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Why you should log into your website to check your form entries.
Form entries contain all the data that your customers enter on your website form. If you do not log in to your website to check your form entries then you could be missing out on valuable communications from your customers.
Logging into your website to check your form entries ensures that you are following up with every customers’ request.
Why you should add text notifications to your website form.
A text notification is a message sent directly to your mobile phone when a customer fills out a website form.
You have a 95% chance of doing business with a customer when you can respond in the first five minutes. Email notifications are very unreliable. Text notifications however are instantaneous and more reliable.
If you don’t add text notifications to your website form then you could be missing valuable communications from your customers and never even know it.
Adding text notifications to your website form ensures that you know when a customer is contacting you so you can respond in a timely manner.
Why you should use a branded email in your website form notifications.
A branded email is an email account that is associated with your domain.
In other words, the part of your email address after the @ symbol matches your website address.
If you do not use a branded email address in your website form notifications then it is most likely that your email server will put your website form notifications in the trash or the spam box.
Using a branded email in your website form notifications will allow you to manage your email filters better ensuring that you receive messages from your website form.
Why you should use a unique URL for the webpage with your website form.
A unique URL should contain uncommon words to make a link for your webpage containing your website form.
If you use common words like contact or contact us in the URL or link to the webpage for your website form then it will be easily guessed by the spammers.
Once your webpage containing your website form is located the spammers use software to automatically send messages from your form to other people. The real issue here is that spam messages coming from your website form can cause your website server to be blacklisted. Once your website or form has been identified as generating spam then your website may no longer work.
Using unique URLs for the webpage with your website form on it hides your webpage from the spammers.
Why you should customize the subject of your website form notification.
The subject line is the headline or words that you see for an email before you open it.
If you do not customize the subject of your website form Notifications then it may be difficult to distinguish one website form notification from another.
The value of creating customized subjects for your form notifications is that you can mark the emails as important, flag them, or filter them into separate folders. This is why you should customize the subject of your website Notifications.
Using valid data when testing your website form.
Valid data is using real names, maybe not real people, and matching city and ZIP Codes.
If you do not use valid data when testing your website forms then your notifications will most likely go into the spam or trash.
If you have Akismet configured for your website form you can check for your messages in the spam entries.
Using valid data allows your notification to send your email in fully test your website form.
Add qualifying questions to your website form
Qualifying questions are easy to answer questions for your customers to tell you who they are, what services they want from you, and when they would like to receive them.
If you don’t ask qualifying questions on your website form that you could be attracting the wrong kind of customers.
Asking qualifying questions on your website form allows you to save time communicating with your customers.
Connecting your website form to an email list
An email list is a collection of email addresses that have been entered on your website form.
If you do not connect your website form to an email list then you will not be able to reach back out to all those customers at a later date.
Connecting your website form to an email list adds value to your business, allowing you to announce new offers, products or services, to those contacts at a later date. This is why you should connect your website form to an email list.
Website Conversion
Every tip helps ensure better email delivery to make sure you don’t miss a contact from a new customer. Website form conversion is one of the 3 main purposes of a website.
Business owner and entrepreneur, David Grubb started Shepherds Loft in 2000 with a couple of friends. Now, after over 20 years, he has enjoyed helping hundreds of business owners with their business.
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