Kontactr Embedded Contact Me Form

Don't forget this is also the "Woo Us To Your Blog" post and a Linky is at the end for you to drop your blog(s) URL so that we can visit you. Take advantage of this opportunity for FREE ADVERTISING of your blog. No strings attached, so it doesn't get any easier..

Now let's learn something...

Surfing through the internet, site after site, I read "Contact Me" on buttons and in navigation bars a billion times. Sometimes when I click to contact the owner of the site, they want my name - address - phone number - dress size - weight - blood type - shoe size - I think you get my point. All the fields are mandatory! It becomes impossible to contact the site owner because I am not going to give them my first born just to write them a short note. When that happens, I lose all motivation to contact the person and I usually just leave..

Do you think I will ever try to communicate with them again?

No way!

I've already told you one way to help your readers contact you and now I'm going to share another method. Not being able to contact someone is one of my pet peeves, so I am going to exhaust all methods to try and help everyone find a communication method.

Blogging is Communicating.

Let's say it like this: Blogging = Communicating.

It is VERY EASY to contact me. I have "contact me" buttons and images, a free forum, easy commenting method on my blog and after you write me once, you'll have my email address too. So, like I said, it is VERY EASY to contact me.

When you click on the "Contact Me" buttons, you will be directed to a form that asks for MINIMAL information because I definitely do not want to know your blood type or shoe size. I just want to be able to write you back which is the whole point of this process - providing a means by which two people can communicate.

Anyway, the form that you fill out to email me is through Kontactr and is one of the best things I did for my blog. After a VERY EASY installation, the Kontactr email form is maintenance and worry free. I love it! The web and embedded form have both worked perfectly the whole time I've had a blog which is why I can say that I am 100% satisfied with this product.

Let me show you how VERY EASY it is to install on your site or blog. It will change your life! Well, maybe not your life, but it sure will make communicating with your readers a breeze.

FYI, I am not getting paid to make this posting. I am sharing this because I truly enjoy this product.

Pull up Kontactr to create your personal contact form.

Step 1: Click "sign up"

Step 2: Fill in the blanks with your: name, email address, a user name, and a password. Now click the "sign up" button. You can read the "terms of service" and "privacy policy" if you want to too, but I'll tell you ahead of time that Kontactr will not spam you. That is really important to me.

Step 3: So now Kontactr has sent you an email. Jump on over to your email and click the "click here"

Joy of joys!!! You have successfully created your account.

Do a little happy dance to celebrate the journey to communication.

Enough dancing.

Step 4: Go push the "click here"

Step 5: Now you are at a page that tells your personalized information such as the link to your Kontactr form. It will also show you a whole bunch of codes.

The first code is the one that you use on a "page" to accommodate an embedded form.

Step 6: Maybe a whole page set aside with an embedded form isn't the thing for you. Why embed the form? The advantage of having the contact form embedded is so that the reader isn't taken away from your site.

How do I do handle my Kontactr Contact Me forms?

I use both the embedded form and the online web form. Some of my buttons lead to the embedded form while others lead to the online web version. I just try to cover all my bases. Remember, I have secret demons and dragons.

I have to admit that the aqua online web version isn't my color, but hey, I don't look at it that often because I'm not writing myself emails nor do I ever have any problems with Kontactr!

The embedded version looks really nice on my blog. I love the letters that must be typed by the writer to prove they are human and not a spammer sent from the dark regions of Hell. I guess I feel rather strongly about spammers - Duh!

Don't forget - this is FREE

It is as FREE as a nudist running on the beach and as EASY as Sunday morning.

Now you will have naked people running through your mind singing the Lionel Richie song, "Easy."

You're so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o welcome.

Wasn't that fun?!

Okay, I know you can't get your mind off the nudist singing "Easy," so I will help you...

Here's Lionel. Don't you love his clothes! How did that many years pass by so quickly?




Break time is over now. Let's finish off this lovely post.

How do your readers contact you?

The last "Woo Us To Your Blog" post explored Horizontal Rules. Do you remember what that was or are you still stuck on the nudist at the beach?

As always, attached is the weekly Linky to enter either the main URL to your site or add each post you publish throughout the week. You don't have to do anything special, just drop your link in and get a little extra exposure to your site.

Until next week's wooing post, have fun with Email Contact linking and I will see you back here next week with another blogging tip.









"Yeah, I'm e-e-e-e-e-easy...Easy like Sunday morning,
Oooooh, yeah, e-e-e-e-e-easy, Easy like Sunday mor-r-r-r-rning"

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Your Criticism - Bring It On!

Should I be blunt? Blunt usually works well for me, so I will give it whack.

• In case you haven't noticed, I was born with red hair. I did not have any say in the matter. In your email you said,"I hate your red hair and wish that you would get it off the header." I'm sorry you feel so strongly, but I must tell you that I'm still trying really hard not to laugh. What do you suggest I use in my header? I mean really, how can you go through life and not love a redhead?! We are an awesome minority and the photo below is proof. Of course, that is purely my unbiased opinion.

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• Another day and another email stated that, "Your template is so boring. How long are you going to keep it this way? Please change it because I cringe each time I visit your blog." Hmmmm. I almost don't know what to say to that one, but let me try. I created my template and find the colors relaxing, peaceful and I think they rather match my hair coloring. The pictures are larger in my posts and I have plenty of room in the sidebar for all the widgets that mean something to me. If you cringe when you visit, why are you visiting? Are you one of those people who like to bang your head on a wall and then complain that you have a headache? Tsk. Tsk. However I do not want you to worry because your wish is going to come true. I'm working on a new template and I'm not sure if I will use the same colors, but I'm pretty sure my red head will still be in the header.

• The next email was from the very famous Anonymous who forgot to leave a link to their blog. Do you know him/her? The note said, "I am an atheist and find your belief in God almost as silly as fairy tales read to children. Surely a woman as intelligent and witty as you claim to be would see how erroneous your beliefs are and how they hold you back from having a successful life." All I can say to this is that you might want to work on your converting technique because it is a bit rough. I have atheist friends and none of them are rude to me about my religious beliefs. Maybe you should try practicing the rule that I gleaned from the movie Bambie. Thumper is the bunny rabbit and his mother taught him that "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." For the record, Anonymous, just ask my mother and she will tell you that I am intelligent and witty.

• As far as the comment, "Be real! No one has a life that is always so happy!" Why do I always get this comment? I'm trying to be p-o-s-i-t-i-v-e because it helps make life h-a-p-p-i-e-r. Obviously, this reader has been living in an internet cave because wasn't it just a few weeks ago I was blogging about my father's death? There was also the terror of my daughter's brush with death a few months ago. To top it all off, today my husband was laid off again. Obviously, degrees on the wall don't override tenure or familial connections within a company. Yeah, it rather stinks like Limburger cheese and I hate the stress. I hope this is being real enough for you. All the weight of earning income for the family is back on my shoulders which hold up the intelligent and witty red head that the first and third Anonymous writers don't like very much. I think, however, there are millions of other families that are financially struggling, so I've got company.
  

Since I am in the midst of making some major changes to my blog and my life, I am reaching out for your personal preferences and opinions about my blog. I won't necessarily use them all, but I want to know the feelings of the vast majority of my readers. I created a poll that you will find in my sidebar. All your answers will be anonymous which will give you the freedom to be brutally honest. If you want to be specific in the comments section, you can do that also. I would greatly appreciate your candor, expertise and opinion.

Oh, I did leave out the spammers that are obsessed with their body parts. Let me just say that if you send me the emails in English, Chinese or any other language, I do the same thing to them that I do to Bella's little piles of poop. Yep, gone forever without examination. Ewwwwww....please tell me that you didn't get a visual of that poop thing.

You did?

Yuck!

I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist the temptation. Just be glad I resisted posting a picture.

Your face all scrunched in disgust is rather funny!

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