Go and pick your file type and create a campaign with attachments. Free Email Course. Introduction MailChimp allows free hosting for file sharing; you only need to upload files to a campaign and share them with your subscribers.
File Guidelines You can share multiple file types with your subscribers through your MailChimp Campaign.
Have a look at the complete list of file types with their available extensions: File TypeExtensions Text files. Before You Start Instead of typical email attachments, we provide file hosting as attachments can interrupt or stop bulk email distribution or trigger your email to be blocked by security software. Gary, I am not sure that this works. This will not affect draft or sent campaigns, or active automations that include or link to this file.
Sorry Gary I did not read the thread from Chris. Question now is — can the attachment be accessed in any way, either to delete it or to update it? Thanks Chris. This seems bizarre. There must be plenty of examples where a link is posted but then needs to be updated or changed for other reasons. Anyone out there who has a paidfor Mailchimp account and can ask them? Please, could you help me, please?
When they put in the same email address in the subscription form, it will send them another email. Still a lot of steps. But doable. Thanks so much for this brilliant article, Grethcen. I am giving away an audioworkshop that is rather large 27 MB. And that is too large for Mailchimp, which I use.
Do you know how I can send a file of this size or where I can host it so it is not visible to the public? I am currently using soundcloud as a temporary solution. Thank you so much for your help. Thanks for this! Just what I needed, and even more clear than the Mailchimp instructions! If you subscribe to our newsletter you will see what we uploaded! Followed your steps and it worked; thank you for sharing the knowledge! Thank you so much for explaining this in easy to understand terms!
I was having such a hard time trying to figure this out on my own. Super helpful post thank you again! This was SO very helpful. Excelent article. Do you know how to solve it? Therein lies the problem. That is where ConvertKit comes in really, really handy.
Or else a paid MailChimp account so you can use Automations. Hi, Thanks so much for this article. I had been searching online for a straight forward explanation for this and was so confused until I found this site.
Just two questions. So after following this steps is it correct to say that right now new subscribers whether it is through this opt in or my Facebook sign up button or my newsletter sign up button on the sidebar will be able to download my free printable?
Do I need to go change the link to my free printable in the sign up form if I add another new free printable at a later stage? Is it possible to keep this one active and then also add another one at a later stage? Yes, upon implementation of these steps, any new subscribers to your list will get the freebie in the automation or final welcome email. If you want to add another new freebie at a later stage, you can add additional links in the automation or final welcome email.
This is great advice, thanks Gretchen. How do I keep it from showing up in the confirm subscription page? If it continues to show up, my readers will be able to get my free download without having to actually sign up.
You want it in the Final Welcome Email, not the Confirmation options. This is a very helping post. Can you tell me, how can I allow my subscribers to download a pdf file directly without sending them via email. Hope you understand. Great Job! Thanks for posting. My freebie is best practices for keeping your computer network secure. Is the freebie a PDF? Other email accounts I sent it too work fine I.
I was able to email to my other email from the yahoo app on my phone then print it from there? Hi Gretchen Thankyou for this post. I was wanting to add as a freebie a MP3 file and branded cover. Will these instructions work the same with this.
Are there any other added things I should know. So when reading about all the features I might need as an all in one I am not sure how I go about it to then connect it to my wordpress with my maichimp email database collections. I have been doing my best to work these things out myself but would love to have some help in this matter. Regards Celia. Thank you Gretchen I will certainly look into your information but if it all becomes a bit much i think I might just have to hire your skills.
Since finding your site I have begun gathering a list of needs and support I could do with. I am contacting via Australia so wondering if you have an easy online system of payment in place.
I do accept online payment via PayPal! This was so helpful!! It took me a while to figure out how to put the file in a hidden place on my WordPress site. Does this work for specific freebies that are linked to specifically articles?
I would love to read that tutorial! Super helpful. I have been wondering how to offer a download for my MailChimp subscribers for eons. Thanks for this guide, it worked perfectly first time round. Thank you so much for this tutorial! I am planning on giving away my first ever freebie, since I launched by blog recently. I had no idea it was so easy, I was expecting it to be quite difficult to do.
Is there a way to have a link automatically download the file instead of opening it? I am sending a pdf file to selected subscribers or my entire list but when I insert the link it just opens the file. I am afraid that when people see it start opening 2. However, if they can download it and open it later, I feel that would be more appealing.
How do we do this? There is if you use DropBox to host your file! Wow, thanks for that tip. This was super helpful, thank you. Thanks to you, I got it in one! Hi Gretchen, This is really easy and helpful article. I am creating a website which contains two pop up-. It is working fine. He must subscribe himself first to the Newsletter. And if he subscribed successfully I want to show a link to download a sample pdf book. One for simple Thank you confirmation without any link, Second with the link for first-book sample and the last one with the link for the second-book sample.
Please help me how can I get this thing done with the MailChimp. Was breaking my head how to get it done. Thanks for the very clear instructions. Am trying it out. Thanks and regards,. This is truly invaluable to me. Really, I am grateful to you! Thanks so much for your description. Your blog post is way more clear than how it is explained on the Mailchimp help form.
You are right I thought I would have get a paid Mailchimp account in order to do a file give away. I already have one set up. But when I click on Lists, nothing comes up. I have a free account. Is it possible that they have removed the option to do this unless you have a paid account? Once you click on Lists, then you must click on your list name see step 1.
This was so simple and helpful! I have been dreading and putting off doing this for months because I thought it would be difficult and frustrating. I did exactly what you said and it worked great! Thanks for the info. Is this a flaw with Mail Chimp? I know there are tons of websites out there in which I have been able to go back and re-enter my email address to get an ebook that I forgot to save in the past.
I never get an error, it just goes thru the validation process. Same thing with MailChimp. Hello Gretchen, thankyou for sharing the sep by step instructions. I followed your steps, but in the final welcome mail a link to the audio file is displayed. When I click on the link the file just opens and unable to download it. I would recommend using Dropbox if there are issues with downloading an audio file. Change the 0 at the end of your share link to a 1 to force download rather than Dropbox display.
When sending an attachment, the recipient usually has no control over the attachment downloading immediately. When sending a file as an email attachment to a few people this may not be a major concern however imagine that you send an email marketing campaign to , subscribers.
Suddenly we are forcing the large download onto a significant number of people. That means that about 27, of our , contacts will open our message. There is a push by email companies to decrease the size of email messages that recipients are committed to download e. Gmail clipping messages more than KB. TXT or almost any other file-type as a downloadable file to your Mailchimp email campaign:. The video instructions below will help adding an attachment in the new Mailchimp Campaign builder.
How to add an editable attachment to a Mailchimp campaign. How to add, and send, coupon codes in Mailchimp. When I file these instructions, it only gives me the option to upload a photo! There is no ability to upload a file! Had this procedure changed? Worked perfectly…but when I viewed my test email the pdf file was presented in landscape not portrait so part of the info was cut off.
How do I fix this? She saved the file as a PDF using a different means than she first had and all was ok. Can I change the linked file? My subscribers can see the file if they open from computer but not on a phone. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? In the Insert or Edit Link modal, choose File from the drop-down menu.
Choose or upload your file , and click Insert. Add your file to a welcome automation A welcome message automation is a great way to greet new subscribers and help them get to know you. To use a welcome message automation to send a file to new subscribers, follow these steps.
Click the Automations icon. Click Create. Click Classic Automations. Click Welcome new subscribers. Enter your campaign name and choose an audience. Click Begin. When you get to the emails step, click Design Email to edit the default email in your welcome message automation. On the Design step, add your content and follow the steps to create a link to your file.
Click Save and Continue.
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