Creating an email capture page on your site is one of the best ways to start building your email list, as you can see here.
With Podia, you can easily add email forms to your site pages to capture emails by encouraging people to sign up for a newsletter, receive promotions, or stay updated on the latest happenings in your business.
In this article, we'll show you how to add an email capture page to your site.
Introduction
The first step when it comes to creating your email capture page is to define/create the site page that will host the email capture form.
If you already have/know the page you want to use for collecting emails, you can skip this step 😄
You can add an email form to any pages of your site, but people usually add it to the following pages:
Homepage - you can add an email form to your homepage if you want to collect more general subscribers.
The benefit is the amount of traffic your homepage gets, which is usually higher than other pages. This might put your email form in front of more potential subscribers
Custom pages dedicated to collecting emails - you can also create custom pages and use them to collect email addresses.
You can tailor them to be specific offers - such as getting a discount by entering your email list or subscribing to a newsletter.
You can always check the page you're in by looking at the page navigation menu at the top left corner of the Site Builder.
Click on the page navigation menu and select the "+ New page" option if you'd like to create a new page to host your email form.
Adding an email form to a site page
After you're set on what page you want to use for collecting emails, it's time to add email forms to those pages so you can start capturing emails.
Here's how to add an email form to a site page:
Hover over the spot where you want to add a new section to trigger the Insert Section command.
Click the “+” symbol to add a section, then choose Video from the left-hand menu.
Pick one of the pre-made design options from the left-hand menu.
Available pre-made designs include email forms with more elements (such as images) and slim email forms with less information.
The design option you picked will be added to your page.
Once the section is added, use the Content and Design tabs to modify your email form page section.
Use the Content tab to modify the content of your email form page section, such as text description of your section, signup buttons text and form subtext, success behavior, and even tag subscribers.Use the Design tab to modify the design of your email form page section, such as width, gap, colors, etc!
Once you're done, make sure to click on Publish at the top right to publish the changes you have made and have them show up on your live site!
Tagging subscribers
If you're planning on having multiple email forms across your site - or if you just want to have better control over your subscribers - you can automatically tag subscribers based on what email forms they have used to subscribe.
Here's how to tag subscribers based on signups through email form page sections:
Click directly on the email form section to open its options in the left-hand menu.
Using the left-hand options menu, locate the Tag subscribers section.
You can add one or multiple tags if you'd like.
Different email forms can have different tags, so you can better organize subscribers and add different tags to multiple newsletters, pages, lead magnets, etc.
Once people subscribe using this specific email form on your site, they will be tagged with whatever tags you added here.
You should then be able to target them with email broadcasts or campaigns.
FAQ
After I create the email capture page, how do I share the link with potential customers?
After I create the email capture page, how do I share the link with potential customers?
You'll need to share the link to the page your email form is located.
You can follow the instructions in this article to find the page URL.
Can I add multiple tags to email capture forms?
Can I add multiple tags to email capture forms?
Yes!
You can add one or multiple tags to email form page sections depending on how many tags you want to add to a particular subscriber after they subscribe through that specific Email Form.
Can different email capture forms have different tags?
Can different email capture forms have different tags?
Yes, they can!
You can add different tags to different email form page sections.
This will allow you to better organize subscribers and tag subscribers based on page they're coming from, lead magnet offers you have, etc.
Still need help?
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