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Having previously posted about Notipal.com, I’ve explained how it can help to manage your error-page scenarios. But that’s not the only thing that Notipal can help with. What about those, “we’re launching soon” promotional landing / splash pages used for building excitement, gaining an audience, registering interest, and - at the hands of some particularly savvy entrepreneurs (see point 3 in this post by Eric Ries) - gauging the market opportunity before product development has even commenced?

Well, Notipal makes landing page email collection really easy. If you have the technical ability to install Google Analytics on a HTML page (copy & paste), Notipal will be a walk in the park for you; there’s just three steps involved in getting Notipal collection emails from on your landing page (for free):

1. Sign-up by entering your Website URL & email

2. Copy & paste the Notipal code

3. Verify ownership & activate your account

That’s it - you’re now collecting emails and will soon be receiving handy email reminders with stats on the number of subscribers.

“But I thought Notipal was just for error pages(?)”. This use case ties in with the core Notipal proposition; your Web service isn’t available, and Notipal steps in to collect contact details in aid of a follow-up, once-off notification to all the people who have been kept waiting. Landing-page subscribers don’t want to be locked in to a regular newsletter at this point - your product launch is a once-off notification (the default behavior of the Notipal notification system), and that’s the only email message these subscribers are expecting.

I was desperately searching for this feature back when I first started tinkering with websites on a DreamHost account - but I couldn’t find anything. Now I know Notipal does what I was looking for, it’s something that I can see myself using again & again. Will you be using Notipal for your next pre-launch landing page?