Is there a way to automatically capture a lead source? For example, can we create a link for a specific lead source which would then populate the lead source automatically for a new contact? Similar to generating affiliate links - is there a way to generate a link that would handle both an affiliate and a specific lead source? We want to see what types of marketing are profitable so we need a way to track the ad source (lead source) and then report on sales made to that contact.

Thanks,
Doug

Doug,

This can definitely be done. I posted about it here.

Let me know if that helps.

Yes - I think that will help. We use ColdFusion but we should be able to pull those values easily.

However, what if our page is not submitting info directly into a web form but is a landing page that explains the product with a link to an Infusion sales form (or what if the ad links directly to the Infusion sales form). Is there a way to pass that info into an Infusion sales form so that it would then be captured when the user submits the sales form? I guess we would need to pass info into the form as a hidden field?

I believe you can include a hidden field in the header of a sale form. I'll check on that to make sure.

You'd need some javascript in the header to capture the leadsource cookie and populate that hidden field.

So if I understand you correctly - we would:

1. Pass lead source info into sales form via our link: https://oursite.infusionsoft.com/saleform/nihlnat?leadsource=ad1

2. Put javascript into sales form to pull off leadsource (i.e. ad1)

3. Add hidden field on sales form to submit info to leadsource field

Am I on the right track? Let me know if this would work.

Thanks,
Doug

Doug,

I think you're on the right track.

There may be an easier way to do this, but I just tested this script and it seems to work. Just put this code in the "header" section of your saleform.
(I tried pasting the code, but it didn't work - just download the text file).

Hi Doug

As you have seen Tyler has done a lot of this work for you if you use Google Analytics.

I for a number of reasons do not use Google Analytics (yes paranoia is part of it) but do use lead tracking, keyword tracking, web page tracking and a number of other tracking methods.

I use this with the Affiliate Module to give me and my clients great reporting straight out of infusion. You need to set up custom fields and use hidden fields in your forms on your web/sales pages. Generally we us .php to not only grab that info but also post information from one form to anther and turn fields and buttons on dependent on if information in the forms has been filled in or not.

So the good news is that what you want is possible, Infusion have set up at least one way of doing it and there are other ways out there. And these can be very advanced. We will often use the API on top of this if we need to integrate other on and offline applications.

Hope this helps.

Thanks George. We're just getting into the lead tracking aspect. Should be real easy to integrate on our side - I'll need to review his suggestion for integrating into the actual Infusion sales forms.

Ok..noob question here. How do I pass the lead source variable thru a URL? I have the php code and the form set up using info from the forum, but am not sure what the URL should look like to pass different lead sources

The code I originally wrote would accept the lead source being passed as 'source' or 'ls'. Pick which one you like and make sure the code reads it.

So an example would be:

Code: :

http://www.yoursite.com/page.php?source=YourLeadSource

Then your php code would need to do read that variable like this:

Code: :

$source = $_REQUEST['source'];

Make sense?