Mailchimp have just released Apps in the new email builder. The first app launched is Google My Business. It’s now very simple to insert your reviews and other business details into your email marketing campaigns. This tutorial shows how to connect Google My Business with Mailchimp and then how to insert your business details into […]
How to Use Brand Stories to Boost Your Small Business Marketing
Brand stories are very popular and widely used by large organizations to get more sales. Small businesses don’t often create brand stories; this is usually because, until recently, it has been technically difficult and time consuming to publish case studies, customer stories and other brand stories online. In this video I show simple it is […]
Automatically add contacts in Google Sheets to Mailchimp
I often get asked by my clients how they can integrate Google Sheets with Mailchimp so that contacts added to a spreadsheet are automatically added to a Mailchimp audience. In the tutorial below I show how to setup an integration between Mailchimp and Google Sheets using Zapier. The integration will automatically look for changes to […]
How to Clear Chrome Browser Cache
Follow these instructions to clear the cache in your Google Chrome Browser.
Google Docs Word Count Instructions
Identify Unique Values in Excel or Google Sheets
I often work with large lists of email addresses when helping Mailchimp clients with their email marketing needs. Occasionally I need to identify unique values only in a list. For example a list of 100,000 contacts may have duplicate contacts and I need to quickly identify records where the email address isn’t duplicated. Fortunately it […]
How to add a G Suite Gmail Signature Across All Devices
On moving from Google Inbox to Gmail I have been very frustrated with the need, in Gmail, to set a signature multiple times. For example I need to set a signature on my PC and on my Android devices. I change my signature often so this duplication of tasks is annoying. Set a Global Gmail […]
Copy content from Google Docs into Mailchimp
Copying and pasting from Microsoft Word into a Mailchimp campaign causes formatting issues. Doing the same from Google Docs however is safe.
How to restore a Google Docs file you’ve overwritten
I love Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. One thing however that I’ve become very adept at is overwriting a document, spreadsheet or presentation that I intended to copy. I’m so used to opening an existing file in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, making changes and then clicking Save as that I forget that […]
Mailchimp provides Google Remarketing Ads
Google remarketing adverts (also called retargeting ads) result in increased sales. Most of us have visited a website and then seen adverts for that website as we browse the Internet. Remarketing ads are the adverts that are shown to you for websites that you have visited in the past. I’ve written in the past how […]