MailChimpReading Assignment-1

ICP – Introduction To Computation & Programming

By : Saumil Shah - Prem Shah - Janki Shah

Inside Story & Information on

About MailChimp

More than 3 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. Whether you're self-employed, you manage projects for clients, or you work for a Fortune 500 company, MailChimp has features and integrations that will suit your email-marketing needs.

Create signup forms that match your brand's look and feel, and send your subscribers product updates, event invitations, announcements, or editorial content. Use our reports to improve your campaigns and learn more about your subscribers. Best of all? MailChimp is free for lists of up to 2,000 subscribers.

History MailChimp is an email marketing service with over 3 million users. They provide an easy way for users to send email newsletters, manage subscriber lists, and track campaign performance.

MailChimp takes a variety of basic and advanced features (like templates, list segmentation, a/b testing, geo-targeting and ROI tracking) and makes them accessible to the everyday user through automation and a competitive price point.

Their platform uses an open API and encourages other systems and Web applications to integrate with its email-marketing engine.

Currently they offer integrations with systems such as PayPal, Google Analytics, Shopify, Magento, Salesforce and several others.

Owners

Co-founder & CEO - MailChimp

Owner - The Rocket Science Group

Website Build out Manager - Cox Interactive Media/ MP3Radio

Designer - Cox Interactive Media

Education - Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia

Co-founder & CCO - MailChimp

Owner - The Rocket Science Group

Tech Analyst/Web Master - Cox Interactive Media/ MP3Radio

Designer - Cox Interactive Media

Ben Chestnut Dan Kurzius

Development Team

Features

The MailChimp plugin allows you to quickly and easily add a signup form for your MailChimp list.

They make it easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, track campaign performance, and sync your email marketing with social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. 

They take extremely powerful tools that sophisticated marketers use (like segmentation, a/b testing, and ROI tracking).

FeaturesAnd because our platform uses an open API, it's easy to integrate MailChimp with other systems in the Google Apps marketplace, like: 

Insightly 

Capsule CRM

ZOHO

Google Contacts

Highrise

Nutshell CRM

Batchbook CRM

Nimble CRM

Zendesk

Freshbooks

Desk.com

Contactually CRM

Sugar CRM

and e-commerce systems like: 

> Shopify  > Magento  > BigCommerce  > Volusion 

Different Plans

If you have fewer than 2,000 subscribers, you can send up to 12,000 emails per month absolutely free.

There are two different plans as follows : Monthly Plan

Pay as You Go

Different Plans

Monthly PlansIf you send at least one newsletter a month, a monthly subscription is your best option. We’ll bill your credit card every month, based on the total number of subscribers in your account, and automatically adjust your monthly fee as your list grows or shrinks.

Pay as You GoIf you’re not a frequent sender, you can purchase credits that work like stamps for email.