Part 10: Adding your members

The extensive section below covers all aspects of adding members to your email list. Please read it carefully!

	An important reminder: As you may recall, all Sparklist lists are configured to be double-opt-in. This means that all new list members must confirm their subscriptions to your list(s). When we import members to your list, each person will receive a confirmation message; once a member responds to the confirmation message, he or she will automatically be added to your list as a confirmed subscriber.

Adding members live in real-time

Your list will only be successful if people can "opt-in" (choose to join the list) easily, so you need to help new members join. We recommend you do this by adding a subscription form to your Web site.

Creating a subscription form for your Web site

ListManager 7.0 makes it very easy to generate a subscription form for your Web site.
1. Navigate to Utilities: Other: Subscribe Forms:

2. Select whether you'd like the form to ask for just the email address, or the email address and name.

3. Select "Send One Confirmation Message" for Confirmation, so your list is double opt-in.

4. Enter the URL you'd like new members to be taken to after they fill out your form.

5. Select the lists you'd like members to be able to subscribe to on this form next to Lists.

6. Select additional demographics fields if you'd like to gather information about for your new members.

7. Click on Refresh.

8. Review your subscribe form. If it contains all the information you'd like, click on Get HTML.

9. Copy and paste the HTML form generated into a page on your Web site. The HTML may be modified, if desired (for instance, you want to change the field lengths, or the descriptions for the demographic information).

10. Test your form before going live!

What's next?

• Continue learning about adding members (part 2 of 2)
• Skip to Part 11: Unsubscribes & reports
• Return to the Getting Started main page