Require email address for to download file in blogger

But your tutorials are helping me so much. Thanks for doing what you do! Terry livingabovethenoise. Hi Gretchen, Thank you for easy-to-follow instructions. Thanks in advance, Sue xo. Hi Gretchen, Your article how to give a free download to new subscribers in mailchimp is very helpful to me! I only struggle to make it possible to my existing subscribers to get the freebie too. I use this explanation you give: Want to make sure existing subscribers can grab the freebie?

Is there a way to solve this?!? This is incredible, especially during my early stages of learning how to use Mailchimp. I have a quick question. I want new followers to be able to subscribe to my mailing list on my site and to have another link to get the freebie handout via another link for my blog posts.

When I try to link them on Squarespace, I only get one option to connect to Mailchimp. Can I only do the subscription page? Thanks for this informative article! I want to send out a free worksheet only to those who click on the specific subscribe button old and new subscribers. Will they be able to receive it even if they sign in for the freebie after a month goes by?

Pls help! Hi there! Very well explained! I am still very confused about giving a freebie to my existing subscribers. How come I have never been asked to update my preferences when downloading a whole bunch of freebies from people like Jenna Kutcher, Beth Kirby, and Amy Porterfield? Because they use other services?

Obviously, ha? I cannot thank you enough for this information! After following your directions to the letter, I tried to figure out how to link this to a specific post on my site which thanks to your comments I see I am unable to do through MailChimp but you have given Easy Content Upgrades as an alternative.

Thank you so much for this incredibly valuable post! I have a free printable for a future blog post. What I would like to happen is they want to click on the link for the free printable and then a pop up shows asking them to subscribe and once they do it will automatically send them the free printable. I want to be able to offer this to those that are already subscribed as well. So how would I arrange this to just send this printable for when they click on it. And have one that sends a regular welcome email.

Hope this makes sense! Ah, this is the challenge with MailChimp! When I make the automation emails in mailchimp with a freebie after signing up, should I add the subscribers to just one list? I only have a list for my newsletter subscribers but I want to make sure I do it correctly. That was the answer I was hoping for.

All subscribers or new subscribers? Would it automatically send it to them? Thanks for your help! After reading your article, I realized my landing page gave the freebie without confirming the email. You can either add all your existing subscribers to it so they get the freebie the automation email would send to them as soon as you added them to the automation , or just let new subscribers be added to it automatically so they get it when they subscribe.

Thank you very much. Your post was simple, to the point and helped me do what I needed. Hi Gretchen, awesome tutorial. Otherwise, you might need to use the Dropbox method. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Seriously, I have been struggling with how to set this up and your steps were so easy to follow!

I am all set up now with my first automatic email already being sent out. I just used the automation feature on mailchimp and it works. My only concern is that hope it does not continue sending this messages everyday cos I ticked all days while configuring he auomaion list.

Thanks for much for this, I have done all your steps for upload the link to my Meditation mp3 file. I have tested it as a new subscriber but I cant seem to see how they would then be able to download the mp3 file rather than it just being on a web page.

Hello Emily! Hope that helps! Thank you. Love this article thank you! What if I want to have a library of free things linked on my site available to people who sign up?

This was super helpful. Thank you for sharing. Finally got up the guts to start my blog this year! All I want to do is link my opt-in sign up form on my squarespace website to my free audio file uploaded into Mailchimp, but the file seems to be too large. Any ideas? I am stuck. This was a big help. I do have one question. Is there a way with mailchimp to subscribe more than once and just get the pdf without an error message? Seriously, thank you for this! I was so confused how to do this!

This article was so helpful! Thanks for covering all of the important elements of setting up freebies. I am very interested to know how to add a different freebie to different pages or blog posts, so the freebie that the subscriber signs up for is useful to them because they have obviously just read the article on that thing.

On that note, anyone who signs up for the one freebie should also have access to this free resource library. I want to notify them of that In the email sent to them with the link to their specific free resource.

Also please let me know, do I need the mailchimp enabled in wordpress for this to work? If so I will need to upgrade my wordpress. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to do with MailChimp unless you use a plugin like Easy Content Upgrades affiliate link. You could use MailChimp signup forms tied to specific groups but that would only work to give new subscribers a specific freebie—existing subscribers would get an error on form submission.

Another option is to use an email service provider like MailerLite or ConvertKit , because both of them tie content upgrades to each form. Also, please be sure to learn about GDPR regulations and determine how they influence your content upgrade strategy. Hi Gretchen, Thanks for this site to help us all. I was able to get the free download thing going, but only on an embedded form that I have placed on my Wix site.

This button then loads my site in that popup, which is basically now my site loaded in a smaller window on my site. Do you know of a way to get rid of that automatic button? I rummaged through all the comments to see if there was a way to avoid putting re-subscribers through the hassle of updating preferences, which I have found confuses them. This applies to a specific campaign when a free book download is offered to all subscribers and is also shared on social media in the hope of gaining new subscribers.

I targeted the email campaign to my main list, linked this to a landing page with the sign-up form. The sign-up form triggered an automatic welcome email, as you suggested, but this must be linked to a NEW list created for this specific purpose and must have the download file in it. In this way, everyone receives their book easily. Later, when the campaign is over, it is easy to send the contacts on the NEW list to your main list, and any duplicates are automatically updated.

I hope this helps. Thanks so much for the tip about changing the end 0 to 1 within a dropbox link for auto download. Ok so I took your advice and I was able to place my reader magnet on my thank you page, but for some reason I am unable to create a pop up page for mailchimp. The only pop up subscribe page available is to subscribe to my blog, but I want my landing page with my reader magnet to pop up.

Thank you so much, Gretchen! I am left with two questions though:. I could just send out a separate mailing to all current subscribers, as pointed out here, in which case they would sidestep Form 2 altogether. But not all book launch guests will want the free audio book. Is there a way to have those who do want the audio book re-submit their info in Form 2, and then update their registration using MailChip groups or segments?

Thank you so much for this helpuful tutorial. Lot of great information, am I still working on my mailchimp settings and embedded form. Awesome article, Gretchen! Which method should I use to be sure of that? Hi, Thanks so much for this post, it was really helpful. Cheers, Megan. Thanks for sharing! Going to try this now. Im trying to add a free opt in printable on one of my blog posts. Im hoping it doesnt change my subscribe box on the side of my blog.

Id like to offer opt ins on a few differnent posts. Any tips would be great! Hi Gretchen Thank you so much for this post! I was looking desperately for something like this. Somehow it is not shown in MailChimp-Tutorials so thoroughly as you did it in such a great way!

Thanks a lot again! I would like to create individual opt in forms on blog posts in exchange for free printables. Can you help me?

I have a free Mail chimp account and in my account there nothing like automation or anything that would allow me add downloadable things. Hi Gretchen. Im still confused by one thing. What if, in the future, I want to send a different freebie, what do I have to do without losing the link to the current freebie im giving?

Or, you could have two automations, one for each freebie, and send them out based on additions to a list group instead of addition to the list itself. Hi, Gretchen, Thank you so much for the helpful info. This is where I went first to get started on this project.

Or is it triggered by both? Depending on your settings, your MailChimp automation should be triggered by any new signup to the list—not just by signup on a specific form. I kept googling and came across your page.

I finally have completed my opt-in and freebie.. Thanks for the step by step guide! I just completed my freebie and linked it to my MailChimp and it was a success! Thanks for your help Gretchen! I really appreciate it. For the record, I am an artist so I linked in a desktop wallpaper of my work [with a quote done up in Canva] and a smartphone wallpaper.

Next thing to figure out! Should I create separate lists for each download or use groups? Dear Gretchen Your blog was very helpful. I have been searching about how to get people to subscribe before they download pdfs from my own site. I have assumed people will not want to pay for my journals so I have been offering the whole thing, but would like to know who is downloading what. I have mail chimp and assumed it would be possible, but until now had found advice using 3 plugins email before download, connect 7 and WordPress download manager.

I have been trying to figure this one out for days, so I would appreciate any help you can send my way. You are an angel. I have been trying for days to accomplish this feat and I found you! Thank you for being here for us tech idiots!!! Definitely sharing this with other newbie bloggers.

Hi Gretchen, This was a breath of fresh air after begging Thrive Content Builder landing page plugin to my WP site for days to help me figure this out.

Ready to pull my hair out! Hoping to resolve the glitches by tomorrow! That box was created using Thrive Leads, and points to my ConvertKit email sequence with my freebie. Hi Gretchen, thanks so much for this great info!!

Hello Amie! Thank you so much for this simple straight forward information. I have been struggling with doing this for a long time Thank You. Dear Gretchen, Once again, thank you for this much helpful tutorial. I would appreciate if you would explain how to embed the general sign up form into the web site, or do the same customization with the embedded sing up form.

For being so detailed and precise in your explanations. You are my new discovery! Thank you for putting it together. The fields appear on the page but the button does not. Look for this line in your embed code:. I am just about to launch my website so i do not yet have any subscribers. I wanted to use a free download to entice readers to subscribe from the start. I have just signed up to mail chimp and have tried to follow your instructions above.

However i have nothing in my lists? Tia, you can set up your Final Welcome Email before anyone subscribes so that it is in place when they do. Appreciate the clarity of your article. I do have one question: I am trying to write my blog posts in advance. I want to advertise the opt-in in a post that is scheduled to be published in a couple of weeks. Heidi, once you set up your MailChimp Final Welcome Email, it will apply to everyone who signs up from that point on. Thank you so much for this!

But a very clear and useful guide — I found it very simple, perfect for me who is new to Mailchimp and such! I love this step by step explanation! I see its from , does it still work like this? So thank you again! Great post! I was just wondering about the legal considerations concerning this approach. When you offer a free download after asking for a Name and email address , do you automatically have an explicit optin? Are you able to save your ebook as a PDF file? That should help the file size.

If even then it is very large, try searching for a PDF compression service online there are many free ones and see if that reduces the file size without lowering quality. It has simple but elegant design.

The form is very transparent about how it uses your information. And it only has one email box to fill out. The form below is from American Eagle. It is simple. It focuses entirely on the value the visitors will receive.

Therefore, motivate them to sign up. People say what goes up has to go down. I say what be downloaded has to be uploaded. You cannot transfer the file directly from your computer to their computers. You must first upload the file to Wix or other online cloud storages. Then your visitors can download the file from there. Online cloud storages like Google drive or Dropbox allow you to upload almost every file format.

You can make it appear or disappear. Sometimes the environment around the light-box is darken so that the form draws more attention. A Wix form is static. Wherever you put it on your site, it stays there. It is proven that a light-box is more effective than a static form in most cases. Therefore, I will show you how to create a light-box in this tutorial.

After the visitors enter their emails, your form immediately sends out the email with the file download link. The automation behind the form does this. But you must configure it. You build the form. You configure the automation. The only thing left is the email with the file download link. You learn how to create one in this section. To this point you have the whole process in place. If you are curious to test out the process, then the instruction below is for you. The email capture for your business is taken care of.

Call your new View "Display Protected File. In the content box, click on the Text tab instead of Visual. Otherwise, this won't work. Save your changes before moving onto the next step. More on that later. Now that the groundwork is in place, let's create a simple contact form that will appear on your WordPress site. Be sure to include an email address field and check the Required box. This way, you'll be able to capture the email address before receiving the digital download.

Then feel free to add whatever fields to the form you want. This is the form where users submit information to receive a download. The next step is to show them the downloadable file after they give you their email address. This is where the whole idea of offering the files is put into action.

To do this, go to the Form Settings page for the contact form you just created. Set the form to Show a Message on submit. This will be a success message, telling the user they've successfully signed up.

This message is where you'll display the View with the link for users to download the file. You could also include the View shortcode in the email notification to send the download link, or even use it to create a download page. If you'd like to include multiple files, repeat the shortcode with a different file name. You did it! Now you should have a fully functioning form that requires an email to download a file, giving new subscribers access to your gated content. Create Your File Download Form.

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Here are the instructions to verify an email address. Instead of showing another form, you can show the files instead. Good article. I have been using Forms to collect information for years and have settled on Formidable for the last few years as the only one I use. Collecting email addresses is a must and really simple to do. I've only just started to use Formidable and the functionality, and supporting documentation has been excellent. Thank you for this guide. Another similar option that I've used which also works great is to use the "Send Email" action, which allows you to include a file attachment an automated email back to the person filling out the form.

I like this option because you are guaranteed that the email address will be a valid one, or else they won't receive the email! Great suggestion. As long as you have a reliable email system set up so you can be confident emails are going through, this is a great option.