Adding CrowdFunding campaigns to your MailerLite emails

Add Crowdfunding capabilities to your MailerLite emails
Add Crowdfunding capabilities to your MailerLite emails

Are you creating an email marketing campaign using MailerLite? 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, and ConstantContact.

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 MailerLite emails

Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.

New Atlas Subscription plans Thrinacia UI
Atlas subscription plan options

Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and approve it.

Approve the campaign
Approve the campaign

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.

First, log into the MailerLite account, and create a new campaign by clicking on the Create Campaign button at the top of the page.

Click on the create button
Click on the create campaign button

Next, add the info for your campaign.

Fill out the following
Fill out the following

Once you have added the necessary info, choose the drag and drop editor that you would like to use to design your email template. For this tutorial, we are going to choose the new drag and drop editor

Drag and drop editors
Drag & drop editors

Once you open the drag and drop editor, in the left menu, you can choose to add a block to the template. Click on the dopdown menu, and choose the button option.

Drag & drop options
Drag & drop options

Choose the button block option that is best for you.

Button block options
Button block options

Once you choose the button that you want to add, drag and drop it into the template. Click on the button, and paste your URL into the following field:

Paste your campaign URL
Paste your campaign URL

Once you add the URL, remember to save, then when you are ready, click on the Done Editing button in the top of the page.

Click on this button when you are finished
Click on this button when you are finished

View the email:

MailerLite email preview
MailerLite email preview

When users click on the donate button, they will be directed to your Crowdfunding campaign as per example below:

 

Campaign preview
Campaign preview

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: