HUGE Thanks to @marismith for pointing this application out!
I was asked how to use the Profile HTML Application on Facebook – so I figured a post here would be of the most benefit.
While there are a lot of uses for the HTML application – I used it to create a sign up form for my opt in Marketing Newsletter. Here are the steps:
- Open an Aweber Account
- Create a list for your opt in newsletter, product letter or whatever you feel you need an autoresponder for.
- Create a form for your opt in list. Keep it simple, name and email address is sufficient.
- Click on “Get Code” – get the HTML code for the Profile HTML App not the java code
- Copy the code into note pad
- Go to your facebook account
- Add the Profile HTML App to your profile (you can also add it to a page if you have one)
- Paste the code from note pad into the box on the application page
- Hit preview
- If you like what you see – hit save!
- Check, yes I want it on my profile
And Ta Da! There it is!
I want you to notice a few little things in my opt in form.
First – I don’t use “Submit” I use a fun relevant phrase on the Submit button.
Second – I highlight FREE. I want people to know there is no fee for joining the mailing list and that my newsletter is a free service for people to enjoy and learn from.
Let me know if you have any more questions! 
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Hey Melissa!!
You go girl!! Awesome post. Thanks heaps for the mention.
Cheers,
Mari
@marismith
Mari – you are more then welcome.. Love this app and have already gotten newsletter signups… Gotta love it!
Just super, Melissa! Thanks so much
I’m in the process of weighing using an outside mail campaign management service (a great one) – and they generate the html code to create the form fields, just as Aweber does. Now I have to go and check out the comprehensiveness of Aweber! Thanks so much for the information. I’m really growing things from the ground up and need every resource I can get.
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Thanks,
Amanda
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for sharing this. I love the Profile HTML feature. It’s one thing to use it, but quite another to explain the use to someone else.
Many thanks,
Tiffany-
I tried to add an opt-in to my facebook page following your steps above. Has the information (HTML profile) changed on facebook? I don’t see where I can preview it. When I clicked on “update html profile box” I don’t see it anywhere on my page.
Any help you can give me is appreciated.
I am not seeing a Profile HTML app. I do find HTML Profile Box and My HTML. ?? Is it one of those?
Hey Melissa:
Thanks alot for posting this Facebook webform tutorial!
After trying for hours this morning to copy the AWeber tutorial to create a Facebook fanpage webform,I finally got it(1st mistake: copied javascript.not the “raw html” 2) not clicking the “move to wall tab” button)..
Using your tutorial,I was able to add a profile form.
btw: After searching for “profile html application” I noticed in the list,it is called “Profile Box.”
It worked anyway,so I’m off to the races,as they say!