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Articles Tagged "plain+text"
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How can my recipients choose the version of the campaign they want to see?
When you're using the MailChimp provided signup forms, make sure you've enabled the option for your recipients to choose which version of your campaign they want to see. You'll see this option when you create a new list or under List > Settings > List Name and Defaults for existing…
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Top HTML Email Coding Mistakes
Top HTML Email Coding Mistakes New to email marketing? Watch for these common mistakes Over the years, we've noticed some common mistakes that people make with HTML email (ahem, okay we admit---we've made a few of them ourselves). So, we thought it would be good to share them with you...…
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Why Bother With Plain-Text Emails?
Is the plain-text email dead? In the old days of email marketing, HTML email didn't always work. You *had* to create a plain-text "alternative" version of your HTML email (sort of as a backup), then embed both messages into one email. If a recipient's email program couldn't view HTML email,…
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My emails are being delivered as broken HTML code or an attachment.
One of the following situations could be occuring: When a message comes across as one of the following: garbled text, a mix of plain text and HTML code or just the plain text, you or your recipient's spam filter has flagged your email. The spam filter or email server scanning…
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Can you automatically create my plain text message?
We sure can. After you set your HTML content in the content editor on the Design step of the Campaign Builder, click next to move to the Plain-Text creation screen. To auto-generate your plain text message, click on the copy text from HTML email button. The text version will now…
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Tracking clicks in plain-text emails
In order to track clicks in plain text emails, we have to replace your URL with one that points to our server first. You can't "hide" the URL tracking link, like you can with HTML emails. Instead, we have to redirect your recipients to a page we can monitor before…
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How to create plain text emails.
We do offer to automatically generate your plain text email from your HTML version. We recommend using this method because 1) it saves you tons of time and 2) spam filters do look at each version of your campaign to see if they are similar, since spammers tend to hide…
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How do I see what my plain text version looks like?
Here's how you test the text only version of your campaign. Create your campaign as you would normally. At the bottom of the Plain-Text step in the Campaign Builder, there's a Send Plain-text Test button. Click this will send out a test only of the plain text version of your campaign.
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Tips for plain-text email formatting
You should always include a plain-text alternative message with all your HTML emails that you send through MailChimp. Some people choose not to view HTML. Some anti-spam applications view HTML email sent without a plain-text alternative as "sloppy" and typical of spam. Which means, your message blocked. Here are some…
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How do I add the *|UNSUB|* (unsubscribe) tag to my plain text version?
All campaigns must include our properly coded *|UNSUB|* (unsubscribe) tag in them so that we can insert a one-click unsubscribe URL into your message. There are absolutely no exceptions to this rule, even if you're sending to just friends, even if you are sending an internal message. To remain in…