According to research, 71% of surveyed business owners say they’re concerned about customer acquisition
Intuit Mailchimp’s latest advancements are helping businesses navigate the challenge with a single-source solution for customer connection, conversion, and growth
Intuit Inc. , the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, announced at Mailchimp’s flagship event FWD: London a new suite of tools and integrations designed to help marketers and small- and mid-sized businesses better understand and leverage their customer data.
Over the past year, Intuit Mailchimp has focused on updating its marketing product to strengthen its ability to drive revenue for brands, totalling over 2,000 product updates and enhancements since December 2024.
Sustainable growth has become more challenging than ever in an increasingly uncertain business environment. According to research, 71% of SMBs are concerned with customer acquisition.* Mailchimp’s latest set of tools is designed to address this need by providing a connected, data-driven solution that empowers businesses to engage with customers more effectively, boost conversions, drive repeat business, and generate more referrals—accelerating long-term growth.
Built on the Intuit platform, these tools leverage AI to segment data and surface actionable insights for the user with higher-quality zero-party data, enhancing the insights they can glean and act on. By automating these tasks, the Intuit platform is powering done-for-you experiences that are saving businesses time and giving them more insights to better run and grow their business.
“Mailchimp is evolving into the essential bridge between advertising and customer relationships for businesses, seamlessly connecting ad campaigns to powerful marketing automation that nurtures leads and drives sales,” said Ken Chestnut, Director of Global Partner Ecosystem, Intuit. “We’re closing the loop between advertising, marketing automation, and powerful customer insights, giving businesses the tools to engage at the right time and place of the customer journey from attracting new leads and nurturing relationships to driving conversions and building lasting loyalty.”
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Over the past year, Mailchimp has focused on updating its marketing product to strengthen its ability to drive revenue for brands, totaling over 2,000 product updates and enhancements since December 2024. This includes enhancements like simpler audience segmentation, faster loading times across the app, a more powerful Marketing Automation Flows feature (formerly Customer Journey Builder), and more. These latest product features represent the next step in Intuit’s journey to become the end-to-end business platform that integrates the power of Mailchimp and QuickBooks, enabling customers to both run and grow their business, all in one place. These features connect the tools and data providing insights and action that delivers instant quality in every customer interaction and ensures continuity across the entire customer journey. The following products were announced this morning at Mailchimp’s FWD: London event:
New and enhanced lead generation integrations with Meta, TikTok, Google, Snapchat, and LinkedIn—designed to help businesses automate, streamline, and optimize every step of the lead-to-conversion journey. With these new integrations, marketers can seamlessly bring lead information from their social and paid advertising campaigns into Mailchimp, helping them build richer, more comprehensive customer profiles and automatically nurture leads with hyper-personalized marketing campaigns in real time.
The availability of more than 100 new pop-up templates, allowing businesses to grow their customer base with less work by using highly customizable pop-up forms for deeper targeting, effective data collection, and more personalized campaigns. The latest pop-up form templates were designed for businesses in the education and non-profit, health and wellness, and arts and entertainment sectors.
More robust and intuitive custom reports with the Metrics Visualizer, giving marketers over 40 different performance analytics to easily compare and analyze data across email and SMS channels to build insightful reports and visualizations, and get the granular insights they need to understand their campaign performance.
These advancements will expand on the efficiencies that Mailchimp customers have come to expect. “It’s nice to have such an ease of access to information. It feels like we’re not having to do as much digging or joining the dots as much, which is really nice,” said Freya Doggett, digital marketing officer at Serpentine Galleries, a contemporary art gallery in London, of her experience connecting integrations. “Mailchimp really simplifies things that are complicated by nature.”
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Coming Soon
New Custom Audience Tools: Later this year, Mailchimp will add new custom audience tools, enabling marketers to send audience segments directly to Meta technologies and Google Ads to find lookalike audiences or retarget ads to existing customers. The combination of all these tools is helping marketers turn ad spend into real insights and revenue, provide a 360° view of their customers to fuel smarter segmentation and personalization, and drive efficiencies for finding and retaining customers across their channels.
SMS Contact Import via API: Mailchimp customers will soon be able to easily engage customers who prefer SMS-only communication by adding contacts without the need for email addresses. By bringing SMS data directly into Mailchimp, marketers can combine it with email data, purchase history, and other information to get a richer understanding of their audience to execute coordinated omnichannel campaigns.
Intuit’s AI Agents: Coming soon to QuickBooks, powered by the Intuit platform, businesses will be able to access a virtual team of end-to-end AI agents, including customer, payments, finance, project management, and accounting agents, to take the next large step in delivering done-for-you experiences, coupled with insights and recommendations to grow and run a business. This is designed to solve challenges before they arise with predictive insights, take smart action on businesses’ behalf, and seamlessly connect them to AI-enabled human experts when needed, with customers always in control. In fact, 56% of Intuit customers report making better decisions in less time with Intuit AI.**
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