Finding the Best Email Sign Up Form for Your Audience

How do you know you have the best web form for your email marketing campaign?

You might think you know what works best, but testing will let you know for sure and give you a better idea of what your subscribers want.

One of Aweber's customers in the sports car business decided to set up a web form split test that would give him a better idea of his audience. We’ll talk about what he learned from the split test, and how you can set up a split test to find out what works for your audience.

What is a Web Form Split Test?

Split testing allows you to set up a controlled experiment within your account to test which factors of your form work best, and more specifically, what will get subscribers to submit their information. This is usually done by setting up two different versions of a form at 50% probability for each one.

This information can also be used later when planning and testing other aspects of your campaign.

 

How Can I Find Out What My Audience Wants?

Remember that even though a test may produce a certain outcome for some, that doesn’t necessarily mean the same will work for your list. It’s important for you to run your own split tests to see what works best for your business.

You can get an idea of what your web form should look like by looking at subscriber behavior to see what your audience wants:

• Links clicked in your emails- Looking at what your subscribers are interested in will help with determining what will appeal to visitors on your site.

  For example: are they more interested in your cake recipes or dinner recipes? If it’s cake, then you should try using an image of a cake in your form.

• Location- Where your subscribers are located geographically will influence their wants and needs. If the majority of your subscribers are near Florida stores, you don’t want to display your cold weather merchandise.

You can also set up custom fields to learn more about your subscribers. Gathering this information at sign up will help you learn more about your audience, and then you can design your forms accordingly. Some of the custom fields you can try are:

• Gender- Do you have more men or women signing up? Knowing that can help you design a form geared towards the appropriate gender, or maybe show you that you need to be more gender neutral.
• Age- Knowing your target age group will let you know if you should design a form geared to young adults or older generations.
• Level of Knowledge- Are you getting people that are new to the industry or people who have some knowledge? Having that information can help you decide on the wording for your form.

Don’t have that much data yet? You can start off split testing other details. Here are two examples of what other customers have tested:

• When a popover should appear
• Changing the text in the submit button

 

Have You Found Your Best Form?

You won’t know what your audience wants until you start running some split tests!

If you haven’t tried split testing your form yet, look at what your subscribers are telling you and set up a test to find what’s the best form for your audience.

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