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Mailchimp's strength is its low setup floor — anyone can send their first campaign in 20 minutes. Its weakness is everything past that. These tutorials cover audience setup, automations, integrations, and the deliverability discipline that turns Mailchimp from a sending tool into a real channel.
Mailchimp's onboarding hides the decisions that matter most — audience structure, single vs double opt-in, and sending-domain authentication. Skip them and you'll be untangling them in 6 months. Here's the setup that doesn't rot.
Customer Journeys replaced Mailchimp's Classic Automations in 2021. They're more capable — branching, conditional logic, multiple triggers — but the builder hides decisions that determine whether the journey actually converts. Here's the build that works.
Mailchimp and Shopify reconnected via official integration in 2022 after a 3-year split. The setup looks like 'one click' but the data sync, product feed, and abandoned cart configuration each have gotchas that determine whether the integration drives revenue or sits idle.
WordPress + Mailchimp has been the default email stack for content sites and small e-commerce for a decade. The setup looks simple — install MC4WP, connect, done — but the form integration, consent handling, and WooCommerce sync each have gotchas that bite at month 3.
Four automations cover 80% of the email revenue most lists ever generate: Welcome, Birthday, Anniversary, and Re-engagement. Each takes 30-60 minutes to build right. Skip them and you're sending the same campaign to everyone like it's 2009.
Mailchimp gives you three ways to slice a single audience: Segments, Tags, and Groups. They overlap. They confuse new users. Picking wrong locks you into years of duplicated work. Here's the decision tree.
Deliverability is the silent killer of email revenue. Open rates dropping from 28% to 16% feels like 'the algorithm changed,' but it's almost always one of three things: authentication, warmup, or list hygiene. Here's the playbook.
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