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Tuesday’s Tip: Standardize Your Company’s Signatures
We’ve seen some of our clients who have awesome signatures in their email that double as marketing tools. I wanted to implement this in our company but I wanted to get it standardized across the company so we are all presenting the same message in our communications. So we added a Signature “generator” tool to our Free Campaign Tools. Below is a quick video on how it...Tuesday’s Tip: Using Melt to automate video editing.
Melt is a program that lets you script video splicing, and basic editing. It can be a pain to get to know, but once you do, it’s pretty awesome. Here is a simple example. We have a number of short walkthroughs. They are all pretty similar. A Quick intro, the screen cast, and then an outro. Here is how you setup melt to do this for you. First, you need to install “Shotcut” (http://www.shotcut.org/) on your Mac / PC. Shotcut is a front end for Melt, and includes the melt program. It’s alot like Adobe Premier Elements, but it’s free and opensource. Now, go ahead and create a “Video Template” folder on your computer. Now in that folder, create a file called “render.melt”, in that file put the following lines: C:\Users\joey\Videos\intro.mpg -attach-cut volume:-8db screen.webm C:\Users\joey\Videos\intro.mpg -attach-cut volume:-8db This file tells melt to start with the video located here: C:\Users\joey\Videos\intro.mpg, to lower the volume by 8db for that video, then add the video called “screen.webm”, then add the intro.mpg video to the end of that, and reduce the volume by 8db. Note** You MUST have a blank line at the end of your melt file. Change the video filenames (C:\Users\joey\Videos\intro.mpg, and screen.webm) to the paths to your intro, and main content piece. Now, you need a script file (batch if you are on windows, bash if you are on Mac). For windows, I put the following in the batch file (I call the file render.cmd). "C:\Program Files\Shotcut\melt" render.melt -consumer avformat:final.avi acodec=libmp3lame vcodec=libx264 This tells melt to use your render.melt file, and output the video to a file called final.avi using...Tuesday’s Tip: Keep up on Infusionsoft news using an RSS widget
There are so many ways to keep up with your favorite news sources: email subscriptions, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and more. You can even view the latest news and articles inside of Infusionsoft. To follow your favorite news sources within Infusionsoft itself, you can add an RSS widget to your dashboard. First, click the Add Widgets button on your dashboard. Next, click Add to Dashboard for the RSS Feed item. The RSS widget will be added to your dashboard. By default it will show the latest news from Infusionsoft’s blog. You can click the Edit button to change which feed you are following. For example, you can use https://novaksolutions.com/feed/ to follow the Novak Solutions blog and to get our weekly tips in your dashboard. You can also drag the widget around to get it where you want it. Is your dashboard feeling cramped? If you have a reasonable sized monitor, you can also click the Change Layout button to change to wider columns or more...Tuesday’s Tip: Selectively hide the PayPal button on your Infusionsoft order forms
In some situations you may want to hide the PayPal button for a specific order form or shopping cart. Perhaps you are running an A/B test to find out if the PayPal button affects conversions, or maybe your PayPal account has limitations do to your geographic location. Whatever reason you have, hiding the PayPal button is incredibly easy and can be accomplished with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you want to hide the button on an order form, add the below code to the Custom Header section on the HTML Areas tab of the order form settings page. Shopping carts are a little different. You’ll need to create a theme to use for orders that shouldn’t have the PayPal button. Add the below code to the Custom Header section on the HTML Areas tab of the theme’s settings page. <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery("#checkoutWithPayPalLink").hide(); jQuery("#payPalType").parent().hide(); }); // ]]></script> That is it! The PayPal button will be hidden as soon as the page loads. Keep in mind that Infusionsoft frequently updates the shopping cart and order form code. If this isn’t working for you, it may be time to...
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