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Welcome to Thrive Themes for Newbies!
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What is Thrive Themes?
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It’s a company that builds WordPress themes and plugins
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Their themes and plugins are designed to convert
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website visitors into subscribers and eventually, paying customers.
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They call their products:“Your All-In-One Online Business
Toolbox”
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Their products are:
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Thrive Themes
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Thrive Leads
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Content Builder
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Landing Pages
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Clever Widgets
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Headline Optimizer
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Thrive Ultimatum
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and Thrive Ovation
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
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1. Build lading pages using Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder
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2. Connect an Opt-in Form from your landing page to your Email Marketing Automation tool (Drip)
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3. Set up a Thank You/Download page that contains Lead Magnet
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4. Test if your Drip Email Campaign is working
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Let’s start!
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First, you need to sign up
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for a Thrive Themes membership
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Go to thrivethemes.com
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Scroll down until you see theSee Plans & Pricing button
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Click that button
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Look for this section on the next page
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You can choose a Quarterly or Yearly membership
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Once you have chosen your desired membership type,
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Click Add To Cart
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You will be redirected to the checkout page
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Enter the required information
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Then click Checkout with PayPal
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If you don’t have PayPal, you can still pay using these:
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After paying, you need to download and install the plugin
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Go back to thrivethemes.com
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Click Member Login
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Enter your Username and Password
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Then click Login
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This is your Thrive Themes membership dashboard
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Scroll down to the plugins section
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Look for Thrive Content Builder & Landing Pages
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Click Download
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After downloading, upload the plugin to your WordPress site
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From your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New
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Click Upload Plugin
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Click Choose File
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From your PC, select the plugin you just downloaded
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Click Open
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Click Install Now
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The plugin has been installed
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Now you need to activate the plugin. Click Activate Plugin.
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Congratulations! The plugin is now activated.
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Next, you need to enter your license key
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so that you can use this plugin
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Go back to your Thrive Themes Member Dashboard
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Click My Account & License Keys
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Copy your license key
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From your WordPress dashboard,
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Go to Thrive Dashboard > License Manager located on the left
sidebar
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Enter the email address you used to sign up
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and your license key
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Click Activate License
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Your license is now activated
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Now, let’s build the landing page.
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From your WordPress dashboard, go to Pages > Add New
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Enter a title then click Publish
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After publishing your page, click Edit With Thrive Content Builder
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This is the Thrive Content Builder
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Click the dropdown and select Choose landing page
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This will open the landing page templates
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You can choose from the default landing pages
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or download templates from the Thrive Template Cloud
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You can filter the templates by tag
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or if you know what you’re looking for
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type it in the search bar
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type it in the search bar
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Let’s select this one
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Click Load Landing Page
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This is the landing page template
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It’s already designed to attract visitors to opt-in
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All you need to do is change the content
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Edit the header as your lead magnet’s title
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These are your editing tools
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Edit lead magnet copy - highlight the benefits
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Change image - use your lead magnet’s cover
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Choose cover photo and Insert into post
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Change the image size here
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Drag the slider or enter a pixel value
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Change the margins and paddings here
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Change the image’s alignment here
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Edit the Call to Action button
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Click Link Settings
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Edit Call to Action button text
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Your Call to Action button
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Edit the margins and paddings as desired
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Click Save Changes
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Alright! You have created your landing page.
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We will now connect your landing page to Drip’s Marketing
Automation service
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Click your Call to Action button
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Click Event Manager
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This is the Event Manager window
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Click Edit this Lightbox
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This is your Lightbox or Opt-in Form
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Click the image to change it
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Click Change Image
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Choose image and Insert into post
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Edit the margins and padding of the image
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Edit Lightbox copy
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Edit Lightbox copy
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Change font size here
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Change line height here
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Change font color here
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Click Text Color for more color options
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You can enter hexadecimal color code here
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Let’s choose #ff9212 to match the color of the image, then click OK
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Voila! The font color has changed
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Edit margins and paddings as desired
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Click this section below
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Click Edit Components
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Choose Submit Button to edit Call to Action text
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Edit Call to Action text here
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Edit margins and paddings of the email catcher section as desired
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Choose the position of the elements:vertical or horizontal
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Alright! We will now connect a Drip email campaign.
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Click Connect With Service
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Click Create a new Connection
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Click Go to the next step
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Your Drip account should already be connected to your WordPress
account
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If not, go ahead and check my tutorial: How to Get Started With Marketing Automation using Drip
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Choose Drip as your API
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Choose Mailing List for the integration
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Select your Drip
campaign
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Select Double optin
then click Save
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Check the box under Required Field for Email
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You can also display the Name field
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Check the box under Required Field for Name if needed
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Click Save
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Click Save Changes
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Voila! The finished Lightbox.
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Alright! Your Opt-in Form is now connected to your Drip campaign.
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After signing up, you need to thank you new subscriber
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This is called relationship-building and it’s common courtesy.
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That’s why you will redirect them to a Thank You page
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This is the Action After Signup section
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Click the dropdown menu
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Select Redirect to URL
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We will create the Thank You page first
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Go back to your WordPress dashboard or
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Open your WordPress dashboard in a new tab
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Go to Pages > Add New
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Add a title
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Click Publish
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Click Edit with Thrive Content Builder
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Click Thrive landing Pages dropdown
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Select Choose landing page
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Filter by Tag section
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Check download
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Choose a landing page
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Click Load Landing Page
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This is your Thank You page template
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Click the image to change it to your own
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Edit the Thank You page copy
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Edit the Call to Action button
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Click Link Settings
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Edit the button’s text
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Then upload your lead magnet to your Media Library
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to connect your lead magnet to your Thank You page
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From your WordPress dashboard, go to Media > Add New
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Upload your lead magnet by dragging and dropping it here
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After uploading, click Edit. It will open a new tab.
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Copy your lead magnet’s File URL
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Paste it to your Thank You page
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Check New window (opens the download in a new window)
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Check No follow(so that Google will not find this freebie)
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Edit the Thank You page as you see fit
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This is how my Thank You page looks like
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Don’t forget to save your changes
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You can Preview the page you just created
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Your published Thank You page
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Alright! Your Thank You page is now set up.
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Now let’s connect your Thank You page to your Landing page
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Go back to your WordPress dashboard
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Go to Pages > All Pages
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Look for your Thank You page and click it
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Copy your Thank You page’s link
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Go back to your Drip lightbox’s Action After Signup section
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Paste your Thank You page URL here
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Click Save
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This is how your lightbox currently looks like
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Make changes as you see fit
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A sample of a final output
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Now, let’s test if your landing page is working
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Go back to your WordPress Dashboard
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Go to Pages > All Pages
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Look for your Landing Page and click it
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Click the link
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Click Yes, I Want To Get My Free Checklist!
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The lightbox appears
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Enter your email address to test it out
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Then click Give Me My Free Checklist
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You will be taken to the Thank you page after opting in
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You will also receive a confirmation email
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Click Confirm subscription
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Your email campaign will now send the lead magnet,
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if it is correctly set up
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Here’s the first email for the campaign
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Here’s how the email looks like
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Your email must contain the link to your Thank You/Download page
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Try to click the link
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You will be taken to your Thank You page
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Click Download My Free Checklist
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This is your lead magnet
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If you are using Chrome, click this to download it
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Alright! Your Drip email campaign is working correctly.
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That’s it!
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We covered a lot of topics on landing pages
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Go ahead an create your own
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For more tutorials and support articles
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on how to use the different Thrive Themes plugins
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Check out the Knowledge base
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There are also Product Tutorials
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Webinar Recordings
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and the Forums
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You can now start building conversion-focused landing pages
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Have fun exploring Thrive Themes
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Thank you for visiting this tutorial!