How to create a First Email list in MailChimp: MailChimp is one of the most popular email marketing services in the world.

MailChimp is one of the most popular email marketing services in the world, with more than 10 million people and businesses using its platform. One of the things that I love about MailChimp is its relaxed approach. They use a very informal language ( "Sup, Dave"), a link to funny videos from YouTube after programming an email, etc.

While the process of setting up the MailChimp account is quite simple (and almost fun), its goal is to get it up and running as quickly and easily as possible. Therefore, some things, such as creating your first list in MailChimp, may not be very easy to understand.

About MailChimp lists

There are some important things you should know about MailChimp lists before creating the first one.

The lists are where you store your subscriber's information. Think of a list as a spreadsheet. Each row is a new subscriber. Each column is information about that subscriber.

Each MailChimp list has a registration form that goes with it

Each list that you create is your own entity. Subscribers, data, reports, etc. they can not be shared between lists.

The same email address in 2 separate lists will count as 2 subscribers (when calculating your monthly pricing plan)

Each subscriber that you add to a MailChimp list must give them express permission to send them. We (and MailChimp) strongly recommend a double subscription process to acquire new subscribers.

Keep your list (s). Try re-engaging inactive subscribers (those who never open emails), and if necessary, delete your list so they do not count in the billable subscriber count.

Do not create multiple lists to segment your subscribers and send emails to people with specific preferences. For that, use the MailChimp groups.

How to create your first list in MailChimp

Let's review the process of creating your first list and prepare it to start collecting email addresses and sending your first campaign.

1 Navigate to "Lists" in the MailChimp Control Panel

The MailChimp control panel contains all your subscribers' information, your email campaign templates, reports, automation tasks and more. First, we go to the "Lists" area where you manage your subscribers.

Click on "Lists" in the top navigation bar

In the upper right corner, click on "Create list"

2 Create your list in MailChimp

We will walk through each form field:

List of names

This is a relevant title for what your email list is about. Your subscribers will see the name of your list on the registration forms, as well as the subscription confirmation emails. The name of your list should be obvious and professional.

Example: "WP xyz newsletter", "Flower shop of zyx", "Mission BBQ news and events"

The default of the email address

When you send emails, this will be the email address from which it comes. It must be something easily recognizable, @ yourdomain.com, and able to accept answers. You can change this by the campaign, but I recommend using the same email for every campaign you send.

Ex: info @ xyz.com, mary @ zyx .com

By default name

Very similar to the above, this will appear in the subscriber inbox next to the email address. The name of your company or the name of your newsletter is two good options.

Example: "xyz ", "Flower Shop of zyx", "Mission BBQ"

Remind people how they signed up for your list

This will be displayed in the footer of your emails to provide a context of why your subscribers are receiving emails from you. Be succinct, but specific.

Example: "You are receiving this email because you registered on our website."

Contact information for this list

This is obtained from the details of your main account, but you can change it if you have several lists with different names/addresses of companies. For most people, just leave this intact.

Click on the "Save" button once you have finished entering all the information.

Subscribe notifications

You have the option to receive notifications by email when users subscribe and cancel your subscription to your MailChimp list. You can receive a daily summary of the subscription activity or get an email for each new subscriber who joins your list. This is completely optional and depends on your preference.

3 Customize your registration form (optional)

As soon as you create your first list in MailChimp, a registration form will be created for you. By default, it will ask:

Email address

First name

Surname

Depending on the type of email list, you may want to collect additional information. You may even want to delete the first and last name and only collect the email address. To do this, you must edit the fields in the registration form of your list.

Collect additional information

Navigate to "Lists" in the top navigation

Click on the list you just created (or in which you want to collect more data)

Then go to Settings> List fields and labels * | MERGE | *

This is where you add additional collection fields to your registration form. We will have a deeper tutorial soon.

Style of your registration form

Again, go to "Lists" and click on the list where you will edit the form to

Click on "General Forms"

Under the Build It tab, you can add or delete fields that you edited in the previous step

The Design It tab allows you to customize the design of the registration form for that particular list

This is also the place where you can get the URL of your registration form. MailChimp hosts this page and contains the form you are designing at this time. This is how subscribers will be added to your MailChimp list.

A more detailed tutorial on how to design the final registration form for MailChimp will be offered soon.

4 Import subscribers (optional)

The last thing you might want to do is import subscribers from an existing list you have. However, remember that you must have your explicit permission to send them emails, so make sure everyone has voluntarily accepted their participation.

Again, go to "Lists" and click on the list where you will edit the form to

Go to Add subscribers> Import subscribers

You can upload a. csv or .txt, copy and paste contacts from a file. xls or a spreadsheet, or use one of the many integrated services of MailChimp, such as Google Drive, Salesforce, Eventbrite, Zoho and more.

A more detailed tutorial on importing subscribers to MailChimp is in process.

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