How do I clean up my Mailchimp email list?

You can clean up your Mailchimp list by running those email addresses through an email validation tool. Email validation runs each email address through a series of syntax, SMTP, and DNS checks to determine if an email address is both valid and configured to receive email messages. After the validation process is complete, each contact be tagged with a corresponding status. To keep your list clean, filter out any email address that isn’t valid.

How do I remove a hard bounce from Mailchimp?

In many cases, Mailchimp will automatically remove email addresses from your audience that lead to hard bounces. However, a hard bounce will contribute to your overall bounce rate, which lowers your email deliverability. It’s strongly advised to try to avoid hard bounces by validating your email list before sending an email campaign with Mailchimp.

What causes hard bounces in Mailchimp?

Invalid email addresses lead to hard bounces. An invalid email address is one that no longer exists, has an invalid domain, or has other configuration/authentication issues. If you try emailing an invalid email address, it causes a hard bounce. It’s recommended to use email validation for your Mailchimp audience to find invalid email addresses so that you can remove them.

Does Mailchimp provide email verification?

Mailchimp provides email verification by partnering with services like ZeroBounce. You’ll need to create a free ZeroBounce account so that you can connect with Mailchimp and import your email list for email verification. The integration is free and requires no downloads and minimal setup.

Mailchimp ZeroBounce Integration

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We know you love Mailchimp. That’s why ZeroBounce partnered with the platform to help you clean your Mailchimp list and find real, valid email addresses.

Integrate the ZeroBounce email validation API to your Mailchimp mailing list to reduce email bounce rates and improve ROI. Send emails only to valid contacts in Mailchimp - get the free integration now!

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Mailchimp ZeroBounce integration - key features

Verify email addresses in Mailchimp with our easy-to-implement Mailchimp email validation API integration. Plus, get immediate access to these key features:

Mailchimp email list cleaning

The Mailchimp ZeroBounce integration acts as your Mailchimp email validation service.

This free tool allows you to import an audience from your Mailchimp account to ZeroBounce for quick email list cleaning. After the list is scrubbed, you can export the new, clean list directly back to your Mailchimp account.

All of your contacts receive one of seven tags so that you know exactly what’s on your list. Improve your Mailchimp email list hygiene by filtering out invalid email addresses and focusing on valid, real contacts.

Easy import and export

The official Mailchimp integration allows you to rapidly import and export email lists to and from your account. No need for extraneous downloads and uploads.

Contact Monitoring - Real-time email verification

Maintain a clean Mailchimp list by monitoring every new contact that enters your email list.

After setting up the ZeroBounce Mailchimp integration, head over to your settings, select your audience, and turn on Contact Monitoring. Real-time email verification in Mailchimp makes it easier than ever to block invalid, risky email addresses.

Schedule cleaning and Scoring

Don’t forget your next email list cleaning - schedule and set up your email verification for Mailchimp through your integration settings. This won’t stop you from cleaning when you want, and you can adjust your preferred schedule at any time.

Email list sharing

Have a need to share your email contacts between different platforms or CRMs? ZeroBounce Mailchimp verification allows you to rapidly share your cleaned email lists between supported platforms.

ZeroBounce is continuously adding official integrations with the Sharing feature so that you can import and export your data easily between your favorite tools. Share the benefits of Mailchimp list quality enhancement with the additional marketing tools in your repertoire.

Benefits of Mailchimp email list cleaning

Keeping your Mailchimp list clean provides long-term benefits for you and your business.

Reduce Mailchimp bounce rate

Get rid of invalid, risky emails to avoid hard bounces. Validate emails in Mailchimp audiences to rapidly decrease your chances of messaging an invalid account. You’ll also prevent spam traps in Mailchimp effortlessly by identifying and filtering them out of your audience.

Improve Mailchimp deliverability

Using Mailchimp email best practices like validation, adjusting sending volume, and authenticating your emails will improve email deliverability in Mailchimp.

That means more of your emails will reach the inbox, keeping you connected with customers and out of spam.

Boost Mailchimp engagement

Increase Mailchimp open rates and clicks by reaching the inbox with regularity.

The best way to drive email engagement is by guaranteeing visibility in the inbox. Then, you can analyze your campaigns accurately and adjust your content for maximum effectiveness.

Stronger Mailchimp sender reputation

When you improve email deliverability in Mailchimp, you strengthen your company’s sender reputation. Internet service providers use sender reputation, also called sender score, to determine if your company is trustworthy.

When your sender reputation improves, you’re given trust and priority placement in the inbox over those companies with lower scores.

How to use the integration

Thanks to Mailchimp’s partnership, getting started with the integration is simple. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

Log in to your ZeroBounce account. If you don’t have one, you can create one for free! You’ll be able to test the integration and verify up to 100 emails monthly.
Select Mailchimp from the list of available integrations, and log in to your account. Once you authorize access, you’ll be ready to validate!
Pick the Mailchimp email list you want to clean and start verifying.

For an in-depth look at how to set up and use the Mailchimp ZeroBounce integration, take a look at the official documentation.

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Mailchimp Zapier Integration

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Triggers

Trigger	Description
New Subscriber	Triggers when a new subscriber is added to an audience.
Updated Subscriber	Triggers when a subscriber is added or updated in an audience.
New Campaign	Triggers when a new campaign is created or sent.
New Unsubscriber	Triggers when any current subscriber unsubscribes from an audience.
New Subscriber With Tag	Triggers when a subscriber is added to a Tag within an audience.
New Audience	Triggers when a new audience is added to your MailChimp accounts.

Actions

Actions	Description
Add/Update Subscriber	Add a new subscriber to an audience of your choosing. Can be used to update an existing subscriber too.
Validate Email	Validates an email.
Unsubscribe Email	Unsubscribe an email address from an audience of your choosing.
Send Campaign	Sends a campaign draft. PLEASE NOTE: This action sends an email to everyone signed up to the Campaign. Are you trying to send an email to just one person? Set up an Automation within MailChimp and assign the welcome email to a tag. Then assign that tag to your customer with the Add Subscriber To Tag Action.
Create Campaign	Creates a campaign draft.
Add Subscriber to Tag	Add an email address to a tag within an audience. Note: the email address must already be subscribed to the audience, or this will fail.

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