Hello and welcome. In this video, I would like to show you how to connect MailChimp to Thrive Themes. First of all, let's talk about why MailChimp. Well, they have a free plan, which I believe is a great advantage. Because many people who are starting out they need to proof of concept, they need to test a few things a few offers. And in the very beginning, it's not not the best time to have ongoing fees, like the fees for email service provider.

So this is one thing, but second, the quality of their product, the quality of their service is extremely good. I've been using it I've been using them maybe for three years and I'm very satisfied with them. But well eventually I switch to Active Campaign because I started working on projects that I would need a little little more customization. However, I would recommend anyone start To start with MailChimp. So as you can see here, they have a free plan and it's up to 2000 subscribers and you can send up to 12,000 emails per month this is absolutely free. Well another feature that I like very much and it was missing while I was using MailChimp, but now it is available is the automation feature, meaning you will be able to create an email sequence like the one I showed you in Active Campaign, remember?

Okay, good. So, let me just jump on reports. I want to show this real quick. And then automation. As you can see, I don't have any automations By the way, this this is a brand new account for demonstration here, set up an automation Okay, so we won't custom give it a name and everything Begin in here you can set your emails in your delays and of course any other additional settings add an email. So this is going to be email number one for example the welcome email value based email number two, number three, and then you can adjust the timing as well our space, update the trigger and so on.

Okay, just wanted to show really quickly how this works. But of course if you need if you need me to create a tutorial that will dive deep into into automations just comment in the in the discussion board and I'll create something for you that will really help you create an automation from from scratch. Okay, now let's get back exit. As you can see here, you have lists as well. Okay, I have one list here. But you can create another one.

And you will, you will need the list. Of course, if you would like to use it in thrive architect, I would stay with the default one. Now in order to connect MailChimp to thrive architect you have you will have to create and use what's called an API key. So how do you do that you go to your profile. And of course, as any other service company, they change the design in the overlay of things, but you should be able to go to profile and then extras and then API keys. Okay.

All right. So before I record the video, I made a test and this is the one that is disabled, but you will see nothing when you go here for the first time. And what you have to do is hit create a key. New APA key is ready to use and as you can see Here is the key. So what we have to do is copy the key. Okay?

Status is active by default. All right, and then we go to WordPress, thrive dashboard, thrive features, and then API connections. And I want to point out something here. When you connect services, you will be able to use them across all thrive products, not just thrive architect, but they have Thrive Leads, etc, etc. What I'm saying is you go to API connections, manage connections. And here you see my first account Active Campaign.

And now what I'm going to do is add MailChimp. So let's find it email marketing. Okay, it's right here, MailChimp. So they want an API key. I already copied mine, and I'm gonna paste it here. Here it is.

So Connect MailChimp connected connection. Ready? Done. Okay, great. Now, let's see how this works. If you go to thrive lightboxes remember the two step opt in Pages This is where you would connect an email service provider.

The last light box we created for the example funnel in the previous lecture is here let me open it I click on the button here and then I see Active Campaign is connected I can disconnect it or I can input one more connection added this cart Okay, we see MailChimp here. Let's connect MailChimp to your mailing list. First, MailChimp is asking for the mailing list. We have only one as you can remember, it's right here. This one Vladimir Iko. And then in Groups single opt in will have the ability to choose is to double opt in if we want to put any tax then continue okay the form fields we have emailed that is required and let's do name required as well.

Next, redirect to custom URL. This is the thank you page we created in the previous lecture and then we're gonna hit the Save button. Okay, so as you can see, MailChimp now is connected, active campaigns connected let's disconnect, Active Campaign. Save the work. Great, I landed on the thank you page and now I should receive an email confirmation from MailChimp. Once I click the Confirm button in the email I will be added Hear in it.

We'll see two. I'll be added here in this list for the miracle. Let's refresh. Now I'm still not here now I'm waiting for the email. Okay, we have received the confirmation email, please confirm subscription. Here it is yes, subscribing to the list.

Again, this is happening because we chose double opt in and not a robot, subscribe to list. Okay, awesome. Now, when I go to MailChimp, if I refresh it has it has to show to subscribers. Fantastic. That means the integration is successful and it is working. So now you know how to create an API key, how to connect it to Thrive Themes, and then how to integrate it to your funnel.

Thank you very much for watching, and I'll see you in The next one