Any advertisers with 2 step forms using Aweber for prospects?

Damn DeRoy. Very impressive knowledge. I have worked on the advertiser side for over 5 years. At my last company, we had a group of 5 data folks getting paid 6-figures each to deal with shit like this and never heard one piece of strategy that was even close to the depth of analysis you give here.

I have always been on the front end but I've always known there are a lot of inefficiencies on our back end. This just reveals the depth of inefficiency. Wow. You've put a lot into this and I respect the knowledge a ton.

I was just going to add something from my experience with free trial offers. We typically saw 5 or 6 to 1 fall off on good traffic from the partial lead to completed order. We netted about 10% of our sales through remarketing (all email never telemarketing).
 


flipper said:
Awesome info on this thread++.

To the original OP, use Getresponse. Post all the data to Getresponse first, then use the page 2 as your thank you or error page. Use php sessions to grab the data from page 1 that you submitted to Getresponse. With Getresponse you can always redirect to page 2 vs. their own page, so it works pretty well.

If they end up buying, remove them from the leads list and move to a customer list via the ultracart api and Getresponse automatically. PM me if you need more info on how to do this. Getresponse was the only autoresponder email solution I could find that was fairly easy to implement with Ultracart. Mailchimp would probably work as well, but getresponse was easier for me to get working. As a long time aweber user, I did not want to switch but there is no way to get it to work with aweber.

Also I capture all the data in getresponse including address, etc. which is fairly easy to setup.
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hugely helpful bro- thanks very much!

Got this setup and functioning, I'll drop these pointers for anyone in the identical situation:

1) use a non secure first page so that when posting to getresponse prior to the page 2 redirection you don't hit a security warning (as I initially did) due to getresponses post not coming from a secure URL. Your second page where billing info is inputted is obviously https and this works fine.

2) getresponse are total fucking idiots if you call them on the phone, but their live chat is quite good. That said- if you're looking to post in custom variables you simply add "custom_" before any field name - you don't need to "create" these variables anywhere within their system.

so if you have "phone" - change to name="custom_phone" and you're golden from the standpoint of getting it into their system.

3) the two default variables - email and name get passed to getresponse as "subscriber_name" and "subscriber_email" BUT KIDS- PAY ATTENTION TO THIS - they come back via the POST to your custom redirection page as simply "name" and "email." Everything else (ie "custom_phone") gets POSTed with the same name.


Slight chance this helps anyone but if it does hope it saves you some time and frustration.
 
ive been looking at mailchimp's api lately and it looks freaking awesome. anybody played with it?
 
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