(AF-2) Exporting Contacts to Mailchimp

Workshop Angel captures contact details through people booking onto your activities. You are able to get permission for them to be on your mailing list through the Mailing Permission question.

You can also add to your contact list by placing a "Join our mailing list" link on your website, using a link available on the Settings - Brand Settings page.

You can send marketing emails to your mailing list using Workshop Angel, or you may prefer to use Mailchimp.

This lesson is about how to export contact details to Mailchimp.

Quick Summary

• Find all the contacts who have subscribed to your mailing list in Workshop Angel, using the "Subscribed to" advanced search option.

• Use [Add all to List] to add them to the list on the right.

• Use [Email Address List] to get a list of the contacts in Mailchimp format and add them to your paste buffer.

• In Mailchimp, use the Audience - All Contacts - Add Contacts - Import Contacts - Copy and Paste function to add the contacts and let Mailchimp work out which ones are new and to be added.

Details - Finding the Contacts to Export

Use the search function in the Contacts area of Workshop Angel to find your list of contacts:

• Go to Contacts

• In Contact Search, click on Show Advanced Options

• Select your brand in the "Subscribed to:" field

All the contacts who have subscribed to your mailing list will be listed. We will be sending all of them to Mailchimp, and letting Mailchimp work out which ones have already been added.

• Click on [Add All to List]

Creating the List for Mailchimp

You will now have a list of your selected contacts on the right screen.

• Click on [Email Address List]

• Select the [List type: Mailchimp] option

• Click anywhere in the list of names that appears below

This will copy the list of names and email addresses to your clipboard, for you to paste into the Mailchimp import screen.

Importing the Contacts into MailChimp

In Mailchimp:

• Open the Audience menu on the left

• Click on [All Contacts}

• In the main screen click on [Add Contacts] then [Import Contacts]

• On the next screen, select [Copy and paste] and [Continue]

This will bring up a page where you can paste your contact list:

• Click in the large paste area and edit-paste in your list

• Click on [Continue to Organise]

You can then use the following Mailchimp functions to manage the name list and have the new ones be added to your mailchimp list!