Clients who subscribe to ThinkMarketing have access to our Email Marketing Module. You can give prospective customers and others a way to subscribe to your newsletters or otherwise be added to your customer database. This is done by creating a sign-up form in ThinkReservations to allow people to self-serve, adding their email address and other contact information directly into your account.
Note for ThinkWeb clients: You have a different way to create sign-up forms using your ThinkWeb Editor. See further below for steps on creating Sign-up forms if you are using ThinkWeb.
Navigate to Email Marketing from your menu in ThinkReservations.
(Note that you must have an active ThinkMarketing subscription to have access to this module.)
Click on Sign-Up Forms on the left-hand menu.
To create a new sign-up page, click New in the top right.
Give your page a name. This will autofill the “slug” field, which is the path for your page.
You can edit the slug if you wish. The slug is what's used in the page's URL, as you will see in the auto-filled “Link” field below.
Provide this link to direct people to complete the form and add themselves to your email marketing contact list.
Next, add Tags to the page. Any tags you link here will automatically be added to the customer profile for anyone who signs up using this form. If the customer profile already exists (i.e. the email address used is already used in an existing Customer Profile in ThinkReservations), the existing profile will be updated with the tag(s) you link to the form (we won’t remove existing tags, just add the new tag(s).
Finally, edit the content for your Sign-Up Form. By default, the content is a basic form with First Name, Last Name, and Email Address. If you want to add other fields to the form, click on the newly added form and then use the right-hand window to edit the form. You can also add other text, styling, or images if desired.
Highlight the Link field and copy it to send to your webmaster if you want this form added to your website.
Click Save to finish creating your Sign-Up Form.
You can use the link to check the form to make sure it looks as expected.
Creating an Email Sign-up Form on ThinkWeb
Navigate to ThinkWeb from your menu in ThinkReservations.
(Note that you must have an active ThinkWeb and ThinkMarketing subscription to follow these instructions.)
Click on Pages under the ThinkWeb section.
Click the New button on the top right to create a new page.
Click the Edit page button at the top to give the page your preferred name.
Ensure that the path (often called the slug) starts with and includes the phrase
sign-up.For example, the path could be:
/sign-up-newsletter
Fill out the remaining page fields as needed.
Add the component "Email Marketing Sign Up Form"
Note that this component only shows up when the PATH has the correct name, as mentioned in step 5.
Update the component if you would like to change the fields that show for your website visitors to fill out.
Add any other components as needed to customize your sign-up page.
Save your changes when done, and check your work.
