- In this video, I'm going to be showing you something
you probably didn't know that you could do
with the MailChimp embed form.
Stay tuned, it's coming up next.
One of the issues I've experienced
with the MailChimp signup form
is that it's a 1:1 ratio.
You have one audience, one signup form.
With the MailChimp embed form,
you have the capability to add tags which is fantastic.
Except, well, what if you wanted to use two embed forms
on your website?
Could you use two different tags?
And up until now, I would say no.
But I've been doing some testing
and I think you're going to be pleased with results
that you can do more than one tag, more than one embed form.
And here's how we're going to do it.
Starting on the dashboard here
of my play account on MailChimp,
I'm going to go over to Signup forms.
One of the things that you should be doing
before you start on embedding forms into your website
is go to the form builder itself
and make sure that you have all the fields
that you want in there.
Add in any extra fields that you want
and make sure it looks at the way you want it too.
So in addition to the signup form,
you should be looking at what is the signup form
for alerts looks like.
What is recapture looks like?
What is the confirmation thank you page, which I did change.
So it goes to an alternative URL
versus, hey, your subscription confirmed.
This little popup that shows up.
Not very user friendly,
so I send them to a thank you page.
Those are the things that you should be going through
and looking at.
Profile, update, email, all of this stuff.
Take a look at it, edit it
and design it the way you want it to look like.
And make sure it's saying the same messaging
to your subscribers, all right?
Back to the original page here.
Let's go into embedded forms and start making this happen.
So let's click on Select
and now we go through all the options that you have.
So we go into Form Fields.
And again, these are all pulling in
for your audience fields that you have.
Additionally, you can add other fields if you want.
So you can add in last name,
any of these things that are here
or you can rotate these around
and have email address first or first name.
And so you can switch those around as you desire.
And you can also make them required
or unrequired as you see here, easy enough.
Settings.
If you go into Settings,
they do provide the ability to add a title to your form.
If you have other introductions,
other things that are going on that page,
you might necessarily don't want to have a form title.
Next up is the width.
If you don't want to have a specific width,
just take it out.
We're going to stick with 600
'cause I think that's okay for our testing here.
Then we get into remove CSS styles.
Now if you are don't want to have this white background here
and all the CSS styles that Mailchimp provides,
you can turn that off.
So when you remove CSS styles,
obviously all the CSS styles that are associated
with your form from MailChimp go away.
So that's why it looks kind of all scrunched up here.
And then you have the ability to turn on
or turn off JavaScript.
JavaScript, if you mouse over the little eye here,
tells you that it gives you the field validation
and inline form submission.
So it sends a little message
that says thank you for subscribing on the screen,
that type of thing.
So you can disable that if you want to.
But just remember, it's also doing field validation
which means that it's checking
to make sure that the information is correct
and is not spam.
Although you still could turn on recapture
from your audience settings.
Show format, you can check that off if you want.
It enables a little option here
from people to select whether they want HTML or text.
Uncheck that.
And then lastly, you have something
called show archive link
which is pretty nice.
So people who are interested in to see
what you've sent previously
to your subscribers, your contacts,
they can see that here.
And they click that link,
it goes to your archive of your campaigns.
We'll keep that unchecked
and we will disable all JavaScript.
Now that we have Settings, let's go into Tags
because this is where it's going to be very exciting
for a lot of you, I think.
So I have a tag here called yt video test.
I just created that on the fly
to create something on the fly here with tags.
You can say just type in chocolate and then hit Enter,
and then it adds chocolate as a new tag.
Let's keep chocolate in there.
Take a yt video test
and you can add in as many tags as you want in here.
These are all my tags that I've been testing and using.
And so you can add all of these tags in here if you want.
But then that gets a little complicated
on who's filling out what.
And it gets complicated for segmentation as well.
So I wouldn't go crazy with the tags.
But here's our tag, chocolate.
Done with tags.
The next option is referral badge.
I'm on a paid account
so I have the ability to turn that off.
But like most of you,
you probably don't have that option
so I'm going to leave that on.
Let's click back.
We're all done with our settings.
We like the way the form looks.
We're going to click on Continue.
We're going to get this gobbledygook of code.
It's called HTML.
And so what we want to do now is want to click on Copy Code.
Now I'm going to put this in a page.
So we'll going to go over to our pages
and our WordPress administration area here
and we're going to click on Add New.
And we're going to give it a title of, Hey there!
Sign up for my webinar on chocolate.
Something like that.
Our block here, since we are using Gutenberg
is going to be custom HTML
and then we paste in our gobbledygook.
We can preview to see what it's going to look like.
Fantastic, no issues there.
So then we're going to go over to save as draft
and then we're going to click on Publish.
After we click on Publish, we're going to view the page
in incognito window and we'll see how it all looks.
Right, so here's our first name, so we'll do Larry.
And our email address will be this one.
Go and click Subscribe
and it should take me to the thank you page and it does.
Let's minimize that.
We want it to do,
we go over to our view contact
for this person and we refresh.
And now we have the added tag chocolate.
So that's just one embed form.
Let's create another one using the same process
with a different tag.
Go back to our embedded forms,
it's right here.
Let's take out chocolate and let's add in vanilla.
And now that we have that,
we can go over to Continue,
copy the code, and let's create a new page.
Add this embed form on it.
So here's our old one.
Go up to New and we'll click on Page.
In the page title,
we'll say, Hey there! Sign up for my course Vanilla.
Same thing, we'll do custom HTML and paste it in.
And then we'll save draft.
We can either publish or preview.
I'm going to preview this one.
Open up in a new tab,
sign up for my course on vanillala.
And we'll do the same thing.
We'll do the same person.
Here we go and click on Subscribe,
goes to the thank you page,
go back to our contact and see if we now have vanilla,
and we do.
There's vanilla right there and chocolate.
So there you go guys.
That's how you can use the embed form
more than once with different tags.
Hopefully this has helped.
It's helped me quite a bit understand
how we can use this type of feature.
If you have any questions,
post them in the comments below.
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