The Drip Content Plugin allows you to create and schedule content to be released to your app users over time. This can be particularly useful if you want to deliver a course, training program, or any other type of content that needs to be consumed in a specific order or at a specific pace.

How to use the Drip Content Plugin:

Step 1: Create your Slides

Every piece of content displayed in the Drip Content plugin will be facilitated through a slide. Each slide contains new information and an action.

Click on Add Slide

Note: You’ll eventually be adding multiple slides to the sequence. For example, if you’re creating a 21-day workout challenge, you’ll have at least 21 slides.

Each slide will contain some form of content containing an action.

Once you've added your Action, Action Slide Title, and Description you can press save to release that content or schedule it to be released at a later time.

Step 2: Schedule your content

After you've added your content, you'll need to schedule it to be released to your app users.

Click on the content you want to schedule, and choose the date and time you want it to be released.

Fill in the form fields for when you want the next slide to be available.

The local notification will appear within the app once the next slide is available.

For example, let’s say an app user completes the first day of a workout sequence. Based on the settings in the previous step, day two won’t be available until tomorrow. When that same user opens the app the next day, they’ll see the local notification customized in this step.

In this case, “Today’s workout is ready!” fits perfectly.

Step 3: Save and publish

Once you've scheduled your content, click "Save" to save your changes. After your Drip Content campaign has been set up and saved, click Publish so your content will now be released to your app users according to the schedule you've set.

Pro Tips For the Drip Content Plugin

Pro Tip 1: Leverage Behavior Tagging

Add behavior tags to your slides. You can manage this from the “Tagging” tab within the plugin settings.

By pairing the behavior tags with actions, each time users complete a slide within your sequence, the progress will automatically be saved to their profile.

For example, let’s say one of your actions links to the Free Text Questionnaire plugin. If you have a behavioral tag on that questionnaire, that tag would be applied to the user profile. So if the survey was tagged with something like “Day 10” of a 30-day challenge, then you’d know exactly where users were in the sequence.

Pro Tip 2: View User Analytics

In addition to behavior tagging specific actions, you can always navigate to the “Analytics” tag to see how far along users are within the sequence of the slides. You can get daily statistics over a 30, 60, or 90 day period. The analytics tab will even help identify your top users.

Overall, this information can be vital for determining how successful your slides are.

If you have 30 slides, and none of the app users are getting past slide #10, you may want to go back and make changes to get people further along in the sequence.

Pro Tip 3: Monetize

The Drip Content plugin is great for those of you looking for ways to monetize your app.

You can use it to create slides within a single purchase app. Alternatively, you can create slides with in-app purchases or in-app subscriptions for access to content. All of this can be managed within the “Purchase” tab of the plugin settings.

In summary, the Drip Content Plugin on Buildfire is a powerful tool for delivering content to your app users over time. If you have any questions about the Drip Content plugin please reach out to Suport@BuildFire.com!

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