Contact forms provide an accessible, user-friendly way to get info from potential clients. They're useful, but if their responses remain stuck in your form submission tool, powerful information can quickly go to waste.
Every contact form submission is full of potential and is far more than a few lines of information. It could be:
A warm lead that just needs the right messaging to convert
A customer who needs support
The feedback you need to take your product to the next level
If you connect forms to your other apps, you can turn these entries into business growth drivers. Use automation to get the information from your form tool into the places where you connect with customers and plan your work.
You can use Zapier's pre-built get in touch template to collect contact details and follow up to increase speed-to-lead time.
Make follow-ups instant
Some of your biggest sales won't say yes—at least not at first.
To keep those leads warm, you can use Zaps—what we call our automated workflows—to instantly follow up, effortlessly update your team, or automatically set up a call.
Once you connect your apps on Zapier, you can automate your form response process, so submitters get a response to their forms as soon as they contact you.
Send email via Gmail for new Google Forms submissions
Send Gmail emails for new Leadpages form submissions
An instant response is good, but it's rarely enough. Customers appreciate an instant follow-up, but a personalized one earns their loyalty. Use automated workflows to connect your form submission tool to communication tools so your team can follow up as soon as possible.
Creating an automated workflow doesn't mean you have to choose between an automatic response and a personalized one. You can add a step to one of the Zaps above to simultaneously send an email to the person who filled out the form. Here's an example of how that could work:
Notify your team in Slack and send an email from Gmail for each new Typeform entry
Some leads are so important that you might want to skip right to scheduling a meeting, like if an email marketing campaign is capturing high-value leads. By connecting a survey tool like Typeform with Gmail, Zapier can automatically draft or send an email asking to book a meeting.
Get email notifications or send follow-ups to new Typeform respondents
To automatically create an email like this, you'd draft your email in Zapier, pulling in fields like email address or name from Typeform, and dropping in your personal scheduling link.
Add customers to your CRM without data entry
If entering data into your customer relationship management tool (CRM) is the most annoying part of your day, you're not alone.
One study showed that about half of all users find that both keeping data up-to-date and entering data were the two most significant challenges for using their CRM. And, let's be honest, common sense helps here too: No one likes entering data.
By setting up an automated workflow, you can eliminate that manual data entry and enter customers directly in your CRM of choice from your forms.
Create HubSpot contacts from new Gravity Forms submissions
Create Salesforce leads with new Gravity Forms submissions
Create or update Intercom users for new Leadpages leads
Put user feedback where you can use it
Getting feedback is an important part of building a successful business. Amazon, for instance, is famous for its customer obsession, which has led to its massive growth and notoriously happy customers.
Forms are one of the best ways to get the kind of feedback that can fuel this growth. Simply send a survey to your customers, and in moments, you can get back essential information on what they like and don't like about your product. Rather than rely on your own hunches, you can build real customer insight into your product decisions.
With an automated workflow, you can pipe that feedback right to where you need it. Automatically sending user feedback straight to your project management tool means you can quickly start working on the next iteration.
Create Trello cards from new Google Forms responses
As you react quickly to customer feedback through your project management tools, automated workflows can also send that data to tools better suited to long-term study.
As form submissions flow in, automatically collect that feedback in tools like Dropbox and Airtable. Without having to enter information, you can refer to continually-updated feedback throughout the length of your project.
Collect new Typeform responses as rows on Google Sheets
Save new Typeform entries as text files in Dropbox
Create rows in Google Sheets for new Gravity Forms submissions
Make forms an engine for growth
Forms look simple, but that doesn't mean the value they provide is small.
Zapier can integrate your forms tools into a variety of other systems, enabling one form entry to cause a chain of automatic reactions. These automated workflows turn the humble contact form into an engine for growth. So the next time a prospect or customer clicks that submit button, you'll be ready to impress.
