How I'm using Notion as an affiliate during a launch.
You may have noticed I'm currently an affiliate for Carrie Green's Ideas to Income challenge. There have been a couple of tech issues that could have held me back, but here is how Notion is helping me get round those tech issues. 1: FEA are using an affiliate platform called Rootabl. My email marketing platform (Mailerlite) don't let you share Rootabl links. How do I know this? Because I tried to send an email to my list and my account got suspended. I then had to jump through hoops to get it up and running again and promise to never share Rootable links again or I'd get kicked off the platform! Mad, because all I'm sharing is a free challenge that a lot of my folks would find useful. So useful I'm taking part in it again myself this year. Anyway, I digress. To get round that, I created a Notion page that is a bit like a blog post, explaining how I first found Carrie. My Notion page includes the Rootabl link instead. I published the page and that is where I'm sending folks. It also means I get to use the fun Notion confetti button feature again. 2: I wanted to offer a bonus to those who sign up to my list (2 in fact). A bonus Notion tracker to use during the challenge, which I'll be emailing out tomorrow. And promo to my list after the challenge. The tech issue here? Not everyone who is signing up to the challenge is on my email list, so I can't add them to my email marketing platform without permission. The work around. I'm going to download the email addresses of those who have signed up through my link as a CSV and upload that to Notion as a database. I can then add a 'single select' property to the database with options like, uploaded, sent email 1, sent email 2, sent email 3. I can use that status property as a trigger for a Notion automation that sends a pre-written email to my list. That email can deliver the challenge tracker template. How?