Hi. I'm Gary Eckstein from organicweb.com.au and I'm a Mailchimp Pro Partner nick left a comment
on one of my videos asking how it's possible in the new email campaign builder of Mailchimp
how it's possible to add a PDF attachment so I'll show how this is easily done first of all
just a concept to understand I guess is that in Mailchimp we can't actually send
an attachment in the traditional sense what we do is we send a link to the file so in the let's
call it the olden days in email what we would do is we would send the file a PDF file a Microsoft
word document an Excel file etc we would send it and force the person to download the file
Mailchimp is slightly different and most newer platforms are slightly different what we do is
we add a link so the person opens our email and at the point they click the link a button or a
link in some text to the file it downloads at that time okay but let's go across to Mailchimp
the first thing I'm going to show is how we can set the new builder as the default
you don't have to do this but just just to show you so if I click the image of myself
or my my account my profile picture down to the bottom left of the screen in Mailchimp
and if I then click account we'll just wait for that to load up if we then click settings
details
if we now scroll down you can see we can click to select the classic builder as the default or click
to select the new builder so I've selected the new builder but it's really up to you
and and remember to save your changes after you've clicked notice that the new builder
is in beta so Mailchimp is making changes to it it's very early days for the new builder
I'll start creating a campaign to demonstrate how we add an attachment a pseudo attachment I click
email I'll click create sorry a regular campaign and I'll just call it demo for now
you can call it anything you want to I click begin
I would obviously define who I'm sending to select my audience who it's from set a great subject line
on the content section if I click design email
you'll notice I'm in the new campaign builder which is made up of blocks
I will demonstrate how to add an attachment using a button but just to show if I click
on one of the text content blocks I could highlight any of the content
click the link button and add a link to the file okay so you can do it for text but I will
demonstrate using a button so to add a button I'll just click the plus I then click the button icon
you'll notice on the left hand side of the screen
that Mailchimp asks for the url of the file I want to link to so in other words the file so
when the recipient gets the email when they click on it what file will download for that person
of course we could align the button etc etc but this is important the link to so in the classic
builder when we clicked on the corresponding link 2 it would take us to the content studio
sorry let me just get out of that the content studio in Mailchimp whereas where
which is where sorry we store all the files for reuse and Mailchimp
the problem is in the new builder when we click on link two it doesn't take us there
so we need to have the link of the in this case PDF file that we want to link to I'm going to
show two ways of doing it the first is we could upload our file into our Mailchimp content studio
then what you need to do is click on the file click view details
and then copy the url then come back to the link to in the campaign builder and you would
just paste the link in there nice and easy so that's the way how to add an attachment
using the content studio but you do need to go backwards and forwards between the content studio
you can also however store your files if you want to in any shared folder file system; Dropbox,
Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Box.com etc. I'll demo how you do this in Dropbox so I've
uploaded my file into Dropbox now I want to share it I want to get the url so I can add
it to my Mailchimp to my Mailchimp email builder so to share this I just click on it I click share
make sure that it's set to anyone with this link can view so I'll click settings
if you don't see exactly what I'm seeing you might see that you need to click something to get the
link which in which case you can do it it just varies between different versions in in Dropbox
but for now I'll click cancel so what I can do is I can just copy this link so I'll click copy link
and you'll see at the bottom of my screen that the link has been copied and this will differ with you
know the means you do it with google Google Drive OneDrive etc etc so now that I've got the url for
my file I come back to Mailchimp and I would just paste it in here control v there we go so now what
happens is when someone and then let me click back on there just to show you it's still there
so now when I send this email someone clicks on the button they will download that file in
this case from Dropbox nice and simple let me just very quickly explain why I actually
quite like using Dropbox or any shared folder system OneDrive etc etc I like using it because
if you for example add a file or upload a file into the Mailchimp
content studio you then need to make changes to the word document the PDF document etc
you can't actually make the changes in Mailchimp so in other words
once you've once a person's received the email with the link and if the link is to a file in
the content studio in Mailchimp you can't make changes to the underlying file or they won't show
for the person when they click the link however if you make the changes to a file in Dropbox etc
the person then after you've made the changes clicks the link in your campaign build or when
in your campaign sorry they'll be taken to the new version or the edited version so I
just prefer using something like Dropbox but again using the new campaign builder and I'm
sure Mailchimp will update it to take us directly to the content studio all we do is where there's
a button or a link we just add the url of the file we want into the link and that's how simple it is
to add a pseudo attachment PDF Word etc. etc. attachment in the new email builder in Mailchimp
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