WTF NO CODE DROP #6

Let’s go all the way back to WTF NO CODE DROP #1 and assume you’re pulling in a lot of sign ups. Sure, you’ll have setup a few acquisition channels that’re performing well enough but the best new signups come from within your users’ networks.

Friends of friends are friends, y’know? So, to let your friends tell their friends about you, let’s slap together a referral system.

This one’s a bit of a throwback for me. It’s one of the first things I built after watching and re-watching the Automate All The Things double feature –

I have to admit.. this takes me back 😎

The stage has been set – we’re looking to setup a simple Airtable-based system the automatically creates unique referral codes and URLs whenever an email address appears in a record.

What you do with each unique code and the URL is totally up to you. You can include it in emails that are sent to your users or your can add it to your EMS like I did when I was falling out of love with Mailchimp.

Nowadays, a modern EMS like beehiiv comes with a whole referral system baked into it from the jump.

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Getting back to the core of it all, there’s one thing worth keeping very front-of-mind:

Wherever your referred users go, you must make sure to pass the referral code from the URL to your signup form.

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