For customers on our White Label and Embedding plan, you can now send new lead data entered on your Embedded Audit form straight into Mailchimp (via Zapier). If you haven't heard of Zapier, its a powerful integration tool that enables you to connect many of the apps you're already using.
Before you do this, ensure the Embeddable Audit Tool is installed on your website and capturing leads correctly. If you haven't done this yet, check out our step by step installation guide. Once that's done, let's get started with the Zapier connection:
1. Configure Your Mailchimp Account
Before you jump into Zapier, you'll need to prepare your Mailchimp Audience first. Start by logging into Mailchimp, click Audience -> Audience Dashboard, then under the Manage Audience menu on the right, select Settings (notice our Audience name is called "Newsletter Subscribers" - we'll refer to this later while setting up Zapier):
Then click Audience fields and *|MERGE|* tags from the Settings menu list. We want to create a new field to capture the audit URL that the lead entered when submitting the Lead form on your website. This is really useful as a merge field in future email campaigns. To do this, scroll to the bottom and click the "Add A Field" button:
A new row of options will appear above the button. Choose "Website":
Finally, give the field a descriptive name like "Audit URL", then click the "Save Changes" button:
The other thing we want to do in Mailchimp is create a Tag which we will apply to all subscribers that are added via the Embeddable Audit Tool. This will be really useful for segmentation in the future. To do this, select "Tags" in the Audience menu, then click the "Create Tag" button:
Give the new tag a descriptive name like "SEOptimer Leads" and hit the "Create" button:
2. Log In to Your Zapier Account
Go to Zapier and either log in to your account or if you're a new user, create a new account.
3. Add the SEOptimer App to Your Zapier Account
Open a new tab and visit the Embedding Settings page on SEOptimer. Scroll down to the bottom of the page:
Copy the "Zapier Authorization Key" (this key is unique to your account and should not be shared with anyone), then click the blue button "Add SEOptimer to your Zapier account". This will launch the Zapier Platform page. Click the "Accept Invite & Build a Zap" button:
4. Set Up SEOptimer Trigger
After clicking the Aceept Invite button, you'll be taken back to your Zapier dashboard. Click the "Make a Zap" button in the top left.
Under the "Choose App & Event" heading, search for SEOptimer. Then click the SEOptimer (1.0.0) app:
The only available trigger is "New Lead" so its already selected, just click Continue:
You'll then be prompted to sign in to SEOptimer (if you're not already), click the "Sign in" button:
This will launch a popup window where you'll need to paste your API key (this key is unique to your SEOptimer account, remember never to share it with anyone else):
Click "Yes, Continue" and you'll return to the Zap setup with your account details pre-populated. Click "Continue":
The SEOptimer setup is now complete. Click "Test trigger":
You'll see a test record called "John Doe" which we populate automatically so you can test the setup all the way through to your Mailchimp. Click "Continue" at the bottom of this confirmation page:
5. Create Mailchimp Action
Click the blue "+" button to start creating the Mailchimp Action step:
Search for Mailchimp:
Click the Mailchimp app and select the "Add/Update Subscriber" event:
Click "Sign in to Mailchimp":
This will open a new window for you to log into your Mailchimp account:
Click the "Allow" button to grant Zapier access to your Mailchimp account:
The next step is to populate the Mailchimp fields with the data from the SEOptimer trigger. Although there are several other fields during this setup, below are the six main fields required to push the Lead data into Mailchimp:
- Audience - we've selected our Mailchimp Audience called "Newsletter Subscribers"
- Subscriber Email - choose the "Email" field from SEOptimer
- Tag(s) - we're assigning the "SEOptimer Leads" tag we set up in Step 1 to identify these subscribers as coming from the Embeddable Audit Tool (this will be handy for segmenting them in future email campaigns)
- First Name - choose the "First Name" field from SEOptimer
- Last Name - choose the "Last Name" field from SEOptimer
- Audit URL - choose the "Website URL" field from SEOptimer
Then click "Continue":
Click "Test & Continue" to push the test data into your Mailchimp Audience:
Then you're done! Remember to hit "Turn on Zap" to activate the automation:
6. Check the Test Lead Data in Mailchimp
Open Mailchimp and check to make sure the test Lead appears in your Audience correctly.
If you have any questions or issues during set up, feel free to get in touch via our live chat in the bottom, right-hand corner.
