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Jul 3, 2019 3:50 PM
I'm looking to see if anyone has had luck allowing audiences to share an activity through email? For example, there are social buttons that, when clicked, will share a blog post with a pre-populated message about that post.
What I'm looking for is the same thing but for emails. So, when clicked, the button would provide the user with a pre-populated email about the post and give them a field to enter in email addresses they'd like to share the post with.
For my purpose, I'm working to set up a referral program. When a client registers, we want to offer them the chance to share that registration with their network via email and social platforms.
I hope this makes sense. Does anyone out there no what I'm talking about or have a potential solution?
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Jul 4, 2019 5:39 AM - edited Jul 4, 2019 5:40 AM
There are potentially a few ways to achieve this:
1) Mailto Link. For example,
<a href="mailto:add@emailhere.com?subject=Big%20News&body=Your-Message-body-goes-here">Email Us</a>
Above you could leave the email portion blank to make sure the sender adds an email there
<a href="mailto:?subject=Big%20News&body=Your-Message-body-goes-here">Email Us</a>
More details on how to use Mailto links here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/
From there you would just need to style this as a button.
2) Using an external social sharing service, for example, https://www.addthis.com/integration/hubspot
3) Use a social sharing module from the Hubspot module marketplace, for example, https://marketplace.hubspot.com/products/leadstreet/cm-blogpost-custom-social-share
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Aug 4, 2021 11:04 AM
Thanks! I just want a quick & dirty solution. Do you recommend I use poptin or addthis, if Hubspot doesnt have an equivalent solution built-in which is similarly easy to configure?
Aug 5, 2021 8:19 AM
Hi @JXclay
HubSpot doesn't have an out of the box social sharing widget that pop-ups when a URL is visited in the same way as your example. Using social sharing/button and pop-up custom modules from the asset marketplace you could achieve something similar, but if you want a quick solution I'd suggest creating a CTA button that points to your post and then configuring poptin to trigger based on traffic source or UTM parameters in you referring URL.
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Aug 4, 2021 6:24 AM - edited Aug 4, 2021 6:25 AM
Hi @JXclay
In your example above, the email displays one button pointing to a post that triggers a social sharing widget to open on the post. You could add a CTA button pointing to your desired post and then control the display of a sharing widget using services such as https://www.poptin.com/features/
If you want the reader to be able to choose from a range of networks to share to, you could either list a range of links (buttons) manually or use a third-party service such as Add This to generate the code: https://www.addthis.com/academy/add-email-share-buttons-newsletter/.
Alternatively, you could also create your own custom social sharing module for email templates (creates direct social sharing links) by modifying the code here: https://community.hubspot.com/t5/Email-Marketing-Tool/Social-Sharing-for-Email-in-Drag-and-Drop-edit...
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Aug 2, 2021 2:34 PM
@MatthewShepherd I want to add text to the bottom of my marketing emails in a format like this:
"If you liked this post from Brianne Kimmel's Newsletter, why not share it?
[she then has a big blue 'share' button, which goes to https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkd1uhCAQhZ9G7nYDo4JecNGk6WuYEcaVVNHA0Gbfvrh71YSf8IXhHM44ZHoc6Wn... "
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what is the best way to do this within HS?
Jul 4, 2019 5:56 PM
Hi there, @stephanie-boyle!
Great question, AddThis and Sumo have perfect inline and floating solutions for this which may help.
- Chris
Jul 4, 2019 5:39 AM - edited Jul 4, 2019 5:40 AM
There are potentially a few ways to achieve this:
1) Mailto Link. For example,
<a href="mailto:add@emailhere.com?subject=Big%20News&body=Your-Message-body-goes-here">Email Us</a>
Above you could leave the email portion blank to make sure the sender adds an email there
<a href="mailto:?subject=Big%20News&body=Your-Message-body-goes-here">Email Us</a>
More details on how to use Mailto links here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/
From there you would just need to style this as a button.
2) Using an external social sharing service, for example, https://www.addthis.com/integration/hubspot
3) Use a social sharing module from the Hubspot module marketplace, for example, https://marketplace.hubspot.com/products/leadstreet/cm-blogpost-custom-social-share
![]() | Matthew ShepherdSenior Customer Success Manager HubSpot He/Him |
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