Archive for the 'FormSpring News' Category

Want to know what the FormSpring team is doing? This section allows you to catch the latest happenings. Everything from job announcements, community and industry events, awards, and other cool projects we might be working on.

FormSpring University Today at Noon

http://www.formspring.com/university.htmlFormSpring University is a platform for us to deliver educational tools and resources that you can use to incorporate FormSpring into your organization. Today’s FormSpring U class will take place at 12:00 PM (Eastern) and will run for roughly 40 minutes.

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FormSpring and FreshBooks

FreshBooks is one of the most popular and easiest, online invoicing tools on the web, so we are very excited to announce that FormSpring now integrates with FreshBooks!

FreshBooks is all about delivering  fast and simple invoicing and time tracking services that help you manage your business, as we can attest to, since we have been FreshBooks users for a long time. That is in one part why we created the integration, we knew  how valuable having a the ability to have customers fill out a FormSpring form and have it automatically create a client in FreshBooks would be.

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FormSpring and Campaign Monitor

Ready for more integrations? We are excited to launch the FormSpring Campaign Monitor Integration. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Campaign Monitor, it is great Email Marketing Software built by web designers, for web designers. It is a tool that allows web designers an easy way to create great looking email marketing campaigns.  Just like the Highrise Integration we announced yesterday, we saw a need for simple, efficient way for users of Campaign Monitor to be able to capture online leads from their FormSpring forms and integrate the data  collected into their subscriber databases

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FormSpring and Highrise

Until today the only way that you could put data from a FormSpring form into your favorite CRM tool was to export it into a .CSV file and then import it into your contact database. Today that all changes, we are excited to announce our integration with the popular 37signals CRM tool, Highrise.

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FormSpring University Launches

We have been kicking around ideas on how we could empower all of you with the skills and tools you need to build the best forms you can. Out of the brainstorming we’ve created FormSpring University. FormSpring University will serve as a platform for us to deliver educational tools and resources that you can use to learn to incorporate FormSpring into your organization.

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June Talking Tech Series

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We are excited for this month’s Talking Tech Series which will be held on Wednesday June 10th. This month’s series focuses on three very important topics: Video Conferencing, Public Relations 101, and Effective Email Usage.

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We’re Hiring

Do you have mad coding skills and are interested in working for a super company?  We’re looking for a talented, enthusiastic developer to join the FormSpring team full-time. Successful candidates must be able to implement complex web-based applications from the ground up, but also be ready and willing to do customer support and application testing.

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Service Update

We wanted to provide a full update on the service problems that FormSpring experienced today.  On Tuesday, May 26, 2009 we experienced a number of outages over the course of approximately 2 hours that led to downtime of the FormSpring site, affecting your ability to build, view or submit forms. The first outage happened at 10:39am EST and intermittent outages or slowness continued until 12:42pm EST.

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Current Technical Problems

Update 12:40 (Eastern) You should be able to access your forms and the admin area. We reverted back to our old servers,  if you are having issues accessing the site use this IP Address http://66.135.60.102/. There might be a slight delay in everyone accessing the site due to DNS issues

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Forms to use on PPC and SEO Landing Pages, how to design web forms that convert

Today’s post in our “Online Forms That Convert” series is by Joe Kerschbaum, a member of the PPC Hero team. More information about Joe can be found at the bottom of this post.

The contact form on your PPC and SEO landing page can make or break your conversation rate. The messaging on your landing page can be clear, concise and benefit-driven. The design can be attractive, simple and conversion focused. But if the contact form on this beautiful landing page is not strategically crafted to suite your core audience, you’re probably leaving money on the table.

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