Automation
The theme at the Lekker Shops this year is “automation”. We are sick and tired of busy work, and aren’t gonna take it anymore!
Are you planning on building an affiliate site? Don’t want to keep track of a thread in the forums? Can’t take one more minute of the marketplace? Keep forgetting what shops you have looked at? Well, we had the same issues. We decided to use the wonderful Wufoo service to create a form that SKs can fill out to submit their designs for possible affiliation in a Lekker Brand shop. You can check it out (and submit your shops/designs) here. Now we get the submissions sent directly too our inbox. We can look at them as soon as we get them, or check our entries at the Wufoo site. And we know what we’ve seen and what we haven’t.
Wufoo is just awesome. You can easily create forms for users to fill out without all the hassle. They can be placed in your CP hosted shop using iframes (that’s how we have our Affiliate Submission forms set up), or you can modify the code and host it yourself. No longer do you need to worry that spammers will find your embedded email. They also have reporting capabilities that will prove to be very happy in the coming year. We have a premium account, so there are a few more goodies, but it’s well worth it to be able to set up something like our affiliate submission tool in no time. Oddly enough, the company is based in Tampa. Who knew good things could come from Tampa? (I kid. I love Tampa. It’s the cultural hub of Florida!)
Many thanks to Adam of Buy-Tees for pointing us to Wufoo.
