Sharing Activity via Email

[stephanie-boyle]

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?

[MatthewShepherd · Accepted solution]

Hi @stephanie-boyle 

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

[chriscardone]

Hi there, @stephanie-boyle!

Great question, AddThis and Sumo have perfect inline and floating solutions for this which may help.

- Chris