April Product Update – New Form Features, Templates and Usability Improvements

That is the primary of our new month-to-month product updates. My hope is to shed some mild on the place we’re taking the product by highlighting latest developments and leaking a couple of of our upcoming options.

Within the spirit of transparency, we’d be stoked in case you jumped in to debate the place we’re going and the way it impacts you and your advertising enterprise wants.

On this month’s replace

  • Pre-made dropdown lists in your lead gen kinds
  • Enhanced kind button help
  • Video touchdown web page template
  • Web page part guides
  • Stat reset
  • Coming quickly – what’s subsequent?

New Kind Options

Lead gen is high of thoughts for lots of Unbounce clients so we’re making it a precedence (see coming soon beneath). The most recent additions are a sequence of pre-made dropdown lists and improved button help.

Prepared made dropdown lists in your lead gen kinds

We added a set of pre-made lists to avoid wasting you time when constructing your lead gen kinds. Select from Nations, US States, Canadian Provinces, States & Provinces collectively, days, months and extra. If you would like us so as to add every other lists to the system simply drop us a line on our Get Satisfaction forum.

Including pre-defined dropdown lists is tremendous simple now. Simply select from our listing of prepared made choices.

Enhanced kind button help

Your kind buttons at the moment are absolutely customizable, together with help for graphical picture buttons. Buttons can have 3 states, up/hover/lively to reinforce interactivity and you’ll place the button anyplace inside the shape space to provide you extra format freedom.

Video Touchdown Web page Template

For anybody who isn’t graphically inclined or doesn’t have entry to a design useful resource, our touchdown web page templates will help you get your campaigns began. We’ve been including new templates as we roll alongside and will probably be remodeling all of them into an even bigger assortment within the coming weeks.

The most recent is a video touchdown web page template that additionally features a characteristic listing and social media icon which may be utilized for enhanced path relevance when doing social media advertising (by way of Twitter on this instance).

If there are any particular template sorts you wish to see in Unbounce, please tell us on our Get Satisfaction forum.

Usability Enhancements

Whereas including as many new options as doable, we’re additionally dedicated to creating Unbounce essentially the most usable touchdown web page platform obtainable. We’re continuously testing the device and evaluating suggestions from you to see how we will make it simpler to make use of. Listed here are a few modifications we made that ought to make your life less complicated.

Web page part guides

Web page sections are the muse of the touchdown web page editor. They allow you to section your content material into versatile and stretchable blocks. Sometimes you employ them for including header, physique and footer kind sections. With the brand new guides, it’s simpler to see the place the boundaries are and to tug them to resize.

If you happen to click on inside a web page part you will notice the small black deal with to resize the peak. You too can seize any of the horizontal strains to stretch a piece or use the vertical strains to vary the web page width.

Reset stats

We added this to your web page particulars view so as to take management of when your marketing campaign ought to begin. We realized that it’s essential publish your pages if you wish to ship them round to stakeholders or colleagues for evaluation and in addition only for the peace of thoughts of them in a reside browser state of affairs.

As soon as you’re assured that your web page is prepared for receiving visitors, merely hit the reset stats button to wind the counters to zero.

Watch out to not reset your stats as soon as your marketing campaign and A/B testing is underway.

Coming Quickly

Over the subsequent few weeks we’re going bananas over lead era options and new touchdown web page templates.

Main lead gen updates

If you happen to’re capturing consumer information you’ll love what we’re planning in our subsequent launch. Right here’s a chook’s eye view of what we’re engaged on.

  • View your leads inside Unbounce: If you happen to don’t have an present place to deal with your leads you’ll be capable to view them straight in Unbounce as quickly as they’re captured.
  • Integration with third get together CRM’s and E-mail Service Suppliers: If you wish to push your leads straight into your present MailChimp account or CRM system then we’ll be constructing help for this. We might use your assist in figuring out precedence right here – so please soar onto the support forum and inform us which suppliers you need us to combine with.
  • Ship results in an e-mail deal with: If you happen to simply need your leads despatched to your inbox we’ll be capable to try this for you too.
  • Ship customers a whitepaper, eBook (or any file) on kind submit: We’ll allow you to add recordsdata in your customers to obtain mechanically (or get from a affirmation web page).
  • Extra kind area options: Checkboxes are coming, however we additionally wish to know the opposite kinds area sorts you want. Textual content areas? Radio buttons? We’ll get to all of them in the end, however you probably have a burning want tell us.

New suite of touchdown web page templates

We’re engaged on a significant overhaul of our templates that may make your job simpler and extra gratifying. The subsequent replace will embrace improved visible designs and further template layouts. We’re additionally engaged on some absolutely designed “samples” for instance what you possibly can construct with the Unbounce touchdown web page editor.


Okay, that’s it for now. If in case you have a product characteristic wishlist, please let us know what you need and we’ll see about incorporating it into our roadmap.

Till subsequent month.

Cheers,

Oli Gardner