How to Create Subscription Form Popup for Your Website?
Subscription Popups are the most common type. But sometimes they not only sound boring but also irritate visitors of your website. However personal touch and creative approach will help you a great deal in the creation of one of these Popups.
Before starting doing anything you must ask yourself the question WHY?
So let's understand why are subscription popups important for your website and why to bother making them.
The first and most obvious thing is that it Generates Leads. It shows the number of people interested in the offered product or service. By making subscription forms it is possible to collect info such as name, gender, age, email, and country. This is valuable information as it can help to create a strong relationship between you and your customer by knowing their background. It can assist your customer support workflow later.Subscription forms are a fully legalized way to gather email addresses.
The next important question to ask yourself is How?
After finding out the purpose of Subscription Forms let's work out the effective ways of making them: Together.
I nearly forgot to mention that one of the reasons why to use these forms is that it is super easy to make and customize. However, your professionalism isn't the only thing to assure the easiness, the tools you use are more than important. For this form, I will use a WordPress Plugin Called Popup Box. It offers different opening and closing ways, styles, and limitations. The best thing about Popup Box is not only its MULTIFUNCTIONALITY but also excellent customer support from its creators. Also don't forget to check out the Pro Demo version of Popup Box and the Free Demo Version of Popup Box , for testing it.
In this article, we will mainly discuss the creation of Coupon Subscription Forms. There is an English proverb saying GIVE AND TAKE IS FAIRY PLAY. Coupon Subscriptions perfectly demonstrate this proverb as they are one of the most appealing ways of driving your visitors in by offering a good deal. However, offering a coupon is not enough. There are such important aspects as choosing the right coupon, timing, and carefully placing it so that it won't affect the user experience.
Let's start CREATING
First:
- Install the plugin
After installing the plugin, the following screen pops up:
Your choice is obvious, select "Subscription".
After, on the main page fill in the "Popup title". Mine will be "Receive our amazing offers".
Then:
- Choose on which page to show the popup. It can be on "All pages", "Chosen ones" and "Selected" ones.
- Give a name to the email field placeholder.
- Add name field and give a hint caption to it. (optional)
- In the popup description, add info about the coupon.
After completing those steps choose "Popup Trigger".
Now which popup triggers are more effective and how to use them?
Choosing a popup trigger seems an easy and ordinary step to take. However, all the trigger types: On Page Load, On Click, and Both, have their pros and cons.
ON PAGE LOAD
These are the Sudden Popups, that appear while loading. There are some tricks to make them less annoying and more effective. First, make sure the timing is right. Do you know about "The 15 Second Rule"? That's the average timing that visitors stay on your page and that's how much time you have to trigger their interest. So whenever you make an On-Page Load popup, surprise your visitor during that short period of time. And secondly, always respect your visitor by making it easy to exit.
ON CLICK
I call On Click popups the polite ones. They appear whenever the user shows interest by clicking on the popup button. The good thing with On Click popups is that the possibility the user will complete the started action is higher. Especially with subscription forms, the user knows what to expect when clicking on the Subscription button.
BOTH
If you find the mentioned ones above effective for your website. JUST DO BOTH!
For my popup, I will choose the ON-PAGE LOAD option.
Then Choose the Popup Position. Keep in mind that your popup MUST NOT interfere with the user experience. So, do not make a page covering banner. Make it mobile-friendly, with Popup Box this will be easier as the plugin itself is mobile-friendly.
The next section is "Settings" in the recommended plugin. There are several buttons that I'd like to mention. I have already mentioned the timing of your popup:
- "Open Delay"option you can set the time when your Popup is going to POP. DO NOT forget the "The 15 Second Rule".
If you want to make your popup less annoying use:
- "Show once per session" button. For example, if you want to show once a day to each visitor put the score "1440"
There are several ways of closing the popup. You can use either autoclose with the help of "Autoclose Delay", close button with the help of "Close Button appearing delay" or closing the popup when clicking on it.
In the "Style" section, BRAND YOUR POPUP. There are pre-made themes that you can choose from, or you can just customize using its multiple options. For example, you can put a background to your popup, fully customize its parameters. With the help of "Mobile Width" make your popup mobile-friendly. I'm sure you remember how important it is.
And the last section is "Limitation Users". Be attentive to all its options, such as:
- subscription form this option needs to be disabled.
- "Hide Popup on Mobile".If you know for a fact that your popup doesn't match mobile parameters then Enable this option.
- "Limitation Count of Views". If you have pre-set goal of showing your popup to a certain number of people, don't hesitate to use this option.
And the last thing is "Limitation User".There is a useful option:
- "Enable for logged-in users". You can disable it so that your subscription popup doesn't annoy already subscribed users.
Figure out the rest that hasn't already been mentioned by using the hint notes on each button.
And Here Is The FINAL POPUP!
THINGS NOT TO DO when making a subscription popup.
Do not make popups without having a solid offer. The popup I created today is a great example of how to make popups appealing. Popups with no special offers give the visitors no reason to act and are rather annoying.
Not Personalizing Popups is a great mistake. To treat your visitors as individuals use specific language that refers to one person rather than generalizing the copy. For a coupon subscription, you could use "SPECIAL COUPONS FOR MEMBERS ONLY" instead of "Subscribe and get a Coupon". Always go through customer reviews and use your customers' words in your offers.
Showing everything they have to offer AT ONCE is not only boring but also annoying, infuriating, frustrating, etc. Popups are considered to be great marketing tools but overusing them can crush the whole system of marketing that you used to get people interested in your website.
Irrelevant popups. The nature of Popups is already annoying and I'm sure that non of you has objections on this one. So why make it even more annoying by showing irrelevant popups. Show different popups to different people. One of the examples in our article was not showing the subscription form to already signed-in users.
Not paying attention to the design of your Popup is a great mistake. Influential design can enhance conversations a great deal. By saying designing and styling your popup, doesn't mean to make it beautiful but irrelevant. Your popup must always correspond to your website and what you offer.
ESSENTIAL TO DO list when making a Subscription Popup
Make it easy to exit. You probably got tired of me repeating that MANNERS matter. No explanation is needed.
Give a first-time user discount if you have the chance. If the user is already interested in your products subscribing to the exchange with a 10% discount even sounds like an unfair deal to their advantage.
Experiment with the popup shapes. It isn't necessary to have the popup in a box. You can use other eye-catching shapes. The more extraordinary, the more striking.
Use backgrounds and color blocks to make the popup content more readable. If you are not a fan at least make the background see-through.
Try to highlight the main text and the action button with the help of color contrast.
To conclude, Popups are contradictory ways of promoting or getting subscriptions. They can damage your website as well as they can be the best marketing move you have ever made. Everything mentioned in the article is to help you enhance the productivity of subscription popups. However, always keep in mind that this information might not fully work for any type of website, so use these tricks and tips and make them work FOR YOU. I would also like to mention that we have another popup specified in making Facebook Likebox Popups, so you can also check that out.
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