Are you creating an email marketing campaign using Constant Contact? Would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your emails? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your emails.
This article is part of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your emails. You can learn about using other email marketing tools for your Crowdfunding campaign such as MailChimp.
The solution described in this blog article can be used for any rewards/pre-order, or donations based Crowdfunding campaigns and paradigms. It is great for running a single campaign, or multiple campaigns on emails for any type of email campaign using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to add a Crowdfunding link, you may want to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan if you want a fully white labelled campaign. For those who are interested in running a single campaign for free, you can use the Reach Crowdfunding platform.
Note: when using the Atlas white label technology you will have to setup, and configure your Crowdfunding site to be accepting donations before you create a campaign. You can learn how to quickly setup the platform by reading Thrinacia Atlas Standalone Web UI Quick Setup
Learn how to add Crowdfunding campaigns to your Constant Contact emails
Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.
Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and approve it.
Once the campaign is created, you can approve the campaign by going to the admin dashboard, click on the status dropdown menu for the campaign, and choose approve/running.
Step 3: Copy the campaign URL.
Note: The campaign that you are using must be approved/running, and live. If the campaign has not started yet, it will not be live.
Go to the campaign that you have created, and copy the URL.
Step 4: Paste the URL into the email template.
Log into your Constant Contact account, in the left menu choose the Email Marketing option
Next, click on the create button.
We will be creating a new email, so choose the email option.
Once you have chosen the email option, you can start creating the email with a new template.
Whichever template that you choose, you will want to add a button to reference the Crowdfunding campaign that you have created. To do this, you can use the options on the left side of the page to add a new button to the template.
Once you drag and drop the new button to the template, click on that button, to activate the menu, then click on link, and choose Web Page.
You can now paste the URL into the Link URL field.
View the email:
When users click on the donate button, they will be directed to your Crowdfunding campaign as per example below:
That is how you can add any pre-order, rewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your emails. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: