Mailchimp Integration on Web For Actors

Web For Actors February 23, 2019 3:14 Marketing Social Media Resources

A step by step walkthrough of connecting Mailchimp to a Web For Actors site so visitors can join your mailing list.

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Drawn from what is actually said on camera, so you can decide whether to spend the 3:14 watching it.

The integration lives under Profile then Integrations

On a Web For Actors site, go to Profile and then Integrations, find Mailchimp in the list, and click Set It Up. The setup panel walks you through signing up for a Mailchimp account or signing in if you already have one.

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You connect the two with an API key

The instructions link straight to Mailchimp's API page, where you click Create A Key. Copy that key, paste it back into the integration panel on your site, and click Save.

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Saving pulls in your Mailchimp lists automatically

Once the key is saved, the integration fetches every list on your Mailchimp account. Select the list you want to feed, and the integration is created and switched on by default. You can disable it later from the same Integrations screen.

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A signup form appears on both your site and your link page

On the actor website, a Stay In Touch and Subscribe To My News section shows up at the bottom, next to the existing Drop Me A Line contact form. The Link Actor page gets a Sign Up For My Newsletter button under the other items such as the SoundCloud embed.

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Check the list to confirm subscribers are arriving

After someone enters an email and clicks Subscribe, they see a thank you and I will be in touch message. Open the list back in Mailchimp and the new names appear with API listed as the source, which is how you verify the connection is working.

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Acting Craft is built by Web For Actors, who also wrote how actors market themselves, in 63 points, which draws on videos like this one.

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Full transcript (458 words)

hello everyone today I would like to make an introduction to the MailChimp integration on the web for actors websites as you can see I am right now inside the web for actors integration section right here from profile to integrations I also have few other tabs open right now I have this actor website open here for Darth Taylor I am going to use her as an example for the integration if I scroll down to the bottom here you see that the drop me line drop me a line form is here and there's nothing else besides that and I also have a link that actor section open also for Daraa and if you scroll down here you have visit my website you have the integration of SoundCloud enabled and nothing else and finally I have the ml champ open showing the the list that was created by default and whenever registering for MailChimp so we'll go back here and I will click set it up next to MailChimp it provides the instructions in here telling you how to sign up for an account and if you're not signed in to sign in and I'm already signed in so the next step is go to API page and click create a key so clicking this link will take you directly to the API page and you will be able to see create a key button here which is now here for me because I have already created one previously so I will go ahead and copy this key go back to the integration and click Save and it automatically pulls in all your lists in this case there's only one list I will go ahead and enable it and what it does not only does it select this list it also created creates the integration and marks it has enabled in your integrations you can always disabled here but it's enabled by default so what that does is if I reload this page sure enough now we have stay in touch subscribe to my news section here and all you have to do is enter your email address here and click Subscribe and then you will get a notification and thank you I will be in touch and similarly here if I reload the page I have to sign up for my newsletter button I will go ahead and click that and sign up again here and I get the same message now if I go back to my lists and I click into the list and now I have three subscribers hi and howdy and they're both from API so that's all it is and it's very simple to integrate MailChimp to your actual website