Custom Forms allow you to create a variety of online forms, name and eMail opt-in boxes, "name-squeeze" forms, online questionnaires and additional your visitors can fill in to provide you more information about them in exchange, perhaps, for your free newsletter or other offer of value.

You can use one of our system-generated forms or you can create your own forms for total integration into your site. Use this utility in conjunction with our Pop-Up Wiz tool to make custom opt-in pop ups on your site and seriously ramp up your opt-in rates!

This step-by-step wizard will generate your form HTML for you to easily cut-and-paste into your webpages, and edit with your favorite web editor such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GoLive, etc. The options you choose in this wizard only affect your custom form HTML. Your account setup preferences will remain unchanged.

Why are custom forms so important to growing your business on the Internet? The secret to wealth and running a business on the Internet is growing a large list of names and eMail addresses of prospects and clients who one day come to trust you and who eventually buy that which you have to sell them (i.e., solutions to their problems/needs/wants) ...

But, how do you build a database of prospects (you can eventually sell to) if you don't ask for people's names and eMail addresses. Further, how do you provide a way for visitors to your web site to give you their name and eMail address? Answer: You create an "opt-in form" using the Custom Forms tool we provide with our shopping cart system.

But, just asking for their name and eMail address isn't enough sometimes. To truly succeed on the Internet, you have to dig deeper; and really get to know your prospect/clients' needs. To do that, you could create a questionnaire with our Custom Forms tool we provide with our shopping cart system. This would allow you to ask your prospect/customer any number of questions relating to their situation; hopefully, helping them to answer/explain what it is in detail they're really looking for at your web site.

You can't sell to people anything if you don't know what they really want. So, ask them!

There are a number of reasons to use "custom forms" ...

Create an Opt-In Box on your site to collect the names and eMail addresses of people who visit your web site. You might offer them a free report, eBook, newsletter or other special offer to encourage your visitors to give you their name and eMail address.

Create a Name Squeeze Page on your web site. Simply, before you allow anyone to enter your web site or a specific page on your web site, you might insert a "name squeeze" opt-in box on the page first asking people to give you their name and eMail address. In many cases, this is a quick way of building your list.

Create a Questionnaire on your web site. Would you like to run a survey? You can create specific questions (use our Custom Fields option) you can ask people who visit your web site. The results are stored within the client details of every person who completes your questionnaire.

Create a Contact Form on your Contact Page of your web site. Wow, here's a neat idea. Why not have a contact form on your web page that ties into your shopping cart account. You can attach an autoresponder to the form which would eMail that person (submitting the form) saying something like: "Thank you for contacting us. We have received your inquiry successfully and will be following up with you soon. If you have any other questions, please feel free to visit our FAQ page or call our offices ... Again, thank you for contacting us. Kind regards, ..." Wow, now that's professional and you can imagine how confident your visitor must feel that you responded to them in such a professional manner.

Create a Customized Regisration Page on your web site to sell registrations to a tele-seminar or live in-person seminar. That's right, you could create a customized form that collects the personal information of someone registering for one of your free tele-seminars or other event (that doesn't require a transaction of money). A very useful technique indeed. You can then attach an autoresponder to that customized "registration" form that provides details on how to either access the tele-seminar call or location information about the (free) live event you're inviting people to attend when they register with you at your web site.

Wow, the ideas just keep flowing! What ideas do you have when it comes to creating custom surveys, collecting information from your customers and/or creating online registration forms for free events? Think big!

YES, you can! Suppose you wanted to ask your visitors a specific question? You can do just that! You can even create a customized questionnaire with those custom fields. Then, when people fill in your questionnaire, the information gets stored in their personal details record for reference at any time by you or your staff.

YES, you can! Suppose you wanted to ask your visitors a specific question? You can do just that! You can even create a customized questionnaire with those custom fields. Then, when people fill in your questionnaire, the information gets stored in their personal details record for reference at any time by you or your staff.

Watch this first video to get an overview of the CUSTOM FORMS drop down menu:

8.01 Welcome to the Custom Forms section

The remaining videos on this page are designed to give you more information regarding the topic or subject matter covered.

In this video tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a custom form which you can place on your web site.

8.02 Create Form

Here's where you can create up to 10 different custom fields to be included in your custom form. These fields can have additional selections added on to them allowing you to create very detailed and power custom forms to be used on your web site.

You can use these custom fields to ask questions on your forms or the order page that may not be covered by our standard set of fields. Any information that your clients fill out on a custom field will be recorded on their client record.

8.03 Custom Fields

In this video, you’re going to learn how to configure your system-hosted opt-in forms, like the newsletter opt-in form or the questionnaire/contact us form.

8.04 Opt-In Forms

In this video tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create an Easy Opt-In Script which will open the prospect’s default email program and email you from their computer, opting themselves into your list automatically without the client filling out a form.

8.05 Easy Opt-In Script

In this video, you’re going to learn how to add a custom field to the order form.

8.06 Add Custom Fields to your Order Form

Whenever you use our system to generate a custom form, you have the ability to further customize the look and feel inside any typical web site design program. Here’s what we mean by that.

After you copy the custom form’s HTML code from within our system and paste it into its own page first, you can customize it freely. Using the web design program of your choice, like Dreamweaver or FrontPage; here’s just some of the things you can do:

8.07 Customize the Form inside a Web Design Editor

Whenever you want to run a free tele-seminar, you can use our system to generate a custom form so your callers-in can register for the call and have the call-in details (like telephone number and PIN#) delivered to them automatically after they sign up. To set all this up, here’s all you do:

8.08 Create an Tele-Seminar Registration Form

In this video tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create an opt-in form to deliver chapter excerpts of your book or ebook. You can also apply what you learn here to capture the names and email addresses of prospects and deliver anything else via eMail and autoresponders, such as audio files, video files, and the like!

8.09 Create an Opt-In Form to deliver Chapter Excerpts of Your Book

Let’s say you want to build a “name squeeze page” to capture all the names and email addresses of people who want to visit your site. Before you let them have access to your site, they must to give their name and email address to you. That’s what we call a name squeeze page.

In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a “name squeeze page” containing a custom form which you’ll create using our system.

8.10 Add a Custom Form to a Name Squeeze Page

Where it concerns custom fields, you're only allowed to create a maximum of 10 custom fields. This means, if you wanted to create more custom fields (beyond 10), you can't. You would have to remove one (or more) custom fields to make room for the others you wish to use.

You can always customize the look and feel of your custom forms by copying the code we generate for you and pasting it into a web design program (like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc.). You don't have to just settle with the look and feel of the forms we generate for you.

If you want, you can change the size of the fonts and field boxes to your liking. Then, simply copy and paste the modified form into your web design, upload it to your web server and test the form.