Adding an Email-Sign Up Tab to Your Facebook Fan Page

Have you been looking for a way to add a tab to your Facebook Fan Page that will allow fans to sign up to receive your blog or newsletter?

Adding the Static FBML application to your page is easy!

I would print this post because you will get re-directed in the following steps. This will take about 30 minutes so set aside some time and be patient You'll be happy you did!

Adding the tab feature

1) Log in to your Facebook Account

2) Click here

3) From Static FBML fan page under the profile picture, click add to my page

4) A pop up will appear that will have your fan page/s listed, select the page you wish to add the tab to

Creating the Form

Please note that emailmeform.com free forms have many uses and once you are comfortable with the setup you can play around and customize it to suite your needs.

1) Click here

2) Hit Sign-Up now for free and sign up

3) Locate where it says create a new form and click on that

What to Input?

Step 1 of 7, Name the form Email Sign-Up or whatever you would like, use the email address you want the sign-ups to come to (Please note that you will have to manually add your new subscribers to your email list), use your companies website if you have one for the thank you email address (THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, IT WILL SEND PEOPLE TO YOUR SITE AFTER THEY SIGN UP AS OPPOSED TO THE EMAILMEFORM SITE) and keep the #4 for the number of lines to start

Step 2 of 7, Now add what you want the form to say, such as "Your Name", "Your Email" "Age of Children" "Where did you hear about us" You can customize it for your needs.

Step 3 of 7, Leave it exactly the way it is

Step 4 of 7, Customize your form by changing the font, color of text and background by clicking on pick. The form description should read what you want the form to say at the top. (An example would be, "Leave your info to receive my blog posts straight to your inbox") Leave everything else the same

Step 5 of 7, Leave as is

Step 6 of 7, Check out what you made and make sure you like the colors, etc, you can go back and play with colors and heading if you want, once your happy click Finish.

Getting the Code

On the next page click on the highlighted area that says GET THE HTML CODE.

BAM, now you have your code, copy it and go back to FB.

Putting It All Together

1) From your FB fan page go to edit page under the picture

2) Scroll Down to the FBML app and click edit

3) In the top part enter what you want the tab to be called, such as Blog Sign-Up

4) In the box paste your code

5) Save Changes

6) At the top click on the link to get back to your page

7) There should now be a tab called Boxes

8) Click on the + sign and you should see something that says whatever you used as the header in step 3 of this section. Click on that.

9) Now you should see it in the tabs, but there is one last step.

10) Go back to the edit page and find your FBML app. Click application settings and where it says boxes hit remove.

11) Sorry one last step, pat yourself on the back for being an unbelievable person!

Feel free to comment with questions, love to help.

Want to do more with your FBML tab to further customize your page?

Check out Nathan Latka at Fan Page Factory on FB. He is the king of all things FBML!