How To Send Multiple Freebies Using Just One List In MailChimp For Free

3-Steps To Send Multiple Freebies Using Just One List In MailChimp - For Free.

For all of you in the early stages of business, saving the moula is pretty important.

Here's how most people create a freebie using MailChimp

1. Create a cool freebie like a helpful excel template!
2. Go into MailChimp and create a list for this freebie and call it Excel template freebie
3. Create a welcome email with the freebie download so anyone who joins that list gets the download with their welcome email

And this is totally okay! But once you have more than two or three freebies under your belt you soon find having so many lists a pain. It's not easy to email everyone on all your email lists when you send newsletters and it becomes more difficult to manage than it has to be. Fortunately, there is another way.

Input form fields in MailChimp

The internet is full of forms! We've all used them and likely your humble email opt-in form could be working a lot harder for you than it currently is if you're using MailChimp.

HTML Forms are made up of fields & buttons.

Form "fields" collect information like Email, Name, Address, Phone Number and "buttons" are responsible for confirming you entered in all the information requested and sending that info to your email system like MailChimp.

I have two freebies below that each deliver their own freebie. With MailChimp, I can track which page you downloaded my freebie from. You can already be on my list and download all my freebies and I don't have to create a new list for every freebie I offer.

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Fields and buttons

Website forms are used to collect all kinds of information for us. We use them as Opt-In forms that collect names and email addresses, we see them in survey tools, they are used whenever we are asked for information online. They are little powerhouses!  Your Opt-In Form can do more for you than you think.

In the example below, we have 2-fields and a button. Fields come in various flavors. Most of us use text fields.

Input Fields

Text fields are INPUT fields in forms and this just means that people can "input" information into them in a text format. Your name and email form fields collect text so they are text type input fields :)

Most freebie opt-in forms have 2-3 things max:

1. A Name
2. An Email
3. A way to submit the info (A Button)

Forms have "input fields" to collect NAME & EMAIL information. Each "input field" has space for you to define a label and the input type and a value.

Let's see how code looks for the example below:

This is the name field

<label for="mce-name">**this was left blank in the example below**</label>
<input type="text" value="Name" name="name" class="" id="mce-name">

This is the email field

<label for="mce-name">**this was left blank in the example below**</label>
<input type="text" value="Email Address" name="email" class="" id="mce-email">

Notice how there is nothing in the label space in this example. If this form had labels, you would see that info outside the form box. This form is using the form values as labels helping us know what info to put where. When we enter in our own Name and Email Address, our values will replace the default values put into the form code as placeholders.

This basic understanding of what your opt-in form input field code is doing will help you understand what I'm going to ask you to do next!