Mailchimp Instructions for Highlights
1:52 PMMailchimp Instructions for Highlights
- Log in to gmail.com using your name@hollywoodballroomdc.com
- At Top Ribbon (You Mail Calendar etc), select More, then MailChimp
- On the left side of the Dashboard screen, select Templates
- In Templates, select My Templates
- Hover over Highlights #2, click on Edit
- Hover over the headline message, and click Edit to change.
- Make changes, then click Save Now (they say they auto-save every 20 seconds, but I don’t think it does)
- Hover over the Highlights main message, and click Edit
- Compose the introductory messages, update the dates, and dance schedules and lessons. Save occasionally
- Review the bulletins that follow the lessons and update as needed
- Click Save now, then Save & Exit
- From the Templates Page, select Campaigns from boxes at top right
- On the left side of Campaigns page, click Campaigns, then “Regular Ol’ Campaign
- Select the list you’ll be sending to (Be careful, this defaults to the primary distribution). For drafts, use the list called “Bea and Rich and Ron and Claire”
- Click gray Next box on right
- Name your campaign (optional), and update the subject line. Unclick the Facebook box
- Click gray Next box
- Select the template for the email. Click My Templates, then Highlights #2
- Click gray Next box
- At plain-text screen, click gray Next box
- On the confirmation screen, all the options must be green. If there is a problem anywhere, has to be edited. This generally happens when you’re creating a new template from scratch, new lists, etc. Following these directions, should all be green.
- At bottom, click Preview & Test then “Send a Test email” if you want to send a test to yourself only. Enter your email address and click Send Test
- Click on X to lose the test window
- If you have edits you want to make before completing the campaign, use the back button, make changes, then continue the Next process.
- When ready to send, click “Send Now”
- A window re-capping what you are about to do asks for confirmation. Make sure you’re sending the right mailing list, then click Send
- You’ll get High Fives
- Get back to the Dashboard and Log out