{"id":6923,"date":"2009-02-16T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2009-02-18T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:34:30","slug":"piling-onto-heap-ill-trade-you-a-big-bunch-of-crm-development-ideas-for-an-affiliate-link-click-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6923\/piling-onto-heap-ill-trade-you-a-big-bunch-of-crm-development-ideas-for-an-affiliate-link-click-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Piling onto Heap: I’ll trade you a big bunch of CRM development ideas for an affiliate link click-through"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your contact information is on any of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained interest lists, I spammed you last week with a form email that pitched the then-upcoming Seattle Unchained preview as well as the still-upcoming BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix event.<\/p>\n

The form letter was sent out as bulk email from the Heap CRM software application, and I played a few games with the software: The letter asked recipients to click on a link that opened a web-based form that in turn solicited them to complete and update their contact information — not just name and email but also phone numbers and snailmail address. That form in turn fed its input back to Heap, in effect semi-automatically scrubbing our Unchained database.<\/p>\n

The response rate is over 25%, so far, which is just astounding to me, but the essence of the thing was to put Heap through its paces. As I discussed a little while ago, I want a highly-programmable CRM solution that I can use to automate our databases<\/a>. Heap seems to be the best solution for the work we need to do, as a compromise between power and cost–per-user.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be talking about everything I do with Heap, going forward. I’ll make the tools I build with it available, starting with a new version of my universal contact form that will not only create new contact records within Heap but will assign those contact to the appropriate drip email campaign.<\/p>\n

After that, I want to build code that will do a truly robust round-trip contact scrub, because I’m thinking you can get people who really want to do business with you to tell you anything you might want to know.<\/p>\n

For now, I need some help from you:<\/p>\n

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If you are signing up for Heap, I’d appreciate if you would use this link<\/a>. I will get credit in Heap’s affiliate program. We’ll donate the affiliate fees to charity, but with each new sign-up, I will gain clout with the developer. As always, I’ll be sharing every new idea I come up with, but if we can demonstrate that wired real estate professionals are a significant portion Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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