The core principle of Campaign Monitor is to make email marketing simple and fun. This principle is what drives us when we develop new features and when we work to ensure your emails look great in every inbox. It’s what guides us when we add support for cutting-edge tools like Webflow and Google Tag Manager. And it’s what we aim to advance with each release of our WordPress Subscribe Plugin
In this post, I will be showing you some useful plugins you can use.
RafflePress
Who doesn’t like freebies? And what’s the best way to attract visitors other than giveaways?
So if you’re planning to run giveaways and looking for a tool to integrate those giveaways with Campaign Monitor, then your search is over.
RafflePress is the WordPress giveaway plugin that provides a great Campaign Monitor integration.
Features:
- Host customized giveaways and grow your Campaign Monitor email
- Send your new subscribers directly into the Campaign Monitor list of your choice
- Grant different amounts of contest points for joining your Campaign Monitor subscriber list
- Display opt-in confirmation checkbox.
Pricing: RafflePress Pro starts at $79.20/year.
MailPoet
MailPoet started out as a free/premium plugin that turns your WordPress install into a mailing list service. Their new version continues this (free up to 2,000 subscribers), but also offers to deliver email for you.
This solves one of the tough issues with running your own lists – ensuring messages don’t get caught in spam filters. For that matter, your host server could get blacklisted as well. So sending through your own server in the free version is best left to smaller lists that don’t send very often.
MailChimp for WordPress
The nice aspect of MailChimp for WordPress is that you have the option of creating signup forms directly through the plugin or integrating with other plugins (Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, BuddyPress, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads – to name a few).
Advanced WooCommerce integration is one of the features of the premium edition.
Constant Contact Forms
Using Constant Contact Forms, you can enable visitors to easily subscribe to your email list. The plugin also lets you create custom fields so that you can collect additional data.
You can even use the plugin without having a Constant Contact account – but obviously, the features are geared towards those who do use the service.
Hustle
Hustle provides a means to not only connect with popular services such as MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, GetResponse and Mad Mimi, it also lets you target users through slide-ins, popups, widgets and shortcodes.
So it’s more of a complete marketing suite that you can use to encourage subscriptions, along with other functionality. It also provides nifty features like social sharing and statistical data regarding opt-ins.
MailMunch
It’s fair to say that MailMunch and Hustle are somewhat similar in scope. Where they differ is that MailMunch really is solely focused on email marketing. You can create a variety of different opt-ins ranging from popups, embedded forms, top bar, scroll box and sidebar.
The plugin is compatible with many third-party services (AWeber, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, GetResponse, InfusionSoft, and MailChimp). You can also take advantage of A/B testing and analytics.
Email Subscribers & Newsletters
With Email Subscribers & Newsletters, you can take a more holistic approach to email marketing. You’ll be able to collect user information and send out HTML newsletters through your WordPress website.
But you can also set up automatic email notifications when new posts are added to your site. That provides an incredibly easy way to keep users engaged with your content.
Contact Form 7 Campaign Monitor Extension
Beyond your standalone opt-in form, it’s a great idea to integrate subscription options into other existing forms on your site. Contact Form 7 Campaign Monitor Extension is one of many available plugins that will do this for you. Compatible with the ever-popular Contact Form 7, users who are filling out a form on your site are just a click away from also subscribing to your Campaign Monitor list.
The very same plugin author has similar offerings for AWeber, GetResponse, iContact and MailChimp.
MailOptin
MailOptin aims to be a complete solution for email marketing via WordPress. It connects with a wide variety of third-party providers (MailChimp, Constant Contact, etc.). But it also enables you to create list signup forms that can be implemented in several ways and even let you send mail to your lists from within WordPress. You can run your entire email marketing operation without leaving your website. A premium version adds automation capabilities, like sending out new post notifications, enables mail scheduling and more.
ConvertKit
ConvertKit is a bit of a unique service, as it is geared towards bloggers. It offers some automation features that will help keep your readers in the loop. Their WordPress plugin allows you to connect to your ConvertKit account via API and easily add opt-in forms either globally or on a post-by-post basis.
Overall, it’s a nice option for content creators.
Yith WooCommerce MailChimp
An online store’s checkout is the perfect opportunity to offer your customers a place to subscribe. After all, if someone is willing to spend some hard-earned cash on your site, there’s a mutual interest in forming a relationship.
Yith WooCommerce MailChimp will hook up with the mailing service and enable customers to subscribe to a list of your choosing via a simple checkbox on the front end.
Newsletter Glue
A relative newcomer, Newsletter Glue enables WordPress site owners to create email newsletters directly within the CMS. The unique selling point is that the plugin connects to an outside email service provider via an API. You write the newsletter in WordPress and send it through the provider. The result is a familiar content creation UI and a more reliable way to actually deliver those newsletters.
The free version connects to your MailChimp account. The pro version has more sending options, along with the ability to embed social media and WordPress posts.
Formidable Forms
Formidable Forms is a powerful form builder plugin for technical and advanced users. Its Campaign Monitor addon lets you add leads automatically from your WordPress forms to your Campaign Monitor account.
Formidable forms provide features to connect Campaign Monitor to your WordPress forms. If you’re a beginner, we suggest you use some easy options like WPForms; it’s beginner-friendly and has Campaign Monitor integration.
Features:
- Build advanced forms that add data from the forms directly to your Campaign Monitor lists
- Sort leads automatically based on tags and Campaign Monitor groups
- Choose between single or double opt-in subscriptions
- Ask users to update information whenever they fill out a form
- Send data from fields in your signup form to custom fields in Campaign Monitor
Pricing: Formidable Forms Business starts at $199.50/year.
6. Zapier
Zapier is a powerful tool to integrate Campaign Monitor with WordPress. It’s a 3rd-party connector app that helps you connect your website to 500+ web apps.
Zapier is a powerful tool; however, connecting Campaign Monitor to WordPress via Zapier is a bit of a long process. Both are web apps that mean you can’t directly integrate them with your WordPress website.
In order to connect Zapier and Campaign Monitor with WordPress, first, you need to verify the API key for both the apps and embed code to complete the process.
Features:
- Sends Facebook Ad leads to Campaign Monitor list
- Add subscribers to rows in Google Sheets spreadsheets
- Automatically unsubscribe people from your Campaign Monitor lists if they are already present in other CRM lists
- Stored Email marketing data in Google Sheets
Pricing: Zapier has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19.99/month.
HubSpot
HubSpot is an all-in-one WordPress plugin that you can use for contact management, live chat, analytics, and creating forms. Plus, it also allows you to build beautiful email newsletters to carry out automatic marketing campaigns.
Furthermore, there are 20+ pre-designed email templates available in this plugin that you can easily use. Also, you get the chance to personalize the messages and content yourself for the subscribers.
Features:
- Each email gets logged in your HubSpot CRM. So, you can track the open and click rates for measuring the email’s engagement and improving your campaigns.
- Able to create attractive forms and popups using the drag-and-drop builder. Also integrates with other WordPress form and popup builders.
- Compatible with 875+ apps like WooCommerce, Stripe, Gravity Forms, etc.
- Offers live chat and chatbot features to provide better engagement and support to your visitors.
- The built-in analysis enables you to improve the sales and marketing actions for better email marketing and business overall.
Pricing:
For the marketing software of HubSpot, there’re 3 pricing plans on its paid version. They are:
- Starter: This plan allows having 1000 marketing contacts. Costs $45/mo or $540/year.
- Professional: It includes 2000 marketing contacts. Its price is $800/mo or $9600/year.
- Enterprise: Can have up to 10,000 marketing contacts at the price of $3200/mo or $39,400/year.
Conclusion
WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for creating a website or blog. It’s also the most widely used e-newsletter service provider in the world due to its excellent email marketing features and highly customizable automated email builder. If you have a WordPress website, implementing an email marketing plan within the platform is a natural fit. Campaign Monitor has a dedicated plugin that can easily be installed into WordPress to start collecting subscribers and building an email list.