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University RSS-to-Email Newsletters: A Practical Guide

University RSS-to-Email Newsletters: A Practical Guide

The short answer: universities can automate audience-specific newsletters by treating departmental and topic RSS feeds as content sources, recording reader interests in Mailchimp Groups, and matching feeds to those Groups. One campaign can then create different content combinations for students, alumni, staff, researchers and external partners. This approach is most useful where content is already distributed across schools, departments, research centres, events systems, podcasts and institutional news sites. The higher-education communication problem A university rarely has one audience or one publishing team....

Author
James Qualtrough
31 August, 2026
Non-Profit Newsletter Automation: A Practical Guide

Non-Profit Newsletter Automation: A Practical Guide

The short answer: a non-profit can automate relevant newsletters by publishing different content types to separate RSS feeds, recording supporter interests as Mailchimp Groups, and matching each feed to the appropriate Groups. One scheduled campaign can then assemble a different mix of content for donors, volunteers, campaigners and service users. This guide is for teams that currently rebuild a general newsletter by hand or maintain several overlapping campaigns. It explains the content and audience decisions that need to be made before configuring the technology....

Author
James Qualtrough
31 August, 2026
RSS Feed Aggregator for Email Marketing: Which Approach Actually Works

RSS Feed Aggregator for Email Marketing: Which Approach Actually Works

If you’re running a newsletter from multiple content sources, you need some form of RSS feed aggregation - a way to combine content from different feeds into a single newsletter delivery. Several approaches exist, and they’re not equivalent. This guide compares them so you can choose the one that fits your situation. The short answer: use a simple feed merger when every subscriber should receive the same combined content. Use separate campaigns when each feed represents a genuinely separate newsletter....

Author
James Qualtrough
31 August, 2026
Newsletter Personalisation in Mailchimp: Beyond Merge Tags

Newsletter Personalisation in Mailchimp: Beyond Merge Tags

Personalisation in email marketing has a reputation problem. It got associated with “Hi [First Name]” - the practice of inserting a subscriber’s name into a subject line and calling it personalisation. When inboxes are full of “James, here’s what you’re missing” subject lines from brands that have never sent anything relevant to James in their lives, the personalisation has become a form of mimicry rather than a genuine attempt to connect....

Author
James Qualtrough
31 August, 2026
Mailchimp RSS Campaigns: What Most Setup Guides Get Wrong

Mailchimp RSS Campaigns: What Most Setup Guides Get Wrong

Most guides to setting up a Mailchimp RSS campaign are accurate. They show you where to click, which field to fill in, and how to activate the campaign. Then they stop. What they don’t cover is why most RSS campaigns underperform after the first few sends - and what to do about it. This post is the guide that picks up where the others leave off. The short answer: a reliable Mailchimp RSS campaign depends on more than connecting a feed....

Author
James Qualtrough
13 August, 2026
Multiple RSS Feeds in Mailchimp: The Complete Setup Guide

Multiple RSS Feeds in Mailchimp: The Complete Setup Guide

Most Mailchimp users are running one RSS feed into one automated campaign. It works, up to a point. But the moment your content spans more than one source - a blog, a news feed, an events calendar, a jobs board - that single-feed setup starts to show its limits. You end up either picking one source and ignoring the others, or rebuilding the campaign manually every time you want to mix things up....

Author
James Qualtrough
11 May, 2026
How to personalise content for email subscribers.

How to personalise content for email subscribers.

Fully automating your email marketing with RSS feeds can be a huge time saver. Good in itself, but with FlipRSS you can go one step further. The tool’s advanced features allow you to personalise the experience for each individual subscriber, and this is rocket fuel for subscriber engagement. Give your subscribers what they want and you will be rewarded! For example, subscribers to a recruitment company may want to receive the latest jobs, but only in the industry that interests them....

Author
James Qualtrough
6 January, 2018
Introducing FlipRSS V2.0

Introducing FlipRSS V2.0

Individuals and businesses looking for an effective solution for managing and automating multiple RSS feeds in email marketing have reason to rejoice. It’s now easier than ever to give subscribers the choice of content they receive, and fully automate the sending of personalised multiple RSS campaigns. The latest release of FlipRSS sees a significant step forward thanks to deeper integrations with Mailchimp. Connecting FlipRSS with an existing email solution and creating an automated multi-RSS campaign is now extremely simple....

Author
James Qualtrough
13 November, 2017