Building a mailing list is an almost mandatory task for anyone running a website. If you don’t already have an email signup form on your website, do so today.
If you are new to email marketing and don’t know which service to choose? I suggest you use MailChimp .
MailChimp is the leading free marketing service today. With MailChimp you get 2000 subscribers and send 12000 emails per month absolutely free. This number is more than enough if you are just starting to build a website.
Read more : SendPulse review: free email marketing service you should ignore
After you have signed up for an email marketing service, the next thing to do is to use a plugin to create a registration form. This plugin will do the task of collecting emails and connecting with MailChimp to store subscribers in it.
You have many options for this plugin. In a previous post, I shared about MyThemeShop’s WP Subscriber Pro plugin.
In today’s post, I will review another plugin that creates a dedicated email signup form for MailChimp. According to my personal assessment, this is the plugin with the most attractive features and works optimally for MailChimp.
The plugin I am referring to is ChimpMate Pro . This plugin is currently available for sale on Codecanyon, the leading reputable WordPress plugin marketplace today.
At the moment of the post the price of the plugin is 21$. Compared to what ChipMate Pro gives you this price is not too expensive.
So what does Chimpmate Pro really have?
Let’s learn through the outstanding features of Chimpmate Pro. At the end of the article, I will show you how to use this plugin
Contents
Various forms of appearance of the registration form
To increase the effectiveness of email marketing, you need to have multiple appearance of the signup form. ChimpMate Pro supports many forms of registration form display.
- Lightbox : This is the classic email signup form. The registration form will appear as a popup in the middle of the screen. Chimpmate Pro has the option to allow users to click outside the popup to close the popup or force click the close button to close the popup.
- Slider : This is how to display the email signup form that I like very much. Users will see an icon at the edge of the screen. When they click on it, the email signup form will slide out to allow them to sign up for the email. This way of displaying registration form is very subtle and does not make users feel annoying.
- Widget : Display the registration form in the sidebar area of the website.
- Flipbox : Email registration form will pop up in the corner of the screen
- Topbar : The email subscription form will appear at the top or bottom of the web page.
- Addon : Email registration form will appear inside post/page. Or you can use registration form to hide important content. Users are required to register for an email if they want to view such content.
Besides, Chipmate Pro also supports shortcode to help you insert email registration form anywhere you like.
Thus, Chimpmate Pro fully supports the current popular email collection forms.
Live Editing
Chimpmate pro supports live Editing which allows you to instantly see edits to your email collection form without having to go to the front-end.
Departure-intent . technology
This technology allows you to display a registration form when a user is about to leave your site. This way of displaying this popup gives a pretty good conversion effect.
How to use Depart-intent
The feature is not enabled by default. As soon as you install and activate the plugin, go to Chimpmate->LightBox, scroll down to the Behaviour section. Here you choose Depart Intent and choose the number of seconds delay to appear popup. Remember to click the Update Options button after configuration.
Very nice registration form interface
The attractive registration form interface also contributes to increasing the ability to convert readers into subscribers. Surely you will be satisfied with the aesthetic exuding from Mailchimp Pro’s registration form interface.
ChimpMate Pro provides you with 10 themes for you to use for your email signup form. You can change aspects of the available interface to suit your preferences.
Multiple behavior and trigger options
Chimpmate Pro provides a lot of options to control when to show email signup forms:
- Show registration form when user is inactive after configured time period
- Show registration form when user scrolls down what percentage of the website
- Display the registration form when the user is about to leave the site
- Show registration form after some days based on cookies
- Show registration form when clicking on button or link
- Close the registration form after being inactive for a configured time in seconds
Some other outstanding features
- Support for email registration via social network accounts to help people not need to enter email manually
- Provide complete statistics to help you know the effectiveness of email marketing
- Support A/B testing to help you find the best registration form interface for your website
- Good display interface for all devices
- Referer tracking: Display the registration form for the traffic source you want. For example, you only want the registration form for users from social networks, for example.
- Fast speed: Actual experience shows that Chimpmate Pro gives fast speed, sharp display images.
- Woocommerce integration: allows you to add the option to sign up for an email at the checkout page.
- Collect emails from WordPress comments and user registration pages
ChimpMate Pro User Manual
Worthy of being a paid plugin for creating email signup forms, Chimpmate Pro offers a lot of options. This can make you feel overwhelmed at first use.
Therefore, in the next part, I will give a quick guide on how to use Chimpmate Pro.
Also, be sure to read the documentation provided when you purchased the plugin to fully understand the plugin’s configuration.
How to install and connect MailChimp
After purchasing the plugin on Codecanyon, you will download the plugin as a zip file to your device. Actually this is not a plugin, you need to extract this file to see the plugin inside.
Next you install the plugin by uploading the zip file in WordPress like regular paid plugins. See our WordPress plugin installation guide if you’re new to WordPress.
As soon as the plugin is activated, you will see a new section called ChimpMate in the WordPress Admin.
After clicking on ChimpMate, the plugin asks you to provide an API key to connect to MailChimp
Click the link here to go to MailChimp’s website.
Here you copy the API key.
Then go back to the plugin’s configuration page and paste it in the API Key section. Finally, click on the GET LISTS link to get the list in MailChimp
Next you need to create an email signup form. By default, the plugin creates a form for you named Form1. You can create new forms as you like. Here I will edit Form1.
First, you need to select a List of Lists that you created in MailChimp. Then you click on the pencil icon to configure the form fields.
By default you will have an Email field, you can add fields by clicking the Add button. After you have added the field, click the OK button. Don’t forget to click the Update Options button every time you make any changes in the plugin configuration.
How to display email registration form
LightBox
You click on the LightBox tab. By default LightBox is enabled and Form 1 is selected. Therefore, if you have done the above step of editing Form 1, the popup will appear when you visit the website.
In this section you can choose the interface for the popup and make many other customizations. You can refer to the documentation for more details.
Good tip
Popups are often annoying to users, so you should only display them sparingly. In the behavior section of the LightBox you choose the optionReappearch after _ day using Cookie . Enter the number of days you want to display again.
Additionally, you can select the Disappear if subscribed option . That way you won’t disturb the people who have already signed up for the email. Remember to click the Update Options button before checking again.
Slider
Similar to LightBox, by default Slider is turned on. To configure you click on the Slider tab. Select the form and look you want. Next, you can personalize the interface.
Widgets
Widgets are also enabled by default. To display you go to Appearance -> Widgets . You will see a new widget called Chimpmate.
Drag the widget to the sidebar you want to display. It’s done. To configure the widget, click on the Widget tab in the plugin’s admin screen
Add-ons
The Add-on section allows you to choose from a few other forms of plugin display including:
- Subscribe box: Email subscription box appears in post/page
- Topbar Subscription Box: The subscription form appears in the bar at the top or bottom of the screen
- Flipbox Subscription Box: The registration form pops up in the corners of the screen
- Subscribe to Unlock: The registration form covers the content in the post/page.
All forms are turned off by default. If you want to use any form then turn it on, choose a theme and make changes to the appearance and behavior if you like.
Instructions for using MailChimp’s Group feature
Groups are one of MailChimp’s powerful features that help you target the right audience based on their interests and interests.
For example, you want to have a group that includes people who like to receive weekly emails and a group that likes to receive monthly emails.
With Chimpmate Pro, you can easily build an effective email list using the group feature included in MailChimp
First you need to create a group in MailChimp,
How to create groups in MailChimp
1. Navigate to MailChimp’s Lists page
2. Click on the drop-down menu next to the list you want to work with and choose Manage Contacts
3. Click on groups
4. Click Create Groups to expand group options
5. Choose how you want groups to appear in the email signup form. Here I will enter the information as below.
6.After entering the group information, click the Save button.
Now go to the General tab of ChimpMate Pro. Scroll to the form creation section. You should see a new field you just created. Select that field. Click the OK button and Update Options.
Visit the website and you will see an email registration form that has a new field that allows users to choose the group they want to join.
Epilogue
I am very impressed with what Chimmmate Pro has to offer. It is difficult to find features in the email signup form plugin that Chimpmate Pro does not support.
In addition, Chimpmate Pro offers a lot of customization that makes it possible to edit email collection forms without any programming skills. It may be a bit difficult for you to use Chimpmate Pro at first because of the sheer number of options.
On top of that, Chimpmate Pro’s default interface is beautiful with a trendy Material design. The speed of Chimpmate Pro is very fast, does not affect the web experience much, if not, your web will become more eye-catching.
I recommend Chimpate Pro if you are looking for an email collection form plugin for MailChimp.
If you have any problems while using Chimpmate Pro, please leave your questions in the section below.
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