Today we announced the integration of Network Hippo and Mail Chimp – a great campaign management system that will help you stay in contact with important people more often.

Mail Chimp is an easy-to-use email campaign management system that is perfect for startups as you can get up and running quickly, get awesome reporting, and really see the impact of your mail messages.

Now you can export your contact lists – the whole list, or by custom groups or tags – from directly within Network Hippo.

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to “settings for this network”
2. Click on “integrations”
3. Click on MailChimp and enter your API (found in the account settings of Mail Chimp) and click save
4. Return to your contact list
5. Select a group, tag, or “all” from contacts
6. Click on “import/export” and then “export”
7. Select MailChimp as the export type, and then select which list you want to add your contacts to from your mailchimp account

It’s super simple.  Below is a short video showing you how easy it is.

We plan on extending our partnership with MailChimp by adding reporting features on the dashboard and within user records, so stay tuned!

Last night I attended the Ottawa Startup drinks and met some great people.  As usual, I left the event with a dozen business cards from people who were really interesting and that might lead to some great future collaboration.

So now what?

As usual, I’ll follow-up with everyone today, while our conversation is fresh in my mind, and we’ll probably exchange an email or two.  But now, unlike before, I’ll enter their contact information in Network Hippo – including where I met them, what we discussed, and tag them with keywords that will make it easy for me to find their information in the future.  My email to them will be saved in the system, as will their response, and Hippo will remind me to stay in contact with them over time.

No more business card graveyard – and I’ve got a much better chance to build stronger relationships with interesting people.

We’ve just added the capability in Network Hippo to manage deals in multiple currencies!

This has been a request from members with international clients (AIM Group, Wistia, Global Racing Schools) – (btw: I love that small businesses can work globally!) and from some of our power users in the UK (Coherence Design) and Asia.

Now you can manage deals in multi-currency, fixed bid, monthly contract, or hourly rate, and add multiple contacts to deals.

We’ve also made some improvements to email importing (with much more to come) and fixed a number of issues that have been reported.

We’ve got a lot more improvements and some integration surprises that you’re going to love.

Now that we’ve launched Network Hippo we’re working even harder than before at building a leading relationship management tool that can provide professional and business transformation!

Stay tuned… we’re only getting started!