Dec 07, 2022 06:07 PM
Hello,
I work for a growing nonprofit that needs *help* in the area of Email Marketing.
We use Airtable to manage our various lists of people and their contact information, but I need a good Email Marketing App that will integrate well with Airtable. We're using MailChimp right now, but it's a mess because it's not integrated with our Airtable contact lists. Can anyone recommend a setup for using Airtable as the CRM, integrated with another Email Marketing App that can:
I was looking at doing this with MailChimp originally, but it doesn't have two-way sync. Then I thought SendGrid would be a great Airtable-friendly option, but it appears I would still need to setup semi-complex integrations with Zapier/Make/etc.
I feel like this should be simple, but I've yet to find a solution that does this. Your input is much appreciated.
TIA,
(I would reference a previous post I made about this, but I can't find it since Airtable upgraded their community forum.)
Dec 08, 2022 12:12 PM
Unfortunately, I think there's no built-in method or extension in Airtable that covers this scenario. I found a tool and resource that might help you achieve it: https://unito.io/integrations/mailchimp-airtable/
Dec 10, 2022 12:09 AM
Hi @IliyanSlavov, thank you for sending this over. I haven't looked at it closely, but if it does what it says then the Unito tool is the first one I've seen to do two-way sync between Airtable and MailChimp! Unfortunately, it's expensive for for my use case to pay $90/month to keep 1000 records in sync. That gets expensive for something like a mailing list that could eventually be in the thousands of records/contacts.
I will keep looking for now, but knowing that Unito probably has it makes me think other companies may soon as well.
Dec 11, 2022 08:48 AM
this post shows the airtable automation to send email field to any email platform that supports webhooks. No 3 is not advisable -though technically possible- as you will want to manage all unsubscribes from the platform. Doing that via Mail app is tricky to say the least in terms of scale & inboxing.
Dec 15, 2022 11:31 AM
Hey @chrisbyrne, thanks so much for the reply. Unfortunately, I would need a no-code solution if at all possible 😬. We're a small nonprofit and don't have programmers at this point.