Often times we talk about FormSpring being used by small businesses and nonprofits, but there is also a strong number of educational institutions (Colleges, School Corps, Athletic organizations, etc.) that are using our form builder and using it in many unique ways.
We were asked the other day for tips on how you can use your online contact forms and online lead generation forms in smarter ways to really create value for you and your business. Some of the tips below might seem basic but ofter overlooked by the majority of people who are creating their online forms.
We often talk a lot about the features and functions within our form builder, but one of the many topics we rarely touch on here is why do you need web forms?
The answer is simple, because it’s an easier way to manage and collect information. Many of our customers are small businesses or nonprofits who were used to collecting information through old fashioned paper forms, Word or PDF attachments, or emails. By collecting information through online forms you are not only making it easier for your customers and website visitors to give you information but you are also making it easier to manage that information you collect for your organization.
We were very excited in developing the FormSpring iPhone Apps because we knew that with the growth of the iPhone and the many technologies it uses that there would be some very good business uses for both the phone and the apps.
As FormSpring continues to develop into an app that helps manage your business we want to make sure your forms and data are more accessible. That is why we are excited to launch our new FormSpring iPhone app, giving you access to your forms and form data on the iPhone and iPod touch.
Some of you may have seen a strange little icon showing up in the support area…and some of you may have even clicked on it. If you have, you’ve noticed that it opens a live chat session with a member of the FormSpring team.
We’ve had our PayPal integration for a while now and many of you are using it for order forms, event registration forms, ticket promotions and more. But one of the requests we often get is “do you integrate with other processors?” We are proud to announce that today we are launching some enhanced features to our PayPal integration as well as new integration with Google Checkout, Authorize.net and First Data.
We had the great opportunity of attending the Master’s of Business Online on Tuesday and came away with an awesome amount of useful information. We already wrote a post about their great use of online forms, but we wanted to recap some of the great information we learned yesterday.
I subscribe to Guy Kawasaki’s blog feed (called “How to Change the World”). Even before I had the chance to meet Guy in Indianapolis in 2007, I was a Guy Kawasaki fan. His unabashed optimism and support for the entrepreneur is both refreshing and empowering. Most of all, his plain speak on what is important (and why) serves as a road map for us all on the “artful” elements of starting and growing a business.
I registered this evening for the 2008 Masters of Business Online Conference (scheduled for October 14th, 2008 in Carmel, Indiana). Looks like a great line-up with several areas of emphasis including: Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Advertising, Developing a Web Strategy, Exploring Social Media, Blogging for Business, Website Usability, Online Public Relations, Optimizing Landing Pages, Integrated Email Marketing and Measuring Web Analytics.
