Sign-up Form: GetResponse Tutorial for Newbies #6

Sign-up form: GetResposne Tutorial #6

It is now time to set up a Sign-up Form (or Web Form) so that your readers have a convenient place to sign up to your blog updates.

We have now covered

• what is a Campaign and How to Create a Campaign
• adding or importing (if any) existing contacts to your campaign
• how to create an automatic RSS-to-email newsletter

Now we need to create our webform or sign-up form to put onto your site and let your eager readers sign up!

Note: it is recommended we setup the web sign-up form sooner rather than later.  We want to start building our mailing list as soon as possible.  We may lose valuable readership if there is no way to sign up because they may never remember to come back to our site again.  Sorry.  It happens!

How to Create Web Sign-up Form

GetResponse – Create WebForm

Go to top menu >> hover over WebForms >> Create New

Note: First check that you have selected the correct campaign for which you want to create a sign-up webform for. (See top-right “Your current campaign”)

Tips:

• Give your webform a name that makes it easy for you to identify later (e.g NWUpdateWkly 250px).  This name is only for you and will not be seen by your subscribers.
• Later You may choose to create and have your own Thank You page (what user sees right after they sign-up via your webform) but for now, the GetResponse Default Thank-you page will be good enough.
• Code – when you copy code to put into your site (i.e. publish the webform), if you choose JavaScript code, your webform will automatically update whenever you make design changes (to your webform) in the future. (Even if you change the name of your webform!) However with HTML code, you will need to copy the code and paste into your site each time you make any webform design changes.
• it does not look as if you can delete a webform once created.  You can only disable it.
• In the “Settings” section when creating / editing your webform, my tip (unless you already have your own custom Thank You page to use) is to select “Stay on Current page“. Using the “Default Thank-you page” means that as soon as someone has signed-up via your form, they get taken away from your site.  And the back button is not available!  Very bad of GetResponse!
  Using “Stay on Current Page”, the label changes nicely to “Thank You” without the user leaving your site or page.  Much better.
  

  GetResponse – After Signup

Have a watch of the following GetResponse video on how to create a webform:

AWeber vs GetResponse Webform

The End

I think the above video pretty much covered how to create the webforms you want. You can see my web sign-up form in the sidebar of this site.

If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to enter your comments/queries in the comments section below.

There are more advanced GetResponse features of course, but for now, we have come to the end of the GetResponse Tutorial for Newbies. All your essential autoresponder/newsletter basics should be in place and you should be right to go!