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Tracking Survey Monkey surveys without integration

  • February 15, 2016
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Hi everyone:

We have Survey Monkey, but not the Marketo integration with it. I am trying to send an email, ask folks to fill out the survey, and then send them a thank you email after the survey is completed. I need to be able to track who they are so I can send an alert to our business development team that a survey was completed.

Here is what I have set up:

1, Send email with link to Survey Monkey survey.

2. Prospect clicks link to go to survey.

3. Prospect completes survey.

4. Upon completion, Survey Monkey sends the person to a "thank you" landing page I have created in Marketo.

5. Trigger of "Visits Web Page" with that "thank you" page URL sends a thank you email to the person and an alert to the BD rep.

I assumed that because the only way to get to the survey is through the email link, that anyone who fills out the form, and therefore sees the thank you page, is a known lead. However when I tested, it shows there was a visit, but no lead details, so no emails/alerts were sent.


I feel like there is something obvious that I am missing here. Can anyone help? And if this is a poor way of going about this, any thoughts on a better way?

Thanks!

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

It makes perfect sense that the lead is Anonymous. In your setup, the first time they hit a Marketo-integrated page, you aren't including any identifying information!

There are several ways to solve this problem:

  • Send them to an interstitial redirector page on a site with Munchkin first.  Ensure that Munchkin has logged the hit (and thus associated the lead) and then redirect to SurveyMonkey; or
  • Have the survey site append the lead's email address to the Thank You URL and do a background form post; or
  • Have the survey site append the original mkt_tok parameter to the Thank You URL (by storing it in a hidden field); or
  • Other cross-domain form post methods.

2 replies

Elizabeth_Bonin
New Participant
July 12, 2017

How do you send them to a thank you page through survey monkey?

Employee
February 15, 2016

Hi Meghan,

I think the setup you've got should work.

Because the thank you page has been published though, it can be reached by crawlers or bots, which probably explains the visit you saw with no details.  I wouldn't worry about it unless you're seeing a bunch of visits without any details.

John

February 15, 2016

Thanks for the response John! Problem is, there is no lead information. So while the thank you page is tracking there was a visitor, I don't have any information about who that person is...so no email is sent, etc.

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
New Participant
February 15, 2016

It makes perfect sense that the lead is Anonymous. In your setup, the first time they hit a Marketo-integrated page, you aren't including any identifying information!

There are several ways to solve this problem:

  • Send them to an interstitial redirector page on a site with Munchkin first.  Ensure that Munchkin has logged the hit (and thus associated the lead) and then redirect to SurveyMonkey; or
  • Have the survey site append the lead's email address to the Thank You URL and do a background form post; or
  • Have the survey site append the original mkt_tok parameter to the Thank You URL (by storing it in a hidden field); or
  • Other cross-domain form post methods.