- Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel.
In this video, we're going to be continuing
our connected series with MailChimp, specifically,
looking at how to connect MailChimp with Facebook.
Stay tuned, it's comin up next.
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So the reason for this video is because
a couple of you have posted in the comments,
as well as myself, have experienced some issues
with the adding your form to your Facebook page.
And we're going to walk through that, and I'm going to show you
the steps that I do, and also show you the error
that I'm receiving and maybe a couple of workarounds
that you can do in the meantime until they sort it out
with the new Facebook look,
I'm sure that's probably the cause.
So let's get started.
So we've already logged in to MailChimp,
we've clicked on our Integrations tab,
and now we're going to go down here, under the All tab,
and click on Facebook.
Once you're on the Facebook integration page,
there's a couple things I want you to take notice of.
One is that you'll be agreeing to additional terms.
And you should be reading this thoroughly.
It is important for you to always review
the fine print in these cases.
Also, before we click the Connect button,
we'll click on the More.
Here it says with the things that you need before you start.
So you'll need an active Facebook account.
You'll need an Instagram business account.
Now that's relatively easy to switch over
to a business account,
but you'll need to have that in order for this to work.
And you also have to approve each of Facebook's permissions.
You cannot say, well, don't allow this, don't allow that
because it won't get connected, so keep that in mind.
So always read over this information,
it's there for a reason.
All right, so now click on get connected, here,
so let's click Connect.
Now, immediately, it's going to say review the info
you provide, so we'll click on that.
And, right now, it's just name and profile picture.
Continue as me.
All right, so here it is, Mailchimp would like to manage
your business access profile
and posts from the Instagram account connected to your Page,
create a post in your Instagram account,
access insights for the Instagram account
connected to your Page, access your Page and App insights,
read content posted on the Page, manage accounts, settled.
You can read all that information.
Also make sure you, again,
read the privacy policy down here.
All right, so read this information,
read the privacy policy, read the terms,
and then don't just blindly click OK
because if you have more than one page
you'll be connecting MailChimp to all those pages,
and you might not necessarily want that.
So I select Choose what you allow
because I have other pages, here, that I'm technically
an admin, but I don't really manage,
so I do not want it on that.
I do not want it on that, and I do not want it on that.
And you cannot go forward without turning this on,
and turning that on and at least one page, okay.
Then click OK.
Okay, it says we're now connected, I think.
Yes, it says Test Connection, Connected As Larry Snow,
and then it'll allow you to select the page.
Now even though I said you do not have access
to those other pages, it still lists all the pages, here,
that I can still connect to, so keep that in mind.
And we're going to use the Strategic Marketing Solutions one
and it says No audience connected,
so we'll select our one audience that we have.
Now it says do you want to use the signup form tab?
Now if you're not using that feature that's fine,
but this video is going to go through that step
of connecting up your signup form.
And what theme do you want
for your form when you connect it?
So, obviously, we'll say use signup form tab, say yes.
I always keep it to My Audience Theme,
which is the default, because if you use Facebook-esque
it doesn't show up very well.
And then it can change the Tab label,
something like Sign Up Today,
and then we'll click Save.
And we're going to click on Test Connection.
All right, we're good to go,
it's connected to me on Facebook,
so we're all set there.
So let's go over to the Facebook side
and see what's going on there.
All right, so over on my page on Facebook,
and we already got a notification here.
It says you've changed MailChimp's access
to your personal info,
and, so, everything is good to go there.
In the Manage Page section going to click on Settings,
Templates and Tabs, and if you scroll down
to the Tab section we have a Sign Up Today,
so that is the Tab name that we gave it,
the label we gave it to our Tab
for our signup form on the Facebook page.
So there's nothing much else to do here,
but this should give you the opportunity
to change the location of where this Tab
shows up on your page.
And when I try to drag it, like you can with other Tabs,
I get this error, Oops, something went wrong.
We're working on it to get it fixed soon, as soon as we can.
Now a couple of you have commented
that this is the error that you're getting.
There is actually nothing that you can do, at this point,
until Facebook catches up with things.
So what ends up happening, if we go back to the page,
is that your signup form ends up under the More tab.
Here it is here, Email SignUp.
And so it does work, it's totally functional.
I'm not sure why I have birthday in there,
I still have to edit some things in this test account,
but everything works fine.
And once a person submits it they, you know,
from your standpoint,
they could go into a automation series,
or a one-off email, or something like that,
and everything works fine.
The problem is people don't know that this is here.
They have to click on More tab in order to see it.
So there's two things that you can do.
One is you can grab the URL of your app,
your Mailchimp app, that's hosting this form.
Grab that URL, go to your homepage, create a post,
and then post in the URL.
And rather than giving this facebook.com stuff,
just load up an image and then say, "Hey everybody
please join my list and you'll get a freebie,"
or something like that, so that people know
that it's happening and then you can share out that post
and it'll go to that form on your page.
So that's one way you could do it.
The other way is, discard that.
The other way is to go over to your website
and maybe you have the giveaway there.
For instance, on my website, here,
I'm doing a giveaway for a free eBook,
and I could certainly share that page onto my Facebook page.
So that's two ways that you can, kind of,
get around this situation that's happening
because, you know, I'd really like to have
the Email Signup tab, you know, even before Events,
or that type of thing, so that people can see it
when they come visit my page.
But if you share it out in a post, or share it
from your page, or maybe even a landing page,
you can share it out to your Facebook page.
So that's how you connect your MailChimp account
to your Facebook page.
That's how you put in your form, and with this connection
not only do you get the form,
but you also get the opportunity
to run Facebook ads through Mailchimp.
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it,
and I'll see you in the next video.