Hi I'm Gary from organicweb.com.au and I'm a Mailchimp partner. I specialize in Mailchimp
training and consulting. In this short tutorial I'm going to show how we can add
a PDF document or a PDF file as an attachment to a Mailchimp email marketing
campaign. Best of all it's really simple. First of all I'm going to go into Microsoft
Word and just save a document as a PDF file. I'll then go into Mailchimp itself
and we'll add that file as an attachment. The first thing to say is that we don't actually
send the file as an attachment in the traditional sense; what we do is we actually just link to the
file but for all intents and purposes it's the same thing. But first let's go to Microsoft Word.
You'll notice I'm in Microsoft Word at the moment. So I've created my document in Microsoft Word
and I'm just going to, sorry, save this file as a PDF document that I can then send in my email,
in my Mailchimp email. So I click ‘file’ to the top of the screen
and I'm just going to export it as a PDF file So ‘create PDF’ and I can just save it with any name
for now. Okay there we go. So I'll publish that and this document has now saved as a PDF file.
So let's go across to Mailchimp. You'll notice I'm in Mailchimp. I'll just move
a few things around on my screen here so I can see what's happening. Okay so I'm in Mailchimp. So
let's start creating an email campaign and this isn't a tutorial about actually creating an email
campaign, it's about adding an attachment, PDF attachment specifically. So to create a
campaign in Mailchimp I'm merely going to click campaigns to the left, to the left hand side.
Wait for it to load up and I'm just going to click ‘create campaign’.
I'm going to create an email campaign and I'll just keep it as ‘regular campaign’ for now and
a regular campaign is, uh, when you send to everyone that you're sending to at the same time.
I can call this anything I want to. Let's call this PDF ‘demo for now and I'll click ‘begin’.
The first thing once it loads up is we see our whole our entire campaign builder. We
start at the top; define who we're sending to, from, subject and so on but for this
demo I'm going to go straight into the content section ‘design email’
and I have separate videos on how to actually create an email campaign and so on and you can
watch those but I'll just demo using the basic one column template but you can use any layout
you want or a template you might have created in the past. So we've created the PDF file
but how do we then add it as an attachment per se? Well that's very simple. I'll show
using a button. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag the button content block across
wherever I want the button to appear. So I'll just drag that button content block on the right hand
side. I can change things so let me just put here ‘download now’ for example to change the wording.
I'll come back to the content section but just to show you, you can click on ‘style’
and if you really want to you can change the colors and so on. And I'll leave that up to you,
you can even come to ‘settings‘ and, and change some things but let's come back to ‘content‘. So
our whole aim is to add that PDF file as an attachment so a person can click
and download or view the attachment at that time. So I added my button I changed the text.
I now change the ‘link to‘ from ‘web address‘ I change the link to, to be ‘file‘. So change
the link to, to be ‘file‘ and immediately the ‘content studio’, the file manager as it were,
opens up. If you already have your PDF document in here you could just click it and click,
and click ‘insert‘ but for now what I'm going to do is I'll just drag and drop from my computer.
I'm just going to drag and drop that file into my ‘content studio‘ so just excuse me one second
and I'm just quickly going to go to my document on my computer you can't see it at the moment
but it's on the side. Here let me just find it for myself. So all I'm doing is dragging and dropping
that file; I'm dragging and dropping that PDF we created into the ‘content studio‘ here
and you'll notice immediately that the file URL has been added
and actually that's it. That's all we need to do. So now what's happened or what happens; so I'm
going to click ‘save and close‘ we would obviously finish creating this we would send our campaign so
you send that the email campaign to me when I click ‘download now‘ in that email at that time,
that PDF document would download for me as the recipient and I can view it. It's that simple.
So what we've done in this video; we created our PDF file however you want to create it create it,
sorry I showed you in Microsoft Word but it could be anything we want into Mailchimp. We
started creating our email campaign, the content section of our email marketing campaign we use the
button content block we drag that across and I'll just demo that again; so we just dragged
across the button content block we changed it as necessary and when it came to the link we changed
this to ‘file‘ we dragged and drop our, dropped our file across. That's all there is to it and
that's how simple it is to add a PDF document as an attachment in Mailchimp. Now please like this
video leave a comment for me. Please subscribe to my channel. I'm Gary from organicweb.com.au.