What Is a Linked Sign-Up Form?
Linked Sign Up Forms enable some seriously powerful one-to-many personalized services for your agency! Make a Sign-Up Form, copy it into your user accounts and voila, they have a Linked Form in their account.
Where this gets extremely powerful is that you can also copy your Sign-Up Form automations (like scheduled sends for a Coupon Club) to the form and it will be mirrored in all of your clients' accounts automatically.
On top of that, you can set a User Merge Tag to the short link of your user's Sign-Up Form. Boost your mass customization by using these personalized Sign-Up Form links in Email Templates and their Landing Pages.
Put this together with our new Landing Page Merge Tag feature for social templates and you can broadcast your clients' personalized Landing Pages across social media, all with their personal Coupon Club surveys - and it's super scalable for your business!
This is complex stuff! Watch the videos below for more information and don't hesitate to reach out to us for any clarifications.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Creating A Sign Up Form And Copying It Into Sub-User Accounts
Part 2 - Managing And Auditing Linked Sign Up Forms
Part 3 - Leveraging User Merge Tags To Direct Traffic To Users' Sign Up Forms
Tie This All Together By Sharing These Forms On Social, At Scale
Part 1 - Creating A Sign-Up Form and Copying It into Sub-User Accounts
Learn how to create Sign Up Forms and how to use the new modal for copying the Forms into your clients' accounts. This will show you how to use teams to copy forms and how to control when and what gets copied.
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hello vipcloud admins we're excited to
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show you the latest features for signup
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forms that are complete Game Changers
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this is going to empower you to create
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complete personalized workflows for your
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customers in a way that is totally
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scalable for your business and these can
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then be used for coupon clubs which your
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users will absolutely love
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now we're going to start here with just
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the basics this might cover things that
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you already know and that is all right
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because after all
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all of the exciting things that come
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down the line start with just creating a
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sign up form in your account so
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we're going to make this example one
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right here
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add a couple of fields so that it's
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actually a form
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and now
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we're just going to schedule a send for
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this form which can be found over here
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in automations
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and if you haven't checked this out in
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the last couple of weeks
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this might look new and we have trigger
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automations when someone signs up AKA
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creating an autoresponder but you can
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also schedule sends which is really
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useful for those coupon clubs where you
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can say like you know beginning of
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October send out an email beginning of
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November send out an email it's going to
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go to everybody who signed has signed up
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thus far
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and we're going to do that right now
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we're going to schedule a send
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now while I'm doing this
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it's really important that you know that
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when you are when you are scheduling a
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send and this is ultimately going to be
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sent for your clients use merge tags
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everywhere so for the signature make
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sure you use a merge tag for that not
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your signature because it'll actually be
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your signature that goes out so
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is your signature and then also here
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you'll want to use like
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uh any any personal information that's
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going to go this will be then like their
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user information that is that is uh
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merged in so for instance like Facebook
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links things like that or job titles
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those need to be all used right here
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so then when we're ready to schedule our
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send okay right here schedule email
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let's make this for uh November 1st
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and there we go I have now scheduled
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this this email to go out
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now I want to show you some of the
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basics of copying these assignment forms
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into your customers accounts so we'll go
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over here to sign up forms
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and then here is my sign up form as an
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example
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you'll find this under more
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and then it'll be copy signup form
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and
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that's where we have a bunch of options
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that are made available to us
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up here we've got the basic just this is
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literally like if I want to copy this
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into my own account the most basic kind
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of copy we can do that
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but then here's where the cool stuff
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begins where I'm able to do a like a
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one-off share basically here with
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account actions copy into other users
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accounts
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and I'm able to choose various teams
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that I might want to copy this into now
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note here too that these teams are an
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opportunity for you to
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you know create a paywall basically like
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you can you know have a team that is
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just for people who subscribe to a
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particular package that you offer
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and so teams are really useful for that
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so here I can choose a team that this
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will get shared into
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and I have a couple of other options
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here for copy autoresponder and
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scheduled sends so again like the
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scheduled send that I just created I can
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opt into either having that copied into
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their accounts or not
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and of course you can also have an
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in-app alert that is sent to them too so
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that when the next time that they log in
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or if they're logged in at the time
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They will receive a notification that
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this has been done and it's been put
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into their account
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and then also here I have a choice of
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when adding new users to the account
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copy into their account now we are going
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to change some of this word in here
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um so it's a little bit more clear but
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what this really will do too is anybody
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who's then even just added to a group
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will well if this is checked anybody is
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added to a group well then also receive
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this uh this template so as an example
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um I've got this team right here this is
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called newer team and uh if I have a
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customer who isn't currently on that
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team
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but later they are like let's say maybe
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it's based on a particular service or
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package that I offer they're not
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currently subscribed to that package but
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then in a month they decide that they
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want to do that when I add them to the
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newer team
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uh right here then
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then they will uh that they will receive
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this sign up form and again two I have
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the option here of copying
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autoresponders and scheduled sends when
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this happens or not so you have a bunch
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of different options here for how this
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can
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have this sign up form and its
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autoresponders and scheduled sends can
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all be copied into users accounts
Part 2 - Managing And Auditing Linked Sign-Up Forms
Learn how Linked Sign-Up Forms work, how to edit your Form so the changes are sent to your sub-users, and how to audit the linked features so you can see who will receive your changes.
This is where you'll learn how to add automations, such as Scheduled Sends, to your Form so they will be sent on behalf of your clients!
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all right now we're going to be looking
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at how to manage your copied sign up
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forms you're going to see these audit
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children buttons throughout the system
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now and what this does is it is going to
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show you what exactly is linked right
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now to your copied signup forms and
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they're Associated automations and it's
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going to make it so that you can look at
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everybody all of your customers who are
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who have this copied into their accounts
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and how it affects them so that way
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that way you could tell before you make
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any changes whether it's a wanted change
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whether it's something you actually want
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to be pushed out to your sub users
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so for instance with this signup form
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here I have shared it with a coupon Club
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that I have or team rather I should say
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and let's say I'm just wondering who
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actually has received this right now so
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I can click on that audit children right
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there and I'm able to see a list of
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every single one of my sub users who has
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received this sign up form and I can
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even see when it was copied and into
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their accounts
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and so this makes it really clear like
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especially if you hear from somebody say
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like hey have I received a signup form
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um if you know you can go into here and
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find out if it's actually in their
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account and point them in the right
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direction
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so let's go into this signup form and
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look in more detail so for instance
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we've got the automations tab right here
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and there is a scheduled send that's
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going to be going out on November 1st
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and I can even see again right here that
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this has been in fact shared with people
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and I can click on here
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and I'm able to see a list of all of
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those users who have this scheduled
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email in their account
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now one thing too we're going to go into
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this into a little bit more detail later
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but you can see here too that
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only show unlinked now sub users have
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the ability to unlink various aspects of
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their signup forms and to help you with
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understanding
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who is unlinked and therefore not going
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to receive this scheduled email I can go
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right there just to flip it on its head
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and just see those people again to be
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able to help with supporting
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supporting users
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now I'm going to
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create a new a couple of new automations
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actually I'm going to create an
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autoresponder
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and this autoresponder it works like the
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autoresponders you've I'm sure used in
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the past this will be a template that's
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just triggered immediately based on
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somebody having
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uh based on somebody having completed
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the sign up form
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and you've got this right here copy into
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sub user sign up form copies
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because this silent form has been copied
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into sub users accounts
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I can choose whether I want this to go
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to them automatically so I'm going to
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leave that checked
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and I'm going to hit save
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and again here we go we've got our audit
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Trail right there and I'm going to
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schedule another send
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and actually I'm going to do before I
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actually hit OK on this
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um
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again we've got the copy option right
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there we're going to actually look at it
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at a sub user's account really quickly
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too
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so this is a sub user right here who is
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part of that team I go to my sign up
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forms
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and here is what I have shared in as an
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admin into this sub user's account and
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also I can see this is a copy from
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your admin is what that's indicating
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so that also helps a lot with
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understanding where this came from and
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I'm going to look into that sign up form
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and we're going to go into more details
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here in a bit but first i'm going to
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look at these automations and I just
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want to show that
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when this is scheduled
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it will then appear in this sub users
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account
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and there we go
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that one that was set for December 1st
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is now appearing here in this sub users
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account
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and let's also edit this because what I
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want to show you too is how these this
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isn't just simply a push that goes out
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it's it's a link so maybe I've set up
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for the wrong time of day and I want
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this to go out at 10 am
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I'm going to hit edit schedule
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10 am
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okay
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refresh
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and there we go
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this is now going to go out at 10 am
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so you have complete control based on
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these links to be able to continuously
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push out these sends again it's very
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useful for for coupon clubs where you
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can just have that coupon Club sign up
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form and push those those additionals
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follow-up email sends
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as needed and you can even edit those
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templates and so this makes it so easy
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for your users for your customers to not
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have to worry about this stuff and just
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know that you're in that you've got them
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covered and these are being up to date
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plus they can when they're wondering
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what's scheduled when is it scheduled
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they can go into their accounts as well
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as a resource to see what's happening
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so what is also for for your users who
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maybe are
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a bit more advanced or they have people
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who are going to update and tweak things
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for them
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um they can unlink stuff in here so
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that's also where this concept of linked
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to parent comes in and let's say
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somebody actually maybe they actually
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don't want that to go out at 10 A.M and
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they want it to go out at noon they can
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go hit edit schedule
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and hit OK and now you'll see right here
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now this is an this is unlinked from
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parents so they have control
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and they're able to take the reins as
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needed while only affecting whatever it
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is that they just touched so
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going back here
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I can look at these automations
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and
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I can hit audit children
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and look at this
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now this sub user I can see that this is
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unlinked therefore changes that I make
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will not go to that sub user that's also
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where this tab comes in only show on
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linked again helping you to audit and
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understand who's going to receive things
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who's not so if you get those questions
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about
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why didn't this or that happen you could
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tell them well it's because you touched
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that particular scheduled send you made
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it your own therefore those subsequent
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changes that I the admin uh pushed out
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there
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was not going to affect their template
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and this also goes for any other place
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where you are able to see
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um
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you know the concept of linking but I
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want to also show you here quickly too
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is that there are these buttons right
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here as well that
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or yeah these tags really that show what
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is actually linked so then they're able
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to go in and
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tweak this stuff understanding of the
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fields and automations those are things
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that my admin has set for me but
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ultimately if they want to whoops if
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they want to change the form details
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landing page stuff like that they're in
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complete control to do that that's not
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going to affect the sync at all it's
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just where they see the concept of
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linking
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that that comes into play so for
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instance these fields these fields are
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also something too that you can edit and
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change
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going into your to Fields let's just
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collect phone number for instance
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I then go over here into the sub user
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and phone number has now been added if I
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want to make email the first field on
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the form
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email is now the first field on the form
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but then when my sub user comes in and
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says no I want to own this and change
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things
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It'll ask them you know confirm if they
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should do that and then now when these
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changes are made like now email is going
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to go back down to the bottom
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that is not going to happen anymore for
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this for this sub user who has decided
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to take the reins a little bit more and
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again look right here
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this
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uh
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you can now see that the fields are not
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linked anymore
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and so really quickly I know this is
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running a bit on the long side
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I just want to show you
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also at the system like when you when
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you go to or rather
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yeah when you go to the scheduled
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emails you can also see that these
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emails have been scheduled based on
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based on that sign of form and those
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scheduled sends that were created you'll
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see the these as well
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right here
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in your scheduled emails and you can
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look at these audits as well to see
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um
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what all has been automated there same
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goes for autoresponders
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these are autoresponders that are on
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linked signup forms and you've got the
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audit right there basically anywhere
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that a link exists there's an audit
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Trail there for you to be able to see
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who this affects
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and great so I hope that this has all
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been helpful definitely reach out to us
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if you have questions we know that
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there's a lot here this can get a little
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bit complicated but hopefully this
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resource is helpful
Part 3 - Leveraging User Merge Tags for Directing Traffic to Users' Sign-Up Forms
Lastly, here you'll learn how to associate a Form with a User Merge Tag, which will allow you to add Linked Forms to Shared Landing Pages so your clients can have their personalized Forms on the Landing Page!
When you tie this all together, it'll make Coupon Clubs and another promotional pages super easy for your clients and scalable for your business!
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all right so here's where things start
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to get really exciting and where the one
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to many is taken to another level so you
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are able to use merge tags to direct
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traffic to your users specific signup
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forms so in other words you can
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basically just make a user merge tag
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that
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will that will be a link that directs
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people
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straight to your user's
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specific uh sign up form landing page so
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this merge tag can then be put into say
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you know like a landing page that you
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are Distributing through social media
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maybe through a party um and then
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everything just happens automatically
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it's just their their unique links and
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it's really easy to set up too which is
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fantastic so the first PL or the first
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step is to in your account go to your
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user settings
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scroll down and create a merge
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tag so I'm going to make
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this and leave that value blank because
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that's going to be automatically filled
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in by the system for
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you so we've got our merge tag right
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here I'm going to go to sign up forms
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and now we're going to associate that
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mer mer tag with this sign up
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form so we go to the admin and then it's
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right here assign short link to user
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merge tag click on that and we're going
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to choose that merge tag right here and
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don't forget to scroll down and hit
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save so now let's go check this
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out we're going back to the user
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settings because what I want to see is
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look at this now there is a a direct
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like now that that merge tag is
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associated with my sign up form uh the
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sign up form uh short
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link so let's go take a look at a
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subuser who has this signup form shared
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with him going go over here and I'm
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going to refresh this page looking at
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his uh user merge
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tags and look at this this coupon Club
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has been added
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there and most
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importantly his unique signup form
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landing page is linked there so kxc are
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the last three letters here because
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we're looking for a difference in these
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landing pages this one is F this is
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v0a so that what this means is that
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every single user who I have shared this
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landing page with now now in their
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accounts has a a user merge tag that is
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set to their specific landing pages so
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now all that's left for me as an admin
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is to use this merge tag say in a an
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template that I'm going to be sharing
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with people so let's go into these this
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email template
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here and all you have to
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do is use that that merge tag
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and then when people go to that user's
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landing page they're going to see the
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link that is to that users sign up form
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and so this makes Distributing all of
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this and building signups with all of
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this automation for the coupon clubs
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really really easy to set up for all of
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your users and all the user has to do is
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just post those those social posts out
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there that youve been creating for them
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and it's going to automatically be
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driving people to their signup forms
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filling out their surveys and signing up
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for their coupon clubs and then all you
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have to do is just you know post the uh
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or or add those schedule those emails
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for those templates and for those signup
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forms and it's just going to
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automatically all go out so very very
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easy one to many stuff here and again we
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know that some of this uh some of this
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setup here might take wrapping your
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brains around it a little bit it's some
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complex stuff so definitely reach out if
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you have uh questions for us we're here
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to help you with the setup and really
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really excited