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Use Facebook For Additional Email Opt-Ins

This process is relatively simple and only takes a few minutes to execute. You’re going to need two things in order to do this: a Facebook fan page and an HTML opt-in / sign up form code.

If you don’t already have Static FBML on your Facebook fan page, you need to add it here.  With this app added, you can create an “email list” tab to your page.

Once you add the app, click on “edit page” below your main graphic.


Next, select FBML from your list of apps (click on the pencil, then edit). 


You can edit the tab title in the “box title” field. In the FBML section, paste your form code in. If you have any HTML knowledge, you can edit the form to accurately reflect the rest of the page’s look and feel. Click save changes.

If you or one of your colleagues are having issues with the rendering of the email sign up form, click “add another FBML box”. This should nip it in the butt.

And there you have it. Check it out for yourself!

Thanks for the inspiration, returnonsubscriber! (link)

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Posted by Bryan Quilty on Jun. 19, 2009

Facebook Opens Email Platform

If you’re currently on the social networking site of the moment, Facebook, you may notice that their email options have widened considerably.  Up until recently, you were only allowed to message to you Facebook friends.  But now they’ve allowed the option to message - quote / unquote - normal email addresses through their system.

The issues inherit with Facebook’s email service is that – as it stands now – no on uses facebook as their sole means of email communication.  Like most people, I check my main email account to see if I’ve received any messages from the social networking site.  Then I log on to the site to actually read the message.  It seems a little convoluted…  for now.  If they add a few key features (such as POP, forwarding, etc), then Facebook has the potential to completely turn the email-marketing world on its head.

Source: The Email Wars

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Posted by MindComet on Aug. 27, 2007