*LATEST VERSION IS IN THE WIKI:
http://viralsalesgenerator.wikispaces.com/email-integrationThe best third party email system we have seen to integrate with VSG/PMP is GetResponse.
To see it in action visit
OptinDesign.com, one of our live customers' sites recently launched by Kidino
Here is the code and instructions with narration - thanks to Kidino
(to be added to admin manual):
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GetResponse Code:I was thinking about where to put my GetResponse
code. The first
thought was the post sign-up page. But if you have OTO,
visitors
may or may not get there.
When you use OTO, that means people
will be redirected to the
OTO page after putting in their name and email
address. And you
would have to put in a "No Thanks" link
manually.
Whether people want or don't want your OTO, they may or
may
not finish the whole process. Some may just abandon the OTO
page
without click the No-Thanks link. And some go through
Paypal and not click on
the "Return To Merchant" button. I don't
want to risk that.
I want to
make sure that people are added into my list immediately.
So I put my
code on the OTO page itself. But then there's the
problem of the redirect
page from the GetResponse code. To
avoid that problem, I put the code on a
separate file and call it
from OTO page using an IFRAME.
Here's the
code.
/vsg/members/red/postsignup/getresponse.php
<?
include("../../postsignup_global.php");
?>
<html>
<title>form</title>
<body>
<form
action="http://www.getresponse.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi"
method="post" id="theform" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input type="hidden"
name="category2" value="<?=$member->getName()?>" id="GRCategory2"
/>
<input type="hidden" name="category3"
value="<?=$member->getUserName()?>" id="GRCategory3" />
<input
type="hidden" name="category1" value="oid" />
<input type="hidden"
name="confirmation" value="http://www.optindesign.com/page/blank.htm"/>
<input type="hidden" name="error_page" value="http://www.optindesign.com/page/blank.htm"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ref" value="000" />
<input
type="hidden" name="getpostdata" value="get"
/>
</form>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
document.getElementById('theform').submit();
-->
</script>
</body>
</html>As
you can see, the confirmation and the error_page redirects to
blank.htm, is
just that - a blank file that displays nothing. Make sure you
create that
file and put it in the /page folder.
Now, back to the OTO page, I
included the following code.
<iframe src="http://www.optindesign.com/vsg/members/red/postsignup/getresponse.php"
frameborder="0" height="1" width="1"></iframe>I put at the
very most top right after <BODY> to ensure that member's
name and email
address will be captured into GetResponse's database
before anything. If it
interferes with your design, you may need to find a
better place for the
code. But try to keep it one of the first thing that loads.
Script
Changes: None Done!
Double Or Single Opt-In:
I use single
opt-in. In GetResponse, right after creating a campaign (or a
list), you can
configure whether to have subscribers confirm email address
or not. But
here's the thing, once you turn on confirmation email, you can't
turn it off.
So I went to the setting page and make sure that confirmation isturned off.
And I never turn it on.Alright, I hope that helps ...
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