The Facebook sign-up form plugin
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Please be advised that only one Facebook account can be associated with an eFlyerMaker account.
With social media being more popular than ever, it was only a matter of time before marketers decided to use their Facebook page to promote their content. Always looking to be ahead of the curve your devoted eFlyerMaker team created a form builder for Facebook so people can sign-up to your newsletter through Facebook.
And here's how you add a newsletter signup form to your Facebook page
A ) In eFlyerMaker:
Go to Lists -> Manage publications
Click on the Sign-up HTML code action button of your publication
Click on the Plugins tab
Select Facebook
- If needed, log in to your Facebook account
Choose the Facebook page on which to add the sign-up form
- Two buttons will appear:
Edit page: to edit the way the sign-up form should be displayed
Add a Facebook page: to connect a new Facebook page
Enter the Header text: (you can use html or text) and Footer text: (you can use html or text) if you want one. You can add syles and classes to customize the form to your liking.
Check the fields you want featured on your Facebook form. You cannot uncheck mandatory fields
Change the Publication's subscription text, CASL consent text and Button text to your liking
Click Save
If you happen to have more than one Facebook page, click I want to add this form to a new Facebook page, to add it to all the pages you want (you must be an admin on those pages to do so).
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Beware, you can only use one publication at a time for your Facebook form. You will not be able to post two different form on the same Facebook page. If you choose one publication and try use another one later, the other one becomes a new form and the old one is removed automatically as soon as you click save. |
B ) On your Facebook page:
The form is already available and functional on your Facebook page. Simply click on Newsletter Sign-up in the sidebar to see it
To change the name of your tab
Click Settings
Click Apps
Next to eFlyerMaker Sign-up Form Builder, Click on Edit Settings
Enter the name you'd like to give your form in the Custom Tab Name field
Click save, then click Ok
The Newsletter sign-up tab will now bear the new name.
If you don't like the tab's position in the sidebar, click Manage Tabs and change the order of the tabs by sliding them in the proper order and click Save
If you want to create a call-to-action sign-up form:
Click Settings
Click Apps
Click on eFlyerMaker Sign-up Form Builder
Click on link to this tab
- Copy the url
Go back to the main page and click Add a button
Choose the Sign Up button
Paste the url in the Website field
Leave Set-up a link to an app? to no. (You don't want to lead them anywhere else, you just want them to sign-up to your newsletter)
Click Create
- One of the main button is now Sign Up and is directly linked to your eFlyerMaker sign up form.
Enjoy
To delete a tab from your Facebook page
Click on Settings
Click on Apps
Click on the X next to the eFlyerMaker Sign-up Form Builder app.
- Don't forget to delete the button if you created one
To reinstall a deleted tab
In eFlyerMaker
Go to Lists -> Manage publications
Click on the Sign-up HTML code action button of your publication
Click on the CMS Plugin tab
Click Facebook
Click I want to add this form to a new Facebook page and select the page you want to put it on
- Two buttons will appear:
Edit page: to edit the way the sign-up form should be displayed
Add a Facebook page: to connect a new Facebook page
- Go back to your Facebook page and refresh
- The Newsletter tab should be back in the Sidebar menu
Enjoy
For a nice example of a sign-up form integration on a Facebook page, check out our own page