FormSpring Blog » FormSpring News http://blog.formspring.com Tips and information for using web forms Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 FormSpring welcomes Austin Dillman http://blog.formspring.com/2009/11/03/formspring-welcomes-austin-dillman/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/11/03/formspring-welcomes-austin-dillman/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:10 +0000 austin http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1761 I’m very excited to dive into my new role as Marketing Specialist at FormSpring. I was first introduced to FormSpring by my brother, Ryan, who is the Support Specialist here. Having grown up the youngest of three boys and taking my fair share of lumps, I was somewhat apprehensive about working with my older brother. However, I’m happy to report that I read through the employee handbook and swirlies and pink bellies are a big “no-no” here at FormSpring. I just hope that Ryan read his handbook as well.

I was born and raised in Kokomo, Indiana – “The City of Firsts” – or more affectionately known as “Stoplight City”. Not venturing too far from home, I attended Purdue University where I received my BA in Visual Communications Design. I worked my way down to Indianapolis in 2005 where I’ve spent my career as a designer and developing, testing and analyzing marketing programs. I’ll actually be taking on a bit of both roles here at FormSpring. When not in the office, you can find me cheering on the Colts and Boilermakers, enjoying the outdoors and training for 5K’s and half marathons.Recent Posts:

Other Interesting Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/11/03/formspring-welcomes-austin-dillman/feed/ 0 FormSpring Welcomes Erica Dobson http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/30/formspring-welcomes-erica-dobson/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/30/formspring-welcomes-erica-dobson/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:06 +0000 erica http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1758 Hi.  I’m Erica, one of the newest members (and yes, only female) to join the team here at FormSpring.  You can find me fulfilling various marketing and PR roles. I grew up in a tiny town known as Rushville, Indiana (Yes, THE hometown of Nascar driver Tony Stewart).  I graduated from the University of Indianapolis with a degree in Marketing. Before joining the FormSpring team I worked in marketing for a local HVAC manufacturing company and a small business marketing firm.

When I am not in the office or at a networking event, you can find me spending time with my husband, taking a nice long walk or reading a good book.  On Sundays, you can find me in front of a television rooting for the Colts.Recent Posts:

Other Interesting Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/30/formspring-welcomes-erica-dobson/feed/ 2 Extreme Makeover Home Edition and FormSpring http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/07/extreme-makeover-home-edition-and-formspring/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/07/extreme-makeover-home-edition-and-formspring/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:04:05 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1738 extreme-makeoverExtreme Makeover Home Edition is the popular ABC television show that takes on the monumental task of building a home for a family in need. They are coming back to Central Indiana and Hallmark Homes has been chosen as the home builder for the project. FormSpring has been asked to participate in this great event by donating our application to Hallmark Homes and providing an easy way to allow people to volunteer, donate and to be spectators during the filming of the show.

We are excited to be a small part of this! You can learn more about the build at Hallmark’s website for the build, Hallmark Extreme. Coming later this month a deserving family will be chosen as the lucky recipient of a brand new home from Hallmark HomeRecent Posts:

Other Related Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/07/extreme-makeover-home-edition-and-formspring/feed/ 0 FormSpring listed on SaaSListing.com http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/01/formspring-listed-on-saaslisting-com/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/01/formspring-listed-on-saaslisting-com/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:33:18 +0000 john http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1716 SaaSListing.com is a professional listing service that offers an extensive list of the best Software as a Service companies. FormSpring was recently listed and we thought this service might be of interest to our readers.

Searchable by nearly 50 categories and containing hundreds of companies on the list, SaaSListing.com is a great place to find SaaS offerings that meet many different needs. Give them a look, you might find something you like!Recent Posts:

Other Interesting Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/10/01/formspring-listed-on-saaslisting-com/feed/ 0 Get Your MBO http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/24/get-your-mbo/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/24/get-your-mbo/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:13:10 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1696 Indianapolis is quickly becoming recognized as a great place to be a growing technology company (something many of us have known for some time). The Indy area has some fast growing companies as well as a growing community of smart, forward thinking marketers. We are home to one of the leading Marketing Technology blogs and a great blogging conference called BlogIndiana.  Coming up in October we have another growing and very valuable conference called MBO – Masters of Business Online – a conference that brings together organizations big and small in the Indy region to listen to presenters with a wide variety of skills across all online platforms. Unlike many growing national conferences this isn’t just the latest flash in the pan topics like blogging and social media, but rather a look at everything from Search, PPC, Email Marketing, Social Media, and much much more.

Who Should Attend? If you are in the Indy area and you are managing or executing on your organization’s online marketing initiatives I suggest you attend. You will hear from some very knowledgeable speakers and get real-world tips from people who are in the online trenches everyday.  The real value is learning how different organizations use online tools to be better marketers, and that is what the speakers at MBO will provide. Plus you can even attend our presentation on effective online forms.

So what are you waiting for? Register today and jumpstart your 2010 marketing!Recent Posts:

Other Related Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/24/get-your-mbo/feed/ 0 The Twall of Fame http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/22/the-twall-of-fame/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/22/the-twall-of-fame/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:33:51 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1679 We have been looking at our semi-white walls for a long time wondering how exactly we could decorate them and still give this place some personality. We caught some inspiration after reading a post on the FreshThinking blog on how FreshBooks decorated their offices for cheap.

We created our own “Twall of Fame” by taking screen grabs of all the great twitter feedback we have received and put them in some inexpensive mats to give them a clean look.

Twall of Fame 2

Not only is this an inexpensive way to decorate but it’s a great reminder of how great our customers are and keeps us pushing forward to keep building the best online form app that we can!

Twall of Fame 4

We will be tweeting some of the comments we have received, so follow us on Twitter and let us know what you think – who knows, you could be the next addition to the Twall of Fame.

Recent Posts:

Other Related Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/22/the-twall-of-fame/feed/ 0 Integrating the Web – Future of SaaS http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/17/integrating-the-web-future-of-saas/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/17/integrating-the-web-future-of-saas/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:47 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1653 The Small Business Web LogoAs many of you know we have spent the better part of our summer integrating FormSpring with other popular web applications. These integrations empower organizations to use data they collect via FormSpring web forms with other web applications that can help them run their business.

Why does this help our customers? Now they won’t have to manually import data collected from their web forms into their Email Service Provider. They can now seamlessly pass information into their billing system and import customer leads directly into their CRM system. They can take in a customer inquiry or request directly from their blog and easily integrate payment providers with their online forms.  At last, freedom from the tyranny of disconnected systems that refuse to work with other applications.

SaaS applications, when integrated, are reshaping the way organizations operate, giving us powerful applications that work together without us developing, hosting or managing anything. Most organizations – small businesses, educational institutions, churches, governments and non-profits – want to focus on their customers and not on spending time and money learning how to program or cobble together disparate apps.

But until lately, most applications have not been made to work together and sharing data from one app to the next has required specialized programming or exporting from one app and importing into another. That is changing now.

It used to be that SaaS apps were judged on the richness of their features. That’s still important. But we think excellence in SaaS applications will be decided in the future by how integrated an app is with the rest of the world.  How easy is it for someone to not only use your app but actually use the data generated by your app.

In fact there is a community of like-minded web software providers called The Small Business Web that are dedicated to improving how businesses use online software by integrating applications through the use of API’s. FormSpring is proud to be part of  The Small Business Web and is dedicated to helping grow this philosophy.

So yeah, we get excited about this stuff. We hope you do too. To demonstrate the power of multiple web apps coming together to solve a problem, take a look at Third Party Integrations page.  We would love to hear your comments below on the future of integrations and SaaS applications.Recent Posts:

Other Related Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/17/integrating-the-web-future-of-saas/feed/ 2 Continued Learning With FormSpring http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/15/continued-learning-with-formspring/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/15/continued-learning-with-formspring/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:13:23 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1640 If you have been following us closely over the last few months you might have realized that we have announced some major enhancements to our form builder. As we continue to evolve we want to make sure that we are doing a good job of educating our customers on how to best use the application and how to leverage the power of FormSpring to help you grow your business.

Part of this first step is the creation of FormSpring University a gathering place for eduction about all things FormSpring.  Our first “class” is a short webinar held every other week to help give new and potential users a broad overview of FormSpring and how to get started building a form, using the form on your website, and how to view and edit data. We want to add other webinars to FormSpring University but want to know what information you want and how we can build out this to best serve you.

Please take a minute to answer a few questions so we can give you more tools to build effective online forms. OH! And while you are it, don’t forget to Sign Up for our next webinar on Thursday at 11 AM EST.

Recent Posts:

Other Interesting Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/15/continued-learning-with-formspring/feed/ 0 Out of Office Monday, Sept. 7th http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/04/out-of-office-monday-sept-7th/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/04/out-of-office-monday-sept-7th/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:16:31 +0000 ryan http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1628 Just a quick head’s up that the FormSpring office will be closed on Monday, Sept.  7th as we celebrate Labor Day.

boydog122
Image Source: http://www.boydogcomics.com/2006/09/122_no_labor_day.html

If you have any questions, please send us a message or leave a voicemail at 800.845.6697.  We’ll try to respond as soon as possible Tuesday morning.  Have a great weekend!Recent Posts:

Other Interesting Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/04/out-of-office-monday-sept-7th/feed/ 0 FormSpring for TypePad Integration http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/01/formspring-for-typepad-integration/ http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/01/formspring-for-typepad-integration/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:07:51 +0000 chris http://blog.formspring.com/?p=1612 TypePad is the world’s largest paid blogging platform and easy to use for small businesses to boot. And as more and more small businesses who have turned to blogging are quickly learning, having the ability to capture leads, information requests, and other calls to action from any page on your blog is an important and almost required function. Hence the reason we created the new FormSpring Integration for TypePad.

Integration Features:

The FormSpring TypePad Integration allows you to create any kind of web form for your TypePad blog and quickly add it as a widget.  You can collect data from any page on your blog and also use the same form across multiple TypePad blogs.

Watch Our Quick Intro Video For More Information:



What It Means for Me:

The new TypePad Integration allows anyone using a TypePad blog to easily collect data online using a FormSpring form. This enables businesses and organizations an easy way to incorporate “Request a Quote” forms, have persistent “Contact Us” or even help promote contest and giveaway entry forms from any page on your blog. You can also use one of our other integrations like, FreshBooks or Highrise to mange invoices or keep track of contacts. This is perfect to create an all-around lead generation system, right from your TypePad blog.

How Do I Get Started?

Visit our TypePad Integration page to learn more.  If you are new to FormSpring learn more about us by visiting our What It Does page or sign up for an account today and discover how you can turn your web forms into powerful lead management tool right from your TypePad blog!Recent Posts:

Other Related Posts

]]> http://blog.formspring.com/2009/09/01/formspring-for-typepad-integration/feed/ 0