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Exporting Contacts from Mailchimp

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You can export your contacts from Mailchimp and import them into your aNinja account to augment your lead database.

You can export an entire audience, a segment, or a group.

Configure contact table

  • Click Audience > All contacts
  • Click the Toggle Columns drop-down menu.
  • Uncheck the boxes next to the fields you want to hide or check the boxes next to the fields you want to view.
    Cursor checks box in toggle columns drop-down menu.
  • To reorder columns, click and drag the three dots next to any name field and drag it to your preferred location.
    Cursor clicks three dots next to name field.
  • Click Save.

View or export an audience

To view or export your entire audience, follow these steps.

  • Click Audience > All contacts.
  • If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and choose the one you want to work with.
  • Click Export Audience.
    • You will receive the exported audience by email. You can download the file to your computer.
  • Or from Mailchimp, after the export loads, click Export as CSV to download the file to your computer.

View or export a segment

To view or export a saved segment, follow these steps.

  • Click Audience > All contacts.
  • If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and choose the one you want to work with.
  • Click View Segment, and choose the segment you want to export.
  • Click Export Segment.
    click export segment

    • You will receive the exported segment by email. You can download the file to your computer.
  • Or in Mailchimp, after the export loads, click Export as CSV to download the file to your computer.

View or export tagged contacts

To view or export tagged contacts, follow these steps.

  • Click Audience > All contacts.
  • If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and choose the one you want to work with.
  • Click the Filter by Tags drop-down menu and choose the tag you want to work with.
  • It generates a segment of all the contacts in your audience with that tag applied to them.
  • From the segment view, click the Filtered By Tags drop-down menu to choose more tags. When you’re done, click Export Segment.
    • You will receive the exported segment by email. You can download the file to your computer.
  • Or in Mailchimp, after the export loads, click Export as CSV to download the file to your computer.

View or export a group

  • Click Audience > Audience dashboard.
  • If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and choose the one you want to work with.
  • Click the Manage Audience drop-down and choose Manage contacts.
  • Click Groups.
  • Then, hit View Groups to expand the group you want to view.
  • Click the # contacts link to view the individual contacts in each group.
  • Click Export Segment.
    • You will receive the exported segment by email. You can download the file to your computer.
  • Or in Mailchimp, after the export loads, click Export as CSV to download the file to your computer.

Open your export file

Your export may include a ZIP file that contains separate CSV files for each type of contact (subscribed, unsubscribed, non-subscribed, and cleaned). Unarchive the ZIP file to access the CSV files and open each file individually in your preferred spreadsheet application ( Microsoft ExcelGoogle Sheets, or OpenOffice Calc.)

 

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