The following is a way that you can set up a paydotcom product as your one time offer using an opt in page as your landing page then sending them to that one time offer. Your paydotcom affiliates would then be promoting your product and building your list for you. A strategy I have been using for sometime now with great success. To start this you will need to have your own domain and create the following files: index.php offer.php thankyou.html thankyou2.html process.php second.php third.php Add the following codes into each file: *index.php - will have an opt in box for sign up in exchange for a giveaway item. Place this code at the top of index.php: <?php if($_GET["id"]!=""){ setcookie("affid", $_GET["id"], time()+2592000); } ?> *offer.php - will have your offer for the paid product sales page and have a link to thankyou.html that lets them continue on to the free download if they don't want your offer. *thankyou.html - will have the free download package on it. *thankyou2.html - will have the paid download package on it. *process.php - Contains the following code (edit your-site): <?php if($_COOKIE["affid"]!=""){ //$URL = "Location: http://www.your-site.com/offer.php?id=".$_COOKIE["affid"].""; header("Location: http://www.your-site.com/offer.php?id=".$_COOKIE["affid"].""); exit; }else{ header("Location: http://www.your-site.com/offer.php"); //header("Location: http://www.your-site.com/offer.php"); // this is non affiliate link exit; } ?> *Second.php - Contains the following code: <?php echo $_COOKIE["affid"]; ?> *Third.php - contains the following code: <?php if($_GET["id"]!=""){ setcookie("affid", $_GET["id"], time()+2592000); } ?> Paydotcom instructions: Click on create a new product, fill out name of product, description, and price. Go down to sales page url, this is the url where they will opt in to get the free graphics. The index.php page. The thankyou url is gonna be thankyou2.html click next step and choose what percentage you want to give affiliates, click add. skip next step and click save. and then click "I am done" Next go to View/edit products click on make payment button. This button link will be placed on offer.php Next go back to view edit products and click on promotion tools, this is where you create and provide emails and banners for marketers to promote your graphics pack. Also if you click on view affiliate pages then you will see the special link you have to give on your thank you page for people to have a choice to affiliate with your product through paydotcom. Autoresponder instructions: login and go to autoresponder options change verify url to offer.php Then go to autoresponder management - edit messeges standard scroll down to the bottom of the page where you see a form to input a subject and message body. This is the first email people will get when they click the verify link. You can make this one say thank you for signing up for.... and give them a direct link to thankyou.html for the free download of the product they opted in for. You want the redirect after confirmed optin url to be your-site/process.php and add some text like opt in below in the subscribe to form top text part and then click on create my form, copy and paste that code on your index page. All done! You can see an example of this here: http://www.listbuildingvids.com Enjoy!
It works great, what ends up happening is that your paydotcom affiliates (also your leads) start promoting your list to earn commissions. It's a super easy way to get tons of free traffic and leads.
Not bad. If I remember right, paydotcom has something that I liked. I can't remember if it was free to list or if you product didn't need to be approved. I have to take another look at it.
This is awesome! Thanks so much. I'm a little confused about what the second.php and third.php files are for though. Are those really necessary if you are just sending them to Squeeze->Upsell->Free Product? Thanks, Matt
Yea they have to be there in order for process.php to work properly. Those files pull the affiliate id and inject it into the browser address on the upsell.