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MailChimp Support https://amyhall.biz Get help with MailChimp email marketing Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:00:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://amyhall.biz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-mailchimp-help-mailchimp-support-3-32x32.png MailChimp Support https://amyhall.biz 32 32 How to Add a Downloadable PDF File to Your WordPress Website https://amyhall.biz/how-to-add-a-downloadable-pdf-file-to-your-wordpress-website/ https://amyhall.biz/how-to-add-a-downloadable-pdf-file-to-your-wordpress-website/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:58:23 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1440 Turn your document into a PDF file. Sign into the dashboard of your website. Click on the Media zone of your dashboard. Click on Add New in the media. Click on Browse and find your PDF file. Once you’ve found your PDF and you can see the file in the Browse area, click on Upload. Congratulations! Your PDF is now on your website. Use a link to add it to a page or post. You’ll find the URL to make the link under File URL on the Edit Media page where your PDF has been uploaded to. Copy the link. Using your site’s dashboard, go to the page or post where you want the PDF link to be. Add your text for the link on the page where you want the PDF to be. Highlight the text for the link and click on the link sawed-off on the toolbar at the top of the page. In the URL zone of the pop-up box that pops up paste the URL. In the title zone of the pop-up box, add a short unravelment of the PDF document. Click Add Link. Go to the front of your website and click on your PDF link to make sure your PDF link works. Congratulations! You’ve just widow a downloadable PDF to your website. Click here for a PDF of these instructions. ]]> https://amyhall.biz/how-to-add-a-downloadable-pdf-file-to-your-wordpress-website/feed/ 2 Host with WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org Self Hosted Site https://amyhall.biz/host-wordpress-com-wordpress-org-self-hosted-site/ https://amyhall.biz/host-wordpress-com-wordpress-org-self-hosted-site/#respond Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:27:50 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1207 Which WordPress is weightier for your new blog? WordPress.com pros (Hosting your site with WordPress.com) The forfeit to start? FREE! A blog, which you can turn into a full-on static or hybrid (part blog, part static) website. 3GB of self-ruling storage for posts and media. Publicize, a tool for connecting your blog with social networks.Self-rulingstatistics for tracking visitors.Wangleto hundreds of non-premium (free) themes and paid premium themes. Includes mobile responsive themes which can be viewed and READ from a desktop or mobile device. Add a popup MailChimp email form. WordPress.com wangle from mobile apps. You don’t have to manage a hosting account. WordPress.com cons Your FREE blog may show ads … WordPress will get the revenue from these ads. To eliminate the self-ruling ads you’ll need to upgrade your blog to Premium at $99 a year or merchantry at $299 per year. On a FREE blog, you can’t add advertisements to your blog and receive the revenue. Can’t add unite links either. A FREE Blog has a limited selection of tried themes. The tried themes only indulge for minimal customization, preliminaries color, the header or the navigation menu. You can purchase an upgraded theme that will requite you a increasingly sophisticated design, but you’ll still have the customization restrictions. You can do a CustomDiamondUpgrade for $30 a year. This will requite you upgraded fonts, and you can use your own CSS for spare styling. https://theme.wordpress.com/customize/help/ On FREE blog can’t transpiration the site layout at all. So if you don’t like your social media icons in the footer, you can’t switch them to the header. You can’t yo-yo the underlying structure of any of their themes. You can’t Javascript on your blog. FREE blogs can’t have @domain name emails. Like amy@amyhall.me. The domain name email write gives a sense of professionalism. With a FREE blog, you can’t use 3rd party plugins. – My favorite SEO plugin, Yoast SEO can’t be used on a FREE blog. With a FREE blog, WordPress could shut lanugo your blog if you violate their terms of service. It’s renting an apt vs. owning a house. https://en.wordpress.com/tos/ With WordPress.com hosting your site is unchangingly backed up and updates are unchangingly done. It’s pay and play. Self-hosted WordPress pros A self-hosted website is placed on your hosting (Siteground, DreamHost). With a self-hosted site, you don’t have the issues that you have with a WordPress.com hosted website.Increasinglyrobust and flexible themes are misogynist to purchase for self-hosted sites. Sites can be customized to your own standards and liking.Increasinglyrobust and flexible plug-ins can be used on self-hosted sites giving you wangle to higher level search engine optimization and automation. You own the site. You own your search engine ranking. You’re not subject to the rules and regulations of WordPress.com. Self-hosted WordPress cons BUT… and this is a really big but… WordPress needs to be backed up and needs regular security and script updates, theme update, and plugin updates. If you are self-hosted you’ll need to do these tasks yourself or get managed hosting. You’ll pay a increasingly each month for managed hosting, but if anything happens to your site your site will be fixed. Managed hosting companies: LiquidWeb, AmyHall.biz  Cost from $30 – $100 a month. The forfeit will include the domain name, hosting, purchasing the theme, purchasing graphics & logos and developing the website. Difficulty level: Medium – With a little help you can set up the site yourself or you may need to rent a designer/developer. ]]> https://amyhall.biz/host-wordpress-com-wordpress-org-self-hosted-site/feed/ 0 How toWipeYour Email List https://amyhall.biz/how-to-clean-your-email-list/ https://amyhall.biz/how-to-clean-your-email-list/#respond Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:47:30 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1316 The world of digital marketing is constantly changing. Email is no exception. Yesterday’s strategies may seem outdated today. But a healthy email list is vital to the success of any business. Keeping your list in top condition ways keeping it ‘clean.’ Removing spam email addresses when they show up on your list helps your deliverability rate. If you’re not replacing inactive email addresses with new, zippy ones, then your list becomes stagnant. Here are some tips to wipe your email list and work at top efficiency. 1. Remove or win when inactive clients Proactively removing inactive subscribers from an email list is a weightier practice. You want to make sure you’re getting a return on time and money you put into your email campaigns. The logic is simple enough: Why send a message that you know won’t be opened? But it’s moreover a good practice to try and engage inactive subscribers surpassing permanently removing them from your list. One way to do this is by sending an email that includes a special offer or unbelieve lawmaking that requite an inactive subscriber an incentive to unshut the email. 2. Send a ‘last-call’ email If offering an incentive doesn’t engage an inactive subscriber, then send flipside email asking if they want to remain on your list. An engaging way to do this is to send a Dear John letter. I’ve used a couple of tricky subject lines to get people to unshut … It’s not you, it’s me and Where did the love go? The email text is fun and light and gives people an easy way to unsubscribe from the list. Or, send them a notification their subscription is well-nigh to elapse and ask if they’d like to opt when in. If they remain inactive, then you can remove them from the list. 3. Use the right tools The good news when it comes to keeping your email list wipe and healthy is that there are plenty of tools misogynist to make the job easier. The one I use most commonly is  DataValidation.com. It practically “bounces” (an email the returns to you considering it can’t be delivered for some reason) by verifying email addresses. Each email list sent to DataValidation gets an overall grade based on quality. (Don’t ask me how they do this … It’s some kind of email voodoo. All I know is that it works. and keeps my clients off the MailChimp bad worth list.) 4. Monitor your unshut rates If the vast majority of subscribers on your list aren’t opening your emails, it may be due to your subject lines and the timing of your emails (both the day of the week and time of the day). A tip to get increasingly opens … Resend your email to the people who didn’t unshut it the first time. This can raise your unshut rate by well-nigh 5% overall. 5. Segment your list There are many ways to segment your list; based on purchases, demographics or links clicked. For example, if you’re selling pet supplies, you can categorize based on what type of unprepossessing the subscriber buys or that interests them. Segment your email list in a way reflects the overall engagement of each subscriber. MailChimp gives each of your subscribers anywhere from 2 to 5 stars equal to their interaction with your emails. It’s important to continuously organize and unriddle your list. Try segmenting your list by opens. Subscribers who unshut most of your emails are the top priority. While subscribers who unshut fewer emails should be given just unbearable to spark their interest. Subscribers that haven’t opened for a while should get sent a reengagement campaign. Keeping your email list wipe and updated will help modernize your organization’s marrow line. With the right strategies and tools, your list will remain in top-notch condition. ]]> https://amyhall.biz/how-to-clean-your-email-list/feed/ 0 How to Get Your Emails through Spam Filters https://amyhall.biz/get-emails-through-spam-filters/ https://amyhall.biz/get-emails-through-spam-filters/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:00:48 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1305 In one of my Facebook groups, a MailChimp user asked why her emails were unchangingly ending up in the SPAM folders. I first asked her if she: had authenticated her domain found out if her domain had been previously blacklisted was sending mainly to merchantry addresses using words that might trigger the filters She unpreventable me none of these were the case. So I examined the issue remoter to see if we could icon out what was happening and fix the problem. Your IPWriteWas Used for Spam When you get a new IP address, check to see if it has overly been blacklisted considering someone used it to SPAM in the past. Your email write doesn’t necessarily have to have a bad reputation. When someone on the server is accused of spamming, everyone on the server becomes a suspect. Nobody Opens Your Messages With all the emails that inflowing an inbox daily, to be “heard” your subject line has to stand out. If your recipients aren’t opening your messages, it sends out an watchtower to spam filters. Taking time to make your subject line interesting will help increase your unshut rate and ease the suspicion of the filter. Email Addresses Aren’t Used People often transpiration email addresses, that is why it is essential that you alimony your email list updated regularly. The increasingly outdated addresses on your list, the greater the chances are you’ll be marked as a spammer. For a small cost, you can have your email list analyzed for outdated addresses that rationalization problems. EmailWeightierPractices Aren’t Followed There are established HTML “rules” to make emails increasingly well-flavored and wieldy to recipients. It’s important to follow these simple guidelines for weightier results. Sending a message that contains lots of images can be a SPAM trigger.Alimonyimages to a minimum. The same for links.Alimonythem to a minimum. Finally, make sure your email is readable on mobile devices. Misleading Subject Lines You need to make your subject line interesting, but you moreover need to make sure it is truthful. Using “cutesy” word plays or not giving your reader a true indication of the contents will have you on the SPAM list quicker than scrutinizingly anything else. People don’t want to finger tricked. They don’t want to waste their time and not get what was promised. OneIncreasinglyStep You etch your messages with thought, have checked to see that you are lamister the normal SPAM triggers and have made sure to follow a double-opt-in process when they signed up for your list. There is one increasingly step you can take to help see your emails get through. Using a service like IsNotSpam.com will requite you that last bit of reassurance you need. It will unriddle your email and requite you a report that points out anything that may rationalization an issue with spam filters. Final Words You have worked nonflexible to grow your email list and don’t want your reputation ruined by people thinking you are a spammer. Take time to learn the proper email protocol, update your email list, and have it analyzed will have your emails where they vest in no time – in front of your list members. This vendible was first published at MaximizeSocialBusiness.com ]]> https://amyhall.biz/get-emails-through-spam-filters/feed/ 0 MailChimp Help: How to Contact MailChimp https://amyhall.biz/mailchimp-help-how-to-contact-mailchimp/ https://amyhall.biz/mailchimp-help-how-to-contact-mailchimp/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:00:48 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1160 Updated 01/01/2018 This is MailChimp Help with Amy Hall. I have a question from Paul who received a message from MailChimp, “One of your recent campaigns received a uncontrived complaint from a recipient.” How can I find out the deals of that original contact without the recipient write that caused the message? Contact MailChimp via email and the website The MailChimp sites provide unstipulated information. You can contact MailChimp directly by emailing from their website https://mailchimp.com/contact/. Here’s MailChimp contact info https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/mailchimp-support-options. (If you’re logged into your worth you’ll get a live yack button.) In the past, I’ve used the email write contact@mailchimp.com, but last time I emailed this write I never received an answer. You can find the live yack on the contact support page. (Live yack is only for paid MailChimp accounts.) It’s under all the support boxes and says “Don’t have time to wait for an email response?Yackwith our support team.” in light blue. Careful you may miss it! Unfortunately, you can’t contact MailChimp by phone. Contact MailChimp via Twitter If you have a self-ruling worth (you don’t have wangle to them and with a self-ruling account) the quickest way I know to get info from MC is to go on Twitter. I’ve gone through Twitter on several occasions. When I needed something quickly, and something unusual that I thought would help the unstipulated MailChimp community. So I’ve gone to Twitter and asked my question. It really worked well.Uncontrivedmessage them. Go to your Twitter worth and add a tweet to them and ask your questions. Contact MailChimp via Facebook They have a Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/. Contact them on their page for a quick response. Where to squint to see what people say when they unsubscribe The other place you may want to squint for this complaint information is in your list. I’m signed into my MailChimp account. We’re going to go to the list. Go to the wayfarers that you got the complaint on. So let’s say this is my last wayfarers that I sent out to a matriculation I was teaching. This is the report. You’re going to view the report. The person you’re referring to probably complained to them separately. So you’re going to see them in the unsubscribe area, and when you click on this area, it will tell you who unsubscribed. You may have something in this zone that says “abuse reports”, you may be worldly-wise to see something there. Can’t see anything in my worth considering this wayfarers has a very tight target regulars that was in my class. So I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any increasingly spare questions. Please finger self-ruling to email me at amy@amyhall.biz. Want increasingly short MailChimp tutorials? Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. ]]> https://amyhall.biz/mailchimp-help-how-to-contact-mailchimp/feed/ 6 How to Build your Privacy Policy Page and Comply with GDPR for US Websites https://amyhall.biz/how-to-build-your-privacy-policy-page-and-comply-with-gdpr-for-us-websites/ https://amyhall.biz/how-to-build-your-privacy-policy-page-and-comply-with-gdpr-for-us-websites/#comments Thu, 31 May 2018 23:45:39 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=1146 What needs to happen on your US website to comply with GDPR? It looks like a lot of moving pieces, but if you take them one at a time it won’t be so overwhelming. Remember GDPR wants to see that you’re moving into compliance. Also, I am not a Lawyer nor do I play one on TV. I’m not offering legal translating well-nigh GDPR. Make a list The very first thing to do is make a list of every way you collect personal data. Here’s the short list that scrutinizingly every site uses. Your site may or may not use these and more. By IP write Email service providers like MailChimp Google Analytics Jetpack Stats Facebook Pixels Hosting provider By email writeScuttlebuttforms Gravatar – to add images to the scuttlebutt zone Email service provider like MailChimp Facebook Ads Webinar registrations –  like Zoom and GoToWebinar Payment gateways – like Stripe and Paypal eCommerce stores – if you have WooCommerce Client data Google Drive & Dropbox Your CRM – like Salesforce, Insightly, Capsule etc. Financial software – like Quickbooks, Freshbooks or your eCommerce store Your email software – this could be your hosting visitor or Gmail or Outlook Once you have this list, squint it over and make sure there is a reason to collect the data and that you use the data collected. If you’re not using it, don’t collect it. Start making changesTranspirationYour FormsTranspirationyour email subscription forms. All subscription forms that promote a self-ruling opt-in offer must unmistakably state at the whence of the form, subscribe and get the self-ruling opt-in offer.Transpirationyour contact forms and add a checkbox to let people requite consent to data stuff placid and stored. Make the checkbox required. Add a Cookie Notice Add a notice that says your site uses cookies must be widow to all WordPress websites. By default WordPress uses cookies. – This is California law that all sites that can be viewed in California need to have a Cookie notice. Add a Privacy Policy Page Must add a privacy policy page and link to it, at the very least, in the footer. WordPress 4.9.6 can add a default privacy policy page if you create the page in Settings >> Privacy. But this privacy page is incomplete and must be updated with spare info like: Analytics Add the supersensual services you use ie. Google Analytics, WordPress (Jetpack) This is a very helpful privacy policy helper for Jetpack users. https://jetpack.com/support/for-your-privacy-policy/  It tells you what kind of data is placid and how it’s used. If you use GA here’s the wording you need to use. Analytics placid on this site are placid by Google Analytics. Google Analytics tracks where you came from by your IP write location which is anonymized. Google Analytics privacy policy: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html If you use WordPress Stats here the wording you can use. Analytics placid on this site are placid by Jetpack Stats by Automatic. Jetpack Stats tracks where you came from by your IP write location which is anonymized. Automatic privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ Shared data Add to the “Who you share your data with” zone your 3rd party data processors like your email service provider, meeting scheduling service, payment processor or any other party you send data to must be widow here. This is where the list you created comes in handy. A link to their privacy policy must be included. Data protection Add to the “How we protect your data” section how you protect data. If you’re one of our hosting clients you can add: Our website is scanned on a regular understructure for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as unscratched as possible. Your personal information is contained overdue secured networks and is only wieldy by a limited number of persons who have special wangle rights to such systems, and are required to alimony the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We take towardly and reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into worth the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. Data retention Each website is unique. If you’re one of our hosting clients you can add to the “How long we retain your data” section: If you leave a comment, the scuttlebutt and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and legitimatize any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we moreover store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot transpiration their username). Website administrators can moreover see and edit that information. Data rights What rights you have over your data Here’s the default wording: If you have an worth on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold well-nigh you, including any data you have provided to us. You can moreover request that we erase any personal data we hold well-nigh you. This does not include any data we are obliged to alimony for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Sending data Where we send your data You’ll need to list your 3 party providers here also. Visitor comments may be checked through an streamlined spam detection service. When you sign up to be on our email list, for marketing purposes, your data is stored in MailChimp. MailChimp does not use the data. When you schedule a meeting your contact data is stored in Book Like a Boss. Book Like a Boss does not store your financial data. When you purchase from us through Book Like a Boss your payment is processed by Stripe. No financial information is stored on this site. Data violate procedures What data violate procedures we have in place This is the default … and I’m urgently looking for stronger wording. If there would be a violate of data, we would correct the violate and personally email the recipients within 48 hours of identifying the beach. Additional legal information Legal information This privacy policy relates solely to AmyHall.biz if not stated otherwise within this document.Trammelsout my privacy policy and your providers websites for spare wording and tips. https://amyhall.biz/privacy-policy/ ]]> https://amyhall.biz/how-to-build-your-privacy-policy-page-and-comply-with-gdpr-for-us-websites/feed/ 1 Email Marketing Strategy: How Can I Get Permission To Send To A List I Got From My Professional Association https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-strategy-get-permission-send-list-professional-association/ https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-strategy-get-permission-send-list-professional-association/#respond Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:27 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=813 I got a question well-nigh email strategy, and I get this question quite commonly so I thought I’d write a post on this. How do I get permission to send to a list I’ve purchased or I was given by a trade show, event I’ve sponsored or a professional organization? This applies to any list that didn’t opt-in with you individually. This information is for the US. Please trammels the laws in your country. Email Marketing Dilemma Dear Amy, I am a member of the Mount Diablo Surveyors Historical Society (MDSHS). We are a non-profit group single-minded to acquiring and displaying any artifacts related to Land Surveying and mapping. It is an all-volunteer group and no employees. Over time, we have lost membership and we are looking for the weightier way to reach out to fellow surveyors. The main reason I inquired well-nigh MailChimp was to find an e-mail system that will handle mass numbers of e-mails at one or two mailings. I have unscientific there are 5 to 7 thousand surveyor related names to contact. We have no newsletters or any product to ventilate / promote at this time. I have a large e-mail listing of land surveyors, uninventive from various sources. That is a hurdle considering I did not get permission from 98% of the people on my list. Is it legal to send out an invitation without clearance to receive the invitation for membership / involvement? Any recommendations? Email Marketing Strategy to EliminateStuffMarked as SPAM Hi there, Thanks so much for your question. By law, in the US, you can send 1 email unsolicited within the CANN SPAM laws. I have 2 variegated solutions to this issue, and you can pick the solution that works weightier for you. Add people to a whole new list I would suggest you send to your list and ask them to subscribe to your list. To do this, you’ll need to create a second list in MailChimp that people can sign up to. Effectively you’ll be moving people from one list to the other. Send the same email several times to the people that didn’t unshut the email the first time. That way you’ll get the most subscriptions. This will requite you a very responsive and engaged list. After a month delete the original list from MailChimp, so you don’t pay for the same email addresses twice. Remove people from your list Send your email with a large red unsubscribe sawed-off or text at the top of the email. You’ll alimony everyone on the list that doesn’t unsubscribe. Send the same email several times to the people that didn’t unshut the email the first time. This way you’ll get the most zippy subscribers considering they haven’t opted out. This list will not be as responsive or engaged. In your case, I would suggest moving people from one list to another. You have very specific information for this list, so it’s important to make sure these people engage with your emails. I hope this helps. Let me know what questions you have.   ]]> https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-strategy-get-permission-send-list-professional-association/feed/ 0 Email Marketing Personalization Checklist https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-personalization-checklist/ https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-personalization-checklist/#respond Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:00:34 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=129 The numbers don’t lie: Sales can increase by as much as 20% when marketers customize email content. But for personalization to be successful, you must have a plan. A checklist of these tasks comes in handy: Step 1 – Create your Email At this stage, you should diamond a personalization strategy based on 2 key elements: your subscriber’s recent behavior, and their current location. Use all of them to unhook customized content to your subscriber. And of course, don’t forget to add your subscriber’s name to a compelling photo. It should be the first thing your subscriber sees, setting the tone for the whole personalized experience. Step 2 – Review your Newsletter Emails contain a subject line, preheader, header, body, and a undeniability to whoopee (CTA). Though you’re not going for a Pulitzer Prize, make sure each part is polished — self-ruling of grammatical errors, misspellings, and run-on sentences. The length should moreover be towardly for the function. For example, the subject should be short unbearable to be read hands on mobile devices, while the CTA should link when to the correct page. As for the design, alimony your branding and colors resulting with your website. Step 3 –Trammelsfor ErrorsSurpassingsending an email to subscribers, send a test email to yourself, one with personalized content and the other without. This allows you to trammels data fields and review the design’s effectiveness. Make sure the fields not only auto-populate with the correct information, but they should moreover unbend variable lengths and special characters. If a field isn’t populated, add fallback data like “Hi there” instead of Hi Bob.Trammelsthe email on a desktop, laptop, and a mobile device. You want your content to exhibit properly regardless of what your subscriber is using. Start personalizing your emails and newsletters with these three simple steps. So don’t wait — add that personal touch to your next email marketing campaign. Thanks, CampaignMonitor for this unconfined checklist. Source: The Ultimate Email Marketing Personalization Checklist byWayfarersMonitor ]]> https://amyhall.biz/email-marketing-personalization-checklist/feed/ 0 The Unwritten Rules of Email Marketing https://amyhall.biz/unwritten-rules-email-marketing/ https://amyhall.biz/unwritten-rules-email-marketing/#respond Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:00:26 +0000 https://amyhall.biz/?p=791