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Create An Ebook With Kindle

This document provides instructions for setting up an opt-in form with ConvertKit to capture email addresses from readers inside a Kindle book. It involves signing up for ConvertKit, creating an opt-in form, embedding the form code into an HTML file, uploading the file to a web server, and linking to the form from inside the Kindle book. The goal is to make it easy for readers to provide their email to receive additional content from the author.

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91 views29 pages

Create An Ebook With Kindle

This document provides instructions for setting up an opt-in form with ConvertKit to capture email addresses from readers inside a Kindle book. It involves signing up for ConvertKit, creating an opt-in form, embedding the form code into an HTML file, uploading the file to a web server, and linking to the form from inside the Kindle book. The goal is to make it easy for readers to provide their email to receive additional content from the author.

Uploaded by

Shalinthia Miles
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with

ConvertKit

This is the new method I use to capture leads inside my Kindle books with ConvertKit.
This takes about 10% as long and is far easier than the GetResponse method.

Sign up for ConvertKit

Sign up for GetResponse using this link: https://servenomaster.com/convertkit

Then click Sign Up

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Log into ConvertKit

Log into your autoresponder - https://app.convertkit.com/users/login

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Create Your Email Form

From your dashboard, click on the button + Create Form

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Create a Form

Click on the big blue box to create a form

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Choose Your Style

Choose the style on the left.

This one looks perfect inside Kindle devices.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Customize Your Text

This is the final text of my real form for Breaking Orbit. You can customize the headline, the call to
action and the button.

If you want to remove the spam message at the bottom, you can do that on the next page.

When you are finished with your design, click on SETTINGS.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Customize Your Main Settings

Give your form a name that you can easily remember and won't mix up with other forms or projects.

Customize the success message that displays when someone enter's their email address.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Customize Incentive Email

Do you want a double or single opt in list?

Click "auto-confirm new members" to turn this into a single opt-in campaign.

Customize your first email with the download of your free gift.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Customize Your Form Style

This is where you can add code to remove first names and spam messages from your form.

Simply paste the codes below into the Custom CSS box.

To remove the first name box, use this code:

.ck_first_name_field_group {display:none;}

To remove the spam/powered by ConvertKit message at the bottom of the form, use this code:

.ck_powered_by { display: none !important; }

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Create Your Embed Code

We want to use the RAW HTML version of the form.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Create Your Webpage in less than a minute

Open Notepad on PC or TextEdit on a MAC.

To Open Notepad

Windows 8 or later:

Open the Start Screen (the window symbol at the bottom left on your screen). Type Notepad.

Windows 7 or earlier:

Open Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

On MAC we need to make some changes

Open Preferences and change your format from Rich Text to Plain Text.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Visible HTML

Under Open and Save, put a check next to "Display HTML files as HTML code..."

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Open a new document TextEdit

Open a new blank document and add the basic HTML start and end content.

Simply copy and paste the content between the dashes into your document.

----

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/


DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

<title>BOOK NAME Free Gift</title>

</head>

<body>

INSERT FORM CODE HERE

</body>

</html>

----

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Replace the Page Title

In the form above:

Replace BOOK NAME with the title of your book in this line -> <title>BOOK NAME Free Gift</title>

Then copy and paste your form code where it says "INSERT FORM CODE HERE"

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Copy Your HTML from ConvertKit

Copy the code from the ConvertKit page and paste it into your document.

The form code should be the only thing in between the <body> and </body> on your page.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Save your form

Save your form as index.htm

Later on, we will put the file into a special folder to create the final link.

Save the file in a new folder called freegift.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Format

Confirm that you want to save the file as .htm

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Test the file

Right click on your new file and open in your preferred browser.

If you have done everything correctly, it will look something like this.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Open up your FTP program and connect to your domain (ex.


ftp.example.com)

On MAC, I use an FTP program called Transmit.

FileZilla is a free program that works on MAC and PC as well.

Once you are connected, your home directory will look like this.

Click on public_html to make sure you are in the right folder

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Copy your folder to public_html

I move my folder freegift (which contains index.html) into public_html. I just drag it from one side to the
other.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

You can now see the folder on the right side

If everything has copied smoothly, you will see the same folder on both sides.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Check Your Links

Your file will be websitename.com/freegift/index.htm

You can simply go to websitename.com/freegift, and the page will load properly.

The form for Breaking Orbit is in the folder called "audio."

This is why going to https://servenomaster.com/audio loads my opt-in form perfectly.

Make sure you have the correct link to the thank you page in your opt-in page code, and you're all done!

For more advanced email techniques, head over to ServeNoMaster.com

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Check the Look

You should be familiar with this page design. You are only seeing this PDF because you entered your
email address here after reading Breaking Orbit

This is exactly what my live form looks like right now.

I used this exact template.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Link Your Book to Your Form

Create a page in your book explaining why the free gift is amazing.

Include a direct link to your form.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Embed Your Link

Vellum makes it very easy to embed links into your page.

Make sure that there is at least one readable version of the link for people who prefer to use a computer
to visit your page.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Test Your Setup Inside a Kindle

This is how my page looks when I check inside my Kindle.

The page looks perfect and when you test, you will see that ConverKit is Amazing.

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Capture Emails Inside Kindle with
ConvertKit

Grow Your List

You can now build an email list of people who love your book.

For more advanced techniques, please read my blog at https://servenomaster.com/blog/

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