The Lead Capture tool is a remarkable add-on offered by Art Storefronts. This allows you to easily create a pop-up that appears when a new user navigates to your site. With it, you can allow discount coupons while also growing your newsletter subscriber list. It broadens your audience and allows you to gain traction faster than ever. If you’d like to learn a little more about the Lead Capture tool and why it’s important, check out our blog post Built-In Lead Capture Tool.
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What do I do next?
As a business owner who sells art online, you’re going to want to gather leads as often and as easily as possible. You’re going to get random traffic from the internet, Facebook, Instagram and various other places. Traffic doesn’t necessarily equate to leads, especially if you don’t have some sort of pop-up with an offer showing up on your website.
Art Storefronts offer its customers the ability to create what we call a Lead Capture tool for use on your site. This is a pop-up that appears for customers the when they visit your site and it invites them to sign up for your newsletter, so they can receive updates, but it also promises them a discount of some sort or to be entered in a raffle for a free print. It's highly customizable so you can fine tune it to your customer base.
Generally, Art Storefronts suggests that you offer a 20% coupon to people who sign up via your Lead Capture tool. You can choose to change the discount amount at any time, but if you do so, you may not receive the kind of return you're looking for. We recommend you start with the 20%, and if you’re not getting results, feel free to change it up later down the line.
Please Note: Before you get started, it is important to understand that not every plan on Art Storefronts offers access to the Lead Capture tool. If you are having a hard time following this article or you are unsure whether your plan offers this option, please reach out to cs@artstorefronts.com and a member of our team will respond as soon as possible.
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Set Up the Lead Capture Tool
Make sure you are logged in to your Art Storefronts Site Manager. This is sometimes referred to as your Control Panel or the back-end.
When you've logged in, scroll down until you see the page titled "Newsletter Sign-up," and click on it.
After you’ve clicked on Newsletter Sign-Up, you’ll be taken to the page to configure your Lead Capture Tool. Make sure you're on the first tab, Fields. If your Form only has 1 Email field, you can skip to Step 5.
Scroll down the page and find the section titled Edit Form Fields. You’re going to see Message, Email and Name. You're going to want to click delete on Message and Name. If you're not seeing Message or Name - don't worry, we took care of it for you! All new websites created after 7/12/19 will show without the Message or Name fields.
You may be asking yourself why you would want to delete the Message and Edit field, but we have a good reason. It’s been proven that people don’t want to take the time to fill out multiple fields. The fewer number of fields you have the better chance of capturing the potential customer’s email address. If you want to leave these fields, you are welcome to do so, but it’s not recommended.
A pop-up will appear asking if you are sure you want to delete these sections. Click Ok.
The only field that should be left is Email. When you’re sure that’s what you see, scroll up the page and click on the tab titled INFO.
The first section is Appears in Navigation Menu and you need to make sure it is set to No. You don’t want this as a page that is available on your site. You want it to be a pop-up so keep it out of the navigation menu.
We’re going to skip down to the section titled Is This a Landing Page and you’ll set it to Off.
A landing page is a page of your website that is not in your navigation menu and has no navigation elements on the page. It is essentially a "standalone" page that can only be accessed if you have the direct URL of the page, or if it is linked to from another page on your website or from somewhere else.
A landing page form would usually only be used in person, such as at an art fair or within a retail store, to collect email addresses or some other information. If you want to do this, do not use a form page that you also use on your website (such as your contact form or lead capture). Instead, create a new form page just for this purpose, and set this landing page option to "On".
Next is a box labeled Submissions Should Be Emailed To. This field is automatically filled in with your email address. You can change it if need be but you MUST enter an email address here that you want to be used when an email for the Lead Capture tool when a customer signs up. This is how you will receive the notification that someone has signed up and their email has been sent out. If you don't fill this out, you won't get the notifications.
Lead Content is up next. This should already be filled out for you and it should mention that the customer can save 20% on their order. 20% is the recommended discount amount that Art Storefronts suggests. You are welcome to change this, but we recommend against it. If you do not have this field filled in by default, you can COPY the following code.
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong>SAVE 20% ON YOUR FIRST ORDER.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Enter your email below and</strong> <strong>w</strong></span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>e'll </strong>email you a 20% OFF Coupon right now.</strong></p>Then, click on the Source button for the Lead Content We need to be able to put the code into the Lead Content section, so it appears properly.
Paste the code in the Lead Content box.
Click on the Source button again so you can make sure the code you pasted is formatting appropriately.
Scroll down the page to the Ending Content This should also be filled out for you by default. If it isn’t filled out for some reason, you need to copy the code:
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>This offer is valid for <u><strong>NEW CUSTOMERS</strong></u> only.</em></p>
For the Ending Content field, click on the Source button.
Paste the code you copied.
Click Source again and make sure the formatting is correct.
'After that, you can scroll down the page until you find a section titled Instant Confirmation Message Text. If this is not filled out, you need to fill this out with the following code:
<p>You've been added Successfully.</p><p>We are emailing your discount code right now. Please check your junk/spam just in case.</p>
Beneath that, you’ll see Send Confirmation Email. You need to make sure this is set to Yes. If you don’t set it to Yes, people won’t get their emails with their discount codes.
Scroll down to Confirmation Email Subject Text and title it something like Here’s You 20% Off Coupon because you want your customers to be able to know what the email they’re getting is for.
Then, there’s a section titled Confirmation Email Content. This should be automatically filled out for you and tells the customer that they are getting 20% off and it provides the customer with the code first20 (which is the pre-created coupon used on Art Storefronts). If you don’t want to offer 20% off, you can change that wording here, but again, we advise against this. In addition, if this is not filled in, you can copy the code below for use on your site.
<div style="border: 2px dotted black; padding: 20px; margin: 20px 30px; text-align: center; line-height: 30px;">Use this code at checkout:<br />
<span style="font-size: 30px;"><b>FIRST20</b></span></div>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thanks for joining our email list. Use the code above to get <strong>20% off your first order</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Act quickly, because this discount will </strong><b>expire in 3 days.</b></span></p>Now, click on the Source button of the Confirmation Email Content box.
Paste the code you previously copied.
Click the Source button again and check the formatting of the code you just entered in. Make sure everything looks good. You WILL need to enter in an expiration time frame. We suggest using 3 DAYS. Don’t put an exact date, just literally put in 3 days. This stops you from having to come in and change this every day.
Use This Form Site-Wide in a Modal Pop-Up Window needs to be set to Yes, so it will allow your Lead Capture tool to pop-up properly on your site.
Now, scroll all the way back to the top of the page and find the tab titled LEAD CAPTURE TOOL and click on it. There’s one more thing you need to do to wrap this process up.
On the next page, there’s a box labeled Appears Automatically and make sure you’ve selected the Yes option so that the Lead Capture will pop up properly on the site. It's most likely that this is already set to Yes.
Click the Save button. Make sure you don't click the back button, or you'll lose the great work you just did!
Test the Lead Capture Tool
Click the View Live Site button from the back-end of your Art Storefronts site.
On your site, if you’ve updated the Lead Capture Tool properly, you’ll see the pop-up appear.
Enter an email address in the Email box.
Click the Submit.
You’ll get the confirmation message and you can click Ok.
Open a new tab and go to your MailChimp. When you’re in your MailChimp account, click on Audience, and select your subscribers audience from the dropdown.
Once the audience opens you should see the email address you entered into your Lead Capture tool. This is how you will know that this is syncing to MailChimp properly.
Troubleshooting
My page won’t save.
You likely need to use an approved browser. If you’re using anything other than Firefox or Chrome, you should stop and use either Chrome or Firefox.
If you’re using an approved browser, you may need to clear your cache. Check out how to clear the cache by using the article on How To: Clear your Cache.
My Lead Capture isn’t popping up on the live site.
If the tool is not popping properly, you need to go to the back end of your site, to your newsletter and first, you need to go to the INFO tab, scroll down and make sure Use This Form Site-Wide in a Modal Pop-Up Window is set to Yes.
If it is set to Yes, click on the LEAD CAPTURE TOOL tab and make sure Appear Automatically is set to Yes as well. Save the page.
Do I need to implement a MailChimp pop up too?
Please don’t implement the MailChimp pop-up if you already have the Art Storefronts pop up on your site. They’ll conflict and cause issues.
My pop-up appears on every time I click on a new page.
Make sure that the time for the pop up to reappear (go to the back end of the site. Click newsletter sign up. Click LEAD CAPTURE TOOL, find the section titled After User Dismissed, Appears Again in How Many Days) is set to 1 or more. If it’s 0, it’s going to pop-up all the time.
You may have more than one pop-up on your site. Check your page list (login to the back-end and click on the tab titled PAGES) and try to find any FORM pages and see if you have more than one set to pop-up. Multiple pop-ups are distracting and may cause customers to leave the site prematurely.
My contact isn’t being sent to MailChimp.
You probably don’t have MailChimp Integrated and Verified. To Integrate and Verify Your Site with Mailchimp, please check out this resource: How To: Integrate and Verify Your Site with Mailchimp
I’m receiving the email with the discount coupon to my email address.
This is normal. You receive a copy of the email that gets sent to your customer. This is just a copy for your records. You can keep them or delete them. It is a personal preference.
What do I do next?
Congratulations on getting your Lead Capture Tool set up! Now, it’s time to set up some automation so you don’t have to manually remind folks that their coupon is going to expire. This is called Email Automation and it is essential in creating a sense of urgency with your customers, so they remember to buy on your site. To learn more, check out the article How To: Set Up Email Automation for the Lead Capture Tool.