Technical Question - How Are You Capturing Emails?
This isn't something I have not seen anyone post about yet, but how do you capture emails for your newsletter from a technical point of view? I want to know how you're making the code on your landing pages or otherwise actually connect to some backend system to create/maintain your lists.
I see posts written from the point of view where someone already has a list, or how to capture more emails from a marketing standpoint. I see the same thing out of services like EmailOctopus - they assume you already have a list. All of these are good, but not the only thing a Newsletter Noob needs to get started.
Thanks!
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You install a code snippet With an HTML form on your landing page. See the docs of mailchimp or ActiveCampaign, they tell you how it works.
Ahh so you need a service like that first. That makes a lot more sense, thank you!
Right. Otherwise, you would have to install a list manager service by yourself, on your own server.
Hi Mike,
sorry if I am putting it as a promotion here, but I guess Dashly.io can help you here
You can create lead magnets (aka pop-up windows) with it - GDPR compliant - and shoot newsletters via Dashly as well. Like, you grow the database and communicate with it.
Let me know if you are searching for something in particular!
for me and my convertkit newsletter - just plain convertkit embedded forms! i used to construct my own forms and then plug in the associated CK form id, so still just plain HTML, but when i fully moved to ghost for bytesized.xyz, the embedded form looked good and was super easy to drop in (example here).
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