So you are ready to slay the new year and heard how all your favourite creators are talking about how essential it is to get started with your email list. You are ready, opted to use Flodesk as your email service provider,  but you’re thinking to yourself how do I import subscribers to Flodesk? Luckily, you’re in the right place. In this tutorial, I’ll share how you can easily import your Mailchimp subscribers to Flodesk in just minutes!

Why Do I Need An Email List?

Before we get into the juicy bits if you have not started creating an email list. You are seriously missing out on valuable traffic! We’ve experienced it numerous times, Instagram shuts down, you panic because you have no other way to connect to your audience. The truth is this will happen again, your Instagram account is on rented space and you simply have no control over it. At any point, Instagram can do as they please and you are left with a panic attack because you’ve invested heavily on one social media platform. Starting an email list is vital for any blogger, creator or entrepreneur.

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There are many benefits to creating an email list, remember back in the day when you would have a pen pal? Excited to write them an email every now and then to talk about all the fun things. There’s something more personal than taking the time to write an email. In today’s age, people crave this more than ever.

What Email Service Provider Should I Use?

Of course, there are many ESP’s (email service providers) out there – free and paid. For the longest time, I’ve used Mailchimp. But, if you are a creative like me. Mailchimp lacks the most basic design tools to create captivating emails. This is Why I switched from Mailchimp to Flodesk, Flodesk offers more features and has been one of the best investments I’ve ever made! Flodesk has advanced workflows, lists, templates and so much more.

The best thing is that Flodesk pricing stays the same! Yip, with other providers you get penalised for growing! The more subscribers you have the more you pay. With Flodesk you only pay one monthly price!

Test Drive Flodesk For 30-Day Trial

Flodesk might be the newest email service provider on the block. But it’s the most intuitive, community-driven provider out there. They’ve recently come out of beta too. Their templates are gorgeous and the interface is easy to use. Don’t just take my word for it. You can test-drive Flodesk with a free 30-day trial today!

How Do I Import Subscribers To Flodesk?

Once you’ve started with Flodesk, you’d want to export all your Mailchimp subscribers to make sure you can still communicate to your email list.

That’s the amazing thing about having an email list, you take them with you wherever you move to.

• Go to AUDIENCE

• Click on ALL CONTACTS

• Click on EXPORT AUDIENCE

• Click on EXPORT AS CSV

Next, we’ll need to go to Flodesk to import these contacts.

Once you’ve logged into Flodesk 

• Click on AUDIENCE

• Click on ADD SUBSCRIBER

• A drop down will display choose the option to UPLOAD CSV.

Boom! Just like that, you have imported your Mailchimp contacts into Flodesk. Although Mailchimp settings are different to other emailer service providers, you can use this tutorial as a guide on how to export your contacts from other providers like ConvertKit and Mailerlite.

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