Saturday 31 March 2012

Guide and Script to Start your own Opt-in Empire with E-mail Submits


Email Submits
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, I am sure you are familiar with email submits. Good thing for us is they convert brilliant, and even better, we know the people who are going to sign up are responsive – and impulsive. Just the kind of people who love a great deal like a free acai trial. With email submits you can gather valuable information about your visitors, which can be used for extremely targeted future mailing campaigns.
In this guide we will make our own email submit lander to opt-in the visitors and gather information about them. Information such as: name, gender, marital status, country age and personal interests.
Lets get going:
The Frontend
I’ve made a simple email submit lander here:
Page 1: Where the user submits his email. In this example I’ve made the lander with an iPad incentive, obviously you can customize the incentive/angle to whatever you find suitable. (You can download the complete template + script later in this post.)
An additional note to page 1: If you already got the email of the visitor, you can make your urls like http://www.yourdomain.com/?user=email@email.com to auto fill the input box with the user’s email address.
Page 2: This is where we gather all the essential information about the user.
The information we will store:
  • IP
  • Sign-up date
  • Email
  • Name
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Country
  • Marital status
  • Education level
  • Interests (minimum 3)
The form is JavaScript validated so the user can only continue if he has completed the form correctly.
Page 3: User is prompted with a confirmation and info will be stored, alright? So there we are – that was the frontend.
The Backend
Once you start getting submits, you can extract leads to your targeted mailing opt-in campaigns from the backend.
Backend features
  • Extract your opt-in users by following criteria:
  • Gender
  • Country
  • Age
  • Marital status
  • Education level
  • Interests
  • Show user details
  • Export to .csv for easy import to your prefered mailer.
Getting Submits
Email submits work great for:
  • “Washing” your old email lists
  • PPV traffic
  • Facebook
  • Youtube and adult tubes
  • As a gateway for premium content
  • Almost all traffic sources
Be creative. Make a lander targeted for something you got a traffic source for and the submits will come.

Download: 

Script + lander here + psd files
  1. Edit connect.php so it matches your mysql settings.
  2. Upload everything inside the “html” folder to your desired directory.
  3. Run install.php. This file will create the table that stores the user information.
Assuming everything went well with creation of the mysql table, you email submit offer should now be up and running. The lander is located in the root of your selected folder and admin is located at /admin. If you know basic php you should be able to customize the script to your own needs.
At the moment there is no password protection on the admin area. I recommend you secure the admin area with .htaccess and .htpasswd – a guide to that can be found here http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/
And that’s pretty much it. Now you have your own email submit offer and can start building your targeted opt-in list. Enjoy

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