MailChimp pulls this information from your sign-up information, so you can see there’s an Edit button to allow you to change this if you need to.
But if you’re running a business with a business address, you should include your full address. A disclaimer for anyone who’s on my own list – I haven’t got my exact, pinpointed address on here, because I work from home. Note here that I haven’t put in a home address, because this is an example, but you should include your full business address here. If you click on Why is this necessary, you will see this explanatory screen all about spam laws: MailChimp is gratifyingly careful to stop you spamming, and this is an important area. Then we reach the Contact information area. Remind people how they got on your list gives you a place in which to reassure people that they have signed up for this newsletter and they are not being spammed (you’ll see that I’ve filled this in on the final screenshot – it won’t let you proceed if you don’t). You can fill in the list title and your email address to show in the “from” section of your readers’ email clients, and you will want to pop a name in to show who it comes from – I always advise using a real, human name, not just a company name. For now, we’ll just create one called “My Company Newsletter”. Note here that you can create more than one list, for example, maybe one for customer newsletters and one for general or prospect ones, or I might create one for my social media tips readers and one about my books. Once you’ve pressed Create List, you will find yourself in a screen that allows you to create a list. Once you’re in the Lists area, if you have any lists set up, they will show here, and if you are going in to do this for the first time, you will see that You have no Lists, and be handily pointed to the Create List button: When you sign in to MailChimp, you will find Create a List on your front screen, but at any time, you can click on Lists at the top to get into the Lists area: How do I create my MailChimp contacts list? It’s as simple as that, and is the second stage in signing up for an account.ĭon’t worry if you don’t have an email list to import – you can start off with an empty “list” and a sign-up form that will fill it for you. Put simply, you need to give MailChimp a list of people to send your newsletters to. Why do I need to create a list in my MailChimp account? I prefer Option 2, but I’m going to go through option 1 with you in this article then write about setting up a sign-up form next time (if you’re reading this day by day, you will only have to wait two days, don’t worry!). Offer people a sign-up form via which they can choose to sign up for your newsletter. Import members from a previous mailing list (making sure that you have their explicit approval and permission to send out marketing materials to them)Ģ. There are two ways to populate your list:ġ.
Following on from MailChimp 1 – Signing up, this time we’re going to learn how to set up the list of people to send your newsletter to. Welcome to Lesson 2 in my MailChimp series.