Does anyone have any experience getting users to provide email addresses for a mailing list? Is it worth it? What portion of app users actually bother to provide one? And is anyone aware of a template or widget that handles this well? Thanks.
Its very easy to provide a simple button which brings up the builtin email app with a pre-formatted message. You could provide a pre-formatted message like “Please put me on your mailing list” etc and provide the button in a proper place in your app (ie Options, Settings etc). This way the user does not have to type anything, their email address will reach you once they hit that button and send you the email and you will not have to worry about providing a formatted text entry area for email addresses and then collect the data etc. IMHO, win win solution. Now, will anyone actually use it is another question… Good luck.
Its very easy to provide a simple button which brings up the builtin email app with a pre-formatted message. You could provide a pre-formatted message like “Please put me on your mailing list” etc and provide the button in a proper place in your app (ie Options, Settings etc). This way the user does not have to type anything, their email address will reach you once they hit that button and send you the email and you will not have to worry about providing a formatted text entry area for email addresses and then collect the data etc. IMHO, win win solution. Now, will anyone actually use it is another question… Good luck.