In honor of our FormSpring Free Gas Giveaway, we thought it only prudent to share more tips on how you can save money on gas this summer.  Check out the video below as the FormSpring team show you ,ore creative ways to save on gas this summer…or you can check out our Free Gas Giveaway and enter to win a $150 gas card!

Summer is here and that means cookouts, sun, fun, and travel. Unfortunately as the summer temps rise so to do the prices at the gas pump.  That is why FormSpring is giving you a chance to win a $150 (U.S.) gas card this month.  It is a simple contest.  We are monitoring the price of gas at the gas station around the corner from FormSpring HQ. All you have to do is guess what the price of gas will be on August 4th.  All correct responses will be entered into a random drawing to win the $150 gas card - it’s that easy! Head on over to the FormSpring Free Gas Giveaway and enter your guess…and while you’re thinking about what price to pick, check out our FormSpring Free Gas Video!

With a title like “Chief Love Officer” you know that Chris Nadeau likes to think differently than his competitors. That’s why it was refreshing to talk with Chris and find out how he and his crew at Evolving Solutions were using FormSpring and its online form building tools.

By utilizing the private label options Evolving Solutions has integrated the FormSpring form builder with their content management system “Big Santo” as well as with the rest of their company.

Check out the interview below with Chris and see how they have creatively integrated FormSpring with their business. And remember you can contact us, if you are interested in participating in our User Profile series.

Company: Evolving Solutions
www.evolvingsolutions.ca
www.bigsanto.com

FS: Tell us a little bit about your business, who is your target market, what makes you different, etc.?

ES: We eat & sleep “THE WEB” and we help small businesses grow their business through web marketing by: Keeping it simple We speak in non-technical terms & cater to businesses of any size….we worry about the tech stuff so you don’t have to!

FS: How did you hear about about FormSpring?

ES: Blog - Mashable.com

FS: How do you currently use FormSpring?

ES: We use Formspring to help make the websites we build using our “Big Santo” product better. With the integration of Formspring our clients can now collect data from their websites very easily. It makes for a much more interactive experience on their websites

FS: Any other ways you might use it?

ES: Everywhere and anywhere we need to collect data online! Now that I think of it, if there was a way to create a voting like system with your forms that tabulates votes, that would be cool

FS: How has FormSpring solved a business/organizational issue

ES: It has allowed us to focus on what we do best and offer a cost effective option to our customers that want a dynamic form on their websites.

FS: What do you like best about the product?

ES: Ease of use, with rock on functionality.

FS: What features do you find most helpful

ES: Embedding with JavaScript

FS: What improvements to FormSpring would you like to see?

ES: Keep doing what you are doing. Everything is all good!

FS: Any specific features you would like to see?

ES: The online voting option would be cool, as mentioned above.

FS: Any other tips/tricks/words of wisdom you would like to share with others users/readers?

ES: The share data option with Formspring is amazing. Customers love the forms on their websites, but for them to slice and dice their data easily from one link you provide in Formspring makes you and your organization look like a genius.

We happen to work and play in Indianapolis, home to one of the greatest spectacles in racing - The Indianapolis 500. in honor of this weekend’s race we thought we would put together a fun online form to get you in the mood for racing! Have fun with it and be on the lookout for more fun web forms from the crew here at FormSpring!

As we have said before, one of the great things about doing these user profiles is seeing the ways in which people are using our online form builder. Stephen Oliver is a teacher and is using FormSpring for his teaching and in his role as a registrar for teacher conferences.

Read below on how Stephen uses FormSpring, and if you are interested in sharing your story, contact us, and we will be more than happy to share your story as well!

FS: Tell us a little bit about how you use FormSpring?

SO: I use FS to gather student information at the beginning of semester. I also use various forms to gather feedback etc from my course blog. As well, I am a registrar for several teacher oriented conferences. I use forms to gather and manage registration data for participants.

FS: How did you hear about FormSpring?

SO: I was growing frustrated by the limitations of the free FormMail script and the associated levels of spam I received. I did a search on the web for alternatives and came across FS.

FS: How has FormSpring solved a business/organizational issue?

SO: Provides a quick and simple way to build and maintain forms as well as offering an online backup of data. I like also being able to share a URL with conference colleagues where they can check out the data re: various conferences.

FS: What do you like best about the product?

SO: Simple, intuitive, drag and drop. Hard to go wrong. No spam so far!

FS: What features do you find most helpful?

SO: I like the multi-branching feature of the forms (helps eliminate mistakes and overlooked requests) as well as the customizing of auto emails to submitters. The emails I receive also are a great way for me to stay on top of the submissions.

FS: What improvements to FormSpring would you like to see?

SO: I would like to see more logic capabilities build into forms - ie. ways to check for duplicate choices when I’ve asked people to select two different options - first and second. Or to only accept 10 digits in a phone number, etc. Also, how about offering some formatting capabilities - I hate it when people submit info in ALL CAPS or all lower case. Could FS not have the ability to convert this to a requested style before forwarding it on to me or posting it in the database? When building a long form, it can become tedious scrolling through it all. It would be great to be able to temporarily hide certain parts of a form. I would also like it to be simpler to add a custom graphic banner without having to go in and alter the HTML.