There have been a couple of tech issues that could have held me back, but here is how Notion is helping me get round those tech issues.
1: FEA are using an affiliate platform called Rootabl. My email marketing platform (Mailerlite) don't let you share Rootabl links. How do I know this?
Because I tried to send an email to my list and my account got suspended. I then had to jump through hoops to get it up and running again and promise to never share Rootable links again or I'd get kicked off the platform! Mad, because all I'm sharing is a free challenge that a lot of my folks would find useful. So useful I'm taking part in it again myself this year.
Anyway, I digress.
To get round that, I created a Notion page that is a bit like a blog post, explaining how I first found Carrie. My Notion page includes the Rootabl link instead. I published the page and that is where I'm sending folks. It also means I get to use the fun Notion confetti button feature again. 2: I wanted to offer a bonus to those who sign up to my list (2 in fact). A bonus Notion tracker to use during the challenge, which I'll be emailing out tomorrow. And promo to my list after the challenge.
The tech issue here?
Not everyone who is signing up to the challenge is on my email list, so I can't add them to my email marketing platform without permission.
The work around.
I'm going to download the email addresses of those who have signed up through my link as a CSV and upload that to Notion as a database.
I can then add a 'single select' property to the database with options like, uploaded, sent email 1, sent email 2, sent email 3.
I can use that status property as a trigger for a Notion automation that sends a pre-written email to my list. That email can deliver the challenge tracker template. How?
Notion integrates with Gmail which is where my business email address is set up.
I can then do the same thing after the challenge to arrange the set up for promo to my list.
This is a great work around, similar to mail merge which allows me to email several people at once about something specific without adding them to my email list when I don't have permission.
Please don't let this use case overwhelm you. I have a basic Notion training coming up later today in the community. This is just a use case that I thought I would share with you in the moment. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ, ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ด.