This integration allows you to store on MailChimp your advocates share links (on Merge Tags) so that you can use them, later on, in your templates. The goal is to be able to add your advocates share links in an email template. The image below shows an example.
share links that can be added to the mailchimp tab
To set up the connector go to the integrations section, select on the Email tab and click the MailChimp integration.
Setting up the connector
Select the widget package to be synchronized, enter your API key and finally click on connect.
Genius referrals will try to connect to your MailChimp account and pull your lists so that you can select the one to synchronize. Select the list to be synchronized and specify whether or not Genius Referrals should create a subscriber on your list when the advocate does not exist. Click on the 'Use selected list' button to save your configuration.
The last step is to synchronize your list, this will send your advocates' share links to the MailChimp list.
synchronize the list
connector
mailchimp integration tab
selecting the list
Once you've finished the setup, you need to synchronize your account so that we send the share links of your current advocates to your list. This synchronization needs to be done only once as our system, from now on, will synchronize your account every 5 minutes to ensure that the new advocates share links are sent automatically to the MailChimp list. Click on the Synchronize button and wait until the synchronization is over, you will receive and email when the synchronization is been completed.
Synchronizing your Mailchimp list
synchronizing list
Verifying that your new Merge Tags were successfully created
mailchimp merge tags
- Facebook Link
- Twitter Link
- LinkedIn Link
- Pinterest Link
- Email Link
- Personal Link
As the end goal is to be able to add your advocates share links to the campaign template, you should now use your new Merge Tags on all the emails that get sent out to your advocates. You can learn how to use the Merge Tags here. The following example is ready to go and you can use it on your campaigns.
Using your new Merge Tags on your MailChimp Templates
Code Snippet
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="70%">
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<td class="center" style="font-size: 18px; color: #303030; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 20px 50px 0px; ">Refer and Earn!</td>
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<td class="center" style="font-size: 12px; color: #687074; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; vertical-align: middle; padding: 20px 10px; " width="50%">Click on your share links below, share the content on social media and wait for your friends to sign up using your share links.</td>
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<td class="center" style="padding: 20px 10px " valign="top"><a href="*|GR_FB_LINK|*
" target="_blank"><img align="none" hight="32" shrinktofit="true" src="https://www.geniusreferrals.com/bundles/frontend/images/social/facebook.png" style="width: 32px; margin: 0px;" width="32" /></a></td>
<td class="center" style="padding: 20px 10px " valign="top"><a href="*|GR_T_LINK|*
" target="_blank"><img align="none" hight="32" shrinktofit="true" src="https://www.geniusreferrals.com/bundles/frontend/images/social/twitter.png" style="width: 32px; margin: 0px;" width="32" /></a></td>
<td class="center" style="padding: 20px 10px " valign="top"><a href="*|GR_G_LINK|*
" target="_blank"><img align="none" hight="32" shrinktofit="true" src="https://www.geniusreferrals.com/bundles/frontend/images/social/googleplus_red.png" style="width: 32px; margin: 0px;" width="32" /></a></td>
<td class="center" style="padding: 20px 10px " valign="top"><a href="*|GR_L_LINK|*
" target="_blank"><img align="none" hight="32" shrinktofit="true" src="https://www.geniusreferrals.com/bundles/frontend/images/social/linkedin.png" style="width: 32px; margin: 0px;" width="32" /></a></td>
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Final Result
That's all
GOOD LUCK!