Hi there,

I’m currently evaluating Highrise for our business.

Is it possible to populate the Highrise database with data captured by an HTML form on a web page?

Is there any integration between Highrise and an email marketing system like ConstantContact?

Your feedback is much appreciated.

Greetings,
Arjan

You could work around this by doing the following:

1.) Collect whatever info you need on the web-form
2.) Submit the form to some kind of script (PHP, etc) that will send an email to your dropbox with all the form data in the body in such a format that Highrise detects everything and sets up a new contact (this may require some trial and error)

Has anyone done this? If not, who would you recommend to do this?

Several email marketing services can import data from Highrise, but I don’t know of any that can go the other way, i.e. send contacts to Highrise. However, Mailchimp has said they intend to introduce some kind of functionality like that, in which case what you’re trying to do should work well with their forms.

Proper email marketing has brought new names and companies up over night. It’s effectiveness is well known. However, to run a successful and legit email marketing campagin, you MUST use REAL optin data. I can’t stress this enough…

Optin data is data that has been collected from someone who has agreed to do something like sign up for a newsletter or recieve a service or product. This data is NOT just an email address…

There are a lot of scammers out there selling “optin email lists”, when they are nothing more than harvested old crap email addresses that will give no response to your advertising campaign.

What you need to do is buy REAL optin data from discount sources like data4marketers com, and check out their data page for samples of each and every list they have. It’s a very easy site to navigate, and the company sells data for very good prices that everyone can afford. Basically, they are cheaper than you would ever believe.

Enjoy-

Happy marketing to all!
Thanks,
-J / James / Data4marketers com
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sales AT data4marketers com
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YIM: Coreg4marketers

Instructions from Highrise Documentation: http://www.highrisehq.com/help/email#send_email_to_Highrise

A Rough Example of the Variables used in a PHP Script

// defined the email headers to HTML format
$params[‘headers’][‘MIME-Version’] = ‘1.0’;
$params[‘headers’][‘Content-Type’] = ‘text/html; charset=utf-8’;

// Highrise CMS accepts only email from a known Highrise account
$params[‘headers’][‘From’] = ‘avalidhighriseaccount@example.com’;
$params[‘from’] = ‘somefrom@example.com’;

$params[‘subject’] = ‘Fwd: Some Title for the Message’; // set the subject

// HR will look for From: in the message body and use this value at the contact to whom the note is attached
$params[‘body’] = ‘From: Somebody Name <somebody@example.com>’.“\n”.
$params[‘body’] .= $theNote; // append the message that will be saved in the High Rise Note

// the dropbox should be a valid dropbox for the Highrise account specified in the [‘headers’][‘From’]
$params[‘dropbox’] = dropbox@00000000.example.highrisehq.com’;