How to Add an iContact Email Newsletter Sign-Up Form to Your Facebook Fan Page

Updated Content Written By:
Peter Ghali, iContact Product Manager

With the strong growth of Facebook (over 500 million users with 41% of users logging in everyday), iContact is now providing you a way to use Facebook to grow your email subscribers. With iContact’s Facebook Application you can make it easy for your fans to sign up for your emails and interact with your Facebook pages – whatever is best for them!

In this blog post, we’ll describe how easy it is to create a Facebook signup form and begin to grow your lists!

If you have not already done so, enable Facebook in your Social Tools settings to expedite the process. See our 3^rd blog post in the Social Tools series for how to do that.

Before your Facebook Signup form will appear on your Facebook page, you must installiContact’s Facebook application.

To grow your subscriber base through Facebook, just follow these steps:

1. Go to My Contacts  < Sign-up Forms.
   
   As you can see below, we have made some improvements to the Sign-up Form page by adding Social Tools Sign-up Forms section. If you have not enabled a Facebook Account, you will see the screenshot below where you can easily and conveniently enable your Facebook account to connect to iContact by clicking the Enable Facebook button.
   
   
   
   Once you Enable Facebook, the Social Tools Section should look like the screenshot below. Note that it tells you which account you have enabled. In this case it is “Mark Tester.” Now all you have to do is click Create Facebook Form.
   
   

1. After clicking the Create Facebook Form button, you’ll have an opportunity to tell iContact which Facebook page you want to associate with the sign-up form you are about to create. You can also fill in a short description to encourage visitors to sign up for your email list.
   
   

1. Click the Next button and go through your normal sign-up form process. To make it easier for you, we have pre-selected Facebook’s color scheme for the sign-up form. The rest of the sign-up form creation process is identical to creating a new sign-up form. At the end of the process you get an opportunity to preview your Facebook sign-up form. You can see that below:
   
   
   
   Once you’ve taken a look at the preview, click the View Sign-up Forms button and you’ll be taken back to the Sign-up Forms page. You’ll notice the addition of the new sign-up form:
   
   

1. Now that you have created your Sign-up form and associated it with your Facebook page, you have to go to your Facebook page and install the iContact Facebook application which can be found here.

1. After that, you are all done! Here’s what the finished Signup form will look like:
   
   

We hope you found this helpful. Look for another post in our Social Tools series soon!