by Jacob Allred | Sep 23, 2014 | Tips
When you link to a website from an Infusionsoft email, Infusionsoft will (by default) add an inf_contact_key parameter to the end of the URL. This parameter is unique for each contact, and can only be used by official Infusionsoft pages (such as order forms and web forms). There is no benefit of having it added to non-Infusionsoft URLs, such as links to your company’s website. Worse, it makes every URL a unique URL. This can prevent your caching from working properly. Instead of loading a cached page, your web or proxy server will have to load the page from scratch. This makes your site load slower and hurts the overall experience for your users. Fortunately Infusionsoft provides an option to keep this from happening. In your Infusionsoft app, go to Marketing→Settings then click on Email Defaults. Scroll down and select Yes for “Only append inf_contact_key to links going to White Listed Domains?”. Make sure infusionsoft.com is listed in the White Listed Domains box. Don’t forget to hit Save! Once this option is set, Infusionsoft will only add the inf_contact_key parameter to links going to infusionsoft.com pages, such as your order forms and shopping carts. Thanks Joe Manna for this tip! Do you have an idea for a tip, or want to share a ninja trick with the Infusionsoft community? Let us...
by Jacob Allred | Sep 16, 2014 | Tips
Do all of your Infusionsoft contacts have lead sources? If you don’t know where your contacts are coming from, then you’ll have a hard time gauging the success of your marketing efforts. Luckily for you, Infusionsoft makes it easy to automatically add a lead source as your contacts are added. All you have to do is make sure your website and landing pages have the appropriate tracking code. To get your tracking code, log into your Infusionsoft app and go to Marketing→Lead Generation. Click the Get Tracking Code for Your Websites button. Your tracking code will appear below the button, as shown in the screenshot. Adding it to your site is pretty easy. Simply copy and paste! If you are using WordPress, you can use the free Infusionsoft Analytics for WordPress plugin to automatically add your tracking code to your site. Configure the plugin with your API key. Your WordPress traffic will now be tracked by Infusionsoft. Be aware, this is an older plugin and there is a risk of compatibility issues. Fortunately, most modern WordPress themes have a setting to inject tracking codes/pixels onto the page. You can use this script from Infusionsoft in the same area(s) you would place a tracking pixel. If you use LeadPages, edit your lead page then go to Lead Page Options. Click Tracking Codes. Copy your tracking code into the End-of-Body-Tag Tracking Code box and click Done. Save your lead page. Your LeadPages traffic will now be tracked by Infusionsoft. You can use the tracking code with any platform that lets you add an HTML snippet. Keep in mind that Infusionsoft already adds the tracking code to all of your infusionsoft.com pages, such...
by Jacob Allred | Sep 11, 2014 | News
If you are using one of the Novak Solutions WordPress plugins, such as One-click Upsell or Web Form JavaScript, please update your Infusionsoft SDK plugin as soon as possible to version 1.0.9. This update should be visible within your WordPress administration page. Infusionsoft has made a breaking change that will prevent your Infusionsoft plugins from working after 5:00 PM EDT on Friday (September 12, 2014) unless you upgrade to the latest version of the Infusionsoft SDK plugin. We apologize for the short notice. Infusionsoft did not provide the necessary file to work around this breaking change until Thursday...
by Jacob Allred | Sep 2, 2014 | Tips
Campaign merge fields make it easy to update a field in more than one part of a campaign in just a single step. For example, you may want to update an event date or the name of the product you are currently promoting in several emails. With a campaign merge field, you can update multiple emails and sequences all at once. The first step is to open your campaign and create the merge field. Click the Actions button in the upper right of the page, then click Merge Fields. Click Add Merge Field. Give your field a label. This label isn’t used anywhere else. It is just for your own reference so you don’t forget what the field is used for. Give your field a value. Campaign merge fields are text-only. If you put HTML in the field, the HTML will not be processed; the HTML will be displayed as plain text in the email. Don’t forget to hit the save button (the picture of the floppy disk). To use the field, open one of your campaign emails. Click the Merge button and select Campaign Fields. Click the field you’d like to add to your email. The merge field will be added to your email as an awkward snippet that looks something like this: ~Campaign.MergeField_2~. As you can see, your label isn’t used here which can make it a bit confusing to keep track of which fields are which. The merge field text will be replaced with your merge field value when the email is sent. If you ever need to change the value of the field, go back to the Merge Fields… window, update the value, click save and re-publish the campaign....
by Jacob Allred | Aug 26, 2014 | Tips
Having an accurate count of your newsletter subscribers is vital to tracking the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. Opted out subscribers won’t receive your newsletters or other mailings, but will show up in subscriber counts. One way to correct this is to automatically unsubscribe them from your list when they opt out of all email marketing. To do this, go to Marketing→Settings, then click on Email Defaults. Go down to the Email section, and click Actions next to When Someone Opts Out of All Email Marketing. This will allow to do a number of actions when someone opts out of your Infusionsoft email marketing, such as removing or adding a tag, changing the value of a field, or creating a task. If you use custom fields to track your subscriptions, then you can change the value of the field to unsubscribe them. If you use tags, you can remove the tag. This will remove the contact from subscriber counts so you can easily know the true size of your...
