Commune + Mailchimp
Mailchimp sends it. Commune gets it found.
Connect your Mailchimp newsletter and every issue gets a public page, a conversation, and a spot in front of people who read newsletters like yours. Anyone who subscribes on Commune lands straight in your Mailchimp audience.
Free. About two minutes. Your audience stays in Mailchimp.
How it works
Keep writing in Mailchimp. Commune does the rest.
Step 1
Connect your account
Sign in to Mailchimp or paste an API key, then pick the audience to connect. You can also pick a saved segment, and only campaigns sent to it count as public.
Step 2
Your archive goes live
Pick the past campaigns to bring over. Each one becomes a public page with a conversation under it. From then on, every new public campaign shows up on Commune by itself.
Step 3
New readers flow back
When someone subscribes on Commune, they're added to your audience as subscribed, with merge fields that say they came from Commune.
Between Mailchimp and Commune
What comes in, and what goes back.
From Mailchimp
- The past campaigns you pick from your audience
- Every new public campaign, through one address Commune adds to your audience
- Your subscribed members' email addresses, once a day, so readers already on Commune are subscribed to you there too
Back to Mailchimp
- Readers who subscribe on Commune, as subscribed members of your audience
- Two merge fields on them, Is on Commune and Acquired Via Commune
- An unsubscribe, when a reader leaves your newsletter on Commune
Discovery
Get read by people who already read newsletters like yours.
Sending is solved. Getting found isn't. On Commune, your Mailchimp issues sit next to other independent newsletters, and readers move between them through the feed and the conversations under each post.
Step 1
A reader comes to Commune for another newsletter.
Step 2
Your latest post is right there in the same feed.
Step 3
One click, and they're your subscriber.
Every newsletter here sends readers to the others, yours included. The more it grows, the more it sends.
Your Mailchimp connection
Exactly what Commune does with it.
Here is the whole list of what Commune uses your Mailchimp connection for.
Commune will
- Read your audiences, saved segments and sent campaigns to publish them on Commune
- Read your subscribed members to bring your readers into your community
- Add people who subscribe on Commune, and create the two merge fields that mark them
- Unsubscribe readers who leave your newsletter on Commune
- Add one Commune address to your audience, so new campaigns reach Commune by themselves
Commune will never
- Send, schedule or edit a campaign
- Delete your contacts. It only ever unsubscribes them.
Disconnect any time from your Commune dashboard, then remove Commune's access or delete the key in Mailchimp if you like.
When you're ready
Or move your sending to Commune.
Questions
The short answers
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Connecting Mailchimp to Commune is free. Sending from Commune instead is the Creator plan.
- Do I change anything in Mailchimp?
- No. You write and send exactly as before. Commune adds one address of its own to your audience, so new campaigns reach it, and unsubscribes it when you disconnect.
- Which campaigns come in?
- When you connect, you pick which sent campaigns to import. After that, every new public campaign comes in by itself. Without a saved segment, every campaign you send to the audience counts as public. With one, only campaigns sent to that segment do.
- What happens when a reader unsubscribes on Commune?
- Commune unsubscribes them from your Mailchimp audience too.
- What happens if I disconnect?
- Your posts and their conversations stay on Commune. Readers Commune added to Mailchimp stay on your list there.
Connect Mailchimp in about two minutes.
Free, and nothing changes in how you write or send. Every issue gets a conversation and a place in the network.