WordPress bundle MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress

hi my name is Mike and I’m going to teach you how to have your current sign up form connect to MailChimp in WordPress MailChimp is an incredibly powerful tool for managing subscriber list and email campaign and does offer its own embeddable sign-up forms however with the amount of things you can do using formidable forms it’s popular to keep your current sign up form working well also sending the contact info to mail chimp for email campaigns or maybe you weren’t sure which email marketing tool you wanted to use but now you know you want to use MailChimp either way it’s incredibly easy so let’s get started this is Mike I do insurance Legion form standard commercial property insurance doesn’t cover your business getting flattened by Godzilla or King Kong or the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man but my Kaiju Insurance let’s business owners sleep soundly and it’s fairly standard fields for Allegiant form with a few extra feels that I want for my records and that won’t be imported into MailChimp so first let’s make sure the add-on is activated formidable forms has tons of that on zinc

how to keep your site as lightweight as possible it only installs them on request so we’re going to go to add ons and scroll down to MailChimp and click activate then we’ll go to global settings for formidable she was MailChimp now that it’s been installed and add our MailChimp API key your API key can be found by logging into MailChimp going to your account clicking extras and then API keys if you haven’t traded in API key yet just cooked that giant button and MailChimp will make one for you

copy that and paste it in your formidable global settings

great now that they’re connected we need our form to send the info to mail chip go to the form you used to sign people up and click settings

we’re going to add an action so click action to notifications in MailChimp

the action named trigger and action are already set up we just need to choose which MailChimp list and I only have one

then we just need to match our form fields to our MailChimp list field email to email names to name address to address it’s very simple

I’m going to add a tag of lead so I can sort in MailChimp later if I want

you can even use conditional Logic on what info you want sent over to MailChimp for example I’m not going to send the info to mail chimp if the company has 10,000 employees or more I just can’t ensure that much property is Godzilla Destroy its to destroy company that big too much liability for me so I don’t want them on my mailing list but honestly that’s it it’s that easy to use for medical forms and MailChimp together once more milk before I go if you selected the standard u.s. 10-digit style for the phone format in MailChimp you must put 999-999-9999 in the format box under the advanced field options for the phone number in your formidable form if on the other hand you selected International for the phone format in MailChimp you may use whatever format in the phone number field including leaving it blank

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