Hello!
My name is Michelle and I'm brand new to this forum. I hope I'm not being rude; I don't mean to crash the party, but I have a problem and if any of you here know how I can do this, I'd appreciate it! (I can't solve it on my own, so I did a search in Google and found this board.)
I'm in the middle of putting together a teleseminar and already have some affiliates lined up. I'll be doing a free promo call and then a paid series.
I was going to use PayDotCom.com to manage my affiliate program as well as process payments through PayPal. But PDC only cookies someone when they get to the order page.
I need to be able to track which attendees came from which expert for the FREE call (and then through to the paid series). No money changes hands initially. I'm simply asking people to sign up for a free teleseminar. Once people submit their name and e-mail address, my AWeber autoresponder sends them the call-in details.
I was told the way to do this is:
In AWeber, add a custom field say affiliteID. Generate the web form for AWeber including the custom ID. (I have no problems here.)
PDC passes the affiliate ID to the product page, so grab it and send it to AWeber.
So find the field that says affiliate ID in AWeber and look at where it says value="" and replace it w/ the following:
value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['id']; ?>"
Also rename the file to .php
Then apparently I can construct the affiliate links on the fly from AWeber and make sure no commissions are lost.
Sounds simple enough. Someone else told me I'd need a PHP script to do this.
But I have no idea how to do this. Anybody know how to do this???
Someone else advised me:
"Your site is now domain.com.
Your affiliates will send folks to your site with a variable (thier PDC username/ID) Example:
http://www.domain.com?pcdid=PDCNAME
A little PHP code can grab the value of "PDCID" and insert it as one of the custom fields aweber allows you."
And someone ELSE advised me:
"If you're just having them pass the variable thru the request line like that, well... that's as good as any.
http://www.domain.com/?var=value
Would send a var named var with the value of value to your defined index page on domain.com (index.php usually).
So now you can just do the echo like you have above...
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['var']; ?>">
And it'll populate a hidden field called "id" with the data from var."
I'm a copywriter and marketer. I'm NOT a techie! 🙂 The forum giving me this advice is an awesome marketing forum. Problem is, they're telling me WHAT to do, not HOW to do it. I've posted my question there and while we have some programmers/coders on the forum, they haven't answered my question just yet. So I thought I'd ask here.
Does anyone know how to do this? I'd greatly appreciate your help!
Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Michelle
