How to match customers to leads (via subid)?

HustlinHard

(M)ad Man
Oct 31, 2007
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So right now I'm building a WP site which will be offering a free service, in exchange the user signing up for a specific affiliate offer under me.

My dilemma is in trying to figure out what the best way to track who completes the lead, so that I can provide them with my service in exchange. The way I see it right now is that I need to create some sort of order/signup process where a unique and INFORMATIVE subid is appended to each users link, thus allowing me to match them up. I'm thinking the easiest would be if the subid was their "username" or "email", but I have completely no clue how to achieve this.

Do you guys have any suggestions?
 


If they have an account registered with you send them to affsite.com/?subid=their_account_name]affsite.com and track that way.

Or have them enter their email address before completing the offer and send them to affsite.com/?subid=the_email_they_just_gave_you

Then if you wanted to you can write a uBot bot that scrapes the list of converted subid emails, and then sends an email to each one of them with your free service.

Make sure the offer accepts incent traffic though.
 
Yea the offer accepts incentive traffic.

As far as appending the email or name to the subid, that's actually the part that I understand is required, I'm just not sure how to do it.

So just to give a better idea of how I'm trying to structure my site:


  • Individual navigates to my website:

  1. FRONT Page: Contains information about offers I'm providing. Individual selects *PROMO 1: Free Service for CPA*
  2. PROMO 1 Page: Provides the individual with a choice of 5 different services I can do for them. Individual selects *SERVICE 1*
  3. SERVICE 1 Page: Provides several different options for the individual to fill out so that the service can be done effectively (this is also where they input their EMAIL and/or NAME). Individual makes their choices and navigates to the next page with the CPA offer choices.
  4. CPA OFFER CHOICES Page: Provides the individual with 3 different CPA offers from which they can choose as well as some additional information below that they will complete after they finish the CPA offer. Individual chooses CPA OFFER 1 and clicks on MY AFFILIATE LINK which opens in a new window.
  5. CPA OFFER LANDING Page: Individual fills out CPA Offer and navigates back to the other window "CPA OFFER CHOICES PAGE" to fill out the rest of the information.
  6. Individual clicks "FINISH" and all the information they filled out gets emailed to me. Including the Service Choice, Service Options, CPA Offer Choice, User SUBID (which should be either their email or name that was provided in the SERVICE PAGE), and the Additional information.

To achieve this I'm guessing I would need to install some sort of a "forms" plugin or something. I would like this to be as interactive as possible and preferably be more image-based as opposed to a straight up boring text form. I'm not sure if there is a plugin like this that could keep the subid and append it to the affiliate link on the next step of the form?
 
Create the form on your site where the user puts in their email address.

The email textbox would probably look something like this in html:
Code:
<input type="text" name="[COLOR="Red"]email[/COLOR]" />

Then on the next page you will have your link to your affiliate offer. Make the link
Code:
http://affoffer.com/page.php?subid=<? echo $_GET['[COLOR="red"]email[/COLOR]']; ?>

The php code (after subid=) will get the value that the user put in for their email address on the previous page. Just make sure that the two red values are the same.
 
Create the form on your site where the user puts in their email address.

The email textbox would probably look something like this in html:
Code:
<input type="text" name="[COLOR=Red]email[/COLOR]" />
Then on the next page you will have your link to your affiliate offer. Make the link
Code:
http://affoffer.com/page.php?subid=<? echo $_GET['[COLOR=red]email[/COLOR]']; ?>
The php code (after subid=) will get the value that the user put in for their email address on the previous page. Just make sure that the two red values are the same.

Thanks for this advice, I've went through several wordpress form plugins as well as some user management plugins, and I haven't been able to figure out how to save the form variables so that I can pass them through the URL on the next page.

From the research I've done it sounds to me like I have to set a session cookie for the variable to be called properly, but I'm not sure if that true.

Does anyone have any suggestions on specific WP Plugins that will work with this? I've tried CForms II, Contact Form 7, FS Simple Forms, and couple more without any success of calling the variables after they are processed.