Going live, in stages

  • I’ve got an e-learning site which is being developed locally and will be completed around May of 2015.

    We’d like to begin collecting e-mails ASAP and plan to use a combination of MiniGo coming soon pages commercial plugin with MailChimp campaigns.

    When we finally go live we will use BackupBuddy to move the local production site to the live site.

    However, I’m not sure what the best way is to really go about doing this. I assume that all collected addresses will reside on the MailChimp side and that even if we completely overwrite the WP database we’ll still have the same access to those addresses as we did before moving the new site over. We’d just need to connect the campaigns to the new site.

    Does it make sense to setup the coming soon site now, on the live server, simply to collect addresses? Then, when we officially go live, completely overwrite everything with the final site?

    Or is there a better way?

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  • Hi there,

    Collecting email addresses pre-launch is the single best thing you can do to grow your business, and the sooner you can start collecting addresses, the better.

    I am a fan of Launch Effect. It’s free and connects directly to MailChimp.

    https://launcheffectapp.com/

    Launch Effect is designed not only to collect addresses, but to encourage people to share your site and get even more addresses.

    You’ll need a plain WP installation and can install the Launch Effect theme as a placeholder while you’re developing your site.

    You’re right, the collected addresses will live safely in your MailChimp list, regardless of what happens with your WordPress installation, and you’ll be able to connect the lists you create in MailChimp to your new site.

    That’s actual the best way to do it! ??

    Thread Starter Tiziano1

    (@tiziano1)

    Thanks!
    I’ll look a little deeper into Launch Effect. A bit concerned though, that they don’t appear to have updated since Feb.

    Their site says they are compatible with WordPress 3.8 – so yes, I’d keep an eye out for issues with a 4.0 installation.

    You might also check out https://kickofflabs.com/. They integrate with MailChimp and have a lot of similar features to Launch Effect.

    I am building my website and added a landing page for the time being through Launch Effects. I am new to this all but am not sure why I am unable to actually work on my site in Colorway Theme now without it being published and live. Isn’t that the point of having a landing page? It seems to be going back and forth from each and settings are all over the place. Please help:-) Thanks.

    Was this resolved on your part?

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