A while back Infusionsoft created the ability to place a file (script provided by them) on your server to change affiliate links from Infusionsoft domain to your own personal domain. This was awesome and great forethought.

As a trusted partner of Infusionsoft I will make the recommendation of changing the opt-out links to have similar functionality, injecting your own domain. As a matter of fact, it would be really sweet if this was the case for trackable links, double opt-in links and update links. (Even if they really end up redirecting to an Infusionsoft hosted page, this would be a great start).

I am sure that one reason this hasn’t been put in the pipe yet is due to the nature of most Infusionsoft users. They don’t run just one businesses, they have many, with many different domains. And even if they do have one business, they might have a main site with 2-3 sister sites with 15 different squeeze pages. How would Infusionsoft know which domain to use? Perhaps multiple custom links of each type, using merge fields in the templates?

Now I am thinking outloud. But this has been a great post with great follow-up comments. Thank you for your thoughts Andy.

Jarrod Morris

Currently there is no method in place to purchase additional credits and whilst they are receptive to my suggestions that it is a critical element, there are absolutely no guarantees that this will be introduced.
Thus the only upgrade path from 750 emails per month is to pay $200/month to Infusionsoft

I think they are leaving a lot of money on the table and people will use other alternatives for bulk emails, which might even reduce Infusionsoft long-term income.

The 25000 credits with “basic” is only $50 worth

If you are going to be emailing a lot, then you can potentially look at adding another autoresponder service with unlimited emails into the mix, and use Infusionsoft for later segmentation.

A really useful integration though one I doubt would ever happen is Aweber >> Infusionsoft, so Infusionsoft would be notified of a double opt-in and add a lead to their database automatically. There would need to be an established level of trust for it to work. It is something Getresponse could do for their Deda customers, but not sure Infusionsoft would accept the leads as being double opt-in. Hmm

Long-term I don’t think it is, as an opt-out link for any and all business communication will become just as standard as a statement that all business communication should be considered confidential.

So then you need to consider trust in the opt-out process. If I have opted out of emails processed by Infusionsoft in the past and it worked, I am more likely to trust their opt-out process again and use that link rather than hit the spam button.

What if they moved people who wanted unbranded to the single opt-in servers due to the higher chance of a spam report? Is that something you would find acceptable?

I can remember reading some of the lengthy debate on the Infusionsoft support forums a while back, and there was mention of the ability (or proposed) of using an affiliate link there for the logo, or to have it unlinked.

As more people use automated followup systems, it becomes more and more obvious. The solution isn’t to hide it, but to make the communication valuable.

The whole point is to have the ability to follow up automatically and personally. Not to have your customers KNOW a program is doing it “while you are playing golf” as infusionsoft says.

The only reason they will not do it is because they will not get the free advertising. But at what expense? So make it an “add on” option for “more money”, take the “more money” and use it for advertising, what’s the hold up? It’s a wash.