https://shchoi22.medium.com/how-i-built-a-free-newsletter-referral-system-for-emailoctopus-in-an-hour-99e885219d1c
TLDR:
Requirements:
1. You know how to code a bit. Knowing vanilla Javascript is necessary for later part of the implementation.
2. AWS account
3. EmailOctopus account
Steps:
- Setup EmailOctopus using custom fields
- Update EmailOctopus template with {{ID}} merge tags
- Get EmailOctopus API key
- Setup Serverless with AWS Lambda
- Update landing page with click event bound to "Subscribe" button.
- Detect referrer id in url params and make AJAX request to Serverless function using the id.
- Create a segment with desired referred count >=.
- Profit ๐ค
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V cool, thanks for writing it up too.
Super awesome write up, and very clear to follow. I'm going to give it a crack after the holidays ๐ Thanks again!
Glad you found it helpful! Let me know if you have any questions!