Placing a Mailchimp Form on Your Landing Page

This tutorial is to place a custom Mailchimp form on your landing page.

If you want to use the landing page’s default form (which collects emails only), then see Setting up Mailchimp for the default subscribe form.

1. Click on List in the main menu on your Mailchimp account Dashboard.
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2. Click on the down arrow next to Stats for the list you want to your visitors to subscribe to. Then click on Signup Forms.
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3. Click on Embedded Forms
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4. Scroll down until you see the Sub-heading, Copy/Paste onto your site. Select all the code inside the box. Clicking inside the box should select it all. If not, click inside the box and press Ctrl+a. Then copy the code to your clipboard with Ctrl+c.
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5. Paste your email form code in the Custom Email Form for Shortcode box.
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6. Set Email Management to Custom. Selecting Custom for your Email Management

7. Put your the Custom Email Form shortcode, , in the Content Area where you want to display the form. The Custom Email Shortcode will be where your email form appears.

8. Save and preview your landing page. Your Mailchimp form will appear wherever you placed the shortcode.

Click here to see Mailchimp’s tutorial on sending the subscriber to a custom thank you page

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