To send emails to a big list of email contacts and to get analytics on all those campaigns what you
need to do is set up an account with an email service provider and there are tons of options out there.
But the one that I recommend and use is MailChimp.
It works on any type of site.
They've been around for ages and they are also free to use up to two days in subscribers which is always
a great reason to use a product.
So what you want to do is type in MailChimp into Google.
Go ahead and just click through and then he can go ahead and sign up and you can sign up with your personal
account if it'll only be you using it where you can sign up at your company e-mail if you want as well.
Now once inside what you wanna do is come up and click on lists and then you want to create a list and
you can just go ahead and create a list.
So by creating a list we'll be able to send one e-mail to everybody that's on our list.
So we need to fill out some of the list details like the list name so they even help you walk through
some of this here.
A good example is just your domain name and newsletter.
So I'll just put an example the main.
Now here we want to put in the default for home address and this is the address that people would respond
to.
Now this will need to be at an e-mail that you have access to because you'll need to verify this in
just a second.
But it's best not to put in a domain specific e-mail that you will have set up next select the default
name and you something instantly recognized like your company name.
So I'll just say example to mine.
Now what we want to do is put in a short reminder about how they got this email and you can just rewrite
the example down here.
You are receiving this email because you opted in on our site.
This is just a requirement for anti-spam.
And down here as well you're going to need to put some of your company information so you can change
this to your company name and address.
Now you don't need to put in like the number say your office whatever.
10 a.
You can just put in the street address and the city name etc..
Again this is just anti-spam measure MailChimp are actually required to collect this information.
So next you can just put in your country and your state and the phone number if you want as well.
And then you can also select if you want to get notifications of some daily subscribers on subscribers
et cetera.
And then you want to go ahead and click save so excellent.
We now have created a brand new list.
And one thing that we actually want to do right now before we start to import contacts or anything is
actually to verify our e-mail address.
So what I recommend you do is go and type in verify verify email MailChimp.
But we need to do is just to show MailChimp that we own that domain that we've popped in.
And so what you can see have to do is come down into account and it may actually even show up if we
come into settings lists and names.
Yep.
It says it here.
This is actually maybe the easier way to do it.
So he come into your list and then you come in to settings lists name and defaults you're going to see
that you have to verify your domain so that you can send emails and receive replies from this mail.
So what we can do is go ahead and click verify the.
Here we can just pop in or email address get them to send a verification email.
The verification is email on the way.
So I just need to go and get that.
So to do that I'm just logging into my host and where I've set up my domain specific e-mail.
And now I can see this verification email from MailChimp.
So I just need to get into this and verify the domain access I can actually just take this code copy
this paste step back in and cook verify.
So now my domain has been successfully verified so I can send emails with this e-mail appearing and
also receive emails back.
So now that I've verified my e-mail what I might want to do is come back to my list again and I now
have the opportunity to start to import contacts into this email list if I want.
So if you've already got some e-mail addresses maybe from Linked-In maybe from Gmail maybe from other
sources you can just import those CSFB files there.
And you can just upload those.
And what you can also do which is sometimes handy can actually copy and paste e-mail addresses in.
So this is going to give you a tab that you really just copy and paste them into.
And once you got that done then you're going to have a list of emails that you can send an e-mail directly
to.
And again the benefit of setting up an MailChimp is that you can send send them in bulk.
You are not going to get caught in that spam filter as opposed to if you're sending a bulk email from
a personal address they're going to recognize your your brand name.
And also you get all those cool analytics like how many people open the email and etc..
So now you know how to set up a MailChimp account for free.
Go ahead and set one up for yourself.
Don't forget to verify that domain.
And if you've any questions or problems with that just check their support guides and then you can go
ahead and import those contacts so you're ready to start sending out e-mail campaigns to your email
list.