Have you ever thought about how many web apps there are in the world? Well, enough of them to compose a world map at least.
A couple of weeks has passed since we started a contest for a new name of our service. We have received over 1000 name suggestions and now we are happy to announce the winner: Askrz.com!
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NEW EMAIL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM ON PHPFORMS
Our latest updates are all about improving interaction between form admins and users. The new email notification system that has recently appeared on PHPForms can help you solve multiple tasks and save tons of time collecting data with web forms.
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PHPForms is coming up to a new phase of its evolution. So, we are announcing contest: suggest a new name for our product and win $150!
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We keep on improving our product for you and, hopefully, we will never stop doing this. Just a month has passed since the introduction of new features for users of both Free and Advanced plan.
Now we’ve got several more necessary updates to your attention:
First of all, after logging into your PHPForms account you will notice that design and layout have changed a bit. See how it looks now:
Our team has been working hard to provide you with the best online form creator ever! And now we have prepared a New Year gift for all our dearest users of PHPForms!
Finally you can enjoy enhanced usage of our service according to your needs due to Advanced plan!
And just like free plan, no installation required!
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to announce new features added to PHPForms hosted version:
Using survey fields in your forms you can create any complicated surveys and polls that you probably could only dream of!
Email marketing is not limited by email newsletters. This area is polyhedral, and there is a great number tiny details. Some of them are discussed in this article.
Every day we receive a big number of email notifications and often pay no attention to them. But they are a very powerful tool for marketing specialists because it is an extra cause to remind client about yourself, to suggest additional products or services, increase his loyalty.
In this article we offer you the most interesting facts about email newsletters. Some of these figures surprise, some of them delight, and some of them disappoint:
32.6% of letters are opened during first 2 hours after sending; after 23 hours 75% of letters are opened;
Mean index of link clicking in letters is 0.17%-2.73%, average one is 1.6%. It is worse per 40% than last year index;
There is a great number of sites, articles and newsletters that give recommendations of how to enhance the effectiveness of email marketing. It happens very often that people suggest really wrong methods of email marketing optimization. Today we’ll consider this topic and describe several unsuccessful examples of newsletter organization.
Here are some things we recommend you not to do.
The most evident way to increase effectiveness of email newsletter is to conduct experiments on narrow groups of receivers for further analysis of results. Either you’ll get large amount of opened letters and clicked links or vice versa. And on the basis of results you can build some conclusions. You can make small changes in your newsletter and analyze their influence on its effectiveness.
Experiment process can be divided into 3 steps:
Make copy of email newsletter;
There are some cases when email newsletter may do harm. Main one is sending SPAM newsletters. When users did not give initial agreement to receive newsletters, and you send non-authorized newsletter on behalf of your company using corporate style, it is a SPAM. It may either attract attention to your proposition or antagonize them forever.
This article is about the myths of email marketing. There are a lot of pseudo-specialists in email marketing who predicate some wrong things based on personal considerations, commerce interests or some subject reasons. That’s why here we will reveal some real concepts about it.
In this article you will find some jokes about email marketing.
If Internet would have been in ancient Rome:
Atilla would have his own page in Facebook and everybody would agree to become his friend;
The most popular query in Google would have been “Naked Cleopatra”;
Roman companies would place orders for cheap Mesopotamian outsourcers.
Many people who want to practice email marketing think about one thing: “Where to start?” In this case we can suggest them two solutions. In the first case, if you’ve got database of clients and subscribers, you can immediately start sending direct newsletters. In the second case, if you have no database, you should start to create it. Collect email addresses of your clients and users who subscribed for newsletter on your site.
Nowadays one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) – is WordPress. It is an open source CMS, which allows web masters to adjust the code of all elements of the site. And the numerous widgets do all coding job for people, so it doesn’t require excellent programming skills. Usually it is used to build blogs, but very often people create corporate web sites based on WordPress as well. Its plugin architecture makes this CMS the best tool to create a professional web resource.
If you have created a WordPress site and now want to embed a contact form or any other web form in it, you may use PHPForms.net service to build a customized WordPress contact form that will suit your web resource. Let’s consider the process of contact form integration in WordPress site.
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Everyone knows what web forms are and they are becoming a part of users’ daily online interaction. People begin to understand that a professional and successful web site must have online forms. Registration form, login form, contact form, subscription form, file upload form and many others must fully satisfy visitors of the site and be maximally understandable and easy to use. Especially it is important for commercial sites because their profit depends on the order form the customers have to fill in.
Default web forms look unprofessional and unshaped. Today web design requires all elements be in one style and have the same design, so it is very advisable to customise the web forms on your site.
To allow users upload files of different types can be very useful. The basic idea of upload form is to let users upload a file from their local personal computer to the server. It doesn’t require any special knowledge from a user to do that, and he may do it in several clicks.
Nowadays many web sites use file upload form. For example in the most of profiles users can have user icon. So they find the appropriate picture in their PC and then with the help of file upload field they upload it to their profile on the web site. Read the rest of this entry »
