# Using a campaign with MailChimp

## 📧 Create a virtual campaign

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1. At the left vertical menu choose the [Campaigns](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns) section and press **Launch Campaign**
2. Label your campaign
3. Enable [Virtual campaign](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns/campaign/virtual-campaign#what-is-a-virtual-campaign)
4. At the recipients page select **Import emails** option
5. Upload your CSV file with emails
6. Press <img src="https://1025048312-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M8fLhS0bmfBRyq0HdUm%2F-MEqZZYZ8Wh1MYqT9cuO%2F-MErgscX9k_xjMKAlZZF%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=5c21f5a8-60fa-4e70-b91f-747c309a893a" alt="" data-size="line"> **Launch campaing**

## 👨‍💻️ Generate unique codes

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1. Go back to the **Campaigns** section
2. Choose the campaign to work with
3. Go to the **Pending** page
4. Press [Export all](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns/campaign/virtual-campaign#export-the-recipients), to create a CSV file with unique codes to your survey for each recipients

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{% hint style="info" %}
The unique codes are generated automatically once you have launched the campaign and bonded with the recipients emails
{% endhint %}

## 🐵 Import unique codes and survey links to the MailChimp

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1. At your MailChimp account go to the **Audience** **dashboard** and choose **Import contacts** from the Manage Audience dropdown list on the right
2. Upload your **CVS file** emails, link and unique codes
3. Press on the header of the column and choose to **Create a new** field to edit and tag the codes or links

## ✈️ Start the MailChimp campaign with the ngSurvey

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1. Go to the **Editors page** of the Email templates
2. In the toolbar, on the right of the editors page, press **Merge Tags**
3. Select the tags of the survey link and unique code

{% hint style="info" %}
Choose place in the message where you prefer to perform the **merged tag** before selecting the tags
{% endhint %}

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After launching the campaign via MailChimp, each of the your recipients will receive an email with the survey link and unique code to access your survey.