Integrating the MailChimp subscription form into your Magento store

E-mails related to your e-commerce website don't stop at order e-mails to customers, although e-mail marketing can play an important role in encouraging repeat orders and generating new business for your store.

One popular e-mail marketing system is MailChimp, and you can create a static block on your store and use this throughout your store to entice customers to subscribe for offers and articles on your chosen sector.

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Alternatively, you can synchronize your newsletter subscribers through Magento using the MailChimp plugin for Magento at http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/magento.

Firstly, you will need to get the HTML for MailChimp's subscription form: log in to your account on http://mailchimp.com and navigate to Lists. From here, select the Signup forms option from the dropdown next to your chosen client, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, click on the Select button beneath the Embedded forms option:

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