Unexpected challenges.

There were some unexpected challenges with setting up what I talked about in the last email.

The last little viral hack proved a little more difficult than I expected.

If you’re following along and decided to put that into action, it’s really easy.

But, if you’re like me and always want to push the boundaries a little, there was an unexpected challenge.

My new channel currently has two videos, and I decided to try to make them both go viral.

Managing that hack for one video is relatively simple.

Step one:  Set up a new email address somewhere.

Step two:  Turn on the Out-of-Office feature.

Step three:  Write an Out-of-Office email with the link to the bonus.

See?  Simple.

But when you try to do this for two videos and want to send a different bonus for each video, it doesn’t work unless you have a new email address for each video.

What happens when you want to do this for five or ten videos?

That could get very unwieldy very fast.

So, what to do?

I did come up with an answer that I have implemented.

It involved creating a page for each video to which the description links.

That page gives instructions to the visitor on what to do to get a bonus.

One of the instructions is to send an email with a set subject line.

Then, I used Make to grab the email, filter for the subject line, and email a link to the appropriate bonus.

When I want to add another video or other content to this group, I need to clone the page, change two things, and add another branch into the Make scenario.

About 5 minutes work.

That’s actually less time than it would take to set up a new email address with another out-of-office email.

If you would like to do something similar, email me and ask.

I can give you a clone of everything I’ve done.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S.  What did I use for the bonuses?

You guessed it, a cheat sheet.

One that I made with this: https://go.wm-tips.com/sheets.

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