Grow your Mailchimp list at every live event.
Put a keyword or a QR code on your slide, booth, or table. People text in, reply with their email, and they’re in your Mailchimp audience before they leave the room.
14-day free trial. Mailchimp is included on every plan.
At your event
DEMO
Thanks for coming! What’s the best email to send the slides to?
jordan.lee@gmail.com
Added to Mailchimp
Audience: Newsletter
Event sign-ups that make it into Mailchimp
A clipboard has to be typed up after the event, and a web form on a phone loses people before they tap submit. With Textiful, the whole sign-up happens in a text.
They sign up in their messaging app
People reply to a text on the phone already in their hand, without opening a browser.
Works from a stage or a mic
Say “text DEMO to 33777” and people sign up from their seats. A keyword works even when they can’t see the screen.
A QR code for anything printed
Put a QR code on a banner, table tent, or bulletin. Scanning it opens a text that’s ready to send.
Emails you can actually use
People type their own address. Textiful fixes typos like gmail.con and asks again if a reply isn’t an email.
In Mailchimp right away
Each person is added the moment they reply, so there’s nothing to type up after the event.
Give them a reason to sign up
Send your slides, a guide, or a discount in the same flow with handouts.
Set it up in minutes
- 1
Connect Mailchimp
In Textiful, go to Settings > Integrations, click Connect Mailchimp, and sign in. You only do this once.
- 2
Build your flow
Create a capture flow that asks for an email, then add the Add to Mailchimp step and choose the audience.
- 3
Show it at your event
Put your keyword or QR code on a slide, a banner, or a table. Everyone who replies with their email joins your audience.
What lands in Mailchimp
Their email, in the audience you choose
Each flow picks its own audience, so a conference and a Sunday service can go to different lists.
Unsubscribes stay unsubscribed
New people join as subscribed. Anyone already in the audience keeps their status, so Textiful never resubscribes someone who opted out.
Every sync is logged
The contact’s timeline shows Synced to Mailchimp, and the sync log lists every send. Temporary errors retry on their own.
Everything else stays in Textiful
Names, answers, and poll votes are saved on the contact in Textiful and included in your CSV export.
Where people grow their Mailchimp list
- Talks and keynotesOffer your slides at the end of the talk and add everyone who asks for them.
- Trade show boothsA QR code on the booth takes the place of the business card bowl.
- ChurchesA QR code in the bulletin collects first-time guests’ details for your weekly email.
- Concerts and showsSay a keyword between songs and grow your fan list from the stage.
- Podcasts and radioA spoken keyword listeners can text from the car.
Questions people ask
Yes. Every Textiful plan includes every feature, Mailchimp included.
No. New people are added to your audience as subscribed. Someone already in the audience keeps their current status, so an unsubscribed person stays unsubscribed.
Yes. Each flow has its own Add to Mailchimp step, and you choose the audience in that step.
No. You connect Mailchimp once for the account, then add the Add to Mailchimp step to any flow.
The sync log under Settings > Integrations shows the error from Mailchimp. Textiful retries temporary errors on its own, and you can retry any failed send once the cause is fixed.
No. The short codes 33777 and 55444 work in the US only, and QR codes text those same numbers, so Textiful is for audiences in the US.
No. Mailchimp’s text-to-join signs people up for your SMS marketing texts: they text a keyword to your Mailchimp SMS number and join your SMS audience, and it needs an approved Mailchimp SMS program. Textiful collects their email address by text and adds them to your Mailchimp email audience, so your newsletter list grows from the room.
Yes. Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and ActiveCampaign are built in too, and work the same way: add an Add to Kit or Add to ActiveCampaign step to your flow.
Other built-in integrations
- HubSpotCreate or update each lead as a HubSpot contact, with properties and static lists.
- Kit (ConvertKit)Add every lead to Kit with their first name, and to the Kit form you choose.
- ActiveCampaignAdd every lead to an ActiveCampaign list, tag them, and start your automations.
- ZapierUse the New Contact trigger to send leads to thousands of other apps.
- WebhooksPost each contact as JSON to your own endpoint, from any step in a flow.
- All integrations
Grow your Mailchimp list at your next event.
Try Textiful free for 14 days. Set up a QR code or keyword in minutes and see who shows up.