Personal welcome for new newsletter subscribers

New subscribers are added to your list and get a personal-feeling welcome email.

Easy Saves ~2 hours/month MarketingBy Flowngn team

Works with n8n · Make · Zapier

Keep customers happy Grow your audience

How it works

Trigger: Webhook — signup form submitted

Receive the subscriber's name and email.
Add them to your Mailchimp audience.
Send a short plain-text welcome from your own Gmail.

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Trigger App

Build it

Pick your tool — same automation, step by step.

Copy and paste straight into an n8n canvas (Ctrl+V), or download and use Import from File. Then connect your own credentials and replace every YOUR_… placeholder.

Workflow JSON

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{
  "name": "Personal welcome for new newsletter subscribers (Flowngn)",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "content": "## Personal welcome for new newsletter subscribers\nNew subscribers are added to your list and get a personal-feeling welcome email.\n\n**Setup**\n1. Open each node and connect your own credentials.\n2. Replace every YOUR_… placeholder.\n3. Test once, then activate.\n\nFree template from Flowngn",
        "height": 260,
        "width": 340
      },
      "id": "343164f5-4864-4456-a7d2-96a86c967917",
      "name": "Setup notes",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        -420,
        -60
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "httpMethod": "POST",
        "path": "subscribe",
        "options": {}
      },
      "id": "343164f5-4864-4456-a7d2-96a86c967917",
      "name": "Signup form",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.webhook",
      "typeVersion": 2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "webhookId": "343164f5-4864-4456-a7d2-96a86c967917"
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "list": "YOUR_AUDIENCE_ID",
        "email": "={{ $json.body.email }}",
        "status": "subscribed",
        "options": {},
        "mergeFieldsUi": {
          "mergeFieldsValues": [
            {
              "name": "FNAME",
              "value": "={{ $json.body.name }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "id": "343164f5-4864-4456-a7d2-96a86c967917",
      "name": "Add to audience",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.mailchimp",
      "typeVersion": 1,
      "position": [
        300,
        0
      ]
    },
    {
      "parameters": {
        "sendTo": "={{ $('Signup form').item.json.body.email }}",
        "subject": "Welcome aboard 👋",
        "emailType": "text",
        "message": "=Hi {{ $('Signup form').item.json.body.name }},\n\nThanks for subscribing! Quick question: what made you sign up? Just hit reply — I read every answer.\n\nYOUR_NAME",
        "options": {
          "appendAttribution": false
        }
      },
      "id": "343164f5-4864-4456-a7d2-96a86c967917",
      "name": "Send personal welcome",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.gmail",
      "typeVersion": 2.1,
      "position": [
        600,
        0
      ]
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "Signup form": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Add to audience",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "Add to audience": {
      "main": [
        [
          {
            "node": "Send personal welcome",
            "type": "main",
            "index": 0
          }
        ]
      ]
    }
  },
  "pinData": {},
  "settings": {
    "executionOrder": "v1"
  },
  "meta": {
    "templateCredsSetupCompleted": false
  },
  "tags": []
}

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Tips

Plain-text emails from a real address get more replies than designed ones.

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