs are great, right? Whether you are using Facebook, Mailchimp, WordPress, or any social website, you can add a fun, personal touch to your writing by inserting a GIF. While animated GIFs have been around since the late 90s—remember those cheesy “website under construction” GIFs?—they’ve seen a resurgence in recent years.

Let’s look at how GIFs have come back, how to insert them, where to find free ones, how to make your own, and more.

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