There were some unexpected challenges with setting up what I talked about in the last email. The last little viral hack proved a little more difficult than I expected. If you’re following along and decided to put that into action, it’s really easy. But, if you’re like me and always want to push the boundaries a little, there was an unexpected challenge. My new channel currently has two videos, and I decided to try to make them both go viral. Managing that hack for one video is relatively simple. Step one: Set up a new email address somewhere. Step two: Turn on the Out-of-Office feature. Step three: Write an Out-of-Office email with the link to the bonus. See? Simple. But when you try to do this for two videos and want to send a different bonus for each video, it doesn’t work unless you have a new email address for each video. What happens when you want to do this for five or ten videos? That could get very unwieldy very fast. So, what to do? I did come up with an answer that I have implemented. It involved creating a page for each video to which the description links. That page gives instructions to the visitor on what to do to get a bonus. One of the instructions is to send an email with a set subject line. Then, I used Make to grab the email, filter for the subject line, and email a link to the appropriate bonus. When I want to add another video or other content to this group, I need to clone the page, change two things, and add another branch into the Make scenario. About 5 minutes work. That’s actually less time than it would take to set up a new email address with another out-of-office email. If you would like to do something similar, email me and ask. I can give you a clone of everything I’ve done. Regards, P.S. What did I use for the bonuses? You guessed it, a cheat sheet. One that I made with this: https://go.wm-tips.com/sheets. |
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