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Hey everybody. It's Apps N Tools Thursday.
One of the things that I love about the whole concept of apps and tools is that sometimes
you just have one task that you are trying to accomplish. One thing that you are trying
to pull off and in the world of apps and tools, you find the one tool that does that one thing
really well. It's a trait.
It's a tendency; a first response type of self mechanism that you want to integrate
into your world.
Today, I want to talk about forms. There's a really interesting company that popped up.
A company by the name of FormStack and they sent us a review account for their service.
It's really interesting. The basic premise is this; sometimes that one thing you want
to do online is to collect some information.
Maybe it's a poll. Maybe it's a survey. Maybe it's registration information
Information for an event. Maybe it's RSVP information. Maybe it's just selling
a single product.
Let's face it, if you're selling a single product, the whole idea of getting a massive
online shopping cart database thing, maybe it's just a little bit more than you need.
Maybe, you just want to build a form and collect the information. That information, again,
could be just basic polling information or, you know, private information that you want
to put bekind, behind a secure type of situation. FormStack does that, and they've got the thing
that let's you do the builders.
You build them really, really quickly. You can build any kind of form you want. You host
everything on their server. If it's the type of thing where you need to go with security,
you can do that. They tie into some of the top online processors. I did a test with Paypal,
worked absolutely perfectly. It's a really cool tool.
And again, if you're just trying to collect some information online, again, anything from
basic stuff, all the way up through, you know, the purchase, or the ordering of something,
or the RSVPing for an event is definitely worth taking a look at.
Now, we appreciate the guys sending us an account, but we wanna go one up on that. We
asked them if they'd send us two accounts, 'cause we think this is a really good idea.
So, what I'd love you guys to do, if you're watching this on YouTube, you got the comment
section below. If you're not watching this on YouTube I want you to take a look at the
link at the bottom of the screen, you're going to head over to YouTube and then what I want
you to do on YouTube is make a comment and make a comment on how it is that you would
use FormStack.
What you would use it for. The more creative the idea, the more realistic the idea, the
more, you know, just real the idea is, the more I think people will take attention and
notice.
And what we will do, is we will pick at least one of the comments about how you would use
FormStack and we'll give you a full year account with them. We think that will be kind of fun,
and then maybe we'll keep up with you to see what you're doing with these guys. So, FormStack,
thanks for the free account.
Everybody out there, I really want to highly recommend that you consider, if you're just
collecting a piece of information, or collecting a of couple batches of things, maybe an entire
online process, online website, domain name, certificates, that kind of stuff. Maybe you
don't need to go that far.
Maybe you need to think the apps and tools way and use something like FormStack. I'll
be using them in future, you probably will, too.