Adding Security Increases Email Optin Rates
The days of squeeze pages are pretty much over, and getting email opt ins is becoming increasingly difficult as visitors become more guarded in releasing personal information. Adding visible security can overcome some of these concerns.
Eliminating CAPTCHAs Makes For A Better Visitor Experience
Those extra entries, the CAPTCHAs, visitors have to make to prove they are human are annoying enough, but they also don't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Here's a Flex way to get rid of them and make your visitor's experience even better.
A Flex Project That You Can Use For Email OptIns
As demonstrated elsewhere, email optins can be increased if requested in a
secure context and without irritating
CAPTCHAs . We've deployed a Flex object for capturing email info and returning a payload url, integrating it into our customer email management system. This has been generalized as a simple Flex project, with an overview PDF documnent and a very simple 'classic' asp companion script, yours for the asking, in the Flex object below.
| The mxml/AS3 is straight forward. It includes entry validation with, well,validators, a common HTTPService component, parameterized request structures, changing background based on entry and capture phase,and a little upcasting to save a bit of code. | |