Build your Mailing List in MailChimp using Periscope

Periscope is a social media platform owned by Twitter that let’s you broadcast live video worldwide from your mobile gadget. It is now being used by many marketers to grow their businesses. How can you build your mailing list in MailChimp using this hottest social tool?

• Broadcast live about your product or services.
• Ask your viewers to leave their email addresses in the comments if they want to sign up and learn more about your product and services.
• Create a new list in your MailChimp and enter manually the email addresses of those who signed up during your broadcast.
• Remember to TURN ON the opt-in confirmation emails so that you can be sure that those viewers who left their email addresses in the comments during your broadcast in Periscope want to subscribe and receive emails from you.

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How to Create a Simple Segment from the List Page to Target Different Types of Subscribers in MailChimp

Below is another MailChimp tutorial on How to Create a Simple Segment from the List Page to Target Different Types of Subscribers. A segment is a section of a list that have common list of information about your subscribers. This is important so that you’ll be able to target your campaign to the right subscribers.

There are two types of segments, the simple segment and the multi-part segment.

In the simple segment, you can filter list by upto five segmentation conditions and choose to include or exclude subscribers for each condition. In the multi-part segment, it is when you combine segmentation criteria.

Moreover, simple segment can be created from the List Page or from the Campaign Builder.

What is amazing with segmentation is that you can streamline your list and data by targeting different types of subscribers in a single list and avoiding multiple list with overlapping subscribers. This can also lessen monthly rates for paid MailChimp users since payment is based on the number of subscribers in an account.

In the tutorial, I have created a simple segment from the list page.

How to Create a List in MailChimp

For those into email marketing, Mailchimp is one popular web-based application being used by many online marketers to send their business’ campaigns and newsletters to their subscribers and for list building. Here is the first of my series of MailChimp Tutorials, How to Create a List.

What is a list, by the way? It is a group of individuals who gave their email address when they opted-in to receive your campaigns. Before creating a list, one has to be organized and has to consider the following to get the most in the future:

• Your goals in email marketing
• Who are your audience/subscribers
• The information relevant to each audience/subscribers

Below is my tutorial on How to Create a List in MailChimp. If you have any suggestions and questions, please feel free leave your comments in the comment box.

 

How to Create a Custom Widget for Your WordPress Blog Using PicMonkey

As promised, here is my tutorial on How to Create a Custom Widget for Your WordPress Blog Using PicMonkey. Don’t forget to share your awesome creations after in the comments section.

 

Happy Client, Happy Me!! Solving WordPress Premium Theme Issues

I love the challenges of working with WordPress websites.

The sense of fulfillment I feel after seeing the output of my work and having   happy clients that express their gratitude.

Below is a screenshot of my conversation with a client who had posting issue with her WordPress website:

 

Having issues with your WordPress websites? I might be able to help. 😉

WordPress Theme Customization for a Cafe Website: LemonChili

I love it when I get to work with projects customizing WordPress premium themes and helping clients establish their business’ or brand’s online presence.  It hones my skills in WordPress which I first learned with my internship with Sir Jay Pasana. Here is one of my previous project with a client for a cafe website. My tasks were the following:

• WordPress installation – For this project, I had to install it using Filezilla (FTP) since the client’s service provider does not use cPanel.
• WordPress Theme Customization – I customized a WordPress theme which is called LemonChili. It is a premium and responsive WordPress theme which has special features for restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs and events.
• Install plugins – Initially, I added just the basic plugins that are needed for a website to function well. There were several server issues and challenges but was able to resolve it through the WordPress Forums. A lot of them are very helpful

• Upload contents – mostly personal photos provided by the client
• Edit images using Photoshop  and resizing it- I edited the background image for an unwanted element as well as resizing photos which are blurry.

Here is a screenshot of the finished cafe website:

Messages from my client, Lee O.

Help me Jaysarie! I give up!  I have no idea how to use WordPress, which is why I have you thankfully. 🙂

Thank you Jaysarie.  That is great.  I am so out of my depth with WordPress!  I guess I expected that it would look just like the LemonChili example and I just had to “remove” pages rather than add them.  The back-end just looks a bit confusing to a 1st-time like me and I know I will waste a lot of time on it.

Having another full time job and doing the café website in my spare time, means it probably won’t get done for a long time!

Thanks you so much!

 

Customized Text Widgets in WordPress

I love creating my own blog badge and buttons and customizing this blog’s sidebar with these creations using the Text Widget. Here’s my latest. I will be sharing to you soon on how I do it so keep posted.