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Collect Email Addresses with Android Email Sign Up 2.0

January 18, 2014 By RDG

screen capture showing setting of custom background color — Select a custom background color for the email collection screen. (click for larger image)

Collect email addresses with Android using Email Sign Up version 2.0. Available on Google Play and Amazon. This app replaces paper sign up forms and eliminates transcription errors when adding people to a mailing list.

The newest version of Email Sign Up allows you to choose a custom background color. This is helpful when your background image is smaller than the display of your tablet. For example, if you have an image file of just a logo.

You can collect email addresses at a live event or conference. With the most recent update, people’s names will automatically capitalized. The text in the optional custom text fields will also be capitalized by default. This helps maintain consistent formatting for the data that is entered. The auto capitalization can be turned off from the preferences screen.

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Additional Screen Shots

screen shot with automatic capitalization — Auto capitalization in action.

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Email Sign Up On The Google Play Store

Email Sign Up on the Amazon app store.

Collect Email Addresses with Email Sign Up 1.9

November 23, 2013 By RDG

Collect email addresses with Email Sign Up for Android version 1.9. Available on Google Play and Amazon. This app enables you to grow your email list by collecting email addresses with your Android tablet.

The newest version of Email Sign Up allows you to lock the orientation of the email collection screen. You can already choose a carefully designed background image. However, the image usually looks best in a specific orientation. Now you are able to force the email collection screen into the desired orientation no matter how many times the user rotates the device.

The app is designed to be used at live events or trade shows. The latest version allows you to assign a name to the current event where you are collecting new subscribers. This event will be added to the beginning of the automatically generated file name for the CSV file that stores the subscriber data.

The screen captures below show you how to use the new features.

Collect Email Addresses Screen Shots

collect email addresses screen orientation screen shot — The orientation of the email collection screen can be set from the preferences screen. Click to enlarge.

collect email addresses event name screen shot — Assign an event name and it will be added to the beginning of the file name. Click to enlarge.

Get Email Sign Up on these app stores

Email Sign Up On The Google Play Store

Email Sign Up on the Amazon app store.

Event Sign Up App Email Sign Up 1.8

November 19, 2013 By RDG

Email Sign Up (event sign up app for Android) version 1.8 is now available on Google Play and Amazon. This app allows collection of names, email addresses, phone numbers and up to two additional custom text fields.

The newest version of Email Sign Up allows you to view the names and email addresses that have been collected directly from the app. If you would like to offer an incentive to new subscribers, such as a raffle or door prize, the app provides a “pick a random name” feature.

Why use paper based forms when you already own an Android tablet? Choose your own background image and let people sign up. The data is stored in a widely used machine format, CSV (or comma separated file). This CSV file is easy to import into other programs such as excel.

Event Sign Up App Example

android email collection screen — Android email collection app screen shot. (click image to enlarge)

Let’s say you are a bee keeper and your are giving an introduction to bee keeping talk. You would like to let interested people subscribe to your club’s email list to learn more about the joys of keeping honey bees. As an incentive you are offering a free bottle of honey to one new subscriber.

As you are giving your talk, you can pass your tablet around the room. After you are done speaking, you can view the list of people that signed up. With the click of a button, you can pick a random name to give the sweet reward of honey to.

The screen shots below show what a list of names and addresses will look like in the app. The pick a random name feature is also shown.

screen shot of winning name — Pick a winner for the door prize.

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Email Sign Up On The Google Play Store

Email Sign Up on the Amazon app store.

Email Collection App Email Sign Up 1.7

November 15, 2013 By RDG

Email Sign Up (email collection app for Android) version 1.7 is now available on Google Play and Amazon. This app already allowed name and email collection. The latest version adds the ability to collect phone numbers as well as providing two additional customizable fields. The phone number and custom text fields are optional. I have put together some screen captures to show the features in action using my bee keeping club example.

The primary purpose of the app is to collect information in a computer readable format. All collected data is written to a CSV file that can be imported into email clients, excel or email service providers. A vCard file can also be created. This allows contacts to be imported into the Android contact manager. In addition, email addresses can be added to MailChimp lists directly from the app if network connectivity is available.

Email Collection App Example

The above screen shot shows the email collection screen with all the optional fields enabled. You can ask for phone numbers and they will be stored in the CSV file as well as the vCard file. The last two text fields will also be stored in the CSV file if they are enabled.

In this example, the beekeeper is being asked how many hives they have as well as what city they are from. However, any text information could be requested. At a trade show, for example, it might be appropriate to ask for “Company Name.”

Enable Optional Fields

The screen shots below show how the optional fields are enabled and customized. Once the fields are configured, the custom text will show up on the email collection screen.

optional field preferences — Touch theck box to enable the optional fields.

configure custom field — Configure what information to request.

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Email Sign Up On The Google Play Store

Email Sign Up on the Amazon app store.

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