How to Build Your MailChimp Email List With SMS Text Messages

Chris Brisson

Chris Brisson

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September 19, 2024

How to Build Your MailChimp Email List With SMS Text Messages

If you’re wanting to capture email leads from SMS text messages and automatically build your MailChimp sms email list, then you’re going to LOVE this tutorial.

In less than 5 minutes you can set this up to start collecting email leads from Mobile Text to Join campaigns with Call Loop.

If you’re looking to capture email leads from SMS text messages then watch this video tutorial to learn exactly how to do it.

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Step 1: Integrate Your MailChimp Account

First grab your MailChimp API key.

API Key

This is found in the MailChimp “Account > Extras > API Keys”

Then Create a New API Key or copy an existing API key.

Go to your Call Loop “Account > Integrations” then connect your app.

and save the settings to connect your MailChimp account to Call Loop.

Step 2: Integrate Your MailChimp Account

Create your group where you want to add people after they optin. You do not need to integrate with MailChimp here as we will integrate on the actual Message

Step 3: Create Your Followup

You will need to create an immediate followup. This immediate message will be delivered to your contact right after they join your group.

On the 2nd step, you will select SMS and create your message which may ask for the field like email address.

“Thanks for registering. To confirm, please reply with your email address.”

Step 4: Save and Turn Your Followup On

After you save, you need to turn on your Followup in order to test it.

Step 5: Connect Your Keyword

Head over to “Keywords” at the top and make sure that you connect the keyword to your new group.

You can purchase a keyword for just $10/mo or $97/year or use a keyword credit, if you have a subscription plan.

Step 6: Test it!

To test this,  text {your keyword} to 38470 and you should get your followup campaign and see that you are being added to Call Loop as well as your MailChimp list.

BONUS!

You can collect this information from Broadcasts too! So if you currently have a SMs list, send out a Broadcast message requesting their email address to start building your email list with MailChimp.

To see our full tutorial on how to integrate MailChimp with Call Loop.

If you have any questions or comments on our Mail Chimp integration leave us a comment.

Chris Brisson

Chris Brisson

Chris is the co-founder and CEO at Call Loop. He is focused on marketing automation, growth hacker strategies, and creating duplicatable systems for growing a remote and bootstrapped company. Chat with him on X at @chrisbrisson

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