Mailchimp

Mailchimp Email Marketing for Funding Context

Email marketing represents your owned audience—customers and prospects you can reach without paying for ads. Your Mailchimp data shows subscriber growth, engagement quality, and campaign effectiveness. This provides context for understanding your marketing reach and customer relationships.

Why Email Metrics Matter

Email audiences indicate marketing strength:

Owned Audience

Unlike paid advertising, email subscribers are an audience you own. You can reach them repeatedly without ongoing ad spend.

Engagement Quality

Open and click rates show how engaged your audience is. High engagement indicates strong customer relationships.

Marketing Efficiency

Email often has the highest ROI of any marketing channel. Strong email performance signals marketing effectiveness.

What Mailchimp Data Shows

When you connect Mailchimp, we analyze:

Audience Metrics

• Total subscribers
• List growth rate
• Subscriber acquisition trends
• Audience segmentation

Engagement Rates

• Average open rates
• Click-through rates
• Engagement trends over time
• Unsubscribe patterns

Campaign Performance

• Campaign send frequency
• Performance by campaign type
• Revenue attribution (if tracked)
• A/B test results

Marketing Health

• List quality indicators
• Deliverability metrics
• Engagement consistency
• Audience growth trajectory

How Mailchimp Integration Works

Step 1: Authorize Mailchimp

Connect through Mailchimp OAuth. Grant read-only access to your account analytics.

Step 2: Metrics Import

We pull subscriber counts, engagement rates, and campaign performance data.

Step 3: Engagement Analysis

We calculate engagement trends, growth rates, and quality indicators.

Step 4: Marketing Context

Email metrics provide context for your marketing effectiveness and customer relationships.

Mailchimp + Other Data Sources

Mailchimp + Revenue

• Stripe or Shopify shows revenue
• Mailchimp shows audience size
• Together: revenue per subscriber analysis

Mailchimp + CRM

• HubSpot shows customer lifecycle
• Mailchimp shows email engagement
• Together: complete customer communication picture

Mailchimp + Advertising

• Meta Ads or Google Ads shows paid acquisition
• Mailchimp shows owned audience
• Together: paid vs. owned channel balance

Security and Privacy

OAuth Security

Mailchimp connections use official OAuth:

• Mailchimp-managed authentication
• Read-only analytics access
• Revocable at any time
• No credential storage

Data Privacy

We protect subscriber privacy:

• Aggregate metrics only
• No individual email addresses
• No personal subscriber data
• Cannot export your lists

What We Cannot Do

• Send campaigns
• Modify lists
• Add or remove subscribers
• Access individual subscriber data

Email Metrics That Matter

Open Rate

What percentage opens your emails? Industry average is ~20%. Higher rates indicate strong sender reputation and engaged audience.

Click Rate

What percentage clicks links? Shows active engagement beyond just opening.

List Growth

Are you adding subscribers faster than losing them? Net positive growth indicates healthy acquisition.

Engagement Trends

Are rates improving or declining? Trends matter more than point-in-time metrics.