Add sign up for newsletter box in regular emails

On the signature of my regular email, thunderbird, I have a link to my website. I was looking for a way to add a VR opt in form "Sign up for our newsletter" OR ""view our most recent newsletter".

I created an opt in form and pasted the link into my email but it didn't create the HTML opt in box as I thought it might.

Is there a way to provide an easy to use Opt in form for my VR newsletter on my regular email signature?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Ewald on February 6, 2009 at 2:51pm: Hi Ian,

Check out this earlier Lounge post that addresses your question:

Opt-in vs Opt Out in an E-mail Campaign?

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Permalink Reply by Ian Smith on February 6, 2009 at 3:00pm: Thanks Chris. That's not what I am looking for.

On my regular email I have a signature and in that signature I would like to include an opt in form so that new contacts not in my VR address book would simply fill in their name and email address and begin receiving my VR newsletter.

Ian Smith
blah blah blah
click here to subscribe to our PPE and fire equipment newsletter.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Ewald on February 6, 2009 at 4:26pm: Hi Ian,

Hi Ian,

Got it -- the best way, given the variations in email clients, is to include a link to the opt-in form in your email signature. Once you've set up the form, then copy the link that's included in the first line of the opt-in form's code, (just the address that comes after the "action=" and before target=vr_optin_popup) and then link that address to your subscribe message in your email signature.

Just tried it with one of my opt-in forms, sending from a Yahoo account to another account opened in Outlook Express and it worked like a charm.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Smith on February 9, 2009 at 9:07am: That works. Thanks for your help.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JW on March 22, 2009 at 8:05am: Chris,

Can you do an easy tutorial on this? I think this would be a great way to collect emails.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Smith on March 23, 2009 at 3:02pm: Chris's description above works. Just create an opt in form here and then cut and paste it into your email.; ▶ Reply to This