How to make your email marketing fun, with a Joomla twist

A many of you know, we loooove using Mailchimp for our newsletters! But…the integration with Joomla honestly left us with more to wish for. Sure, it was possible to use Mailchimps API to do some nice things, but let’s face it, if you’re going to run a member-driven site, these things should be seamless.

Joomla and Mailchimp just wasn’t the perfect couple…until now. A big thank you goes out to the FreakedOut team for making it happen! Last year, the FreakedOut team created Joomailer, which merged the power of the CampaignMonitor email marketing system with Joomla. This made it possible to manage your website and CampaignMonitor driven email marketing from one admin control panel. Pretty sweet, we thought…but we still had our hearts set only on Mailchimp. To our surprise, the FreakedOut team recently contacted us and said “We’ve got something you’ll love!”. Working together with MailChimp, FreakedOut have created a new version of Joomailer which integrates with our favorite Chimp. Yay! Best of all, the component is 100% free! (more…)

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5 free online marketing resources

Search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and many other things related to emarketing is not something mysterious that only a few wizards can do. There is a lot of things you can (and should) do…before you turn to the wizards for that final golden touch.

Learning how to use online marketing for your business takes time. There’s no quick fix available, but the resources below will give you a great start for both learning and doing. Make this knowledge work for you and your business!

0. Before you do anything else

  • First – make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site, so you can track visits and much more.
  • Then – register at Google Webmaster Central and update the settings so it suits your site.
  • Now – you’re good to go, so keep on reading.
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Joomla plugin available for MailChimp

MailChimp honestly makes our email marketing fun and easy! One of the reasons is that they keep on developing new cool and powerful things around it (their plugin page just keeps growing).

Joomla plugin for Mailchimp

No longer valid – “This extension has been unpublished for the following reason: Security issue(s).” See update further down on this page! This Joomla! plugin will place a Subscribe box for your users to use. Allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page with AJAX as well easy management for the site admin. Very simple to use. (thanks to generationsix!).

You don’t have a Mailchimp account yet?

Since we have a Mailchimp account, you can get USD 30 and 3 Inbox Inspector reports if you become a MailChimp customer today. Just sign up for a free trial here (there’s no obligation, no credit card required, and they keep your information private).

UPDATE 2009 June 5

In March Mailchimp blogged about mod_mailchimp2 – a new Mailchimp plugin for Joomla1.5.

“This 1.5 Native module will place a simple Subscribe box on your Joomla site allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page by using an AJAX call, plus includes easy management for the site admin.” Visit the plugin/download site.

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