WordPress Posts to E-Newsletter

MailChimp lets you send daily, weekly or monthly e-newsletters containing your blog posts. It is all done using their ‘RSS to Email’ function (Translation: Blog Posts to Email Newsletter).

Email Newsletters with MailChimp

Once you have setup your free MailChimp account and customised an email template with your logo etc, just create an rss campaign. Enter your website’s feed address (if you use WordPress you have one), decide whether you want to show entire posts or just summaries of each, then select how often you want your newsletter to send. Any fresh content/blog posts you’ve published since the last newsletter will slot into your branded template and send automatically every day, week or month. If there is no new content, the newsletter wont send.

How to Create an RSS to Email Campaign

Unless you want to change the frequency of your newsletter or layout at some stage, this is the one and only time you will need to do the steps below. Everything after your rss campaign is scheduled is automatic.

1. Get a free MailChimp account.
2. Design/customise an email template – Before you create your campaign, you’ll want to customise one of MailChimp’s email templates with your colours, logo, links to your website, images etc. This is all done on site and is easy to use.
3. Add a Subscriber List - Add any email subscribers you already have by importing the entire list or adding them one at a time.
4. Create a new RSS Campaign – Choose your saved template and subscriber list. Edit the content section of your template and insert an rss merge tag (you’ll see the link to this) to display either post excerpts or full posts. You can also insert your Twitter feed, Flickr photo feed and all sorts of other info and links.
5. Send Yourself a Test – You can also pay to have your campaign checked on a variety of email clients.
6. Schedule Your Campaign – Select the date you want the first one to send. Eg. Mine is monthly and sends on the 2nd of every month. [Read more]

Use Your Blog as an E-Newsletter

When added to your WordPress website or blog, this plugin turns your blog posts into email newsletters.

These are automatically sent out to your subscriber list when you publish your post.

You can add subscribers yourself and include a signup box on your website so people can subscribe themselves to receive your blog posts via email.

You can write your posts under any number of different categories and subscribers can choose to receive all posts or only those written under the categories they are interested in.

You can customise the design and layout of your email newsletter with your logo and branding, as well as adding images, promotional text and website links.

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If you’re still sending out monthly email newsletters using your office computer or spending a lot of time organising customer emails, there is an easier way. A blog post contains the same type of information you would include in an e-newsletter plus it is published to your website for search engines and new customers to discover as well as being emailed to your subscribers.

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