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whanderson
Aug '10

I'm not a tech whiz so please tolerate these stupid questions...



I've uploaded an ebook I want to use as a free offer to encourage signups for my newsletter.



So on my site is the newsletter list sign up code.



What I don't understand is how to connect ejunkie with the newsletter signup. These two things seem completely separate to me and I know they've got to somehow be connected for the person to get on the newsletter list AND get their download.



My intention is to have them get the download through ejunkie and not through a link or page on the website.



Please help me! Thanks!

whanderson

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Aug '10

Don't know if this would work, but what about having an auto-responder so when they sign up for the newsletter, they immediately get a welcome email which has the download link for your e-book included in it and maybe a taste of what's to come in future newsletters.

whanderson
Aug '10

Jo, thanks for that thought. As a matter of fact as I was waiting for my computer to start I was making notes and that was one of the ideas I had.



So the process would work like this I think...



People sign up for the newsletter and their information gets captured into the email system.



They get a welcome email and in that email could be the code for the ejunkie button.



They click on that and take the steps to get the download.



It seems a little clunky but it would probably work...



Thanks.



Anyone else with any suggestions or explanations?

w.

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Aug '10

if you're using Aweber for your newsletter, you could make a free product in E-junkie Seller Admin, upload your freebie file for that product, and set up our Aweber integration for that product. The buyer would click your Add to Cart button for the product, proceed to our Free Checkout where they would provide their name and email, then they would be directed to a thank-you page where they could download the file while we submit their info to Aweber for subscription to your newsletter list. This help page section explains how to set up Aweber integration for your product:

1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm#aweber1



However, if you're not using Aweber for your newsletter, you don't really need any special "download service" like E-junkie just to offer a free download, especially considering you'd already collecting their name/email on your newsletter subscription page, so you wouldn't even need us to collect that info. You can upload any type of file to your Web site and just make a link to the URL for that file's location, just like you'd make a link from one page to another.



E.g. if you upload the file into a subfolder of your site, the file's URL would be like this:



http://www.yoursite.com/subfoldername/yourfile.ext



...so you could put that URL in your newsletter welcome email, or when a user submits their info on your signup page, that could redirect them to another Web page where you'd have a link posted to download the freebie file, which would be done in HTML like so:



<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/subfoldername/yourfile.ext">Click here to download your free file</a>

whanderson
Aug '10

Thanks for that. My big concern is / was protecting the download page.



I think my options are to either have them sign up for the newsletter, then have the newsletter welcome page include the ejunkie button to get the download...



OR



Just go with the above description.



Thanks very much for your help though.



Winnie