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Subscription form setup
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Written by Yaroslav
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Adding an opt in form to your website is a great way to start collecting your visitors’ emails and improve your newsletter or autoresponder campaign. By doing this, you take advantage of a valuable opportunity to turn one-time visitors into regular ones and customers.

There are a lot of email marketing providers, but the ones that we recommend to use are Mailchimp and AWeber.

How to set up subscription form with Mailchimp

You can use Mailchimp service for collecting your subscribers' emails: it allows you to have up to 2,000 subscribers and 10,000 emails per month for free.

1.Register with mailchimp.com. Here's the guide how to do it.

2. Now go to the Audience tab in your account → Signup forms and select Embedded forms:

3. Click Continue on the next screen

4. In the form code, copy the underlined code snippet after <form action=" (the line between the quotation marks)

5. Go to your WP admin panelCustomization → Subscription Form and paste the copied snippet into the default code (between the double quotation marks):

6. Click Save Settings.

7. Now return to the Mailchimp form and scroll down to a line below /* real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups */ and copy the contents for name=" (between the quotation marks)

8. Go back to WP admin panelCustomization → Subscription Form and replace "enter_your_value" with the copied snippet into the default code (between the double quotation marks)

9. Now save the settings.

10. Make sure to put your website address in your Mailchimp account, so that visitors can get right back to your website once they signed up:

  • Go to Audience → Manage Audience → Settings → Required email footer content:

  • Scroll down to Website URL, enter your website address and click Save:

11. In order to check if you have set everything properly, please put some email into the subscription form on your website and click Subscribe. Then check the Audience in your Mailchimp account if the email was added to it.

AWEBER

AWeber has both free and paid plans, depending on the features included.

Step 1.

Register with aweber.com.

Step 2.

Go to your Aweber account → Sign Up Forms and click Create A Sign Up Form.

Step 3.

The theme has an already designed subscription form, that’s why you can skip this step and go to Step 2.

Step 4.

Enter your form name, select Basic Version settings for Thank You Page and Already Subscribed Page.

Click Save Your Form and proceed to the next step.

Step 5.

Click I Will Install My Form and select Raw HTML Version tab.

Copy the entire code and paste it instead of the default code that you have in Customization → Subscribe Form Settings.

Click Save Settings and you are done!

We can help you with email subscription form integration. Learn more about our service here: https://alidropship.com/services/email-subscription-form-integration/. 

Also, you can benefit from one of our marketing services: https://alidropship.com/services/lead-generation-popup-setup/ We will set up a signup form and a bright pop-up to maximize your income. 


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