6 Replies Latest reply: Oct 28, 2014 8:01 PM by Infinium IT RSS

    Newsletter signup with form widget

    Infinium IT Community Member
    Infinium IT Oct 27, 2014 9:14 PM

      I do not use BC for hosting, and I am using Get Response for newsletters. I have a nicely designed form I have built in Muse that flows with the rest of the site design. Is there any way to use this Muse form, or am I going to have to embed a Get Response form?

        • 1. Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
          Sanjit_Das Employee Hosts
          Sanjit_Das Oct 28, 2014 12:07 AM (in response to Infinium IT)

          You can use Muse form to collect users data but that would be manual as you will have to record the data received from form submissions.

          For a more automatic collection of subscribers with a non-bc hosting , best is to use third party newsletter system or if your hosting platform provides such a form html to insert on Muse pages.

           

          Thanks,

          Sanjit

          • 2. Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
            Infinium IT Community Member
            Infinium IT Oct 28, 2014 10:39 AM (in response to Sanjit_Das)

            Yes, I understand that. I was wondering if there is any alternative to that? Can I use the form widget to send the data directly to my mailing list with GetResponse? I have tried inserting HTML, but it does not render properly at all. It looks terrible! If there is no way to do this, I hope this becomes a feature soon.

            • 3. Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
              Sanjit_Das Employee Hosts
              Sanjit_Das Oct 28, 2014 7:17 PM (in response to Infinium IT)

              While talking about customer data , it requires database access (crm) which can be configured with your hosting platform wherever you are hosting the site.

              Personally, i have not tried get response but if its question about collecting or recording customer responses in some database , then you can try Google forms which can be maintained through Google drive , Form submission will capture customer details such as email , form field values etc in Google sheet which you can use as a report which can further be used for email marketing.

               

              Thanks,

              Sanjit

              • 4. Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
                Brad Lawryk CommunityMVP
                Brad Lawryk Oct 28, 2014 7:26 PM (in response to Sanjit_Das)

                Actually the best way I found is to either use Business Catalyst or if you prefer your own host then use Adobe Forms Central. Create your form there and embed it in your muse page with the Insert HTML feature.

                • 5. Re: Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
                  Infinium IT Community Member
                  Infinium IT Oct 28, 2014 7:42 PM (in response to Brad Lawryk)

                  Thanks! I have tried embedding (Object> Insert HTML), but that has not worked so well for me, as it seems to mess up other elements in the page.

                  • 6. Re: Newsletter signup with form widget
                    Infinium IT Community Member
                    Infinium IT Oct 28, 2014 8:01 PM (in response to Sanjit_Das)

                    Is there any way to use a Muse form to collect that data and send it directly to my database (ie Google Sheets, Get Response, etc.)?  I could insert HTML, but I have tried that and it does not work render correctly.

                    Get Response docs say  I need to be able to put this data into the form code of the form:

                     

                    <form action=”https://app.getresponse.com/add_subscriber.html” accept-charset=”utf-8” method=”post”>

                    <input type=”hidden” name=”campaign_token” value=”XXXXXX (Paste your campaign token here)“/><br/>

                     

                    If there is no way to do this with a Muse form, then that should be a top priority on the Muse roadmap.