Using email marketing tools like male poet or a premium version like convert kit MailChimp or a Weber
is great.
But these tools are built for e-mail marketing and not necessarily the opt in side of things.
Yes you can build optin forms with any with these tools and put them on your Wordpress Web site but
sometimes you want to use another tool that can do it better.
Sumo me is a great premium tool but also has some free options if you want to just try it out.
So go ahead and search for Assume me and we're going to use it for a couple of things including having
social sharing on our blog posts but also custom optin forms
once installed and activated.
Click on sumo down here in the bottom left and then you'll have to connect it to a sumo account so then
click this big sumo button.
Sign up with your own e-mail address and then it will take you to your dashboard so you can go to the
store to find out all of the different apps that they have available or the apps that you have available
to you right now.
It will walk you through what you can do with sumo and you can see all these tools.
I'm just going to click this x box and end the lesson that they're trying to give us.
So you have different options like a scroll box which is an opt in form that pops up and appears on
your website as they scroll down.
You have different contact forms if you want to use a contact form.
A welcome mat.
This is something that appears over your web site page as soon as someone actually visits your web site
or these share tools.
So let's just go ahead and click on the share options to see how you actually use sumo.
So if you click on share and then you click on the share button itself.
It will take you to the share options page connected with your Facebook account
and then also add your Twitter if you have one then click save and then let's just go through these
tabs so that you can understand what's going on.
So first at the very top under clicks you'll see the stats for all of your shares.
Next you have your settings so this is where you customize what it looks like and what services or what
Web sites people can see automatically to share on.
So right now we have Facebook Twitter Google Plus Pinterest and an email over on the left you have all
kinds of different services.
So if you know that a lot of your audience is on reddit you can just drag and drop it over to the right
and then click and drag and drop these services on the right to reorder them or just drag them to the
left to remove down under services.
It actually shows you whether you want to allow sumo meat to reorder them or to optimize getting the
most shares or the manual order that you select and then you can also choose how many you want to appear.
Say you only want three.
And then you can also choose how many of these you want to actually appear.
You change the labels so if you don't want it to say Chers you can say likes favorites something else.
Then the background color for this little box which now if we go to our blog article you can see here
it says shares.
Maybe we want it to say likes and then also change the color to something a little while like that.
Click Save and then refreshed to see what that looks like.
You can see it pops up here with the new background color and text you can change the buttons size if
you want it to be bigger.
You can also change the style maybe you want the circle look.
You can also add some spacing between the buttons if you want.
You can show the share counts or not.
If you're just starting out you might not want to show the shares but it might be a good idea just to
show that there are people watching and looking at your site a little bit of a social proof.
And then over here on the right make sure that you have the share count or start after one you don't
want to have it appear as 0 shares.
Leave the mobile with as what it is standard and save it then will refresh so you can see now it has
the round buttons.
And if I click one of these it popped open with the share option for that viewer.
Down underneath settings you have your layout so you can put it on a different part of the page or multiple
parts of the page.
So let's put it here at the bottom as well and say save now as refresh.
We have the share options on the left and at the bottom of the article I'm just going to turn them off
down at the bottom
if you want to add share buttons in the middle of a post.
You can go down to this in line sharing click add new code name the placement
and then click save.
And now you can copy and paste this code right here and put it in the middle of your blog articles or
your pages this next option is for mobile optimized if you want your sharing buttons to be different
on mobile devices which actually might be a good idea.
Then it changes the services that appear such as text whatsapp email Facebook Twitter or any other services
that you think your users are using.
More so on their mobile devices this display rules tab is really intricate and if you just wanted to
show on all pages that's great.
Otherwise you can click this add a show rule and then there's a drop down for all of the different options
and some of them you don't have unless you buy the premium version of sumo.
Me But You could also use a lot of these to really customize it.
So if you only want it to be on desktop devices only on the home page only on yourselves where there
is a specific hash or there's a you're all matching for example or if you have a Euro that has a specific
hash tag or something like that.
But I think the better way to do it is to just have it on all of your pages and then don't show it on
specific pages.
This is easier to do because typically you'll want to have it on all your blog posts but maybe you don't
want it on your home page so under don't show rules you can click add to don't show rule and then choose
on home page and then click save.
So now if we go to our website and go to our home page you don't see those sharing options.
But if you go to our blog page you can see those sharing buttons.
So that's just one of the tools within sumo me.
We're going to be going over some other tools to show you what you can do with zoomy to get more e-mail
options.