Anyone ever done Forward to a Friend on landing page?

[Anonymous]

I called Marketo support and they said this is only available in emails. I'm wondering if anyone has a workaround for Forward to a Friend on landing pages???

I can't put a new form on the confirmation page b/c that would overwrite the cookie of the person who submitted the form.

Thanks!

Nichole

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Nichole,

The purpose of the Forward to a Friend link is so a lead can forward the email to someone else without that second person being cookied as that lead. This isn't an issue with landing pages.

If your purpose is for them to refer a friend to the page, maybe you could set up a form on the page, where they enter their friend's email address into a custom field, and then a trigger campaign sends an alert to the value of that field. For example the custom field could be called "Friend Email Address". And then you could send the alert which invites someone to visit the page to {{lead.Friend Email Address}} when someone fills out that form.

[Anonymous]

Thank you!!! That might be a good workaround.

[Anonymous]

I created a HTML link like the one below and added it on my landing page. It works perfectly. You only need to be careful to include %20 between each word you include in the body section of your link so that it shows on the body of your email.

Example link you can adapt:
<p><a href="mailto:?subject=Insert your subject here&#10;&amp;body=Here's%20a%20free%20article%20etc%20etc%20etc:%20http://google.com.%20I%20thought%20you'd%20want%20to%20download%20it%20too.">Forward to a friend</a></p>
 

[Aida_Kamber]

When you do it this way, do you capture the email address of the person it's been forwarded to?

[SanfordWhiteman]

You won't capture anything that way.  It's just opening a New Message window in the person's email app (sometimes -- note that mailto: is not functional on huge numbers of machines).  Don't do it this way, it's basically a waste from an MA standpoint.