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Incentivize your Sign-up forms: Boost conversions with discounts or loyalty points

Incentivize your Sign-up forms: Boost conversions with discounts or loyalty points

Offering a discount or points as an incentive on your forms can be an effective way to motivate customers to sign up for your marketing.

Updated over a week ago

Incentive options available for Marsello sign-up forms

Loyalty points

By enabling the Create an account loyalty earn option, you can automatically award loyalty points to new customers when they sign up. This strategy is an excellent way to boost signups for your marketing efforts and drive engagement with your loyalty program

Discount incentive

Offer new sign-ups a discount incentive for joining your marketing list by:

Displaying a Universal Discount Code on Your Form's Success Page

  • To offer this experience, first create a universal or blanket discount code in your sales platform. Once the code is set up, add it to the success page of your sign-up form. All customers who sign up will receive the same discount code.

OR

  • Sending a Unique Marsello Discount Code via Email Automation

For this experience, customize your Welcome or custom automation in either Marsello or Klaviyo, ensuring it includes a discount block. After a customer completes your sign-up form, the automation will trigger at the scheduled time and send the discount code to your customer. The customer will then need to click on the discount block to claim their unique discount code.

πŸ’‘ Tip: The most common sign-up incentive discount 10% off. Used by brands like H&M, Country Road, Urban Outfitters and more.


Customize your sign-up form to include information about your sign-up incentive

1. In your Marsello dashboard, open the online signup form you wish to edit.

πŸ“Note: If you are creating a form from scratch you can also do this from the Signup forms tab. Click Create form and select the form type you wish to create (landing page, pop-up or link in bio page).

2. Go to the Form customization tab to edit the contents of your sign up form.

Screenshot showing the Form Customization tab in Marsello, where users can edit the contents of their sign-up form. This tab allows users to personalize and modify the fields and design of their form.

3. Edit the text of your form to include your incentive details:

  • the number of loyalty points the customer will receive for creating an account

    or

  • the title of your discount

Screenshot showing how to edit the text of a sign-up form in Marsello to include incentive details. Users can add information such as the number of loyalty points customers will receive for creating an account or the title of a discount being offered.

4. [Optional]: Format your Form text toolbar

You can adjust the following settings to better suit your brand:

  • Font

  • Text size

  • Text formatting – Bold, Italics and underline

  • Text alignment – Left, center and right

  • List options – Bullet points or numbered list

  • Text color

  • Text background color

  • Indent options

  • Link – Add a hyperlink to your text

  • Unlink – Unlink your text

5. Once you are happy with your Form design, click Save.


Add an incentive to your sign-up form's success screen

1. Select the success tab of your sign-up form to edit the contents of your form's success page.

Screenshot showing how to select the Success tab of a sign-up form in Marsello. Users can edit the contents of the success page that appears after a customer successfully completes the form.

2. Click into the text content block to customize the confirmation message that the customer's details have been received and an incentive is on the way.

  • If you are rewarding customers with loyalty points, you can use the text block on this screen to thank them for signing up and that their points for creating an account have been awarded.

  • If you are providing customers with a universal or blanket discount code that you have created in your sales platform, you can add that code to your thank you for signing up message here

  • If you are rewarding customers with a Marsello discount code via the Welcome automation or a custom automation, you can tell the customer to check their inbox for their reward.

Screenshot showing how to customize the confirmation message in Marsello after a customer successfully signs up. Users can edit the text content block to thank customers for signing up, inform them about their loyalty points, or provide them with a discount code. Additionally, users can add a Marsello discount code or direct customers to check their inbox for a reward.

πŸ’‘Tip: If your incentive includes any special terms or conditions (such as usage requirements or an expiration date), it’s a good idea to display them on this page to ensure they are clear to the customer.

3. Review your form page and success page


4. Click Save, then Next Step


5. Click Confirm & Launch your Form


Your customers' experience

Once you've enabled your Form, it will begin to display to your visitors. They will see your discount incentive or account creation loyalty points bonus and join your mailing list by completing the sign-up form.


​Form Screen

Visitors must enter their Name and Email address, and then opt-in to your mailing list by clicking the Subscribe button at the bottom of the form.

sign_1.png Screenshot showing the sign-up form displayed to visitors on your site after it's enabled. Visitors will see the discount incentive or loyalty points bonus for account creation. To join the mailing list, visitors must enter their Name and Email address and click the Subscribe button at the bottom of the form to opt-in.

πŸ“ Note: If the visitor doesn't submit their details, they will not be able to access the offered incentive nor be eligible to receive account creation points.

The visitor will then be added as a customer on your eCommerce (and POS) and into your Marsello list ready to receive your marketing.

Success Screen

Next, the visitor will see your Success screen with their points earned, universal (or blanket) discount code, or notification that their reward is on its way via email.

sign_2.pngScreenshot of the Success Screen displayed after a visitor successfully signs up. The screen shows the points earned, a universal discount code, or a notification informing the visitor that their reward will be sent via email.

How to customize your Marsello Welcome automation to send an incentive to new signups

πŸ“ Note: You may also create the welcome automation with a Marsello incentive in Klaviyo.

1. In the Marsello admin, go to Marketing > Marketing automations.

Screenshot showing the Marsello admin dashboard with the navigation to Marketing > Marketing Automations.

2. In the search box enter "Welcome" to access the Welcome newsletter signup automation.

Screenshot showing the search box in the Marsello admin where "Welcome" is entered to access the Welcome newsletter signup automation.

3. Click Edit to open the automation to begin customization.

Screenshot showing the Edit button clicked in the Marsello admin to open and begin customizing the Welcome newsletter signup automation.

4. Click the cog icon to open the Trigger settings. Here you can update:

  • Automation name: Enter/update your automation name
    This automation name is internal only and is to help you identify your automation in the Automation admin.

  • Trigger – When a customer is created: You can choose to send to all customers who meet this trigger, choose to send to selected segment(s), or create a new segment. The customer can sign up for your marketing via the POS order, eCommerce order, or a form.

  • Exit condition: Exit conditions determine when the customer leaves the automation flow. Select When a customer makes an order or completes the automation flow.

Screenshot showing the cog icon clicked in Marsello admin to open the Trigger settings of the Welcome newsletter signup automation. The settings allow customization of the Automation name, Trigger conditions (such as customer sign-up via POS, eCommerce, or a form), and Exit conditions (including customer order or completion of the automation flow).

5. [Optional]: Add a delay from when the customer enters the flow to when your first email will be sent. To update your automation's Delay settings, click the pencil icon to update the Delay settings

Screenshot showing the Delay settings option in the Marsello admin. To adjust the delay before the first email is sent in the automation flow, click the pencil icon and modify the delay settings. This is an optional step in the automation setup process.

6. Select how much time to wait before the next email in the flow will send and select Save changes

Screenshot showing the Delay settings in Marsello, where you can select the amount of time to wait before the next email in the automation flow is sent. After adjusting the delay, click Save changes to apply the settings.

5. Customize the emails in your automated flow by clicking the pencil icon in the email template

Screenshot showing how to customize the emails in your automated flow by clicking the pencil icon in the email template within Marsello's automation settings.

6. Customize your email template by using the drag-and-drop content blocks on the right-hand side to customize the design of the email template.

🎨 There are lots of drag-and-drop content blocks to help design your email.
β†’ See all email blocks you can add and AI assistance options.

7. By default there is a preset discount block already in your email automation. If you intend to keep this discount, you will only need to update the text block to describe the discount. If you wish to edit the discount block, you will first need to remove the discount block from the email and replace it with a new one.

⚠️ Important: The types of rewards that you can create, depend on the POS and/or eCommerce that you have connected. Learn more.

8. Once you have finished editing your automation, click Save and Return and then Save and Return. You will now be able to enable your automation.


Your customers' experience

When the customer receives the email, they will see the discount offer in your email under the Discount button. Your customers can then easily click through to claim their unique discount code to use on their next purchase.

πŸ“ Note: The discount code is created in your POS and/or eCommerce platform when the customer clicks claim, ready for the customer to use on their next purchase.

Once the customer has received the email, the expiry period on the discount will begin.

Screenshot showing the discount offer in the email under the Discount button, allowing customers to click through and claim their unique discount code. The code is created in the POS and/or eCommerce platform when the customer clicks to claim, with the discount expiry period starting once the email is received.

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