Sajith Mohan

How to Create Online Donation Forms for Nonprofits

May 31, 2020 by Sajith Mohan 1 Comment

Creating non-profit donation forms in WordPress is easier than ever.

In this article, we’ll show you how to create online donation forms through simple and easy steps.

Step 1: Creating Your WordPress Form

The first thing to do is to install and activate the WPForms plugin. WPForms is a freemium plugins which helps you to create beautiful WordPress forms in minutes with writing a single line of code.

Once this is done, next go to WPForms and Add New to create a new form.

Here, name your first form and choose the donation form template.

The default donation form will appear.

Step 2: WPForm Customization

The default fields like name, email, donation amount, and message will be present on the template.

Additional fields can be chosen from the list on the left-hand side and can be dragged to the form to place it there.

Once you are done editing the form, click on the Save button on the top right to save the changes made.

Step 3: Configuring the Form’s General Settings

We’ve to configure certain settings while creating a non-profit WPForm.

We are beginning with the general settings.

Go to the Settings and then General.

You can customize many things here like your form’s name, form description and even the submit button text.

Step 4: Configure the Form’s Notifications and Confirmations

You will be notified about the donations made unless you turn off this feature.

The site visitors will be delivered a message once they submit a donation form on your website.

You can choose from the three donation confirmations which will let the visitor know about the next steps – Message, Show Page, and Go to URL.

Step 5: Setting up the Payment Method

Configuring the payment settings is mandatory to receive donations through WPForms.

WPForms can be integrated with both PayPal or Stripe to receive payments.

Install and activate the addon for the payment platform that your wish to integrate with the WPForms.

Once this is done, choose the payment tab in the form editor.

In this example, we’re choosing PayPal as our payment platform.

Additional settings will appear.

Once you’ve made the edits and added the details, click Save.

Step 6: Adding the non-profit form to the Website

Choose the page from WordPress on which you’d like to insert the donation form and click on Add Form.

There!

Your non-profit donation forms will appear on the website immediately.

How to Boost Your Conversions using Exit-Intent

May 12, 2020 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

The truth is, 70% of your website/ blog visitors will leave you without literally doing anything on your website.

And, I know how hard you worked to drive your visitors to your website, whether it is SEO, social media, or paid channels.

I heard from you!

So in this article, I’m introducing you to an advanced tactic- Exit popup implementation.

We use an online tool called OptinMonster for this implementing exit-intent popups.

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How does It work?

The exit-intent feature will retain your visitor on your website by providing them with engaging content.

When a user is scrolling up your website to find the address bar it is an indication that he/she is not interested in the content anymore.

This is when the low or medium sensitivity comes into action.

The exit-intent gives a message with great content.

Let’s look up a different scenario.

What if the user just clicks the back button instead of scrolling up.

Here, exit-intent sensitivity is high.

So you should choose the sensitivity as High.

The pop-up will show offers or discounts which the user might find interesting and make them want to remain on your site for even longer.

With the help of exit-intent and proper content, you can boost your conversions and bring up your sales.

OptinMonster also has unique templates for the pop-up messages which are to appear upon triggering the action.

This is an example of the template ‘Donate’.

There are different templates available in catching designs to increase customer retention rates and the number of leads.

What is more?

The templates are also customizable.

You can edit the content and add the content you wish that your users should see before leaving your website forever.

With the exit-intent feature from OptinMonster, boost your sales and increase your lead 2-4%.

How to Collect PayPal Payments on Your WordPress Site

May 1, 2020 by Sajith Mohan 1 Comment

Now you can collect PayPal payments through your WordPress website forms.

WPForms will allow you to accept payments by integrating PayPal into it.

Let’s see how to get it done in simple and easy steps.

Step 1: Installing PayPal Addon and Form Creation

Install and activate WPForms as well as PayPal addon s on to your WordPress website.

Once this is done, we’re going to add PayPal in your WPForms.

For this, first, you have to create a form.

In this example, we are creating a billing/order form.

The form appears with the default fields.

PayPal needs only a single field to work properly with WPForms.

Step 2: Add PayPal to the Form

Now let’s connect PayPal to your form.

Go to the Payments section and then PayPal Standard.

Check the ‘Enable PayPal Standard payments’ box.

You can fill in the remaining boxes and once you are ready, click on the ‘Save’ button to save the payment details.

Step 3: Set Up Conditional Logic

The conditional logic is a smart Form which changes the options on your forms based on the user’s selection.

To begin with, open the form builder, go to payments and then PayPal standard.

Tick the box labelled ‘Enable Conditional Logic’.

Now a set fo additional boxes will appear and you can decide when the user should be sent to PayPal to complete the payment process by filling in the details.

For example, you only need to send users to the Paypal only if they are willing to signup for the workshop.

For this, you will have to add a drop-down asking whether they would like to signup and allow them to choose from the options.

The users will only be taken to Paypal only if they would like to sign up for the workshop.

This way you can condition your WPForm.

Step 4: Test your Form

You can test your WPForm by running a test entry by pretending to be a user.

Going all the way till the PayPal option and carrying out a small transaction is also highly recommended to ensure everything is working well.

Take Your Business to The Next Level with WPForms & ActiveCampaign

April 24, 2020 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

In light of the present coronavirus situations, expanding businesses might seem tricky.

But with the right tools and vision, any online business can cut their way forward even in this corona affected world.

Let’s see how this works.

ActiveCampaign is a marketing tool which allows you to keep in touch with your customers.

You can upscale your email marketing and other CRM services using the ActiveCampaign API.

WPForms is a contact form plugin from WordPress.

Anyone can create these contact forms on your WordPress sites and place it on any page as per your requirements.

The process of creating this contact form is as simple as drag and drop.

ActiveCampaign when integrated with WPForms, it becomes powerful enough to take your business to the next level.

WPForms collects necessary details form the website visitors and saves it in the ActiveCampiagn database which will create a follow-up strategy for the visitor based on the details provided.

As simple as that.

Let us see how to integrate WPFroms and ActiveCampaign through simple steps.

1. Install and Activate WPForms Plugin

First things first.

Install and activate WPForms plugin on your WordPress site.

Once this is done, install and activate Zapier addon on your site.

When you are in the ‘Edit Options’ step, choose ‘Newsletter Signup Form’.

You will get a confirmation message.

Now choose WPForms as your trigger app and ActiveCampaign as your action app.

You can find the ActiveCampaign app by searching in the search bar.

It is time to select the ActiveCampaign action.

To automatically add new subscribers to your ActiveCampaign list, choose ‘Create/Update Contact’.

Then click ‘Continue’.

After that, you have to connect your ActiveCampaign account to Zapier.

Click on ‘Connect an Account’.

You will be asked to enter API URL and API key which will be available on your ActiveCampaign account.

Now choose ‘Developer’.

The keys will be available and you can copy them to Zapier.

Click on ‘Yes, Continue’.

Next, you have to link each Newsletter form field to the appropriate ActiveCampaign field.

You can run tests to check whether its working or not.

If it’s working well, you can see the imported data on your ActiveCampaign account.

One final step, your WPForms will be linked to the ActiveCampaign account.

Turn on the Zap.

It’s done.

Now, whenever a user fills the contact form, those details will automatically be updated in the ActiveCampiagn database for further interaction.

Enable Upload Files on Your WordPress Form

March 13, 2020 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Now you can upload files to your website as easy as ever.

WPForms have introduced a new plugin that allows you to add file upload fields to your forms.

With this addition, the visitors can now easily upload their files.

This also considerably reduced form abandonment rates.

Let’s see how it’s done step by step.

Step 1: Create your file upload form

Install and activate WPForms plugin on your website.

Choose WPForms and then Add New from your WordPress website dashboard.

Create a form and name it.

From the additional templates option below, you’ll have to choose and open the file upload form.

Ensure that you’ve activated Form Templates Pack Addon to see the file upload form in the options.

A drag and drop builder which is pre-built will be displayed.

The form will have the name, email and phone number fields by default.

To add fields of your choice, you can drag them from the left to the form.

Now, drag and drop file upload filed which will be under the fancy fields to your form.

You can even customize the field by clicking on it.

Label, description and style can be edited here.

Step 2: Add the File Upload Form to your WordPress Site

With the new plugin, you can add file upload forms anywhere on your website.

Go the update settings of the page you wish to add the file upload form on your website.

Choose the first icon below the page title.

Now click on Add WPForms icon.

WPForms widget will appear.

Choose your file upload form from the drop-down.

Update the page and your form will be published on the desired page.

How to Build Spam-Free WordPress Contact Forms

January 24, 2020 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Wishing so hard that the spams don’t exist?

Wondering how easy things would have been without those sneaky uninvited spam in your WordPress contact forms?

Behold! WordPress listens to how its users think!

And what’s more, now you can build spam-free WPForms.

The steps are so easy that even a beginner can do it by following the guidelines.

WordPress forms offer such a delight by enhancing the quality of your lead generation strategy by eliminating the risk of spam.

How to Build a Spam-Free Contact Form Without CAPTCHA

The steps to creating a spam-free contact form without CAPTCHA is explained for uninterrupted user experience.

Entering the CAPTCHA might not be easy for every user.

So the chances of form abandonment are at a higher rate.

WPForms came up with a solution to this dilemma.

Now you can add an invisible reCAPTCHA to your contact forms that doesn’t hinder the flow of submission.

Step 1: Create a Contact Form

Once you install and activate WPForms plugin, create a WordPress contact form.

You can determine whether you need a simple contact form or a multi-step form based on your discretion.

Step 2: Configure reCAPTCHA Settings

To configure your reCAPTCHA, you need to go WPForms > settings and then click on the reCAPTCHA tab.

Below the reCAPTCHA tab, you will find two options – Checkbox reCAPTCHA v2 and Invisible reCAPTCHA v2.

Choose Invisible reCAPTCHA from the both.

You can create a reCAPTCHA for free from Google. It requires a site key and a secret key.

To generate the keys, visit Google’s reCAPTCHA setup page.

You will see an admin console button on the top right corner of the website. Click on that.

In this page, you can register your website for reCAPTCHA.

You will see a different screen if you have registered some other account for reCAPTCHA. To add a new website, just click on the plus sign.

Enter your website in the label field.

Next, choose the reCAPTCHA type you wish to add to your website.

Here, we have chosen invisible reCAPTCHA badge.

Once this is done, enter your website domain in the space provided.

After entering a valid email address and accepting the reCAPTCHA terms and conditions, you can now click on the submit button to save your website.

In the next page, you will see your website’s site key and secret key.

Now you copy both the site key and secret key.

Reopen your WPForms settings page.

Ensure that the invisible reCAPTCHA v2 is chosen as type.

You will see space to enter site key and secret key.

Paste the copied keys in the provided space.

Once this is done, click on save settings to save the changes made.

Step 3: Enable Invisible reCAPTCHA in your Contact Form

To enable invisible reCAPTCHA on you contact forms, go to settings and then editor in your form editor.

After scrolling down, click on the ‘Enable Google invisible v2 reCAPTCHA’.

Click save.

You’ve successfully enabled invisible reCAPTCHA on your contact forms.

Now Google will automatically detect if any spambots try to make a fake submission.

Yet another method to automatically detect spam is by clicking on ‘Enable anti-spam honeypot’ from settings > general.

Honeypot detects the hidden field that a spambot fills in while making a submission.

This feature will automatically reject spambots after detecting the same.

That’s it!

How to Connect Stripe with WPForms in 3 Easy Steps

January 17, 2020 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Integration of Stripe with the WPForms was one of the most sought after addon some time ago.

It’s been a lifesaver since the very launch.

Combining two of the best available solutions in the market today is nothing less than a brilliant strategy.

Well, the good news is, you can get it done in just 3 simple steps.

Yeah, you read it right guys.

Before moving into the details make sure that you’ve installed WPForms on your WordPress site.

Once this is done, install and activate the Stripe addon.

Now let’s get into the details.

Linking Stripe With Your WordPress Site

Open WPForms settings from the left drop-down menu of your WordPress site.

Choose the payments tab in which you can determine the currency in which you would like to carry out the transactions.

Now scroll down to the Stripe section in the same page to see a ‘Connect with Stripe’ button in blue.

Once you click the button, you will be taken to a section where you have to authorize the connection between Stripe and your forms.

The content on this page might differ based on the status of your Stripe account.

When the requirements mentioned in the page is met, you’ll be redirected to your websites admin panel.

Here the checkbox adjacent to the connection status will be marked in green.

Creating Stripe Forms

Once linking Stripe to the WordPress website is complete, you need to create your forms.

For this, you’ll need to create a new form or edit an existing one.

At least two fields are mandatory in a form for Stripe to be able to work with it – item field and credit card field.

You can add any number of fields based on the details you would like to collect to make the transaction and sales.

Adding Stripe to Your Forms

Next, it is the last step which is adding Stripe payments to your forms.

Go to Payments and then Stripe.

Check the box adjacent to ‘Enable Stripe payments’ in the Stripe panel.

You will also be able to enter a short payment description which will be displayed on the user’s credit card statement.

Now, under ‘Stripe Payment Receipt’, add a mail id from which Stripe can send the payment receipt for the transactions.

Great! You’re all set for a one-time payment form your customer.

Now if you wish to go for recurring payments, let’s continue.

Check the box adjacent to ‘Subscriptions’ upon which additional settings will appear.

Fill in the details and your recurring payment is all ready to roll out.

Just three simple steps and your WPForm gets integrated into Stripe payments.

5 Modern Technological Breakthroughs – Science and Its Applications

January 30, 2017 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Introduction

Science, as it is taught in our classrooms can be boring sometimes. A student going through a chapter of Periodic Table in a dim classroom with a not that interested teacher does not get to know the universe of possibilities that lies in front of them in the form of 118 elements.

This post tries to awaken that interest and feeling of amazement about what science can accomplish. Students these days have not much to be excited about in education due to the meritocratic society that we live in, but articles like these aim to rekindle that ember of curiosity and interest in students. When things are learnt, with the objective of education being to satisfy curiosity and increasing the mental stimulation they make more of an impact on the scholars.

So let’s get on with it and browse through some modern day achievements of science that have contributed to making our life on this blue sphere more fruitful and easier:-

Immune Engineering

Doctors practicing in Philadelphia and New York have discovered a procedure to take control over the T-cells or the cells that do all the killing for our immune system.

The doctors discovered that with the help of a virus they can program these T cells with new DNA instructions to attack a specific group of cells. It has been successfully used to treat Leukemia and many other diseases having their roots in the blood.

Earlier these engineered T cells needed to be from the same person but some of the patients that are small children do not have enough of these T- Cells and now the scientists have devised a method through which they can program a different humans T cells to be compatible with everyone creating a universal donor concept.

Precise Gene Editing in Flora

Science has found out a way to edit the genes of plants to help them defend themselves against diseases and droughts. The resultant plants do not show the presence of any foreign DNA excluding them from the GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) classification.

The technology named as CRISPR is helping scientists modify plants and such plants are thriving in a greenhouse environment throughout the world. Some of the frontrunners of this technology are wheat that’s fungus resistant, rice modified for higher yields and barley that can survive a drought. If the technology is refined and is applied at a production level it would help sidestep the extremely difficult regulatory process that is followed with GMO plants.

Interfacing through conversation – Speech Technology

Baidu, the Chinese search engine is advancing speech technology and the process of interfacing through voice to have a more useful and practical application. Voice interfacing has been becoming more popular throughout the previous years by machine learning taking it to new heights.

Developments like these are making us hopeful for a future where learning how a new device functions will not be necessary as the interface would be controlled by voice commands. Baidu has revealed last November that the Chinese Silicon Valley labs have developed an extremely potent speech recognition system named Deep Speech 2.

According to them it boasts of a huge neural network that learns by associating phrases and words with sounds. Sometimes this system has performed better than humans when transcribing Mandarin. Taking into account how difficult Mandarin is phonetically this feat is really impressive.

Rockets that can be reused! – SpaceX and Blue Origin

Humans have come a long way from just sending rockets up in space and now the technology has progressed to the level that they are returning back too. The recent landings of such rockets look like their launches played in rewind, with the rocket landing on a pad constantly firing its engines to control the descent.

Space flights in future have a possibility of becoming up to hundred times cheaper if this technology is mastered. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are the two tech billionaires making it happen. Both their companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX have contradistinct uses of this technology, the former using it to propel tourists in space and the latter as an open platform for putting satellites in space.

Robots sharing knowledge amongst themselves

Robotic technology has not yet been able to reach that level of development where they can interact with our material world. Humans throughout their childhood have gone through an enormous data collection process in which they have learnt and updated that info through various encounters with the material world.

Robots till now have had no such technology assisting them to store and then have the consciousness or intelligence to link new information to that earlier learn data. To create such a technology that helps these robots to do our routine tasks the scientists researching day and night.

Doing something like this can be a possibility as all the research robots use a standard framework of programming called the ROS. The machine that learns how to do a task can pass on the data to other machines and if those machines while carrying out the same task discover a refinement in the process they can send the details back to the original.

Right now, this technology is limited to mechanical robots but with some years of research and development it’s not difficult to imagine robots learning from each other and being a part of our future society.

Conclusion

These technological advancements that are a resultant of various scientific discoveries will help not only in solving several problems that plague us now but also in opening up new horizons of opportunity and advancement.

Reading how science has brought us to this cusp of technological advancements, students ranging from a CBSE school in Delhi to The New York University will have something to look forward to and take interest in science due to.

5 Best WordPress Affiliate Marketing WordPress Themes of 2020

November 16, 2016 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Building a WordPress website and using the same to earn from it with Adsense and affiliate links is one of the excellent ways to produce passive income through the web. Since the commencement of Internet, Affiliate marketing has been a great approach, and a lot of people practice it to earn bucks by developing niche websites encompassing topics and then getting appropriate affiliate partners and also by putting Google Adsense blocks on the site where they get paid for every click received on any of the ads.

While you can put these profits producing affiliate links on any WordPress site and theme, picking a theme which is created especially for this idea serves plenty of benefits. One obvious attribute of these WordPress affiliate themes is that simplifies the publishing of professionally appearing reviews. WordPress is free and requires simple working and operating and by practicing one of these WordPress Affiliate Themes you can have your earning-generating website.

Ge nesis Framework

The Genesis theme is a friendly, spontaneous WordPress theme which lets any webmaster whether be amateur or proficient promptly and smoothly develop a website with a professional display design. Download Genesis Framework Here with Discounts

To implement the Genesis Framework theme Minimal WordPress skills are required on any website, and you have a plenty of tools and options to customize the look and feel of your developing site to meet the expectations. Promptly equipping your WordPress website with multimedia content skills, attached editorial, tabbed web pages, simple formatting tools, and even responsive design, Genesis is the theme where a great customized WordPress Development begin.

REHub

REHub comes with plenty of product display relevant features, definitely making easy to add reviews, product comparisons, and other product displaying characteristics to your WordPress website. REHub is a great choice; no matter you are using it for featuring products on a serious affiliate basis, or for selling your items from the website.

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SteadyIncome

The WordPress theme SteadyIncome is primarily designed for developing websites which monetize through affiliate plans. The theme is created by MyThemeShop team, which guarantees it for one of the swiftest loading themes. With the quick loading WordPress website, picking the SteadyIncome theme enables you to get availability to a rich set of features that helps you earn more on the web. These attributes are a tool for building an email list, product displays, smart and appealing social media icons, and complete mobile responsive design.

Compare

The WordPress theme is an excellent pick for anyone who requires professional and corporate appearance, possibly for aiming the B2B audience. With the full-width plan and design of Compare WordPress theme, you receive a plethora of screens when it is about adding the content. With the advanced features of Compare, you get lots of possibilities for adding the product description to your website.

Rethink

Rethink WordPress theme comes with some remarkable new features to help you create the ideal affiliate website. Amongst the plenty of its notable features of this WordPress theme, you get several useful tools for posting the product and service feedbacks. As well as helping you to publish professional looking reviews, the With Rethink WordPress you can easily arrange different products on your site. The advantage of this is that it helps your visitors find what they are searching, again boosting the earning chances.

Conclusion

Affiliate marketing unquestionably is one of the best income generating models for online businesses, eCommerce, and many bloggers. The only thing you need to focus is on developing quality rich content and thorough, fair product reviews to earn some clean-cut revenue.

The Do’s and Don’ts – Preparing Organization for Automated Marketing

November 15, 2016 by Sajith Mohan Leave a Comment

Over the past years, marketing automation has rapidly ascended and is irresistible for one involved in B2B marketing. Though diving in deep, the undulating glory you’ll observe the pleasures of marketing automation are not sharp as you thought and considered it for first.

According to the according to the Annuitas 2015 B2B Enterprise survey, only 2.8% of B2B business marketers say marketing automation-powered campaigns have let them achieve their demand generation goals. The survey is conducted on 100+ B2B enterprise marketers from organizations generating annual revenues more than $250 million.

Almost 70% of businesspersons are either completely unsatisfied or are partially pleased with marketing automation.

Recognizing the Marketing Automation Constraints

It’s crucial to learn what marketing automation does great—as well as what its flaws are.

Marketing automation works in sound when a clear plan is in trade. Majorly it smoothes and scale your current processes, and just doesn’t automate your marketing tactics. Marketing automation tool maintains progress and is more of an automation tool.

All marketing automation is based on preset logic – If A occurs then perform B, if A does not occur, then do C and the custom buying funnel theory to outline the marketing campaign architecture further to trigger the connections.

The intricacy is that the buyer journey is much more involved than marketing automation businesspeople who you would have supposed —it’s not solely a one-time deal.

Ultimately, marketing automation overlooks the possibilities which are always developing in their concerns, demands, and goals. Marketing automation can present you a head score, but it doesn’t reveal you why a prospect is so performing.

Get Ready your Organization for Marketing Automation

Everything doesn’t mean that putting in marketing automation is a fool’s job. Nevertheless, the application, resources, and tactics needed to make the most of any Marketing Automation tool are often significantly not valued.

So, if you are thinking for marketing automation, first get your organization ready in the below five ways.

Identify the absolute customer profile

For getting the maximum from your marketing automation tool, you need to go throughout the process of knowing your ideal buyer profile and your buyer personas.

Marketing automation counts on laws that section and forward messages based on individual recipient’s profile. You must know these initially before you begin the messages automating.

2. Gather the appropriate lead data

Very sooner in your journey of marketing automation; it will be openly visible that the quality of data is ultimate. The quality of the data you accumulate through the Web forms or social sign-ins determines what you can achieve with those leads. It’s consequently necessary that you get sufficient data to be effective to section leads in your database.
You should begin by just collecting the contact details, but data can even reach product history (what shoppers have shopped) or whats their interest.

3. Don’t make procurement a one-sided judgment

A severe mistake happens when the procurement of the latest technology is handled by a CMO who does not include the teams of SEO, content, email, and CRM, all of which ultimately find themselves managing a technology they had the short part either in examining or consulting.
That inescapably points to (dis)ownership problems within Marketing concerning who is in command of the platform.

4. Experiment first on a small subset of your database

Most organizations cannot wait to get commenced with marketing automation. Rather than releasing campaigns on the complete customer database and producing a massive spike in the churn or opt-outs, perform the test on small database samples to observe how they react to your new marketing abilities.

5. Have ample content

Too usually, marketing automation plans begin seriously and then run out of enthusiasm soon as the company has too less whitepapers or blog posts for sending to the prospects or leads.

Content is surely not all fitting size and must be taken care to ensure that the content being created and published into the upbringing campaigns is fit enough.

When executed suitably, marketing automation certainly can be a benefit to B2B marketers which resemble for sending relevant information to their prospects and leads. Though in all the fuss circling this emerging technology, it’s necessary for these same marketers to be mindful of the problems that can occur—and therefore develop their organizations respectively.