How Do You Know When Someone Opts-in?

Although not essential, it can be very useful to be advised when someone completes your opt-in form and gets added to your list.

You can create an email that gets sent to you automatically with all the details.

Click on the form in the Opt-in page and, in the form's Properties in the left hand sidebar, select the Add Connection button.

But this time, select Email from the drop-down list.

Note that this is not the email that is sent to the visitor with the download link. That is triggered from your autoresponder and is covered in the next lesson.

This email is sent to you so that you know that a new visitor has requested your giveaway and been added to your list.

After selecting Email, click on the Compose Email link.

This will bring up the default email, which you can now tailor.

The default format doesn't identify the website or the form that was completed. This doesn't matter when you only have one, but as you will probably end up with several, you should edit it to give more information. Also, the to and from email addresses may not be the ones you want.

This is how I like to edit it:

The changes are:

• The to and from emails are now website specific
• The subject line identifies both the form and the website
• The first line of the email has been personalized
• The tag added to the contact's list details is identified.

Click the Save and Apply button when finished.