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1:03 am
October 28, 2011
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QuoteI just noticed a huge mistake that I made with my sign-up forms on my squeeze pages. I have different squeeze pages because I do different styles of music. One for New Age music, one for Final Fantasy video game covers, and one for Christmas music. For some strange reason, that I'm still trying to figure out, I had the same Aweber sign-up form on every single squeeze page. Which means no matter what song the squeeze page said they were going to get, they got my Final Fantasy cover instead. I didn't get any complaints, but I'm sure they were confused. New Age fans would probably still like it, but they probably thought they were listening to my original song. Everything's fixed now. I'm just glad it didn't happen during the Christmas season, or they would have been really confused. The mistake wasn't there for too long, so not much damage has occurred. The only reason I noticed it is because I was interacting with a fellow Music Marketing Manifesto member on Twitter and she signed up to my list right after I sent her the squeeze page link. But she signed up to a different list than what I had sent, and I couldn't figure out how she found the other link. Then I realized what I had done. Whoops! She still really liked my cover song and can't wait to hear more, so no harm done.
- Doug Clyde
ALBEDO MUSIC
- Doug Clyde, ALBEDO, http://www.albedomusic.com
12:39 am
June 7, 2011
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Doh! Yeah, there are so many moving parts it's easy to overlook something. I've done my share of similar things over the years. Glad you got it sorted.
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10:49 am
October 28, 2011
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I could just say it was an April Fool's Day joke.
Let that be a lesson to everybody. Always double check your work! Sign-up to your own e-mail list, or have a friend do it, and make sure everything works. It really sucks sending a bunch of traffic to your squeeze page only to realize later that something wasn't working right and you lost a lot of potential fans. Also, double check your e-mail series as well. Send yourself some tests to make sure all the links work. I've had e-mails with links to videos that no longer exist, because I completely forgot I was linking to them. Things change, so check back every once in a awhile, and do some tests. You'll be grateful you did!
- Doug Clyde
ALBEDO MUSIC
- Doug Clyde, ALBEDO, http://www.albedomusic.com
Wow I am so glad I saw this today because I came here to sake about exactly this problem.
I have the same problem and I know it but I don't understand how to fix it.
It seems that whatever signup form I put in the sidebar widget is the one for all the pages. How do you make different signup forms appear separately for each different squeezpage?
3:13 pm
August 27, 2011
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Hi Dennis,
It will depend on which ESP (Email Service Provider) you use. If you're using Aweber as John recommends - I'll defer to him as I don't actually use it.
In general terms, there will be different code for each list that you have.
So to borrow from Doug's example above: if you had a Final Fantasy list and A New Age Music list - you'd need to sign into your ESP, click on the New Age list, get the embed code for that particular list and embed it into the squeeze page for the New Age traffic .
You'd have to repeat the steps to setup a squeeze page that pointed to your Final Fantasy Cover with the embed code specific to that list.
Hopefully this makes sense.
You can achieve similar results with a single list if your ESP has the ability to "tag" new registrants - but that's a slightly more advanced concept that will only make things more confusing...especially if it doesn't apply to the ESP you use.
If you're still stuck, let me know what ESP you're using and I'll see if I can walk you through from there.
11:22 pm
June 9, 2011
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Hi Dennis,
Steve here.
What you are asking about has to do with the two different ways that web forms are added, when using the MMM theme template.
For instance, you mentioned that all of the forms are essentially the same, when you are using the default (blog) template. That's because the form in this case is added via sidebar text widget under "Appearance >> Widgets". This gives you a general and uniform web form across all of your blog posts (or anything utilizing the default template).
However for squeeze pages, there is an entirely different method of adding the form and this was done intentionally, so that you can have many different forms, for as many squeeze pages as you create.
The first thing to do is to make sure you are in fact using the Squeeze Page template (under the "page attributes" box in the editor).
Then, on the page editor, you'll also see a box for "custom fields". This is where you add your unique aweber form, for the page you are creating.
Paste in your call to action and Aweber form code. Title the custom field "opt-in" (all lower-case, no quotes).
Then click "Add Custom field". Then update the changes to the page.
This will make sure you have the unique web form on this particular squeeze page. However, for most every other page, you will have the same web form you currently have now.
Let us know how you make out.
AHH HA!
I know I must have seen that in the MMM course but I guess it got lost in the HAZE thank you so much for your thoughtful reply!
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