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Email Basics Lesson 3: Adding a Sign-Up Form on Your Site
"Now that you have an emailist anda reason for people to sgn up you need apace for them to do
We used to ke to use 2 popup form that would appear whenever someone motions wth thelr mouse
toleavethe site. We ako hada slide out that would appear whenever people scral ha-way down an
article or page. However, we get ed ofthese fe
res because Googles penalizing ses with popups.
And that makes sence. Popups degrade the user experience, IC Just means that We need fo Work 3
litle harder to get people onto our emails.
You need to star by creating alist for sign-ups to goo.
ote your account dashboard and click on "Contacts" and then “Lt, Youll see list already
created called "Your Firsts. You can clk on “Acons" tothe right and rename the Est whatever you
te.
Now cick on “Contacts and then “For
to create a subscription form. Flow the prompts tocreate
form. Serlldoun and select thelst you want to add contacts to and clckSave". Now you can cick
‘Share’. Copy the iframe code, Thats what wel paste onto your ste,
Now creat the page
Call ewhatever you want. Youll probably algo want to make a prety link to this page so you can easily
ect people to Irom YouTube videos ander podcasts. Something tke “pewsleter” warks really
well In fac you just call t-Wewserter" and your permalinks are setto“post name” then you wont
even need a pretty lnk
orm for ema ist signups. Make a page on your site for this sign-up form.
"Now ad some wording to the page that wil help sea he eal fr eral sign-ups. Wella more
about thisin later lesson so for now dont worry too much. Just add some wording tht sounds good
to you. Then, put your cursor on the page where you want to add the sign-up form and click the “text”
tab atthe top ofthe wordpress page editor. Now, paste the frame code you piled fom Send in Blue
Now clck*Pubish or “Update so you c
20see your webpage lve, The form wil be embedded into
the webpage justhow you lftit. And when people come to this page and enter their info, they be
signed up for your emails
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