Simple signup form template:
<form method="get" action="http://www.followupxpert.com/submit.php">
<input type="hidden" name="submit_to" value="MAILING LIST EMAIL">
<input type="hidden" name="submit_subject" value="SUBSCRIBE">
<input type="hidden" name="submit_successURL" value="SUCCESS URL">
<input type="hidden" name="submit_failureURL" value="FAILURE URL">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5px">
<tr>
<td class="text">Name:</td>
<td align="right"><input name="name"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="text">Email:</td>
<td align="right"><input name="submit_from"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="right"><button type="submit">Submit</button></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Replace the fields marked in red:
| MAILING LIST EMAIL |
|
The email the message will be sent to (FollowUpExpert should be downloading new mail from this account). |
| SUCCESS URL |
|
Address of the web page the visitor will see after he or she successfully submits the form, e.g.
http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.htm. |
| FAILURE URL |
|
This is the address of the page the visitor will see if there's a problem sending mail etc., e.g.
http://www.mydomain.com/error.htm |
To configure FollowUpExpert to work with the form, please do the following:
- Create a mailing list.
- Configure it to download new mail from the email account the MAILING LIST EMAIL above points to.
- Click the "Opt-in" tab and enable opt-in by email.
- Tell the program to only accept opt-in messages that have "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject: click "Conditions", click "Every incoming message...", turn on the option labeled "The Subject line contains specific words", click the "words" link, type in "SUBSCRIBE" (w/o quotes), click "Add" and "OK", "OK".
- Click "Form/Parsing".
- Tell the program how to extract the email address from the message sent by the form: click "Add", type in "submit_from" (w/o quotes) into the "Starts with" text box, choose "Email" using the "Save as" drop-down list and click "OK".
- Tell the program how to extract the name: click "Add", type in "name" (again, w/o quotes) into the "Starts with" text box, choose "Name" using the "Save as" drop-down list and click "OK".
- Click "OK", "OK" until you get to the main screen.
Please read this for more information.
