Subscribe Clients To Multiple Autoresponders
E-zines, newsletters, e-mail series. All are smart, effective marketing tools, but signing up takes time and effort, especially since most opt-in forms are designed to subscribe your clients to only a SINGLE autoresponder for a specific purpose.
But wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to have that same opt-in form subscribe your clients to MULTIPLE autoresponders at the same time?
Thanks to 1ShoppingCart™, now there is — and it takes just three easy steps!
First, look for the following line in the form code (where “XXXXX” is the current autoresponder ID):
<input name=”defaultar” type=”hidden” id=”defaultar” value=”XXXXX”>
This line tells the form which autoresponder to subscribe your clients to. In order to allow for a multiple-autoresponder subscription:
- Delete any instances of the word “default.”
- Copy and paste the line to add as many autoresponders as you wish.
- Update the ID for each autoresponder.
For example, let’s say you wanted to subscribe your clients to three separate autoresponders after they fill out your opt-in form. Your form code would contain the following:
<input name=”ar” type=”hidden” id=”ar” value=”XXXXX”>
<input name=”ar” type=”hidden” id=”ar” value=”YYYYY”>
<input name=”ar” type=”hidden” id=”ar” value=”ZZZZZ”>
In this example, you’ll notice:
- Any reference to the word “default” has been deleted.
- Three duplicates of the line have been created in order to allow for three autoresponders.
- “XXXXX”, “YYYYY” and “ZZZZZ” represent the three updated autoresponder IDs, which you can get from 1ShoppingCart™.
In this example we listed three autoresponders, but using this simple method, you can easily subscribe your clients to two, five, or more!
It’s an easy, effective, smart way to get the most out of your marketing materials.
Hi Tyler,
Thanks for the great “how to” on subscribing to multiple autoresponders during the opt-in process.
Wondering how you would do this during a product purchase?
For example, when someone buys my marketing book, I want them to be added to the appropriate autoresponder as set up in the product settings.
But I also want to add them to my monthly newsletter list at the same time.
This way they can unsubscribe just from the newsletter list, without having to unsubscribe completely.
Any advice on this?
Thanks again for providing a great resource!
Paul
Hi Paul,
You can assign a product to only 1 autoresponder through the product details. Then you can assign everyone who purchases to 1 autoresponder under ‘Setup’, ‘Order Details’ and the field ‘Default Autoresponder:’ This way they will be subscribed to 2 autoresponders. Let me know if this helped.
Tyler
Works perfectly – thanks Tyler!
Paul
One more question on this Tyler…
I’m not sure if you’ll know this or if I’d need to go to 1SC support, but with the “Default Autoresponder” if someone makes a second purchase is their status on this list reset?
For example, if a customer is currently at “day 143″ having purchased something approx six months ago and they make another purchase, will they reset to “day 0″ on this autoresponder?
Thanks again for your help and expertise!
Paul
Hi Paul,
They are reset to “Day 0″ if someone makes a second purchase and every purchase from then on out.
Hope that helps.
Tyler
Is there a way to set a custom verification message if you create an opt-in box with multiple autoresponders? I want to have people that sign up for a targeted list go on my newsletter list, also, but get the targeted list’s verification message.
Hi Steve,
You shouldn’t have double optin verification set. Check out why here: http://www.1shoppingcartexperts.com/blog/optins-autoresponders/single-opt-in-vs-double-opt-in/.
If you take off the double opt-in then you can set the email message you want them to receive upon signing up as Day 0.
Hope that helps,
Tyler
Thanks, Tyler! I love that answer and am implementing it.
Steve
hi tyler –
helpful stuff!
if i i subscribe them to 2 autoresponders, then do they get my welcome message for both automatically? would rather avoid this…
thanks,
d
Hi Drew,
Yes they would receive both welcome messages. (I assume you are talking about Day 0 message in each auto-responder and not the double opt-in message) Only way to avoid this would be to setup a duplicate auto-responder with out the welcome message for one of them.
Hope this helps.
Tyler
What is a form code? I was lost at sentence 3. Is there a 1ShoppingCart 101? Their tutorials are terrible.
Hi There,
The form code is the HTML 1ShoppingCart provides you to place on your website to capture email addresses. This is under “Email & Marketing”, “Autoresponders”, select the autoresponder you want, then scroll down and click “Generate Form Code”. Unfortunately 1ShoppingCart doesn’t provide 1ShoppingCart 101 and yes, their support isn’t good, but their cart is… I do know you can visit my friend Christina, she has 1ShoppingCart basics over at http://www.shoppingcartqueen.com. 1ShoppingCartExperts.com and my site is more for experts than beginners.
Hope this helps,
Tyler
Thanks for this article Tyler. Very useful. It will work for some of my forms. I also have a signup page with a list of checkboxes so people can optin to more than one subject. The form code is:
On some of them I would like that checkbox to add them to two autoresponders by just checking one box. Is that possible? I assume adding the code twice like you suggest above will add a second checkbox which I dont want. My guess would be to separate the two AR numbers with a comma, but not sure if that will work:
What would you suggest?
Kyle
Hi Kyle,
I can’t see the form code but that’s ok. I don’t need it. What I would suggest is using PHP and if statements. So if only one box is checked, submit using this form code, if multiple boxes are checked, submit them using this code, etc. If you would like to have me and my team do this for you, I see it being about one to three hours max depending on the complexity.
Tyler
Ah, the html must have gotten chopped out of the blog comment. I’ll post it again without the .
This was the code:
input type=”checkbox” name=”AR” value=”XXXXXX”
and I changed it to this to subscribe them to two autoresponders at the same time and it worked:
input type=”checkbox” name=”AR” value=”XXXXXX,YYYYYY”
but thanks for getting back to me anyway. Hopefully someone else might find the useful. It’s on this page if anyone wants to look at the source code: http://www.movebeyond.net/mail-list/
Kyle
Hi Tyler,
I have a question about a concept in my mind, which I am sure whether 1shoppingcart has capabilities to achive. Here is my question:
I would like to have a subscription based e-commerce site where users would be able to add products to shopping cart and then make a purchase. The system would then save this shopping cart under his/her profile and send a reminder email to the user,say after 2 months, saying something like “we thought you might be running out of your essentials. Please confirm to reorder your products in your cart.”. Once the user clicks on the link, s/he would be taken to the cart saved under his/her profile to confirm, freeze or update the order. Would it be possible to have such a system using 1ShoppingCart? Also, would it be possible for users to create a separate shopping cart (multiple carts) in case user may want to categorize one cart to be shipped to a friend as a gift. In this case separate reminder or notification emails would be needed too. Apologies for this long question. Many thanks in advance for your help
Serdar
Hi Serdar,
Unfortunately 1ShoppingCart is not the answer for you. In fact, I don’t know of a 3rd party shopping cart that can handle the requests you are looking for. You may have to go with a custom built shopping cart that is built specifically for you.
Sorry I couldn’t be much help.
All the best,
Tyler
HI Tyler,
I know this post is older, and I believe we got this to work on our site last summer, however, i just tried it again and it’s no longer working. Do you think that the horrible upgrade that they did on 11/30/2011 eliminated the ability to do this?
Thanks so much for your help!
Heidi
Hi Heidi,
We currently don’t have this setup on any of our sites so unfortunately I can’t test this without going through the entire setup.
I can’t see the upgrade affecting this at all. I would recommend calling 1ShoppingCart directly and asking if this solution still works. If you find out, PLEASE let me know. At the same time, if you want us to find a solution for you please let me know and we can get this done for $75. Email me at support @ 1shoppingcartexperts.com.
Talk to you soon:-)
Tyler
Hi Tyler,
Didn’t bother calling, but found our other page where it still worked – copied form and changed ar numbers – not sure what the difference was but it works now? we did a line by line and they appear the same but who knows?…
thanks for your reply!
Heidi
Hi Heidi,
That’s great to hear
All the best,
Tyler
Hi Tyler,
I wanted to upload a list of potential customers into 1ShoppingCart so I can send an email campaign and an opt-in message to them. I want to keep these contacts seperate from customers, who have purchased products already. I do not want to send our newsletter that is sent to customers to be sent to potential customers. Is this possible? Thank you. in advance
Hi Neil,
This is possible. It depends on how you want this setup. I can help with the process and will email you personally.