Self-serve Account link go refer a friend

[burkely]

Hello,

  So I was asking a few  people how to refer a friend. They told me that it's more or less word of mouth, when they go to activate they need to enter the referring members telephone #  in order to be rewarded. 

  I was thinking, why not include either a link with a member specific code embedded in that's accesed via Self-Serve account that can be copied and pasted and sent to the friend.

OR

 A link from the referring members self-serve account, with the same idea as above with a code embedded, but basically you click that link and input the friend or friends email address. 

 I think once out of BETA, a more convenient and fool proof way of being rewarded for referring a friend would benefit both Public Mobile, as I'm sure there would be many more referrals than there probably was under the current referral system and the member would be more inclined to want to refer their friends. 

My two cents. Hopefully it all makes sense. 

Cheers!

[chukdefatey]

^in my opinion what you are suggesting is to complicated & most people will just not bother with it, So its much easier with just inputting the refers PM telephone number.

[burkely]

@chukdefatey I belong to a few different rewards sites, this has always seemed to be the best way to refer a friend to the site. Albeit, this is communications company. Put its easy as heck. The link you send them would generate an code specific to your account. It would send a nice email that obviously, PM would choose to word and the customer I'm sure could add a little message to. You would be 100% compensated for their signing up, as you wouldn't get the excuse "oh, I forgot to enter your phone number when I was activating!" Which would tick the heck out of me. Although, you may think the current way of doing it is simple enough, I assure you this would be fool proof and even simpler. Cheers!

[Rick]

Hi Public Mobile,

Its great that there is a refer a friend reward but it would be nice if there was a website where we could send our friends an invitation online to join public mobile. It would also be nice if the friends we referred also got some kind of reward like maybe $10 off their first month or if your budget is big enough first month free just so I don't seem like I'm the only one benefiting from the referral.

Cheers,

Rick

[Martin]

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[Jeremy_M]

@Rick

Love the idea! would it be more in the line of an affiliate program? 

Cheers!

[chukdefatey]

^Yet no idea has ever been implemented from the suggestions lab. The only idea that was implemented was the Tri-Punch Sim card and the reason for that was because it just makes sence & saves company money.

[Rick]

Still in beta im sure something might get implemented eventually lol

[Jeremy_M]

@Rick @Martin

It might sound stale, but have a little faith, were getting there!

[sinetheta]

I was also hoping for some way to refer friends besides the human words "type in my phone number when you're signing up".

As a first step I would recommend passing the information to the existing signup experience based on a referral link and populating the correct field when the time comes. From a technical stand-point this should be fairly straightforward to do either on the backend, or if you want to be lazy, just with some javascript.

[McLaren]

I think this would be a wonderful idea